Product Description

The Jungian Tarot Deck is a visual companion to Robert Wang's book, The Jungian Tarot and Its Archetypal Imagery, an authoritative introduction to Jungian Psychology.

The Jungian Tarot Deck was developed in consultation with international Jungian scholars and analysts, and may be used for meditation or for divination following any traditional system. Each of the twenty-two trumps represents one of the "archetypes of the collective unconscious" described by Jung and includes a unique mandala, a circular form which the psychologist found to be profoundly useful in the process he called "individuation" and which the Western mystery tradition has termed "enlightenment."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102594 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01
• Binding: Cards
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Still out on this one
I haven't quite decided on whether i like this deck or not. the art style is similar to the Golden Dawn deck(of course, it being done by the same artist)and the faces seem all too similar to me. However, this deck trips me out when i use it. When i look at the minors i must admit i feel a buzzing in my brain and a sense of 'something is going on here'. So i guess Wang has done an excellent job of stimulating the CNS with his symbols and art.

disappointed
There is nothing particularly Jungian about this Tarot deck.
In order to utilize this deck of cards as reflective of Jungian thought,
you must have the Wang workbook, which is sold separately.

A Tarot Deck without Parallel!
I have read with, studied, and meditated with the Tarot for four decades. As I have matured in Tarot and allied disciplines, such as Astrology, Qabala, and other basics of Occultism, far from "mastering" the simple deck of 78 images, my sense of mystery has only deepened. Yes, of course, Tarot is an Oracle without equal; but to use the Tarot in only this way is to grab an hors d'ouvres or two and rush off before the banquet is served.
This banquet of self-knowledge is what Robert Wang's Jungian Tarot offers the sincere adherent. Dr. Wang has at his disposal an experience and a mastery of both the Western Mystery Tradition and Jungian psychology, and blends them seamlessly in the Jungian Tarot. Taking Jung's remark that Jung found a correlation between Tarot images and the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Dr. Wang presents this deck and its icons as lenses to focus on these shifting phenomena; and, just as these images arise autonomously from the psyche and are not subject to rational order, the cards of the Major Arcana are not numbered. The individual cards serve primarily as doorways into an aspect of the psyche; that the images are precisely "Qabalistically correct" takes second place to their numinous qualities and to their purpose as entrances into the collective unconscious. [to the Qabalist, the correlations are obvious--for instance, on the Fool card, which tradition places on the 11th Path of the Tree of Life, you see a Crown in the sky to the upper right of the Fool--an allusion to the 11th Path's emanation from Kether, "The Crown", the first Sephirah, diagonally down and "stage right" from Kether. The colors of the cards, as well, follow closely the traditional Golden Dawn assignations. He knows his stuff; he ought to, having spent decades in that Order, and having been a friend and colleague of Dr. Israel Regardie.]
Painting the pictures that became the deck took Dr. Wang years and were obviously a labor of love; each painting was, and is, an exercise in contacting and exploring one of the archetypes of the Unconscious. I believe that his primary purpose in the creation of this deck was not to offer yet another Tarot deck, scores of which are published every year--believe me, I'm the buyer for the largest Mind/Body/Spirit wholesaler in the world and I see `em all--but as an aid to the serious student who wishes to achieve individuation, which was Jung's goal for every patient who entered his psychotherapy. In fact, the latter part of the book Tarot Psychology, one of three Wang offers to be used to complement and facilitate serious working with his deck--is a 34-week study course using the deck "for the development of self-understanding," each step firmly grounded in the regimen of Jungian analysis. At the end of this process the sincere apprentice will find him or herself much further down the road to their own individuation. As far as I know (which, given my profession, is rather a lot) this is a unique offering from author to reader, with no other cost (no layout cloths, no bags, no posters, no secret decoder rings, no other Tarot gee-gaws) except one's own dedication of time and energy.
I recommend this deck unreservedly for its subtlety, its firm foundation in Qabala and Astrology and above all Jungian psychology, and particularly its generosity in helping the student access his or her own unconscious.