Welcome to Shadow Bear Tarot: a place of light, love, and exploration! This is your hub for understanding your shadow by way of guidance from Tarot. Learn about shadow work, explore your psyche through tarot spreads, and discover ways to connect to yourself by way of your shadow and tarot.
What is Shadow Work?
Shadow work is the process of healing by exploring one’s own inner psyche: our shadow. Which means we first need to ask:
What is the shadow?
Illuminated by Dr. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, the shadow is the place where our ego hides everything that is at odds with our persona (aka our light side). Our shadow can be comprised of traits we dislike, hated aspects of our personality, shameful thoughts or temptations, suppressed memories and emotions, and dreams that have gone to die. Anything that we hide from what we wish to project to the world goes into the shadow.
What is Tarot?
When we connect and open ourselves to the divine via Tarot, we allow in messages, insight, predictions, and understandings of our world and our lives. These messages come from a place of love and support, and are intended to direct us on a path that will serve our highest good.
The twenty-two cards that make up the Major Arcana are our spiritual and karmic lessons: The big events in our lives. The forty Minor Arcana cards represent day-to-day events and temporary situations. The court cards can represent either characteristics of ourselves or other people.
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