Jung and Tarot by Sallie Nichols

Jung and Tarot by Sallie Nichols

This highly innovative work presents a piercing interpretation of the tarot in terms of Jungian psychology. Through analogies to the humanities, mythology, and the graphic arts, the significance of the cards is related to personal growth and what Jung termed individuation. The Major Arcana becomes a map of life, and the hero's journey becomes something that each individual can relate to one's personal life.

Sallie Nichols, in her profound investigation of the Tarot has performed an immense service. Her book enriches and helps us to understand the awesome responsibilities laid upon consciousness. She has done this not in an arid fashion but derived from her own experience of the Tarot and its strangely translucent lights. As a result her book not only lives but quickens life in whomever it touches. --Laurens van der Post

Replaces ISBN 978-0-87728-515-1

In the C.G., Sallie Nichols taught Tarot Symbolism to trainees. In addition, he taught on this subject frequently under Jungian auspices in San Francisco, San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles. She effectively brought both the Tarot and Jung's concept of archetypes to audiences who were largely inexperienced with either subject in a series of seminars titled A Tarot Journey into Jung's Psychology, which she delivered at the Theosophical Center in Hollywood and elsewhere. Sallie Nichols, a longtime student of Jung's psychology, had the good fortune to study at the C.G. Jung Institute. While Jung was still alive and well, he founded the Jung Institute in Zurich.