Opening the treasure chest of Tarology
Deepening your Tarot practice with the Jodorowsky & Costa method
Divination or revelation? Fortune-telling follows the former, serious study leads to the latter. At its heart, what’s at stake: Tarot’s purpose. The purpose? Profound healing for the Seeker.
Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa’s 2004 “The Way of Tarot: the Spiritual Teacher in the Cards” makes 535-page case for the latter. Unlike fortune-telling’s claims to future prediction, Tarology argues for Tarot’s utility as tool for healing and personal growth.
Throughout their 500+ pages, Jodorowsky & Costa analyze not only each individual card in the Major and Minor Arcanas — common to any Tarot guidebook — but the synthesis of each individual card to the whole. Doing so through practical examples and exercises in addition to visual analysis and philosophical investigation, Jodorowsky & Costa furnish our mind’s palaces with golden sofas, lush curtains, and the French doors of the Marseille Tarot. Ultimately, though theorizing’s temptation whispers to us, the Tarot facilitate a spiritual growth grounded in praxis.
Tarology
Grand in name, humble in description, Jodorowsky & Costa name their approach Tarology. Though the authors “never dare claim to be in any way unique or…
