Accessing the unconscious through the Tarot can play a crucial role in our psychological and spiritual development. Although the cards have been used through the ages for gaming and fortune telling, their symbolism suggests that their deeper purpose is to gain insight into the human mind and to enhance personal and spiritual growth.
The Tarot reflects circumstances at a moment in time. It gives guidance as to what may happen if things/behaviours etc are not changed. It does not therefore predict the future as such, nothing is carved in stone
Symbols, as recognised by the great psychologists Freud and Jung, are images that arise from the deep levels of the creative unconscious and represent profound truths about our inner life. Focusing on the symbols in the Tarot in meditation can therefore provide us with keys to instinctive patterns of thought and behaviour that is normally inaccessible to our conscious mind, but determines much of who we are and what we can become.