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Jungian Archetypes: Tarot as One Tool for the Deeper Work
I got my first tarot deck before I was ten years old, in Montana. The Death card came up in a reading on my grandmother, and I cried and put the deck away for years. It took decades — and a long detour through Carl Jung — to understand archetypes as something far bigger than the cards themselves.