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Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for the Inward Journey

Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for the Inward Journey

Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for the Inward Journey is a work by Mary K. Greer (1984).

Core claims

  • Greer’s central innovation is not teaching Tarot but dismantling the prohibition against self-reading, transforming a divinatory tool into a structured method of active imagination that parallels Jung’s own techniques while being radically more accessible.
  • The workbook’s numerological system of Personality, Soul, and Hidden Factor (Shadow) Cards creates a personalized archetypal map that functions as a portable version of the individuation schema — translating Edinger’s ego-Self axis into a practice anyone can perform with a birth date and a deck.
  • By insisting that reversed cards represent a spectrum rather than a fixed negative meaning, Greer encodes a theory of psychological agency directly into the reading process, turning what most traditions treat as fate-disclosure into an exercise in conscious choice — a move that aligns her more with existential psychotherapy than with occultism.
  • How does Greer’s Hidden Factor (Shadow) Card system compare to Edinger’s account of shadow encounter along the ego-Self axis in Ego and Archetype, and does Greer’s numerological approach risk the kind of literalization Edinger warns against?
  • In what ways does Greer’s insistence on using Tarot images for goal-setting and affirmation conflict with Hillman’s critique in Re-Visioning Psychology of ego-heroic appropriation of archetypal material?
  • How does Greer’s treatment of synchronicity in self-reading practice extend or diverge from von Franz’s theoretical framework in On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance?

See also

  • Library page: /library/myth-and-religion/greer-tarot-for-your-self/

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