{"id":560,"date":"2020-01-07T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centermoon.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2021-08-21T00:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T00:55:02","slug":"the-heros-journey-a-tarot-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centermoon.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/the-heros-journey-a-tarot-template\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hero’s Journey | A Tarot Template"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So this ‘thing’ happened.\u00a0 It was a crazy, revelatory, eye opening accident<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I had finally sat myself down, and gotten to work on writing up something about the idea of The Hero’s Journey<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a concept I have found to be extremely useful, and in the past, I have used it as a lens with which to view my own life.<\/p>\n

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The Hero’s Journey:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The hero’s journey, or the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Hero’s Journey is a framework\/template elaborated through Joseph Campbell’s study of the ancient art of storytelling.\u00a0 It’s basically a thesis on the purpose and use of our indigenous traditions of teaching through story. (For more info go here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

For me, the hero’s journey is a template on how things play out in real life.\u00a0 It can be placed on top of ‘The Big Picture\/My Destiny’ stories, and the everyday mundane stories of life.\u00a0 It’s the Macro and the Micro.\u00a0 And using the imagery of tarot cards within the framework of this idea, works really well for me.<\/p>\n

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So as I was writing, I had come to a point where I needed some clarification of an image on one of the cards.\u00a0 I started randomly shuffling through my deck and was like whoaaa…\u00a0 It was as if my life just started jumping out at me through the meanings, and images on the cards.<\/p>\n

It was so unexpected!\u00a0 My first thought was I wish I had known about this sooner (lol).\u00a0 But everything has it’s timing and all… \u00a0 And who knows, I might not have been as receptive to it, (or even recognized it) if it had showed up earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Shadow Work and The Tarot<\/h3>\n
I’ve been using tarot cards for about 25 years now, and up until 3 years ago, I only used them for divination purposes.\u00a0 Using the tarot as a template for self examination was very, very new to me.\u00a0 I first saw tarot being used for self development about 4 years ago, and I did not resonate with it AT ALL.\u00a0 I was like, “How in the heck do they do work with all of that?!”.<\/div>\n
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But because of curiosity, I kept looking into it anyway to find out just what the heck was going on lol.\u00a0 I think it was in early 2017 that I came across Kelly-Ann Maddox’s youtube channel<\/a>, and her instruction, and videos on Shadow Work.<\/a>\u00a0 They ended up having a very big impact on my understanding of this new way of interpretating of the cards.\u00a0 I came to understand they were just using the tool of Tarot in a different way.<\/div>\n

Storytime<\/h3>\n
I’m sure others have probably used the cards in the way I am about to describe, but this was so eye opening for me, I really wanted to share it just in case.\u00a0 So let’s get down to it…<\/div>\n
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(Disclaimer:\u00a0 Since using tarot for self inspection is a pretty new concept for me, please excuse any errors on my part.\u00a0 Correct where you see fit, and adjust for your work.)<\/em><\/div>\n
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My niece and I were having a discussion about this idea.\u00a0 We had just watched the movie Booksmart<\/em>.\u00a0 I showed her how the movie was an excellent example of the use of the hero’s journey template.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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