04-11-2009, 07:58 PM
Helen said:
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Well, never-the-less you were right even though you apparently didn't know it. Card 21 does signify completeness which is fitting for the point under discussion.
Jung extensively studied every aspect of symbolism as significant emanations of the Collective Unconscious - including Tarot, Astrology, I-Ching, Grail-lore, Fairytales, Fables and, of course Alchemy (by no means a complete list).
I spent an interesting afternoon in Zurich many years ago when I was studying these things (with greater zeal than today), with a very elderly and very shrewd/insightful lady in her Nineties, a Jungian Analyst, who personally trained under Jung and who specialized in Tarot and Astrology. It was an eye-opening encounter!
I mention this because many will consider these subjects as a bit new age for this forum - a bit dotty in other words. But all art, to a lesser or greater degree, manifest unconscious contents - as indeed do all religions - thus making them ripe for Jungian analysis and therefore an important tool towards greater understanding.
I believe that segments of the film had been edited out by Warner Bros., and if true this makes the task more difficult.
Quote:As for the black/white rainbow stone, I guess it's not the one found at the Blue Mountain, at Lajwurd. Jung makes it out as card 21 in the major arcanum, the World, integrated, Cosmos.
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Quote:I don't know if Jung wrote or said anything of the kind, I was just saying what he said about rainbows connected in my mind with that card, the circle coming full circle.
Well, never-the-less you were right even though you apparently didn't know it. Card 21 does signify completeness which is fitting for the point under discussion.
Jung extensively studied every aspect of symbolism as significant emanations of the Collective Unconscious - including Tarot, Astrology, I-Ching, Grail-lore, Fairytales, Fables and, of course Alchemy (by no means a complete list).
I spent an interesting afternoon in Zurich many years ago when I was studying these things (with greater zeal than today), with a very elderly and very shrewd/insightful lady in her Nineties, a Jungian Analyst, who personally trained under Jung and who specialized in Tarot and Astrology. It was an eye-opening encounter!
I mention this because many will consider these subjects as a bit new age for this forum - a bit dotty in other words. But all art, to a lesser or greater degree, manifest unconscious contents - as indeed do all religions - thus making them ripe for Jungian analysis and therefore an important tool towards greater understanding.
I believe that segments of the film had been edited out by Warner Bros., and if true this makes the task more difficult.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14