I just received an interesting article on Spiritual competencies for psychologists from the APS yes… the American Psychological Society, who are not known for their embracing of the ‘non-Clinical’ (sic) approaches in therapy, about the need for incorporating the spiritual and religious into therapy. This reinforces for me that modalities such as Tarot and other divination and the Interfaith approach I adopt, can offer so much …. not just the common understanding of fortune telling or exact concrete prediction. We are continuing to move beyond this ‘narrow’ definition and the opening more towards a psycho- spiritual divination, and even therapy, that enables people to know themselves far more deeply and thus become conscious, enabling choice, and so the unconscious/ shadow may be embraced to guide to the SELF.
As a fellow traveller in this area, Katrina Wynne, another Tarot counsellor comments ‘ Good-on-you, Jenne, for carrying the torch on counseling skills as we continue to push the envelope on what defines a Tarot, or oracle, reading’ ….
To add to the mix , I am going to a Conference in New York next year on Tarot and Psychology... this area is starting to expand, and whilst not every client , therapist, Tarot/Astrologer reader will feel drawn to this approach, I sense the conventional therapy worlds AND the Tarot / divination/spiritual healing worlds are converging.
http://tarotschool.com/RS14/tarotpsychologyconference.html http://www.integralpsychology.org/uploads/1/5/3/0/15300482/spiritual_competencies_psychologists.pdf
