The Soul Oracle
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Discovering the Lessons of your Soul's Journey through the Tarot.
Caterina Valente is an Anthropologist, Psychic Intuitive, Spiritual Mentor and Certified Integrated Energy Healer.
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Passionate about living an authentic life in alignment with one's true self and soul purpose and providing guidance for others on this path.
Leo Sun, Virgo Moon, Sagittarius Rising. Birthday 8.8 and 11 Life Path.
Individuals with the Life Path number 11 are very intuitive, it is the most intuitive of all numbers. They are sensitive, have a great understanding of others, and can sense a great deal about what is going on behind the scenes.
The number 11 life path is concerned with spiritual illumination. They are here to use their gifts of intuition, creativity and sensitivity to serve or inspire the collective and help others.
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver
Tarot reading is a process that unveils the unconscious mind and which follows the perennial clues of psychic alchemy.
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The ancient art of alchemy was the search for the divine in matter. The alchemical task was to unify spirit and soul in the body. Psychic reality means to be in soul, “esse in anima” - an enlarged experience of concrete reality, a dialogue with events, situations and circumstances.
To be in soul through embodiment (soma) or enlivenment (psyche)--perceiving images viscerally and mentally. Acknowledgement of this force constitutes simply a recognition of the archetypal nature of reality, and the archetypal reality of nature, and our own nature. She is a way of reclaiming the divinity of body, matter, and world. This notion is part of the cultural return of the Feminine.
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This resurrection of the soul of the world means a raising of consciousness of created things, the world's psychic reality. Physical reality becomes psychic, and psyche becomes real--it "matters." The difference between soul and external things no longer matters. Inner and outer world are both real and in fact One World.
Image, metaphor and symbol bridge the abyss between matter and spirit. Images are the subtle net that unites symbols. They are integrated with feeling, mind and imagination. We can see soul in all natural objects. We can notice our fantasies constantly conditioning our experience of reality.
Knowledge of spirit doesn't come from ideas, even revelations, but through a reflective process.
Iona Miller, Alchemy 101
Jung discovered “the internal Tarot” of the human mind with his notion of archetypes and it could be also argued that Tarot was already an underlying layer of the collective mind, which is where archetypes are printed —those fundamental images that constitute the psychic constellation of the human being.
In a pack of 78 Tarot cards, an entire mutant mental universe is ciphered, which can be used to form predictions. “We can predict the future,” Jung stated, “when we know how the present moment evolved from the past.” This evolution of the present is linked to the past, just as the conscious mind is subjected to the unconscious: the Tarot card is a visible manifestation of this connection, a type of synchronicity that forces itself to rise to the surface, but requiring, just as an oracle does, an accurate interpretation.
These symbols correspond to the symbolism of individualisation. They are psychological images, symbols we play with, in the same manner that the unconscious seems to play with its contents. They are combined in a certain way, and its different combinations correspond to a playful development of humankind’s history.
One of the greatest contributions Jung made to psychology was tracing the parallels between mental processes and alchemical processes that seek to transform (symbolically) matter into gold. It was in this same manner that he perceived the Tarot as an alchemical game.
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