Tarot of the Unconscious

When author and longtime tarot reader and teacher Aliza Einhorn returned to school in order to become a psychoanalyst, she thought that she would have to put divination behind her. Instead, she discovered new insights regarding tarot and intuition. The result is Tarot of the Unconscious: Uncovering the Hidden Link Between Psychoanalysis and the Cards.

Inspired by Sigmund Freud and the deep-diving talk therapy of psychoanalysis, Tarot of the Unconscious is a unique exploration of the seventy-eight cards of the tarot. Einhorn probes the uncanny correspondences between the mysterious tarot and the groundbreaking ideas of Freud, the father and inventor of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is the origin of all talk therapy known today. Freud popularized the concept of the unconscious: the idea that we don't know why we do what we do and that our motivations are often hidden from us. Numerous tarot and other spiritual books examine the teachings of Carl Jung, but Tarot of the Unconscious uniquely draws connections between tarot and Freud.

Tarot of the Unconscious features seventy-eight new tarot spreads that Einhorn created especially for this book. She also teaches readers to bravely create their own spreads. Einhorn writes, "In this book, we have Tarot for your Melancholia, Tarot for the Journey Home, Tarot for Not Getting Out of Bed, Tarot for Your Dark Night of the Soul. You get the picture. Tarot, like life, is not all love and light and neither is psychoanalysis, and neither is any real healing or creative process."

Einhorn offers interpretations of each of the seventy-eight cards but also teaches readers how to interpret cards, as well as how to hone and rely upon their intuition. Tarot of the Unconscious is suitable for tarot readers of any level. It will help transform nervous tarot novices into confident, creative tarot practitioners and will offer new thought-provoking perspectives to seasoned tarot experts as well.

Aliza Einhorn holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the author of The Little Book of Saturn and A Mystical Practical Guide to Magic: Instructions for Seekers, Witches, & Other Spiritual Misfits. Aliza is a tarot reader, tarot teacher, astrologer, and bizarrely accurate psychic reader. She's a psychoanalyst-in-training in New York City, where she lives. Find her at alizaeinhorn.com.