The Tarot: Synchronistic Images of Psyche and World with Ken James

Sat Feb 21 2026 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-05:00

Homewood Suites Sarasota, 3470 Fruitville Rd | Sarasota

The C. G. Jung Society of Sarasota
Publisher/HostThe C. G. Jung Society of Sarasota
The Tarot: Synchronistic Images of Psyche and World with Ken James
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Saturday, February 21, 2026
9:00AM - NOON Eastern
$50 Members / $60 Non-Members
Drawing on Jung’s ideas about complexes, archetypes, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity, discover how the cards can open fresh ways of understanding both our inner dynamics and the unfolding events of our everyday experience.
This is a VIRTUAL HYBRID event – Dr. James will be presenting via Zoom. While we encourage you to attend this event in person at the Homewood Suites for fellowship and group interaction and discussion, all registrants have the option to join us via Zoom online. Zoom links will be emailed upon registration.

Description
The Tarot is more than a deck of cards. It can act as a mirror of the psyche and a doorway into the living field of synchronicity. In this seminar, we’ll explore how the Tarot works as a symbolic system that sparks meaningful connections between our inner life and the outer world. Drawing on Jung’s ideas about complexes, archetypes, the collective unconscious, and synchronicity, we’ll see how the cards can open fresh ways of understanding both our inner dynamics and the unfolding events of our everyday experience.
Through illustrative demonstrations of Tarot readings, along with guided reflections and lively discussion, we’ll look at how the images of the Major and Minor Arcana show up at just the right time to bring meaning and wonder into our lives. Rather than being mere fortune-telling curiosities, the cards emerge as synchronistic constellations that reveal the symbolic interplay of psyche and world. They can highlight an unconscious complex, shine a light on a developmental task, or echo something happening in the outer situation, always inviting us into a dialogue with the unconscious that is both playful and profound.
This seminar is for those who already know Jung’s work and would like to explore how Tarot can be used as a creative and psychologically grounded tool. You’ll leave with a richer sense of how synchronistic images can guide, challenge, and support the individuation process, and perhaps even a renewed appreciation for the way psyche and world are always in conversation.
About The Presenter
Kenneth James, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Along the way, he studied voice at the American Conservatory of Music and music therapy at the Institute for Consciousness and Music in Baltimore. He also completed four years of post-doctoral study in theology and scripture at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He has taken lay ordination in Zen Buddhism and has studied the Kabbalah with a Lubavitcher rabbi in Chicago. He has led workshops around the world on the relationship between divination and synchronicity, as well as on the use of the Tarot to explore the unconscious. The synthesis of Jungian thought, clinical practice, and the numinous has been a strong motif throughout his career, both in his consulting room and in the classroom.
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Homewood Suites Sarasota, 3470 Fruitville Rd, 3470 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL 34237-9024, United States

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