Myers- Brigg and tarot

[Jewel13]

I saw a thread on here last year discussing tarot and Myers-Brigg types. I am curious if I wanted to take it deeper and not rely on the matching that has already been done, what sort of questions would be useful to ask my deck. I know there is a lot of debate about personality tests and I am far from an expert or have enough knowledge to engage, but I find them useful as guiding posts to frame my strengths and weaknesses and look at areas I need to develop. I know as an ISTP I need to strengthen my empathy skills. I am curious how tarot can help facilitate going deeper with personality.  I searched a bit and didn't find an answer to my question and do hope this is the right area to pose this question.

[blue_crow_laura]

This is a really interesting question! Following.

 

I'm neither a Tarot nor a Myers-Brigg expert, but if someone hasn't correlated the Tarot and MB typology system somewhere already, I'd be surprised. I know the Gurdjieff Enneagram system has some solid overlap with Tarot theory, but I don't know about Myers-Brigg. Maybe someone else knows?

 

Might be best, if you have to start cold, to look at the Jungian tarot decks and scholars, since MB is based on Jung.

 

I'm an ENTP, by the way, with a slightly wavery E/I. So sometimes INTP. I'm really an ambivert; I enjoy crowds of people and talking to strangers (even more than talking to family or friends, really...I like learning new things about new people) and I even like public speaking, but I need absolutely tons of alone time. Like days at a time.

 

So yeah, I'll be interested in hearing what comes up...!

[Jewel13]

Hi there.

The correlation has already been done. 

https://78revelationsaminute.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/personality-types-the-tarot-court-cards-and-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/

 

This is one of many. I am more curious if wanted to go deeper in the exploration vs. what has already been done. Unveiling more intuitively what my personality messages are. Using my tarot deck through exploratory questions.

[stephanelli]

I think it can be an interesting exercise to do the correlation yourself - it helps you gain another layer of understanding with regards to the court cards and see how your understanding compares to that of other people (I think it may also change depending on the deck too).  Another interesting exercise I found was to correlate the MB types to the Majors (i.e. which major fits each type best).

 

One thing that could be interesting would be to do a reading about each part your type.  I put this spread together just now, this assumes that you have a desire to develop a particular part of your personality.

You do a reading for all four parts, or just one.  You could omit the 3rd card and just look at the strengths and weaknesses and take your ideas from there.

 

 I/E (Pick which one you are, same goes for the rest of these)

1. Strengths 2. Weaknesses 3. Suggestions to develop 

N/S

1. Strengths 2. Weaknesses 3. Suggestions to develop 

F/T

1. Strengths 2. Weaknesses 3. Suggestions to develop

J/P

1. Strengths 2. Weaknesses 3. Suggestions to develop 

 

Just some ideas 😊

[Jewel13]

Thank you! This helps. I wasn't sure how to dig deeper so this definitely helps frame some self readings

[stephanelli]

12 hours ago, Jewel13 said:

Thank you! This helps. I wasn't sure how to dig deeper so this definitely helps frame some self readings

Glad it was helpful!

 

You could also use this as an overview type spread and then do some more specific questions - let's say this overview made you realise you weren't very confident around other people, you could tend do a second reading focusing on the confidence issue (for that I'd tend to just do a 3 card draw and read semi-intuitively, but there are lots of spreads out there that look at specific issues or you could design your own).

[Jewel13]

I am a newbie so this helps get me started. 🙂