The Journey of Inanna as a Tarot Reading

Interweaving ancient myth with modern tarot invites a rich dialogue between storytelling and symbolic psychology.

The Epic of Inanna, the Sumerian queen who descends to the underworld and returns transformed, offers a powerful archetypal journey that maps neatly onto Tarot’s rite-of-passage structure. Reading Inanna’s descent through a Tarot lens invites reflection on identity, power, vulnerability, transformation and reintegration.

This reading treats Inanna’s odyssey as a dynamic tarot narrative—a storyline that can illuminate waking life through archetypal imagery, energetic psychology and actionable insight.

 

Tarot as a Language for Mythic Journey

Major Arcana (5 cards) as stages of the hero’s journey. The Fool’s call, The Magician’s mastery, The High Priestess’s mystery, The Empress’s creativity, The Emperor’s sovereignty, The Hierophant’s tradition, The Lovers’ choices, The Chariot’s momentum, Strength or Fortitude’s resilience, The Hermit’s inner quest, Wheel of Fortune’s cycles, Justice or Judgment’s reckonings, The World’s integration. Majot Arcana cards represent helping or inhibiting impulses.

Addionally, we choose 10 cards out of the Minor Arcana, those respresent losses on the way to the Shadow/ the descent; the things you have to give up to reach the Dark. On the ascend side, they speak for the present you gains, because you were courageous enough to meet yout hidden Self.

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This journey takes time. It can't be done in 20 minutes. Create a safe and calm environment while the reading.

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