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"Tarot in itself is an attempt at representing (symbolizing) the constituents of the flow of the unconscious and therefore it is applicable for an intuitive method that has the purpose of understanding the flow of life...." - Carl Jung
Le Mat (The Fool) - Here we conclude our posts from Rudolf Bernoulli's lecture on tarot: the second part of his 1934 Eranos conference presentation, "On the Symbolism of Geometric Figures and Numbers." For the full lecture see www.tarotamplified.com/bernoulli-le... at www.tarotamplified.com
Le Monde (The World) - Nearing the end of our posts of Rudolf Bernoulli's comments on tarot from his 1934 Eranos conference lecture, which prompted one of Jung's few references to tarot in his Collected Works.
![In the center of the card a female or androgynous figure dances with a red cape over their left shoulder. Their left leg is bent at the knee similar to the position of the Hanged Man's legs (Le Pendu). They are framed by a mandorla of yellow, red, and blue leaves (perhaps laurel). In the four corners of the card are an angel, eagle, lion, and bull -- regarded as symbols of the four Evangelists of the New Testament, and the four elements. Bernoulli writes: "Either the figure in the middle is the perfected human, and the apocalyptic symbolic forms in the corners represent the word-elements that worship [them], each with the number 4, so 5 + (4x4) = 21. Or we take the 4 forms in the corners to represent 4 humans separated by their unique temperament or character type, and the middle as the middlepoint toward which they strive, so (4x5 =) 20 + 1. Both indicate a final goal of inner development.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idozyvb5m632r2d5cxhnw4lw/bafkreig5afx6jbqbpdbh3ze4udnenj7zmi6ak6argi2nezfa5uz4zxuc4u)
Le Jugement - Commentary from Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
Le Soleil (The Sun) - Commentary from Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
![The golden face of the sun, above, center, is arrayed with 16 beams of gold, blue, silver, red, and green. Droplets (sunlight?) fall on twin figures below wearing only blue shorts. Bernoulli writes that the sun image evokes the 9 -- the Hermit. "[T]he uncertain flickering light of the Hermit's lantern has become the victorious brightness of the day star." "[If] the image of the 9 means consciousness," Bernoulli writes, "here its expansion to universal consciousness is amply emphasized."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idozyvb5m632r2d5cxhnw4lw/bafkreidrm436yitm3de23qvccusexfr56cf64ux2szyeqqihmklrdd3yfa)
La Lune - Commentary from Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos lecture.
![A blue moon radiating red, pale blue, and white moonbeams looks down from above. Below golden-brown towers or buildings stand at the back on either side, and in the center two similarly-colored dogs howl at the moon. In front and below them a crayfish is visible in dark blue water. Bernoulli calls this card "a reaching back to [something] earlier," evokes Scylla and Charybdis, and the astrological sign Cancer. "Difficult passage here...."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idozyvb5m632r2d5cxhnw4lw/bafkreihqhzkwb2dtilz6f33e34bcnzvjjhwu4qa5jkjimtfmppys5a62qy)
L'Etoile (The Star) - Commentary from Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos lecture.
La Maison Dieu - Continuing our posting of Rudolf Bernoulli's tarot commentary from his 1934 Eranos lecture. Here, "The House of God," called "The Tower" in Rider-Waite-Smith and derived decks.
Le Diable. Continuing our series posting Rudolf Bernoulli's tarot commentary from his second 1934 Eranos lecture.
Temperance. Rudolf Bernoulli's commentary from his 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
Card 13 from the Marseille deck, bearing no name, but usually labeled "Death" in other decks. Rudolf Bernoulli's commentary from his 1934 Eranos lecture, below
Le Pendu. From Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
La Force. From Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
La Roue de Fortune. Rudolf Bernoulli from his 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
L'Hermite. Rudolf Bernoulli from his 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
La Justice. Commentary by Rudolf Bernoulli from a lecture at the 1934 Eranos conference.
Rudolf Bernoulli re. Le Chariot, from his lecture at the 1934 Eranos conference.
Continuing card descriptions from Rudolf Bernoulli's 1934 Eranos conference lecture, here L'Amoureux - The Lover, which is The Lovers in the Rider-Waite-Smith and other decks.
![A young man dressed in a red, gold, and blue striped tunic stands between two women. To his right she is dark-haired and wearing a hat, and to his left blond and hatless. Above the threesome Cupid appears with bow and arrow. "[A] decision must be made," Bernoulli says.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:idozyvb5m632r2d5cxhnw4lw/bafkreiholnyeisz247r2u2rmixl5ynrp7iout4t6qvl2tyvvv2hqo4yvty)
Le Pape described by Rudolf Bernoulli in the 1934 Eranos lecture that Jung referenced.
The latest in the series we're posting - a comment on The Emperor from Rudolf Bernoulli, whose 1934 Eranos lecture is mentioned by Jung in one of his few comments about tarot.
Continuing the series, Bernoulli's comment on The Empress, from his 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
Second posting in the series of Rudolf Bernoulli's comments on the major arcana from his 1934 Eranos conference lecture.
As promised I'll be posting Rudolf Bernoulli's comments on the major arcana from the second part of his lecture at the 1934 Eranos conference.
My translation of the lectures is available here: www.tarotamplified.com/bernoulli-le... and I'll be posting Bernoulli's comments on specific major arcana individually. 6/6
Bernoulli Lectures - Tarot Amplified
Rudolf Bernoulli was a Swiss art historian and professor at the ETH, Zurich. He delivered a two-part lecture at the second Eranos Lectures, in 1934 titled "On the Symbolism of Geometric Figures and Nu...
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The second part is titled "Numerology of the Tarot System." While it merges some concepts and references syncretically, it provides unique insight into what may have informed Jung's attitude toward tarot. 5/6
Art historian Rudolf Bernoulli delivered a two-part lecture at the second Eranos Conference, in 1934, titled "On the Symbolism of geometric Figures and Numbers." The first part of the lecture is a general consideration of the function of numbers and geometry in human knowledge. 4/6
... and Chinese yoga. And then he writes: "It also seems as if the set of pictures in the Tarot cards were distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation, a view that has been confirmed for me in a very enlightening lecture by Professor Bernoulli." 3/6
The only reference to tarot in the Collected Works is in Volume 9: Part 1: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, paragraph 81, where Jung is discussing what he calls the "symbolic process." He suggests that pictorial examples can be found in works on alchemy, the Tantric chakra system ..., 2/6
The Jung quote in our profile is from a series of lectures he delivered in English between 1930 and 1934 in Zurich, and gave permission to publish only in 1957. Eventually published as "Visions," these are not included in Jung's Collected Works. 1/6