The Fool's Excellent Adventure: A Hero's Journey through the Enneagram & Tarot

The Fool's ExcellentAdventure is the first book to explore the relationship between two great systems: the tarot and the enneagram. The tarot provides wonderful images that help us envision the nine enneagram personality types as larger-than-life archetypes that reveal our inner potential; the enneagram gives us a tool for exploring the tarot from the nine diverse perspectives. Combining the two helps us imagine the world as Joseph Campbell once did: a place full of magic, mystery, and treasures just waiting to be discovered!
     Each of us begins our journey in life as a Fool. But what kind of Fool are we? The enneagram can help us figure that out. The tarot helps us realize that our "foolish" dreams can be tranformed into tangible realities; it also inspires us to see life as more of an adventure to be lived than a problem to be solved!
     You don't need to know the tarot or enneagram to use thisbook. It's for anyone with an interest inthe tarot, the enneagram, or adventurous self-discovery. I tried to make it as story-like as possible, but at the same time to provide chapter endnotes and appendixes for more research-oriented readers (for details, see below.)


      Additional topics:

• Discovering your enneagram type and how this can support your hero's journey
• Using the enneagram to enhance tarot meditation and divination
• Enneagram-based tarot spreads
• How the tarot supports a potential-oriented view of the enneagram types
• Hermetic philosophy and how it animates the hero's journey
• Joseph Campbell and The Hero With 1000 Faces
• Hajo Banzhaf''s Jungian tarot model of the hero's journey
• Expanding Banzhaf's model to include the enneagram
• The unique role of the Fool in the journey
• How the tarot's "zero" and the enneagram's "zero" make them both quantum-based (paradoxical) systems
• The relationship between the tarot, enneagram, and qabala
• Linking the enneagram and qabala through sacred geometry
• The emerging role of the enneagram in theWestern Mystery Tradition
• The Continental vs Golden Dawn's tarot attributions on the qabalistic Tree of Life (and why this topic matter for linking the enneagram and tarot)