Active Imagination
A Jungian practice of entering dialogue with dream figures, images, or feelings to discover their meaning.
Active imagination is a deliberate conversation with the unconscious. Instead of analyzing an image from the outside, you approach it as a living presence and let it respond. The goal is not to control the symbol but to build a relationship with it.
In tarot, this can mean sitting with a card that troubles or fascinates you, imagining stepping into the scene, and noticing what the figures say or do. It turns a reading from interpretation into encounter.