Tree of Life & the Tarot – Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone

New 7-week Live Video Course Starts
Tuesday, November 6, 2024

Experience the extraordinary power of Kabbalah and its Tree of Life, combined with the oracular wisdom and magic of the Tarot in the Imaginal Realm, for profound self-exploration and transformation.
Learn to embody the gifts of your ancestors, and heal intergenerational wounds so you can navigate challenges with wise, ancient guidance and greater ease — becoming an oracle for evolution.

In the midst of political turbulence and a maelstrom of challenges around the world — planetary warming, economic instability, and violence among individuals, cultures, and countries — you may be feeling waves of anxiety, fear, or doubt about how to navigate what lies ahead.

Yet throughout history, times of profound unrest have also been opportunities for spiritual awakening, when ancient wisdom traditions have offered guidance for healing and a sense of renewal.

According to Jungian psychotherapist and award-winning author Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, the ancient mystics left us living maps to help us find our way through difficult times with clarity and peace, drawing strength from the timeless truths of our ancestral wisdom.

Rabbi Tirzah, a renowned Jewish scholar and teacher, widely known for her groundbreaking work in Kabbalah, depth psychology, intergenerational healing, and the re-integration of feminine wisdom…

… teaches internationally about spiritual and ancient wisdom practices in a way that’s designed to assist us at this critical time in world history.

In her new 7-week live video course, she’s combining the oracle of the Tarot with the powerful path of Kabbalah, using its Tree of Life as a looking glass.

This fortifies your connection with your ancestral lineage, heals personal and familial wounds that have been passed down for generations, and helps you return to your innate balance and inner knowing.

These ancient systems provide powerful tools for self-exploration, the rediscovery of ancestral wisdom, and personal transformation.

Your journey with Rabbi Tirzah will be both scholarly and deeply experiential, including a powerful solstice ritual, visualizations, meditations, journaling, and other healing practices to regulate your nervous system…

… plus guided journeys into the ancestral realm through your personal inner sanctuary to master the ability to access and receive guidance from the mystical dimension of the Imaginal Realm.

Kabbalah is a mystical tradition rooted in Jewish spiritual practices, dating back more than 2,000 years.

It’s evolved over the centuries, integrating influences from various spiritual traditions. It can offer you valuable wisdom for navigating chaos, rediscovering your equilibrium, and reconnecting with your spiritual essence.

Using the extraordinary healing power of Kabbalah, Rabbi Tirzah will help you attune to unseen dimensions and align your actions and life with your true purpose, strengthening your connection to the earth plane for greater wisdom and guidance, and contributing to collective awakening.

At the core of Kabbalah is its Tree of Life, which Rabbi Tirzah sees as a profound lens through which you can understand yourself and recognize and embody the gifts of your own family tree and your wise and well ancestors.

The Tree of Life offers you a symbolic map of your personal spiritual journey, illustrating how divine energy flows through various dimensions of existence.

By viewing oracles through the lens of the Tree of Life, you’ll gain a structured and holistic perspective, allowing you to interpret messages with greater depth and clarity.

Oracles like the Tarot also mirror your inner world, helping you understand your present circumstances and make empowered decisions.

The vivid archetypal imagery of the Tarot’s Major Arcana — which represents the journey of the soul from ignorance to enlightenment — will help you perceive beyond the present to heal yourself and the ancestral patterns that have shaped you.

Throughout the seven sessions of this program, Rabbi Tirzah will guide you through the Major Arcana and demonstrate how many of these cards speak to our archetypal moment in world history — providing essential lessons for personal and spiritual growth and opportunities to do ancestral healing.

Weaving together the principles of Kabbalah with the rich symbolism of the Major Arcana, Rabbi Tirazah will teach you how to use these sacred tools for self-reflection and divination, allowing you to access deeper wisdom and insight in your daily life.

Both systems open portals of divine energy, through which you can hear the guidance of your ancestors and inner self more distinctly — for deep personal and collective transformation.

Module 1: Open the Portals to Your Soul’s Healing Powers, Your Heavenly Cosmic Self & Your Roots to Invisible Dimensions (November 6)

Embark on this potent journey of awakening to discover and heal the ancient Tree of Life within you — and your own ancestral family tree. Recognize that we are all the Tree of Life.

After receiving an overview of the remarkable histories of the Tree of Life and the Kabbal system, explore the numinous spheres (sephirah) and focus on the one called Keter, the crown of the tree which touches the cosmic impulse that called you into being.

Using the Tarot’s powerful archetypal image of judgment, identify what blocks your faith, reconnect to your Roots in Heaven, and hear the call of your higher self to open your portals in the invisible dimensions.

There, meet your heavenly cosmic self, discover the healing powers of your own soul, and gain understanding of your life’s purpose.

In this module, you’ll:

Learn the meaning of Kabbalah, the origins of the Tree of Life, and its central archetype and template for wholeness
Understand the Kabbalah’s Four-World system of reality and how it’s reflected in the Tarot
See how your family tree maps onto the archetypal Tree of Life
Be guided into the Imaginal Realm and open the gates to the ancestral abode to perceive the unseen dimension and the healing it holds for you

Module 2: Discover the Life-Giving and Poisonous Roots of Your Ancestors to Identify the Healing Properties Embedded in Your Family & Release Those That Keep You Unwell (November 12)

What are the life-giving roots in your family tree, and where are the ones that are poisonous?

As you examine the roots of your personal and humanly flawed family tree, understand that every family tree has some poison and a pain body that can affect our life force and become pathogenic. Dig down to discover the dangerous root that can keep you unwell.

Travel down the trunk of the tree’s central pillar to another set of roots, deep in Mother Earth.

Discover fundamental and indispensable features of your ancestral roots as you study the Kabbalah’s vision of the Divine Feminine — called Shechinah — residing in the very ground of your being.

Draw upon the Tarot’s wisdom from The World, The Moon, and The Star cards, as you delve into the life-giving roots of your ancestors to find the healing properties of your family’s original place.

In this module, you’ll:

Grasp the dynamic quality of the Tree of Life’s three pillars
Learn why the central pillar repeatedly calls you to become a channel for healing
Experience a guided visualization to discover your own family tree, what at its root needs work, and what is medicinal and to be harvested
Understand the Kabbalists’ portrayal of Shechinah and the gravitational pull of the Divine Feminine in our era
Discover the life-giving roots of your own ancestral lineage, as well as the poison root beneath the family tree

Module 3: Connect to Powers of Manifestation to Clarify Your Vision & Reach Your Highest Potential (November 19)

Having visited both the heavenly and earthly root systems that feed the Tree of Life, begin your study of its 10 spheres ( Sephirot ) as portals of divine energy — a dynamic chakra system that works in threes for balance and equilibrium.

The first system at the ground level is the Triangle of Manifestation (Netzach-Hod-Yesod), which governs your ability to channel your vision and enthusiasm into actual material form.

Explore your personal vision — the dream that deeply inspires you — and see how you’re going to bring it into being. Discover what’s stopping you from being a prophet, walking your talk, and acting as a powerful agent of change and blessing.

Examine the patterns in manifestation in your ancestral roots, which can give you messages of inspiration or limitations.

Here the Tarot’s Magician, High Priestess, and Chariot are all instrumental. Draw upon their powers as you visit the ancestral realm to examine family patterns of prosperity, limitation, and manifestation that may have landed in you.

In this module, you’ll:

Understand the Tree of Life as a dialectical chakra system that can help us balance and heal our energies
Be guided in a journey to reveal your own family scripts and legacies that have been handed down to you about your limitations and skills of manifestation
Grasp the relationship between the Triangle of Manifestation and the Divine Feminine
Study your family tree for its relationship to the material world, your ability to create, and your capacity for resilience
Learn from the Tarot’s archetypes of the High Priestess and Magician for insights into personal power

Module 4: Find the Luminous Spark of Darkness in the Sovereignty of Your Heart to Free Yourself From Negative Ancestral Legacies Around Love & Open the Gate to New Possibilities (November 26)

Move up the Tree to the locus of the heart and delve into skillful use of your personal energies and the ecosystem to keep you balanced and healthy.

With the help of the Tarot’s archetypes of Sun, Death, and Temperance, learn about the dialectics of love through the Triangle of Relationship (Chesed-Gevurah-Tiferet).

Explore ways to bring your heart into its most skillful settings so you might give and receive in equal measure, maintain wise boundaries, find your sovereignty, and be attuned to the love that awaits you.

With the help of The Lovers archetype, explore your ancestral beliefs, behaviors, and byproducts regarding all matters of relationship. In the ancestral realm, find the wisdom you need to hear.

In this module, you’ll:

Learn the Kabbalah’s view of the heart and the connection between truth and beauty
Journey into the ancestral realms for reflections and wisdom about your legacies around love
Study your own ecosystem and how your internal feedback guards your precious energies
Explore your family tree for balanced loving relationships and areas of ill health that left intergenerational imprints
Learn where you allow love, where you cut it off, and how to be yourself while also being a lover — being generous yet having enough for yourself
Experience tools for freeing yourself from old negative ancestral legacies and restrictions around love, and opening to new possibilities

Module 5: Encounter Divine Wisdom & Receive a Talisman, Providing You With a Spiritual Injection of Nutrients to Guide You Forward (December 3)

Arrive at the transpersonal facets of the Tree, the highest triangle, where you’ll touch the divine imagination in the form of the Triangle of Illumination (Chochmah-Binah-Daat) to uplevel your whole system.

Explore ways to navigate the wheel of karma, as in the Tarot’s Wheel of Fortune, enabling you to more freely create your own destiny. Engage the elders of your bloodline to assist you, and inquire about the supreme directives of your lineages.

Look at ways to bring Spirit more actively into your life and heal yourself from the top down.

Touch the Axis Mundi or World Tree — the vertical center of Mother Earth that binds her and all of her creatures to the sacred realm.

Receive instructions for a ritual in nature to bring blessings from the archetypal tree back to our ailing earth.

In this module, you’ll:

Recognize how the mythical World Tree shows up in folktales and art around the world
Journey to contact the guardians of your lineage, receive their healing talisman to help uplevel your whole frequency, and feel a big injection of spiritual nutrients
Learn to open the crown chakra, connecting you to the Divine to receive creative seeds
Study the powerful Sephirot that bring you into contact with the divine imagination and the imaginal realm that shapes reality
Clarify your deepest prayer and prepare for your personal earth ritual

Module 6: Ritual Practicum 1 — Sweeten the Poison Root of the Ancestral Tree and Engage the Power of Your Focus, Love & Compassion (December 10)

The two final modules of this course will be ritual practicums.

Beneath the surface of the earth, no tree stands alone. Their root systems are interwoven, communicating with and assisting each other for miles on end.

Join together as trees do in a forest, connecting to and uplifting one another in a powerful guided ritual. As agents of blessings and transformation, learn to sweeten the poison roots that are corrosive to your ancestral tree.

Drawing from a key principle of Kabbalistic sacred practice — that harsh legacies must be sweetened with understanding and compassion at their very root — and enter the imaginal realm…

… to enlist potent archetypal forces you’ll have stirred throughout the course, to help you heal and transform the future of your lineage.

In this practicum module, you’ll:

Understand the Kabbalistic healing practice of sweetening harshness at its root
Be guided in a deep meditation and journaling exercise
Become aware of the power of your own focus, love, and compassion as an agent of transformation
Experience the uplifting camaraderie of our global ancestral healing network

Module 7: Ritual Practicum 2 — Solstice Ritual: Welcome the Light Back In, for You and Our Future Ancestors to Flourish & Thrive (December 17)

You’ll close this course with spiritual leader Malidome Some’s encouragement to become an “Ancestor in Training” — preparing now for the next dimension where we can be of maximal service to your living relatives… to help them flourish and thrive.

Prepare now for the next dimension where you can be of maximum service to your living relatives, becoming an ancestor in training.

Partake in a joyous solstice ritual and stand at the cusp of the new year, greet the returning light, and lay down the psychic tracks to your greater potential…

… as an ancestral healer, global citizen, conduit for Or Ein Sof — “the limitless divine light” — and bringer of healing to the embodied earth plane.

And learn the true meaning of the solstice. For this celebratory graduation, bring your art, song, or poetry to share with your co-participants.

In this practicum module, you’ll:

Recognized what it means to become a wise and well ancestor, and what it takes to prepare for the next dimension of your existence where you’re in service to a will greater than your own
Journey into the unseen dimensions in a guided ritual to celebrate the return of the light, experience a graduation, and behold the face of your soul’s fruition
Witness each other’s earth rituals through art, photography, song, or poetry
Understand the perils of not detaching from your physical and emotional cravings
Learn about disembodied entities, or dybbuks — malevolent wandering spirits that enter and possess the body of a living person until exorcized — and why they attach to us
Practice an ancient mystical Hebrew mantra to balance and empower you in trying times