Moonlight Counseling

Hi Art,

How are you?  Jim & I were talking about you the other day because of the irony that we’re doing a couple’s / codependency workshop together!  I’m facilitating it with another drug & etoh counselor, but Jim plays an integral part in making the material “real,”  -role playing, psychodrama.  And YOU”RE to blame!    It really is a miracle that we got married and truly have a loving and powerful relationship.  Our spiritual practice and focus on what’s true has been the saving grace.  But none of it would have happened without your encouragement and guidance.  We’re paying it forward. Robyn Winks

-From Kurt Swensen’s Blog                                                                                                                                                                                                                      For those with an interest or affinity for The Taro Posted on March 1, 2012For those of you who are interested in how Psychology and Tarot are brilliantly connected and how it might compliment your ongoing recovery, I recommend the work of Dr. Art Rosengarten. I recently spent part of an evening with Dr. Rosengarten and was rewarded with something deeply satisfying and complimentary to my journey into 2012.

-As CEO of a mental health agency providing community based services in California and Nevada I have often benefited from Dr. Rosengarten’s consultation on a wide range of issues. I have also had the opportunity and privilege of knowing Art for more then 35 years as a colleague, therapist, author, poet, husband, father, and a dear friend. His therapeutic skills and his ability to integrate and utilize a wide variety of psychotherapeutic approaches based in the traditions of both eastern and western thought is exceptional. He has spent much of his adult life studying and employing the therapeutic use of archetypal imagery particularly as it relates to Carl Jung’s body of work and the symbolism of the Tarot. Although his knowledge is extensive the gift he brings to others through his work is his ability to assist us in understanding the complexity of our process and our choices for change in a clear and positive way that is both affirming and empowering. Barry Shea, Caminar Inc.

-I am so impressed by Dr. Rosengarten! He has given workshops and is fabulous and amazing with his preparation. It is well thought out, insightful, and his ability with technology is impressive. Art has a gentle way of confronting and questioning as well as a very spiritual view of life. He is sensitive, understanding, world wise, and humorous. I highly recommend him and know that you will enjoy him. Time will fly by. Garry Diamond

-Can’t say enough about how much seeing Art in a group setting has done for me, within just a few sessions I started seeing great change in my well being and outllook on daily life.Art is incredibly knowledgeable and articulate helping the members in many different ways to work towards true healing, growth and relief.I am grateful everyday that I took the steps to try group therapy and am so pleased that I am working with such a wonderful, experienced Counselor.Working with Art is not only a helpful experience but is also a pleasure. Suzanne Laird

-Dr. Art Rosengarten is an excellent group leader. I was in a long term group experience with Dr. Rosengarten for many years. He has the rare ability to be both in control of the group and at the same time allow maximum freedom of expression. He comes to every group meeting well prepared; and he gives great power point presentations. I highly recommend Dr. Rosengarten’s skills as a group leader. Kathy Berkowitz.

–Art Rosengarten is the therapist who made me understand why my brain was programmed to make me feel so miserable, so much of the time. He understands our human tendencies, our ego drive, and he heals us with wisdom, his and the wisdom he pulls out of each one of his “students”. With his buddhist philosophies and his understanding of our western world, he guided me to find peace in my world, to see my problems as opportunities for solutions, to handle whatever life could bring with a healed mind. I have him to thank for saving me from a very sad life, and showing me a much better way. Yael Gmach

“Art Rosengarten offers us an engaging approach to oracle wisdom.  His highly original interpretation allows us to explore openness and transcend fixed beliefs, without needing to begin with a problem or look for complex understandings.” Peter Fenner, Ph.D. author and founder of The Radiant Mind.

–“Studying Tarot with Art Rosengarten over the past 4 years has been a valuable personal as well as professional journey for me.   I recommend Dr. Art Rosengarten’s Tarot group to any and all people (at any level of experience or knowledge) who are ready to understand themselves, others and the Tarot in a deeper and more meaningful way.”  Yvette Lyons, Expressive Arts Therapist (aka: Kether1@webtv.net)

“In my practice… I used Tarot images only in amplifying dreams and sandtrays.  Not until I read Dr. Rosengarten’s manuscript was I aware of the potential of Tarot.  If I were still in practice, I would certainly try using it.”  James A. Hall, MD, Jungian Analyst  and author of The Jungian Experience and Jungian Dream Interpretation

“Rosengarten’s remarkable work spans the abyss that yawns between psychology and mysticism, and does so without diminishment to art or science.”  Lon Milo Du Quette, author of Tarot of Ceremonial Magick and Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millennium

 

-Jun 29, 2012

Hi Art,
I have something I wanted to tell you about the reading you did for me several weeks back. I’m not sure if you remember the cards we pulled, but there were two cards in particular that I struggled with understanding – intuitively and emotionally, not intellectually. I’m fairly intelligent, so the intellectual piece is not necessarily my struggle. LOL!

The two cards were the upside down Tower card and the obstacle card which was the upside down Magician. At the time the upside down Tower did not make any sense. I was quite certain that the Tower had fallen for me and that that part of the experience was over. I was finding it impossible to believe that I was actually buried under the tower. But, I was wrong. In recent weeks I have come to understand how I was still buried. Since coming to the realization that the card was correct, I have been able to use that revelation to crawl out from under the rubble. And, oddly enough, I came to understand exactly the right method that I needed to use to crawl out from under the mess.

And this is where the Magician card comes into play. I was having a hard time understanding which tools it was that I was not using in my current circumstances. I think of my tools as the ones that are positive and nurturing and used to repair and preserve the relationships around me. I was lost in the idea that my tools had to be the ones I use to help other people, rather than the ones I might need to assist myself.  I have tools that allow me to be brutally honest with myself and others and I have tools that allow me to stand up for myself from my core, which gives me a greater sense of personal power and peace. These were the tools that I was not using in my current situation. These tools had been laying dormant. Which frankly, is odd for me because I use these tools quite frequently in all other aspects of my life. But, for some reason, I had put these tools away for this one particular situation.

When I put the dormant tools to work for me they allowed me to crawl out from under the Tower. Hence the synchronicity and symbiotic relationship between the two cards. Using the two cards in conjunction with one another I found a way to crawl out from under the rubble and reawaken my personal power and a sense of inner peace.

I wasn’t going to email you this story because I have a very strict sense of boundaries; my own and other peoples. But, on the other hand, I think that when you work with people and your work effects them significantly, it is nice to let them know that they had a hand in making something it happen.

Thank you,

Shelli