Jung On Astrology

Jung on Astrology brings together C. G. Jung’s thoughts on astrology in a single volume for the first time, significantly adding to our understanding of Jung’s work. Jung’s Collected Works, seminars, and letters contain numerous discussions of this ancient divinatory system, and Jung himself used astrological horoscopes as a diagnostic tool in his analytic practice. Understood in terms of his own psychology as a symbolic representation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Jung found in astrology a wealth of spiritual and psychological meaning and suggested it represents the "sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity." The selections and editorial introductions by Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice address topics that were of critical importance to Jung—such as the archetypal symbolism in astrology, the precession of the equinoxes and astrological ages, astrology as a form of synchronicity and acausal correspondence, the qualitative nature of time, and the experience of astrological fate—allowing readers to assess astrology’s place within the larger corpus of Jung’s work and its value as a source of symbolic meaning for our time. The book will be of great interest to analytical psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists and academics and students of depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, as well as to astrologers and therapists of other orientations, especially transpersonal.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Contexts and opinions -- Introduction -- 1 Astrology's place in the modern West -- 2 Jung's views on astrology -- 3 Planets and gods: astrology as archetypal -- PART II Astrological symbolism in Jung's writings -- Introduction -- 4 Planetary and zodiacal symbolism -- The signs of the zodiac -- Sun symbolism -- Sun and moon symbolism -- Venus and Mars symbolism -- Mandalas, birth charts, and the self -- 5 Fate, heimarmene, and ascent through the planetary spheres -- 6 Astrology and medicine -- PART III Astrological ages -- Introduction -- 7 The symbolic significance of the precession -- Astrological ages and cultural transition -- From the age of Aries to the age of Aquarius -- Astrological ages and Christian symbolism -- The coming age of Aquarius -- 8 The sign of the fishes -- 9 The prophecies of Nostradamus -- 10 The historical significance of the fish -- PART IV Explanations of astrology -- Introduction -- 11 As above, so below: the microcosm-macrocosm correspondence -- 12 Astrology as a projection of the unconscious -- 13 Astrology as a mantic method -- 14 Astrology as causal influence -- 15 Synchronicity and the qualities of time -- 16 Number and archetypes -- 17 Acausal orderedness and the unus mundus -- APPENDIX Gret Baumann-Jung -- Introduction -- Appendix: Gret Baumann-Jung, "Some Reflections on the Horoscope of C.G. Jung" Spring (1975), 35-55 -- Index

Jung on Astrology brings together C. G. Jung's thoughts on astrology in a single volume for the first time, significantly adding to our understanding of Jung's work. Jung's Collected Works, seminars, and letters contain numerous discussions of this ancient divinatory system, and Jung himself used astrological horoscopes as a diagnostic tool in his analytic practice. Understood in terms of his own psychology as a symbolic representation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Jung found in astrology a wealth of spiritual and psychological meaning and suggested it represents the "sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity." The selections and editorial introductions by Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice address topics that were of critical importance to Jung--such as the archetypal symbolism in astrology, the precession of the equinoxes and astrological ages, astrology as a form of synchronicity and acausal correspondence, the qualitative nature of time, and the experience of astrological fate--allowing readers to assess astrology's place within the larger corpus of Jung's work and its value as a source of symbolic meaning for our time. The book will be of great interest to analytical psychologists, Jungian psychotherapists and academics and students of depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, as well as to astrologers and therapists of other orientations, especially transpersonal.

C. G. Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Novus, published posthumously in 2009, explores Jung’s own journey from an inner state of alienation and depression to the restoration of his soul, as well as offering a prophetic narrative of the collective human psyche as it journeys from unconsciousness to a greater awareness of its own inner dichotomy of good and evil. Jung utilised astrological symbols throughout to help him comprehend the personal as well as universal meanings of his visions. In The Astrological World of Jung’s Liber Novus, Liz Greene explores the planetary journey Jung portrayed in this remarkable work and investigates the ways in which he used astrological images and themes as an interpretive lens to help him understand the nature of his visions and the deeper psychological meaning behind them. Greene’s analysis includes a number of mythic and archetypal elements, including the stories of Salome, Siegfried and Elijah, and demonstrates that astrology, as Jung understood and worked with it, is unquestionably one of the most important foundation stones of analytical psychology, and an essential part of understanding his legacy. This unique study will appeal to analytical psychologists and Jungian psychotherapists, students and academics of Jungian and post-Jungian theory, the history of psychology, archetypal thought, mythology and folklore, the history of New Age movements, esotericism and psychological astrology.

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