Jung on Astrology
Jung On Series

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Contexts and Opinions

Introduction

1 Astrology’s Place in the Modern West

2 Jung’s View of Astrology

3 Astrology as Archetypal: Planets and Gods

Part II: Astrological Symbolism in Jung’s Writings

Introduction

4 Planetary and Zodiacal Symbolism

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 Projection

13 Astrology as Mantic Method

14 Astrology as Causal Influence

15 Synchronicity and the Qualities of Time

16 Number and Archetypes

XVII Acausal Orderedness and the Unus Mundus

Appendix

Introduction

Gret Baumann-Jung: Some Reflections on the Horoscope of C. G. Jung

Index

Safron Rossi is a professor of mythology and depth psychology in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. For many years she was Curator of the Joseph Campbell and James Hillman manuscript collections. She writes in the fields of archetypal psychology, mythology and astrology.

Keiron Le Grice is a professor of depth psychology and program chair in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and co-founder of the Institute of Transpersonal and Archetypal Studies (ITAS). He is the author of several books and a founding editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology.