Jung on Astrology

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2018

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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.”

Introduction:

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.

The four parts of the book are ordered such that foundational and contextual material is given first ( Part I ), followed by Jung’s writing on astrological symbolism ( Part II ), next focusing on Jung’s extensive treatment of the significance of the precession of the equinoxes in Aion and elsewhere ( Part III ), and turning last to a systematic exposition of Jung’s multiple and sometimes conflicting explanations of astrology ( Part IV ). The Appendix contains an astrological interpretation of Jung’s birth chart written by his second-eldest daughter, Gret Baumann-Jung. Each part opens with an editor’s introduction, giving some orientation to the material to follow, accompanied where necessary by explanatory comments and analysis.

What emerges, in bringing together Jung’s reflections, is a more complete sense of the significant place astrology occupied in his thinking. In a letter to Freud in 1911, Jung promised that he would return from his explorations of astrology and the occult “laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.” 22 The compilation of writings in this book shows the extent to which Jung was able to realize this intention.

Contents:

  • Astrology’s place in the modern West
  • Jung’s views on astrology
  • Planets and gods: astrology as archetypal
  • Planetary and zodiacal symbolism
  • Fate, heimarmene , and ascent through the planetary spheres
  • Astrology and medicine
  • The symbolic signifi cance of the precession
  • The sign of the fishes
  • The prophecies of Nostradamus
  • The historical signifi cance of the fish
  • As above, so below: the microcosm-macrocosm correspondence
  • Astrology as a projection of the unconscious
  • Astrology as a mantic method
  • Astrology as causal infl uence
  • Synchronicity and the qualities of time
  • Number and archetypes
  • Acausal orderedness and the unus mundus
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  1. Raiden Griffin (verified owner)

    A book to keep as reference for ever. Very relevant in these times. I would highly recommend it to anyone who prefers reading shorter, but highly referenced books.

  2. Charlie Burns (verified owner)

    I guess you wouldn’t purchase this book unless you have grown dissatisfied of the conventional religious story that good & evil are opposed metaphysical principles in everlasting conflict above and beyond human nature. For what C G Jung so convincingly discovered was that we are ourselves the source of all coming evil. If two world wars & the nuclear arms race haven’t convinced you, we now have anthropogenic global warming as the inescapable evidence of the shadow of our species. This concise work, presenting Jung’s deep & prescient insights into the nature of evil, also has a fine intro by Murray Stein.

  3. Ariel Aguilar (verified owner)

    According to his writings, Jung was passionate about astrology and has devoted many studies to it. But what astrology was Jung interested in? This study does not really make it possible to know that. His writings are primarily brief excerpts from books or his correspondence, but the call lacks a stocky chapter that would allow us to know whether, in addition to general philosophical or psychological perspectives, Jung was practicing it.

    Because we can’t find any trace of it, which is still curious. Would Jung have been an astrologer “in armchair”, everything seems to indicate this in this book and we have to wait until its end to finally find a theme, that of Jung, interpreted by his daughter. The proponents of “practice” astrology will therefore remain on their hunger. To say that signs and planets are archetypes, that’s good, seeing how it articulates in practice would still have been a plus… After being a speculative alchemist, would Jung have had the same attitude to astrology, possible…

  4. August Friedman (verified owner)

    Very Good, amazing job. Digging across all Jung’s collected work (focused just in astrology), thank you very much!

  5. Khalil Chung (verified owner)

    Lots of random flecks of truth that may be pursued further even though Jung is not my favorite psychologist for several reasons, I could still learn something from each page.

  6. Aspyn Beil (verified owner)

    Loved it as an astrologer who grew up looking for Jung’s blessings as to astrology’s validity. This book goes deeply into his different and progressive viewpoints on the subject.

  7. Josie Hanson (verified owner)

    Well schooled agnostic observations of astrology. Time span of writing shows skeptic and simpathetic leanings. Interesting pondering of mentally impared people turn their dream interpretations into creative artwork that he correlates to representing symbolism of astrological archetypes.

  8. Rivka Coffey (verified owner)

    Like Carl Jung & Astrology. Jung’s belief in symbolism & progressive nature, makes this very interesting.

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