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Jung on astrology, C.J. Jung ; edited and with an Introduced by Safron Rossi and Kieron Le Grice

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Jung on astrology

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C.J. Jung ; edited and with an Introduced by Safron Rossi and Kieron Le Grice

Jung on

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

Part I. Contexts and opinions. Astrology's place in the modern West -- Jung's views on astrology -- Planets and gods: astrology as archetypal -- Part II. Astrological symbolism in Jung's writing. Planetary and zodiacal symbolism -- Fate, heriarmene, and ascent through the planetary spheres -- Astrology and medicine -- Part III. Astrological ages. The symbolic significance of the precession -- The sign of the fishes -- The prophecies of Nostradamus -- The historical significance of the fish -- Part IV. Explanations of astrology. As above, so below: the microcosm-macrocosm correspondence -- Astrology as a projection of the unconscious -- Astrology as a mantic method -- Astrology as a casual influence -- Synchronicity and the qualities of time -- Number and archetypes -- Acausal orderedness and the unus mundus