Jung on Astrology

235 Pages·2018·2.18 MB·English

by  C. G. Jung

Jung on Astrology
Jung on Astrology brings together C. G. Jung’s thoughts on astrology in a single
volume for the fi rst time, signifi cantly adding to our understanding of his 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.
T he book will be of great interest to analytical psychologists, Jungian psy-
chotherapists, and academics and students of depth psychology and Jungian and
post-Jungian studies, as well as to astrologers and therapists of other orientations,
especially transpersonal.
Safron Rossi, PhD, is a Professor of mythology and depth psychology in the
Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at Pacifi ca Graduate Institute, Cali-
fornia. For many years she was curator of the Joseph Campbell and James Hillman
manuscript collections. She writes in the fi elds of archetypal psychology, mythol-
ogy, and astrology.
Keiron Le Grice, PhD ,is a Professor of depth psychology and program chair in
the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at Pacifi ca Graduate Institute,
California, and co-founder of the Institute of Transpersonal and Archetypal Stud-
ies (ITAS). He is the author of several books and a founding editor of A rchai: The
Journal of Archetypal Cosmology.
Also published by Routledge in this series
Jung on the East , edited by J. J. Clarke
Jung on Alchemy , edited by Nathan Schwartz-Salant
Jung on Evil , edited by Murray Stein
Jung on Astrology
C. G. Jung
Selected and Introduced by
Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice
First published 2018
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© 2018 Introduction and selection, Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice
Extracts from Vol. 1–21 of T he Collected Works of C. G. Jung , © 1953–1983
Princeton University Press and Routledge. Extracts from Vol. 1–2 of C . G.
Jung Letters , © 1973–1975 Princeton University Press and Routledge.
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Contents
List of fi gures vii
Acknowledgments viii
List of abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
PART I
Contexts and opinions 13
Introduction 13
1 Astrology’s place in the modern West 17
2 Jung’s views on astrology 23
3 Planets and gods: astrology as archetypal 32
PART II
Astrological symbolism in Jung’s writings 37
Introduction 37
4 Planetary and zodiacal symbolism 39
The signs of the zodiac 39
Sun symbolism 46
Sun and moon symbolism 50
Venus and Mars symbolism 54
Mandalas, birth charts, and the self 58
5 Fate, heimarmene , and ascent through the planetary spheres 69
6 Astrology and medicine 76
vi Contents
PART III
Astrological ages 83
Introduction 83
7 The symbolic signifi cance of the precession 87
Astrological ages and cultural transition 87
From the age of Aries to the age of Aquarius 89
Astrological ages and Christian symbolism 102
The coming age of Aquarius 107
8 The sign of the fi shes 111
9 The prophecies of Nostradamus 129
10 The historical signifi cance of the fi sh 135
PART IV
Explanations of astrology 141
Introduction 141
11 As above, so below: the microcosm-macrocosm correspondence 153
12 Astrology as a projection of the unconscious 161
13 Astrology as a mantic method 167
14 Astrology as causal infl uence 173
15 Synchronicity and the qualities of time 177
16 Number and archetypes 185
17 Acausal orderedness and the unus mundus 190
APPENDIX
Gret Baumann-Jung 197
Introduction 197
Appendix: Gret Baumann-Jung, “Some Refl ections on the
Horoscope of C. G. Jung” S pring (1975), 35–55 198
Index 217
Figures
4.1 Mandala painting 41
4.2 Serpent representing the orbit of the moon 48
4.3 Roman symbols 52
4.4 Androgynous divinity 53
4.5 Cybele and her son-lover 53
4.6 Horoscope, showing the houses, zodiac, and planets 59
7.1 Zodiacal map 91
7.2 Constellation of Pisces 93
7.3 Pisces 103
A.1 C. G. Jung’s birth chart 199
Acknowledgments
We are indebted to the Jung family whose support and permission to gather Jung’s
writings on astrology in one place made this volume possible. We also would like
to thank our colleague Susan Rowland, for making our introduction to Routledge,
and Susannah Frearson, our editor at Routledge, who shepherded this project with
grace and ease. Thanks also goes to the Graduate Research Library at Pacifi ca
Graduate Institute, California, who made Jung’s C ollected Works available to us
in electronic form, and to Toni D’Anca for the photo of the Orphan Stone.
Safron would like to personally thank Keiron Le Grice, her co-editor in this
project, and her husband, Glen Slater. Keiron expresses his thanks to Safron Rossi
for collaborating on the project and for the original idea for the book and to his
wife, Kathryn Le Grice, for her ongoing support.
Safron Rossi
Keiron Le Grice
Abbreviations
The reader will fi nd three kinds of numbered notes at the end of each chapter.
This is due to the material being mainly drawn from Jung’s previously published
works. All notes without brackets are Jung’s original notes from the Collected
Works or original notes by the editors of C. G. Jung Letters, the three volumes of
Jung’s seminars or the Red Book. Notes that are followed by [EDITORS] or placed
entirely in square brackets are by the original editors of the C ollected Works . Last,
notes by the editors of this current work are indicated by their initials in brackets,
Keiron Le Grice [KLG] and Safron Rossi [SR]. Works by Jung are identifi ed by
the following abbreviations.
CW The Collected Works of C. G. Jung . Edited by Gerhard Adler, Michael
Fordham, and Herbert Read; William McGuire, Executive Editor; trans-
lated primarily by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton (Bollingen Series XX) and
London (Routledge), 1953–1983. 21 volumes.
Letters C. G. Jung Letter .s Selected and edited by Gerhard Adler in collabora-
tion with Aniela Jaffé; translations by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton (Bollingen
Series XCV) and London (Routledge), 1973, 1975. 2 volumes.
Works by other authors cited in the endnotes are identifi ed by title, author, or both.
For more information on Jung’s sources, see bibliographies at the end of the C W
volumes.