Your
astrological chart is the treasure map to your soul, symbolic of your soul's
evolutionary purpose - who you are and why you are here. The
archetypal energies at play in your chart show your unique character.
Enhance your ability to make your own unique choices in life by understanding
your soul's instructions for this life.
Your Soul's Instructions for this Life Time.
Carl G. Jung quotes
on Astrology Collection of Carl G. Jung quotes on Astrology
We are born at a given moment in a given
place and like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of
the season in which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything else.
- C.G.Jung
Astrology is one of the intuitive methods
like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon
the synchronicity principle, i.e. meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a
naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments
of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal
constellations. - Carl Gustav Jung
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the
open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e.,
the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical
functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands. -
Carl .G. Jung
Astrology is of particular interest to the
psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we
call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in
the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors
derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity
with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar
light on the structure of the human mind. .... Carl G. Jung in 1947 in a letter
to prof. B.V. Raman
So far as the personality is still potential,
it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is
indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...[that is,]
symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the
psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the
astrological components of his character. - Carl G. Jung
Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so
they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what
is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not
quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never
been seen, so it remains just a word. - Carl G. Jung in 1929
Our modern science begins with astronomy.
Instead of saying that man was led by psychological motives, they formerly said
he was led by his stars. ... The puzzling thing is that there is really a
curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one
can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can
deduce characteristics from a certain time. Therefore we have to conclude that
what we call psychological motives are in a way identical with star positions.
Since we cannot demonstrate this, we must form a peculiar hypothesis. This
hypothesis says that the dynamics of our psyche is not just identical with the
position of the stars, nor has it to do with vibrations - that is an
illegitimate hypothesis. It is better to assume that i is a phenomenon of time.
... The stars are simply used by man to serve as indicators of time... - Carl
G. Jung in 1929
The collective unconscious...appears to
consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths
of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be
taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this
most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally
chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the
influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing
but unconscious, introspective perceptions of the collective unconscious. -
Carl G. Jung
Synchronicity does not admit causality in the
analogy between terrestrial events and astrological constellations ... What
astrology can establish are the analogous events, but not that either series is
the cause or the effect of the other. (For instance, the same constellation may
at one time signify a catastrophe and at another time, in the same case, a cold
in the head.) ... In any case, astrology occupies a unique and special position
among the intuitive methods... I have observed many cases where a well-defined
psychological phase, or an analogous event, was accompanied by a transit
(particularly when Saturn and Uranus were affected). - Carl G. Jung
Obviously astrology has much to offer
psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So
far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the
existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the
personality and of the unconscious. - Carl G. Jung
It is indeed very difficult to explain the
astrological phenomenon. I am not in the least disposed to an either-or
explanation. I always say that with a psychological explanation there is only
the alternative: either and or! This seems to me to be the case with astrology
too. - Carl G. Jung in a letter to Hans Bender, April 10, 1958, Carl G. Jung
Letters, Volume 2, 1951-1961, p. 428.
The truth is that astrology flourishes as
never before. There is a regular library of astrological books and magazines that
sell for far better than the best scientific works. The Europeans and Americans
who have horoscopes cast for them may be counted not by the hundred thousand
but by the million. Astrology is a flourishing industry. ... If such a large
percentage of the population has an insatiable need for this counter pole to
the scientific spirit, we can be sure that the collective psyche in every
individual - be he never so scientific - has this psychological requirement in
equally high degree. A certain kind of "scientific" skepticism and
criticism in our time is nothing but a misplaced compensation of the powerful
and deep-rooted superstitious impulses of the collective psyche. - C.G. Jung,
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
While studying astrology I have applied it to
concrete cases many times. ... The experiment is most suggestive to a versatile
mind, unreliable in the hands of the unimaginative, and dangerous in the hands
of a fool, as those intuitive methods always are. If intelligently used the
experiment is useful in cases where it is a matter of an opaque structure. It
often provides surprising insights. The most definite limit of the experiment
is lack of intelligence and literal-mindedness of the observer. ... Undoubtedly
astrology today is flourishing as never before in the past, but it is still
most unsatisfactorily explored despite very frequent use. It is an apt tool
only when used intelligently. It is not at all foolproof and when used by a
rationalistic and narrow mind it is a definite nuisance. - C. G. Jung: Letters,
volume 2, 1951-1961, pages 463-464, letter to Robert L. Kroon, 15 November 1958
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our
universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course
on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere
superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are
of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars
but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages. - C.G.
Jung in a letter to L. Oswald on December 8, 1928, in Carl G. Jung, Letters,
vol. 1, 1973
"Astrology
is a system of ideas which attempts to discern, analyze, and use correlations
between human and celestial affairs.There are two things that are equally
important in astrology: First of all, it is the day-to-day observational
experience that the Universe is not dead, and life on Earth is not
meaningless. Second, closely related to that is the day-to-day experience
that I and the Universe are one." Robert
Hand, Astrologer
"It
is not limitations that eat out the heart, but inaction, the knowledge of
powers not used, the sense of having failed to develop to the utmost. The
overcoming of fate is not the overcoming of limitations: that is impossible. It
is the exercise of free will, the assertion of the full self, expanding to its
utmost with the tools at hand, in the circumstances that are set.
Astrology, through the interpretation of the
horoscope, assists men to the achievement of their maximum by indicating to
them the lines along which their will may be most progressively applied, the
goals to be sought, and the individual means by which each one may arrive at
the outermost boundaries of his world."
Grant Lewi - Astrologer
NPR
recently reported: the younger generation looks to astrologers for counseling
and wisdom just as the baby-boomers looked to their therapists. While therapy
is definitely beneficial at certain points in life, astrology can help us
understand the larger patterns and evolution that we are going to
experience.