Jung on Astrology

<p><em>Jung on Astrology </em>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>