Carl Jung and Astrology

Carl Jung and astrology. The story of Carl Jung is one of the most inspiring examples of consciousness transformation mediated by the combined influence of the outer planets. This article describes the story of Carl Gustav Jung’s upheavals and awakening from an astrological perspective. While Uranus in Aquarius transited over his Ascendant, opposite his Sun–Uranus in Leo, and transiting Neptune was conjunct his Descendant and natal Sun, Jung entered the period of his “confrontation with the collective unconscious.” (1) He was flooded with visions, prophetic and disturbing dreams, and psychic, paranormal phenomena. His fantasies and interior life became so intense that he felt compelled to withdraw into solitude, giving his unconscious mind free rein through drawing, painting, dreamwork, mythological studies, sculpting, and building with stones. He experienced visitations of an ancient Gnostic spiritual teacher named Philemon, and in January 1916 he penned “Seven Sermons to the Dead” through a process of channeling or automatic writing.(2) This was when Jung began creating The Red Book, a revelatory, visionary, mystical text.

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