Archetypal Astrology

Archetypal astrology is the reading of the planetary and zodiacal symbols as archetypes — psychic patterns that organize experience — rather than as deterministic forces. Its mid-twentieth-century formulation belongs to Dane Rudhyar, whose person-centered astrology reframed the horoscope as a phenomenology of individuation. Its late-twentieth-century elaboration belongs to Liz Greene (the psychological school of astrology centered at the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London) and to Richard Tarnas (whose Cosmos and Psyche proposes a rigorous correlative method grounded in synchronicity).

The tradition reads astrology as Jung read it: as a symbolic system in which the archetypes of the collective psyche appear projected onto the sky, and whose correspondences with biographical and historical time operate as synchronistic rather than causal events.

Relationships

• carl-jung
• synchronicity
• person-centered-astrology
• tarnas-cosmos-and-psyche