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Liz Greene
Liz Greene
Jungian analyst and astrologer, trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich and central to the post-Jungian psychological astrology that emerged in the English-speaking world from the mid-1970s on. Greene co-founded the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London and has published the most widely read Jungian astrological literature of the past half-century.
Her Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil (1976) is the paradigm text. It reads Saturn not as the “greater malefic” of classical astrology but as the archetype of limit, shadow, and self-knowledge — “the God who offers opportunity and does not only feel him to be Deity who brings disaster” (Greene 1976, epigraph from Bailey). Greene pairs Saturn with the outer planets as the threshold at which the personal chart opens onto the suprapersonal: when Saturn is touched by Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto, the structure he has built meets the “power of” the transpersonal and must reorganize or break (Greene 1976).
Greene’s significance in the archetypal-astrology lineage is her translation of the Jungian shadow into astrological terms and her reading of the outer planets as transpersonal archetypes. She belongs, with dane-rudhyar and james-hillman, to the spine of the depth-psychological astrology the knowledge graph tracks.