![]() ![]() Many people assume, for instance, that astrology is all nonsense. ![]() I have suggested to astrologers that we should have more scientific statements. That might lead to tangible results, and then astrology would be a very serious consideration. If this were confirmed, we might go further and make statistics about suicides, lunacy, epilepsy, etc. You remember my telling you that birthdates of important men tended to accumulate around the three points of the aerial trigon. In astrology we have another consideration, a bit uncanny and therefore particularly hated by scientists. Jung in a letter to Sigmund Freud, June 12, 1911 For instance, it appears that the signs of the zodiac are character pictures, in other words libido symbols which depict the typical qualities of the libido at a given moment… I dare say that we shall one day discover in astrology a good deal of knowledge that has been intuitively projected into the heavens. ![]() … 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. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, i.e. – Carl Jung Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. 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 of which we are born. ![]()
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