the-astrology-book

Jung, Carl
JUDICIAL ASTROLOGY
Judicial astrology is an older name for mundane astrology, which is the study of celestial
influences on nations, cultural movements, world affairs, etc.
JULIAN DAY
For simplifying certain kinds of calculations, it was found to be helpful to delete references
to months and years, and simply number all days consecutively. Each such numbered
day is referred to as a Julian Day (JD).
JUNG, CARL
Carl Jung was a turn-of-the-twentieth-century psychoanalyst whose formulation of
psychology had a major impact on modern astrology. Jung was born in Basel, Switzerland,
on July 26, 1875. After completing medical school, he went on to study psychoanalysis
with Sigmund Freud, but later struck off to formulate his own distinctive
brand of psychology. Jung utilized astrology in his counseling work, and it was his work
with myths and symbols that most influenced modern astrology.
Among other achievements, Jung took the ancient approach to symbolic
interpretation and recast it in a form acceptable to the modern world. While astrology
has utilized symbolic methods since ancient times, the appeal of the Jungian system
has been such that many contemporary astrologers have adopted the language as well
as some of the methodology of this school of psychology. The study and integration of
Jung’s approach by such influential figures of modern astrology as Dane Rudhyar has
also had the effect of “psychologizing” contemporary astrology, meaning that the planets
and signs are now viewed as representing primarily aspects of one’s psychological
makeup, as well as psychological types. By way of contrast, traditional astrology was
more focused on the prediction of events and on helping clients choose the most auspicious
moments to carry out certain actions.
Although many astrologers have attempted to reformulate astrology in terms
of Jung (making Jungian psychology the primary component of the mixture), more
astrologers have adopted Jungian language to explain what astrologers have always
done—interpreted symbols. Three Jungian terms—collective unconscious, archetype,
and synchronicity—are almost universally familiar to contemporary astrologers. Practitioners
with deeper interests in Jungian psychology have gone so far as to correlate
Jung’s system of classifying people into psychological types (feeling, thinking, sensate,
and intuitive), with the four classical elements.
Sources:
Bach, Eleanor. Astrology from A to Z: An Illustrated Source Book. New York: Philosophical
Library, 1990.
Brau, Jean-Louis, Helen Weaver, and Allan Edmands. Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology. New
York: New American Library, 1980.
The Journal of Geocosmic Research (Autumn 1975): vol. 1, no. 3.
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