Jung’s Studies in Astrology : Prophecy, Magic, and the Qualities of Time

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS Images A note on references Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: the pursuit of ‘wretched subjects’ 1 Jung’s understanding of astrology Astrology in the early twentieth century The libido and the qualities of time The four elements and the psychological types Planets and complexes Transformation and individuation Astrology and alchemy 2 Jung’s astrologers Jung’s astrological sources Alan Leo’s ‘modern’ astrology Max Heindel’s ‘Rosicrucian’ astrology Myths and astrological symbols John Thorburn and the ‘epoch’ charts Thorburn’s ‘epoch’ charts Jung’s influence on astrology Symbols and doctrines 3 Active imagination and theurgy The origins of active imagination Sumpatheia, sunthemata, and sumbola 4 Summoning the Daimon The chain of hieratic Platonism The ‘Divine’ Iamblichus Jung’s hieratic paintings Epitedeiotes: ‘fitness’, ‘aptitude’, or ‘receptivity’ The ‘master of the house’ The ‘holy guardian angel’ Jung’s grimoires 5 ‘The great fate’ A rose by any other name Nature, nurture, and reincarnation Fate and individuation The Stoic Heimarmene The Gnostic Heimarmene Saturn and Abraxas G.R.S. Mead and Pistis Sophia Mead and Jung Astral fate and the ‘subtle’ body Fate and compulsion The Hermetic Heimarmene 6 ‘The way of what is to come’ The idea of the ‘new age’ The god in the egg The age of Aquarius Ancient sources for the New Age New sources for the New Age The timing of the new aion The birth chart of Jesus Conclusion ‘The darned stuff even works after death’ Scientia and Ars The ‘spirit of this time’ Invoking the ‘spirit of the depths’ Bibliography Index