The Astrological World of Jung’s ’Liber Novus’

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C. G. Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Novus, published posthumously in 2009, explores Jung’s own journey from an inner state of alienation and depression to the restoration of his soul, as well as offering a prophetic narrative of the collective human psyche as it journeys from unconsciousness to a greater awareness of its own inner dichotomy of good and evil. Jung utilised astrological symbols throughout to help him comprehend the personal as well as universal meanings of his visions. In The Astrological World of Jung’s Liber Novus, Liz Greene explores the planetary journey Jung portrayed in this remarkable work and investigates the ways in which he used astrological images and themes as an interpretive lens to help him understand the nature of his visions and the deeper psychological meaning behind them. Greene’s analysis includes a number of mythic and archetypal elements, including the stories of Salome, Siegfried and Elijah, and demonstrates that astrology, as Jung understood and worked with it, is unquestionably one of the most important foundation stones of analytical psychology, and an essential part of understanding his legacy. This unique study will appeal to analytical psychologists and Jungian psychotherapists, students and academics of Jungian and post-Jungian theory, the history of psychology, archetypal thought, mythology and folklore, the history of New Age movements, esotericism and psychological astrology. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Images......Page 8 A note on references......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction: close encounters of the daimonic kind......Page 12 The red horseman......Page 27 The devil in the detail......Page 31 The transformation of the Red One......Page 32 Siegfried the Hero......Page 35 The sun in the landscape......Page 40 The giant Izdubar......Page 43 Izdubar’s sunthemata......Page 48 The divine spark......Page 51 The transformation of Izdubar......Page 53 The anima as fate......Page 59 Salome......Page 62 The invisible planet......Page 63 The High Priestess......Page 65 The Scholar’s Daughter......Page 67 The Cook......Page 70 Triple-bodied Hecate......Page 72 Prophecy and magic: Elijah......Page 82 Solitude and grief: the Old Scholar......Page 85 Theology and philosophy: the Anchorite......Page 88 The Librarian and the Professor......Page 91 The paintings: (1) the mandala......Page 93 The paintings: (2) Atmavictu......Page 94 The paintings: (3) the water-bearer......Page 97 The Wise Old Man......Page 103 The genesis of Philemon......Page 107 The Kabbalistic Philemon......Page 109 The invocation of Philemon......Page 112 The Hermetic Philemon......Page 113 The solar Philemon......Page 120 The Aquarian Philemon......Page 122 Philemon the magician......Page 123 Planets and processes......Page 129 The divine child......Page 148 Phanes as cosmocrator......Page 153 Phanes and Abraxas......Page 156 The structure of the Systema......Page 162 The first polarity: spirit and matter......Page 165 The second polarity: darkness and light......Page 175 The planetary glyphs......Page 178 The Systema and Jung’s horoscope......Page 182 Jung’s horoscope and Aion......Page 187 Liber Novus and the Hypnerotomachia......Page 196 Jung’s planetary soul-journey......Page 201 Bibliography......Page 206 Index......Page 222