Rachel Lang and Yvonne Tarnas: Archetypes and Astrology: Where Jungian Therapy and Astrology Meet

From the personal to the universal, we can draw from archetypal stories and symbols to gain context for the events that shape our life experiences. Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Yvonne Smith Tanas, a Jungian analyst, psychotherapist, and astrologer, and Rachel Lang, astrologer and intuitive. They will discuss the relationship between Jungian therapy and astrology through an exploration of archetypes. The conversation will focus on how astrology can be a tool for healing and meaning-making in our lives.
Yvonne Smith Tarnas is an astrologer, psychotherapist, and Jungian Analyst. Besides tending to her consulting practice, Yvonne is a clinical supervisor and instructor for the San Francisco Jung Institute and lectures on psychology and astrology. Publications include “Synchronicity, Intentionality, Archetypal Meaning in Therapy” (2015) and “Destined Meetings and the Healing Force of Relationships” (2021). Yvonne lectures for the Astrological Association of Great Britain, OPA, and ISAR as well as Jungian audiences.
Rachel Lang is a professional astrologer, psychic medium, and author of Modern Day Magic: 8 Simple Rules to Realize Your Power and Shape Your Life. Rachel teaches courses like Astrology for Creatives, Working with Magic, and Relationships and Astrology, and she mentors the members of development circles. Her monthly horoscope columns appear in the Omega News and Conscious Living, and she contributes to a variety of publications, including Well+Good and Women’s Health. Rachel is the Outreach Director for the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR), the VP of the Los Angeles NCGR chapter, and a committee member with the International Association of Ethics in Astrology. Find out more about her on her website.
Michael Lerner is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles, Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1983 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).
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  • @jeanmitchell5834
    @jeanmitchell5834 Жыл бұрын

    Astrology goes back to the beginning of time... when man projected his ideas onto the heavens...it was the start of all stories mythologies and mystery

  • @ianboran3628
    @ianboran3628 Жыл бұрын

    @35:00 the host asks why Astrology holds a privileged position. My humble answer to this is the following. Jung made a distinction between astrology and the other “fringe” practices with the former having greater archetypal application, like his incorporation of a patient’s birth chart and their therapy, where things like I Ching and precognitive card guessing were more “mantic” or instinctual abilities all stemming from the “collective unconscious”. Researcher and engineer Maurice Cotterell, identifies the solar wind as the physical mechanism by which astrology works with the Sun being its progenitor, the planets modulating the wind and the moon modulating the earth directly. He theorizes that the planetary modulated solar wind further modulates the EM field of the earth. This in turn modulates the endocrine responses (and other physiological factors) of each individual being (plants and animals included) right down to the genetic level. This modulation is the phenotype, the genes that get expressed or do not get expressed giving us our unique qualities that differ from each parent and sibling. Astrology gets privilege because it involves the physical planets which exist and its modulation of genes. Enneagram, and the like, are more “mantic” and work best for those who are more astrologically adept to it. (Water sign / influence + prominent Neptune - Uranus -Mercury, etc.) Solar wind modulation also gives rise to the Schumann Cavity, a global atmospheric resonance of 7.83 hz, 14.1hz and 20.3 hz. Insofar that this resonance is static, I believe this to be the physical cause of the “collective unconscious”. Insofar that it is modulated, may it also further tailor the astrogenetic factors of genetic expression. Richard Tarnas’ “over lapping wave forms” may help bolster the 14 year coincident with Saturn and ones first introduction to astrology. Uranus is said to be the planet of Astrology (occult, universal, eccentric science ) Uranus takes a sextile position to ones natal position every 14 years also. This is half a trine of course which occurs every 28 years. Uranus’ orbital period being every 84 years. 84 / 3 = 28. 84 / 6 = 14. The overlapping wave form being the simultaneous squaring / opposing of Saturn and Trining / Sextiling of Uranus. Astrologers tend to have prominent placements of Uranus. Uranus was aligned with Jupiter, Pluto and Mars when Evangeline Adams was born, whose Sun and Mars were Aquarius (ruled by Uranus). She was allegedly one of the greatest astrologers of our time.

  • @NewSchoolCommonweal

    @NewSchoolCommonweal

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing all of this--very interesting

  • @geoffreyah
    @geoffreyah2 жыл бұрын

    Freudian psychology is more accessible to the general public, layman and collective since it is less complex Jungian psychology. Jung was not only ahead of his time, but his theory of the unconscious is still ahead of even today. It is the level of consciousness of the collective where the default is concrete thought as opposed to abstract thought. The evolution of consciousness resulted in the need to detach itself from the unconscious and imagination, but it became a prison of the mind. Jung wrote something like that, but I don't remember where. Cognitive psychology is limited to thinking and mental health. What about emotional health, and even intuitive health which are questions that aren't asked in mainstream psychology, but there are the four functions, thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition in Jungian psychology which correspond to the elements in astrology, etc. Jung also wrote what he thought about the astrologer's of his time, I think it was in one of his letters which are in separate volume(s). Jung wrote: "astrologer's interpretations are too personal and literal and not symbolic enough. The symbols of astrology are impersonal." One has to develop the function of intuition to see the difference between the personal and impersonal which is the difference between the literal, words and concrete meaning and ideas, and the figurative and symbolic images and meaning. The Sun, Jupiter and Uranus are some of the symbols of the intuition function. What Jung wrote about the age of Aquarius: "the approach of the next Platonic month, namely Aquarius, will constellate the problem of the union of opposites. It will then no longer be possible to write off evil as the mere privation of good; its real existence will have to be recognized." Jung, 1959 Vol. 9ii Consequently, I agree with the idea that the individual will have to recognize his or her link to divinity and Uranus rules the age of Aquarius.