Archetypal Prism Astrological Counseling

My attempt to define what an archetype is and how it relates to astrology, in the context of the philosophical and psychological lineages informing the archetypal perspective.

Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology is proud to announce the publication of Issue 7, titled "Historical Roots and Current Flowerings"! The issue featur...es articles by Laura Michetti, Petr Lisý, Daniel Joseph Polikoff, Michael Kiyoshi Salvatore, Richard Tarnas, Gerry Goddard, Gustavo Beck, Safron Rossi, and Becca Tarnas. To order a copy, please follow the link below! To read preview articles by Laura Michetti and Daniel Joseph Polikoff please visit: http://www.archai.org/current-issue/.

Please enjoy our second preview article from Archai Issue 7, Rowing Back: The Romantic Origins of Transpersonal Psychology, written by Daniel Joseph Polikoff. http://www.archai.org/article-posts/rowing-back/

Over the last couple years I have kindly been invited by Acyuta-bhava Dasa to present for the Nightlight Astrology School on topics dear to my heart: "The Astro...logy of J.R.R. Tolkien" and "The Astrology of Jung's Red Book." I am now sharing the videos of each of these presentations, which were recorded about a year apart. Thank you to all those who expressed interest in seeing these presentations and who have waited patiently for the recording! See more

I once again had the privilege of joining the evolutionary astrologer Sabrina Monarch on her podcast Magic of the Spheres. The last time we conversed we discuss...ed the planetary combinations of Venus, so for this episode we mused over the planetary combinations of Mercury, looking at how the archetype of the intellect, the mind, communication, speaking, writing, and learning is inflected when in aspect to the other planets of the solar system. As before, our conversation was released in two episodes: in the first episode we discussed Mercury in combination with the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturnperhaps fittingly spending the most time with the Mercury-Saturn archetypal complex, discussing dead languages and how words are fossils of culture and history. We explored Mercury as it expresses in people’s communication styles but also some of the esoteric qualities of Mercury such as spell-casting and the power of etymology. In the second episode we discussed Mercury in combination with Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, seeing how the transpersonal archetypes come through in our modes of communication. Entering into dialogue with Sabrina is an act of spell-casting itself, and as we both felt when recording the previous episode, it seemed we had entered into a mythic chamber of symbols, dropping once more into a timeless realm.

Adam Sommer and I seem to have a penchant for holding podcast conversations close to eclipses, and entering into imaginal worlds of word and whimsy together. Some of our themes for my third visit to his podcast Holes to Heavens were plants, planets, and dreams, with discussions of the current Saturn-Pluto conjunction, the mysteries of Eleusis, pipeweed in Middle-earth, and the risk of reductionism in astrology, psychology, and literature.

The archetypal qualities of the Saturn-Pluto conjunction dominating our heavens is correlating in ever-more critical ways with events unfolding on our planet, e...specially this week as the alignment approaches exact conjunction, perfecting for the first time on January 12. How do we navigate this time? In what ways can we find ground, strength, and stability when weathering the storm and facing the shadow? I am truly honored to be participating on a panel of astrologers hosted by the Nightlight Astrology School to discuss this intensely potent alignment. The Saturn-Pluto Astrological Panel will feature Samuel Reynolds, Jason Holley, Gray Crawford, Rebecca Gordon, Patrick Watson, Jenn Zahrt, and our host, Acyuta-bhava (Adam Elenbaas). The online event will take place on Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 pm, Eastern time. Please visit the Events page of the Nightlight Astrology School for details on how to join the event: https://www.nightlightastrology.com/winter.html

The transition to summer in the Northern Hemisphere is marked by an annular Solar eclipse, when the dark-light of the otherworld can be glimpsed from this side of the veil. Eclipses are potent and powerful alignments, a reminder of the extraordinary physical and symbolic harmonies of our solar system; even though the Moon is many times smaller than the Sun, its distance from the Earth is proportionate to the Sun’s distancethus from our perspective the two celestial bodies ap...pear in the sky as the same size. These two great lights of day and night join for their coniunctio, a moment that feels to the mortal witness like a mysterious love-making and renewal of sacred cosmic vows. Powerful, intense, transformative, catalytic, confrontational, consequential: these are but some of the qualities associated with Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto that have been distinctly present this year and will be especially highlighted during this lunation cycle. Finding ground and cultivating enduring foundations will continue to be especially important, so that our works and acts of service can be most effective during this pivotal time.

I once again had the pleasure of joining Chris Flisher on his podcast Turning of the Wheel to have an engrossing conversation about the connection between music and astrology, spoken about within the context of my new course, Songs of the Spheres! We discussed the natal aspects of several different musicians and the songs that exemplify these aspects, as well as looking at the deeper relationship between the sacred mathematical structures that underlie musical frequencies and astrological aspects alike.