Carl G. Jung quotes on Astrology · December 15, 2024, 10:29 GMT
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Carl G. Jung quotes on Astrology
Collection of Carl G. Jung quotes on Astrology
We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine
we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are
born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything else. - C.G.Jung
Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and
other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle,
i.e. meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology
in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods
and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations. - Carl Gustav Jung
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in
which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision
astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the
collective unconscious, join hands. - Carl .G. Jung
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a
sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we
find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally
gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are
merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very
curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.
.... Carl G. Jung in 1947 in a letter to prof. B.V. Raman
So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent,
and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things
that carry its projections...[that is,] symbols of the outside world and the
cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as
a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character. - Carl G. Jung
Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple,
it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy,
perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations
that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word. - Carl G.
Jung in 1929
Our modern science begins with astronomy. Instead of saying that man was led
by psychological motives, they formerly said he was led by his stars. ...
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between
astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the
characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from
a certain time. Therefore we have to conclude that what we call psychological
motives are in a way identical with star positions. Since we cannot demonstrate
this, we must form a peculiar hypothesis. This hypothesis says that the dynamics
of our psyche is not just identical with the position of the stars, nor has it
to do with vibrations - that is an illegitimate hypothesis. It is better to
assume that i is a phenomenon of time. ... The stars are simply used by man to
serve as indicators of time... - Carl G. Jung in 1929
The collective unconscious...appears to consist of mythological motifs or
primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real
exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection
of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the
heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through
the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted
by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious, introspective
perceptions of the collective unconscious. - Carl G. Jung
Synchronicity does not admit causality in the analogy between terrestrial
events and astrological constellations ... What astrology can establish are the
analogous events, but not that either series is the cause or the effect of the
other. (For instance, the same constellation may at one time signify a
catastrophe and at another time, in the same case, a cold in the head.) ... In
any case, astrology occupies a unique and special position among the intuitive
methods... I have observed many cases where a well-defined psychological phase,
or an analogous event, was accompanied by a transit (particularly when Saturn
and Uranus were affected). - Carl G. Jung
Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can
offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me
advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account,
above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious. - Carl G.
Jung
It is indeed very difficult to explain the astrological phenomenon. I am not
in the least disposed to an either-or explanation. I always say that with a
psychological explanation there is only the alternative: either and or! This
seems to me to be the case with astrology too. - Carl G. Jung in a letter to Hans
Bender, April 10, 1958, Carl G. Jung Letters, Volume 2, 1951-1961, p. 428.
The truth is that astrology flourishes as never before. There is a regular
library of astrological books and magazines that sell for far better than the
best scientific works. The Europeans and Americans who have horoscopes cast for
them may be counted not by the hundred thousand but by the million. Astrology is
a flourishing industry. ... If such a large percentage of the population has an
insatiable need for this counter pole to the scientific spirit, we can be sure
that the collective psyche in every individual - be he never so scientific - has
this psychological requirement in equally high degree. A certain kind of
"scientific" scepticism and criticism in our time is nothing but a misplaced
compensation of the powerful and deep-rooted superstitious impulses of the
collective psyche. - C.G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
While studying astrology I have applied it to concrete cases many times. ...
The experiment is most suggestive to a versatile mind, unreliable in the hands
of the unimaginative, and dangerous in the hands of a fool, as those intuitive
methods always are. If intelligently used the experiment is useful in cases
where it is a matter of an opaque structure. It often provides surprising
insights. The most definite limit of the experiment is lack of intelligence and
literal-mindedness of the observer. ... Undoubtedly astrology today is
flourishing as never before in the past, but it is still most unsatisfactorily
explored despite very frequent use. It is an apt tool only when used
intelligently. It is not at all foolproof and when used by a rationalistic and
narrow mind it is a definite nuisance. - C. G. Jung: Letters, volume 2,
1951-1961, pages 463-464, letter to Robert L. Kroon, 15 November 1958
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A T�bingen professor
has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff
University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some
psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance.
Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old
psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages. - C.G. Jung in a letter to L.
Oswald on December 8, 1928, in Carl G. Jung, Letters, vol. 1, 1973
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