A New Historical Approach Rod O’NealFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 What is history? The answer to this apparently simple question is both complex and elusive. As the philosopher of history Herbert Butterfield has described the historian’s dilemma, “We may look around for the past, but it is nowhere to be seen.” Yet despite history’s ephemeral and […]
Stanislav GrofFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 In this article, Stanislav Grof addresses the interface between transpersonal psychology and the astrological perspective, describing his collaboration with Richard Tarnas and the connections they discovered between the planetary archetypes and the psychodynamics of the unconscious. This paper presents the remarkable evidence in support of archetypal astrology from Grof’s research […]
Richard TarnasFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 There are ten planetary archetypes that are central to astrological research today. Seven of these were recognized in the classical astrological tradition and correspond to the seven celestial bodies of the solar system visible to the unaided eye (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn); the other three correspond to […]
Richard TarnasFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 The concept of planetary archetypes, in many respects the pivotal concept of the emerging astrological paradigm, is complex and must be approached from several directions. Before describing the nature of the association between planets and archetypes, however, we must first address the general concept of archetypes and the remarkable evolution of the archetypal perspective […]
Archetypal Cosmology in Historical Perspective Keiron Le GriceFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 At the turn of the twentieth century, when Sigmund Freud first developed the theoretical framework and therapeutic method of psychoanalysis in Vienna, one could scarcely have conceived of a movement less likely to exert a powerful, lasting influence on the modern mind. Controversial, taboo, ridiculed and rejected […]
Richard Tarnas Adapted from The Mountain Astrologer, 2011 In the following essay, I would like to describe, first, the key individuals and influences that contributed to the academic discipline and philosophical perspective called archetypal cosmology, and then its longer ancestry, the centuries-old traditions out of which it emerged.[1] It could be argued that the emergence of […]
