Keiron Le Grice From Archai Issue 3, 2011 Disenchantment is a term employed by Max Weber to describe the world view of modern secular society in which, as he puts it, “no mysterious incalculable forces come into play”—a world view in which recourse to mysticism, supernatural powers, gods and goddesses, spirits, and magical explanations is considered both unnecessary […]
An Archetypal Analysis of Rafael Nadal’s Personal Transit of Uranus to Jupiter Keiron Le GriceFrom Archai Issue 2, 2010 Even in a career defined by a precocious level of achievement, for Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal the fifteen-month period between January 2008 and April 2009 was extraordinarily successful. The likeable, courteous, and modest twenty-four-year-old from Mallorca embarked on an incredible winning […]
Saturn-Neptune Richard TarnasFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 Through an exploration of the individual biographies, personalities, and the creative work of major figures in both popular and high culture, Richard Tarnas’s essay on the Saturn-Neptune archetypal complex gives a powerful demonstration of the multidimensional nature of the archetypes and their myriad forms of expression in the particulars of human experience. In […]
An Archetypal Analysis of Bruce Springsteen’s Song Lyrics Keiron Le GriceFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 Focusing on the expression of the planetary archetypes in the creative work of a single artist, this article explores the searing intensity and transformative power of the archetypal Pluto, in aspect to Venus and Mars, as expressed in the song lyrics […]
An Archetypal History of New England Puritanism Rod O’NealFrom Archai Issue 1, 2009 This essay is the first in a three-part series that together present a detailed archetypal history of a single historical movement, the Puritan movement, especially as it developed in New England. Despite the many critical assessments of its influence on American and British […]
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 […]
