CARL JUNG SECTION

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." Carl Jung

Man and His Symbols: Find out more about this great man. When you interact with your clients, you will listen to many dreams and events from their inner worlds. The more you understand about the workings of the subconscious mind, the more helpful you can be. The language of the subconscious mind is symbols. There are certain symbols that seem to have existed since time immemorial and in all cultures. That is one of the things this book discusses!

Carl Jung, a Leo
Carl Jung: My favorite introverted intuitive! If you really would like to understand the quality side of Leo, by the way, this man is a Leo and his inner world is typical of a Leo. [Liz Greene discusses the intensely spiritual side of Leo which is not usually understood.] This book is Jung's autobiography. Jung prefaces his book by saying that it won't be very interesting because most everything that happened in his life happened INSIDE not outside. Well, thank God for that!

Modern Man in Search of a Soul:One of the more
important books of the last century.

Jung's Answer to Job: Sooner or later it all comes down to a person's belief in God. As an astrologer who reads for spiritual individuals, it is my calling to help people discover that not only must they individuate, they must then turn and dialogue with God until they have an individuated and conscious God. And that's when it begins.

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Actually, I prefer to read ABOUT Jung. He was so seminal, that it took many of his followers their entire lives to follow up on his ideas and suggestions and discoveries. Leo!!

Here are some of my very favorites. Most of them are in the series STUDIES IN JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY BY JUNGIAN ANALYSTS published by Inner City Books. You can just click to buy them online from amazon.com

The Problem of the Puer Aeternus: by Marie Louise von Franz, my favorite disciple of Jung. She is his antithesis, being very rational. This book discusses a personality type that has a preponderance of air and fire. The young man in Out of Africa who dies at the end in a plane crash is a perfect example. Puers (eternal youths) tend to die young and in "airy" accidents such as plane crashes or mountain climbing. I am very interested in this personality type and I think von Franz is a marvelous writer.

Alchemy by Marie Louise von Franz. I never really understood what all the fuss was about until I read this book. It does an excellent job of relating the psychological to the mystical and will help you identify various stages of spiritual growth in yourself and others. Not to mention, this book will give you a good map to the whole territory of alchemy. You can't understand a good portion of the symbols in the Western World without knowing some basic alchemy and you will be a little lost in most Jungian material if you don't have some frame of reference. This is a readable and easy book considering the subject.

Aurora Consurgens : A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy : A Companion Work to C.G. Jung's Mysterium conjunctio also by Marie Louise von Franz. Obviously not for the faint of heart, this is nonetheless one of the most amazing books I've read. It was one of the books that inspired me to commit my life to this field. If you are "religious", as well as spiritual, like me, this book might be important.

The Aion Lectures:by Edward Edinger. Jung is talking about evolution as seen through the eyes of God, perhaps, or a commentary on God's mindas revealed through his immanations and emanations. And probably a lot of other things. Robert Hand has written an essay on this from an astrologer's point of view. I discuss this on my Aion page. This is a very 9th house book.

Phallos: by Eugene Monick. The painting on the front cover is called "God's Cock, the masculine wakening the feminine part of the psyche" by Margaret Jacoby-Lopez. That's as good a place to start as any. This book, written by a man for men and woman, is the most helpful book I know to develop an understanding of what it means to be in a man's body. This is an 8th house book.

 
Descent to the Goddess, A Way of Initiation for Women: by Sylvia Brinton Perera, a "highly original and provocative book about women's freedm and the need for an inner, female authority in a masculine-oriented society. You don't know from Goddess til you read this book.

Also visit my Goddess Page (adult content).

The Scapegoat Complex, Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt: bySylvia Brinton Perera, this book develops information that will be valuable to you in understanding your Saturnian and 8th/10th house people. If you could see the cover better, it has someone like Yahweh chastizing a person who looks very chastized!!

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Diane Wolkstein. In learning about mythology, Inanna is one of the earliest references we have to the Goddess. Once you have found out about her, you will see her name everywhere. She is your great great great great great ... great urgreat grandmother.

In reading Jungian things, I like to stick with Jungian analysts. If you get much further away from the source than that, you have those Christians who are saying things Christ never said or if he did say, didn't mean that way!.