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A journey from modern Iraq back into ancient wisdom and modern science

This article was originally posted in 2009. Astrologer Dave Mockaitis has a fascinating essay connecting the Yezidi, a Kurdish people on the border of Syria and Iraq, back to the Picatrix, a collection of Arabic texts that was widely used by mages during the Renaissance period. He then draws connections back to the Sabians of Harran, adding a layer of interest to my post on the Sabian Symbols,

He then goes back to Hermes Trismegistus, a fascinating quasi-mythological figure who appears to combine the Greek Hermes with the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2020-11-03T13:41:44-05:00May 11th, 2019|Astrology|2 Comments

Musings on death and planetary alchemy

A friend of mine died on Friday. I had known him casually for many years and worked closely with him for about five. His death at the age of 65 came less than a month after a diagnosis of a return of melanoma shocks and saddens all in our community in which he was well-loved by so many people.

Before John’s first diagnosis he had been in the throes of the square from transiting Uranus to Uranus in his natal chart. He confided in me that he longed to […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2019-05-11T07:25:21-04:00June 6th, 2011|Death|5 Comments

The astrology of Carl Jung and his Red Book

A secret book written by Carl Jung nearly one hundred years ago will be released next month according to the New York Times. Known as the “Red Book,” it was jealously guarded by Jung’s descendants until it was recently found in a bank vault and negotiations with the Jung family ultimately permitted its publication.

The work of Carl Jung transformed the field of modern psychology by incorporating the concept of archetypes and synchronicity into the mystery of the workings of the psyche. The Jungian process involves delving into our dreams and the […]

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By Lynn Hayes|2022-10-15T13:32:03-04:00September 21st, 2009|Consciousness, Favorite posts, Longreads|Comments Off

Quotes on Science and Psychological Astrology

These quotes are from a very interesting, but fairly technical, article by Douglas Boyd (no longer active) entitled “Inner-active Psychological Astrology” (courtesy of the Starcats site).

“Only after I had familiarized myself with alchemy did I realize that the unconscious is a process, and that the psyche is transformed or developed by the relationship of the ego to the contents of the unconscious.”
C. G. Jung; Memories, Dreams, Reflections: P. 209.

“Mathematics has been and will continue to be the qualitative language of science, but astrology will become the qualitative […]

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