We all know that colour is an essential feature of astrological psychology, and it gives immediate meaning to the Huber-style birth chart. In the early days of the English Huber School, charts were hand-drawn with coloured pens. Then along came computers to help the process, and many charts were of necessity black-and-white. Of course, this…
Astrology and astronomy are twin sciences, once but a single subject. So all astrologers are interested in observing the heavens. This interesting resource on looking at the night sky during 2019 has been brought to our attention. The following text has been sent from Jenny Brown at hobbyhelp.com. 2019 is set to be a fascinating…
Readers of this blog may be interested in the prospective sessions of the IFAP (Huber schools and teachers in the German-speaking world) conference in Switzerland on 6/7 April 2019, following their business meeting, as outlined in the recent IFAP newsletter (courtesy of Google Translate). This gives an interesting insight into where astrological psychology is at…
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and also a key figure in Spanish-language literature Even though his hundreds of short stories are based on fact, he would often change fact into the fantastical with themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, thrillers, philosophy and religion. His works contributed to both philosophical…
What could the future have in store for APA? Does its foundation chart tell us anything? It is now over 35 years since the enterprise of introducing astrological psychology to the English-speaking world was embarked upon by Richard Llewellyn and Pamela Tyler in a Knightsbridge pub. Those years are documented in various places, including a…
The publisher HopeWell has just published the third edition of the book The Cosmic Egg Timer: Introducing Astrological Psychology. This is generally considered to provide the best introduction to this subject, and now has full colour illustrations. But note that, as the editor I’m biased. I hear some of you say “what on earth is…
Maybe you know little about astrological psychology but want to get to know more. How to go about it? Personal Contact One of the best ways of getting to know more is to talk to someone who knows. You could try a consultation with one of our consultants, or just speak to one of our…
David Lorimer’s (and others’) reviews in Paradigm Explorer (new name for the magazine of the Scientific and Medical Network) are always worth reading. You get an impression of far more current books than you could ever read. I was particularly struck by David’s review of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, edited by Lisa…
Wikipedia well describes the pedigree of Roberto Assagioli and his psychosynthesis. Psychosynthesis arose from the psychoanalytic tradition initiated by Freud, but was more akin to Jung’s revisionist approach, and indeed moved beyond it. “Psychosynthesis became the first approach born of psychoanalysis that also included the artistic, altruistic and heroic potentials of the human being.” Assagioli’s…
We have a new editor of the APA members’ magazine Conjunction, Caroline Adlestone. Articles for consideration for Conjunction should be emailed to Caroline at conjunction@astrologicalpsychology.org. Pieces for the APA blog should be emailed to Barry as webmaster at webmaster@astrologicalpsychology.org. How should you decide which is which? The blog is basically for shorter pieces that are…
Most readers will be aware that the APA Diploma Course material is now generally available as the book Astrological Psychology: The Huber Method. Due to demand, we have also made generally available the Foundation Course material, this time as a pdf ebook which can be downloaded and printed. Foundation Astrology gives a basic grounding in…
APA tutor Trish Crawford reviews the new book of the above title, recently published by the publisher HopeWell. This new book is designed to provide an alternative method of studying astrological psychology to the Diploma Course in Astrological Psychology, and is very closely based upon it. It is divided into eight chapters, each one covering…
In a previous post we clarified that our long-running Foundation and Diploma courses are at the end of their natural life, and we were not accepting new enrolments after end December 2016. We also stated that new books will be made available to provide an alternative approach to study. The new book Astrological Psychology: The…
[This blog post is now historic. For the current situation see the page Study Astrological Psychology.] Trustees’ Notice (Issued December 2016) It is with much regret that the APA trustees have concluded that the present method of delivery of the APA Foundation and Diploma courses is not sustainable in the long run. Our organisation is…
The following message was sent by the Huber family to friends of Louise Huber, which will include many members of APA and other astrologers. “Everything must be in harmony with the whole.” Louise Huber, 2003 “We all need more devotion” Louise Huber, 2015 Dear Friends of Louise Huber On the 13th of January at 12:15,…