Category: Astrological Psychology

  • Biography of Bruno & Louise Huber

    Biography of Bruno & Louise Huber

    The new biography of Bruno & Louise Huber, anticipated in my earlier post Telling the Huber Story is now imminently available, with formal publication date of 10th November. As outlined in that post: The book tells the story of the development of Bruno & Louise’s ideas, their formative influences and what impelled them to do…

  • Telling the Huber Story

    Telling the Huber Story

    While I was a Foundation Course student in the mid-late 1990s, I attended several seminars held by Bruno & Louise Huber, in England, Spain and Switzerland, culminating in the Seven Rays seminar of 1998. It was here that I became aware of the full depth of the Hubers’ understanding of psychology and spirituality, and it…

  • Huber questions answered?

    Huber questions answered?

    The development of astrological psychology by Bruno & Louise Huber was a revolutionary combination of astrology with depth psychology and spirituality. How and why were the young Bruno & Louise inspired to dedicate their lives to this endeavour? What and who were the key influences in the world they grew up in that led them…

  • Jupiter at his literary best. Lawrence Durrell.

    Jupiter at his literary best. Lawrence Durrell.

    Lawrence Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer. Although he never won the Nobel Prize for Literature – his books were considered too ‘heterodox’ – by the end of the 20th century, he was a bestselling author and one of the most celebrated writers in English. The great French writer Gustav Flaubert said: “Language is…

  • Alan Leo (1860-1917) and Kim Farnell’s biography, Modern Astrologers: The Lives of Alan & Bessie Leo (2019)

    Alan Leo (1860-1917) and Kim Farnell’s biography, Modern Astrologers: The Lives of Alan & Bessie Leo (2019)

    As Nicholas Campion wrote in his review of Kim Farnell’s Modern Astrologers for the Astrology Quarterly 84/3 (Autumn 2019): “Alan Leo was a monumental figure in the history of modern Western astrology, his influence still felt in all forms of esoteric and karmic astrology… his emphasis on self-knowledge and the soul is an ancestor of…

  • Chart in Focus #7

    Chart in Focus #7

    This is now an occasional series of charts for the consideration of readers – a bit of practice in top level chart interpretation. Why not give it a go? This particularly intriguing chart is submitted by Annita More. What do you think? Please post, as a comment, your initial outline interpretation at the very top…

  • Chart in Focus #6

    Chart in Focus #6

    Our fifth experiment has concluded. Here is the sixth experiment, which again depends on your comments for its success. The chart below is submitted by J Angelita    Please post, as a comment, an initial outline interpretation at the very top level. This should be around 3-10 paragraphs with, for example: What is your intuitive…

  • Chart in Focus #5

    Chart in Focus #5

    Our fourth experiment has concluded. Here is the fifth experiment, which again depends on your comments for its success. The chart below is submitted by Jo Dufranes.  Please post, as a comment, an initial outline interpretation at the very top level. This should be around 3-10 paragraphs with, for example: What is your intuitive reaction…

  • Chart in Focus #4

    Chart in Focus #4

    Our third experiment Chart in Focus #3, has concluded. Here is the fourth experiment, which again depends on your comments for its success. The chart below is for a female given the name Clarity.  Please post, as a comment, an initial outline interpretation at the very top level. This should be around 3-10 paragraphs with,…

  • Polarity – Balance and Synthesis

    Polarity – Balance and Synthesis

    I recently came across a free pdf in the Psychosynthesis Centre: Balancing and Synthesis of the Opposites by psychologist Roberto Assagioli, one-time mentor of Bruno Huber. Quotes are from that document. Polarity is a universal fact; it is inherent in cosmic manifestation… From the very moment that cosmic manifestation begins to unfold, duality is born.…

  • Chart in Focus #3

    Chart in Focus #3

    Our second experiment Chart in Focus #2, has concluded. Here is the third experiment, which again depends on your comments for its success. The unusual chart below was supplied by Dawn Dudley-Blakeman. The subject is not specified to be male or female. Please post, as a comment, an initial outline interpretation at the very top…

  • Gifts for Mankind. Existentialism from Jean-Paul Sartre.

    Gifts for Mankind. Existentialism from Jean-Paul Sartre.

    Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of Existentialism. After WW2, he became a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory and literary studies. To this day, his influence in these disciplines continues. Sartre was also noted for his open relationship with Simone de Beauvoir…