Category: Astrological Psychology

  • Getting into Astrological Psychology

    Getting into Astrological Psychology

    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…

  • Post materialistic psychology

    Post materialistic psychology

    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…

  • Roberto Assagioli

    Roberto Assagioli

    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…

  • Why me?

    Why me?

    Questioning why life can be so difficult and why we experience so many problems, crises and traumas is something we all face, especially at difficult times in our lives. Trying to understand this has troubled humanity since time began. Fear of the unknown, of upsetting gods or goddesses and the concept of divine punishment has…

  • Dreams and Self Actualisation

    Dreams and Self Actualisation

    Sigmund Freud as  the father of the theory of the unconscious  wrote the first description of dreaming and dreamwork in his series of lectures to the University of Vienna from 1915-1917, A General Introduction to Psycho-analysis.   In it he explained that dreams are the “means of removing, by hallucinatory satisfaction, mental stimuli that disturb sleep”…

  • The Treasure in your South Node

    The Treasure in your South Node

    The Nodal Axis is a very important part of your Birth Chart because it gives insights into your past and future.   Although the North Node points to new growth, challenges and possibilities, the South Node can hold a lot of your natural talents and abilities. The South Node shows by the house placement the area of life…

  • To Realise One’s Nature

    To Realise One’s Nature

    Wanda Smit explains the significance of astrological psychology for her own path of personal growth and development, in this extract from the introduction to her ebook One Cosmic Day. “We are all deprived; we are all disappointed; and therefore we are all, in some sense, idealists. The need to link the real and the ideal…

  • Foundation Astrology

    Foundation Astrology

    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…

  • Astrological Psychology: The Huber Method (2017)

    Astrological Psychology: The Huber Method (2017)

    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…

  • Study Astrological Psychology

    Study Astrological Psychology

    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…

  • Some thoughts on the House Chart

    Some thoughts on the House Chart

    Some time ago I was thinking about the House Chart and its significance, and came up with the following ideas and thoughts, which I share with you here. Bear in mind that these are my ideas, and my take on the subject, but in the spirit of Bruno Huber’s continual encouragement to keep researching and…

  • Dreams and Age Progression Research

    Dreams and Age Progression Research

    I have been enthusiastic about aspect pattern astrology but what really struck me was the relationship between the Age Point Progression and developmental crises and opportunities and their correlation with dreams. In my book Dreams and Astrological Psychology I highlighted the fact that at certain points I had significant dreams that corresponded with the Age…