Category: Astrological Psychology

  • age point echoes – 36 and 72 years

    age point echoes – 36 and 72 years

    From Joyce Hopewell’s ‘Circle in a Spiral‘ blog. While researching my recent co-authored book - The Second Time Around – a number of contibutors to the book, who were sharing their own experiences of the Age Point moving around the chart for the second time, noted the “Echo Effect”. Using the chart as a LifeClock, the…

  • Psychosynthesis – The Magnificent Seven

    Psychosynthesis – The Magnificent Seven

    Astrological Psychology was created in collaboration with Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, the ‘psychology with a soul’. The psychosynthesis model of humans is as spiritual beings. It is useful to remind ourselves from time to time of what this really means for us in our individual growth process. I recently read Kenneth Sørensen’s 2016…

  • Will Parfitt reviews The Second Time Around

    Will Parfitt reviews The Second Time Around

    Retired psychotherapist and teacher of psychosynthesis and Kabbalah, Will Parfitt has contributed our first review of the recently published book The Second Time Around. First a disclaimer: I am a contributor to this book which includes the stories of 25 people reflecting on key elements of their life and experiences getting to 70 or older.…

  • Reflection for the winter solstice

    Reflection for the winter solstice

    These thoughts in the recent the IFAP Newsletter, by its editor Melanie, are very appropriate for the winter solstice, and give us all pause for reflection. Translated by Web Translate in Thiunderbird. This night marks the winter solstice and the beginning of a new season. On 22 December at 04:27, we enter the 2023 Capricorn…

  • The Second Time Around

    The Second Time Around

    Life after age 70, an astrological perspective Post by Joyce Hopewell Two years in the researching and writing, my new book, co-authored with Barry Hopewell, will be published in early December. More news of that to follow, but meanwhile here’s an overview of what The Second Time Around is about. The years from age 70…

  • A few thoughts about Michael

    A few thoughts about Michael

    This appreciation of Michael Huber, by his first wife Perla Sicher, appeared in Astrolog 254, October 2023. Translated with the assistance of Google Translate. I’d only been married for two months when my sister asked me to go with her on an astrology course in Achberg, Germany. There I met Michael Huber for the first…

  • Bruno on ‘What is Astrological Psychology’

    Bruno on ‘What is Astrological Psychology’

    In this article Bruno Huber, founder of the system of astrological psychology, gives an outline of  the subject. The text was written by Bruno for inclusion in his ‘Astrological Glossary’, which was part published in German only. The text was translated from German by Agnes Shellens, who translated much of the Hubers’ work to help…

  • Michael Huber’s Contribution

    Michael Huber’s Contribution

    We are grateful to our friends at IFAP in their August 2023 newsletter, and to the DeepL Translator, for the following description of Michael Huber’s contribution to API and astrological psychology. These things were not very visible to us here in the UK. The piece is written by Angelica Kraft, one of the Astrolog editorial…

  • Michael Huber

    Michael Huber

    We are sorry to hear that Michael A. Huber passed away in Switzerland on Thursday 27th July 2023. Michael was the only son of Bruno and Louise Huber, founders of the ‘Huber Method’ of astrological psychology and the Astrological Psychology Institute (API) in Zurich. Michael was born in 1955 and lived his childhood years while…

  • Decisions and Choices

    Decisions and Choices

    Post by Joyce Hopewell. My book The Living Birth Chart is a practical workbook which includes theory, chart examples and practical exercises for the reader/seeker to dabble in and enjoy the revelations they provide. It’s a book to dive into and use if you want to bring your natal chart to life and apply what you…

  • Training in Astrological Psychology Huber Method – New Course

    Training in Astrological Psychology Huber Method – New Course

    Christina Crawford and Juan Saba in Argentina are starting a new course in Astrological Psychology Huber Method, in English, weekly from 18th May to 20th August. The timing is a little awkward for European folks, because most of the people joining are from Indonesia. It is intended that the next training will be more time…

  • Cornonation speculation

    Cornonation speculation

    Post by Joyce Hopewell. As the UK and many loyal subjects gear up for the coronation of King Charles III, I’ve revisited the blog post I wrote about his chart on the occasion of his 60th birthday. That was some time ago – he is now 74 – and he’s about to officially embark on…