The Astrological Psychology of Bruno & Louise Huber
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Astrological Psychology or Huber Astrology
Combines astrology with growth psychology, a powerful tool for self-understanding and psychological/ spiritual growth.
Pinpoints where we are in life, what psychological stage we are travelling through, our motivations and current issues.
Used by individuals and by counsellors/ therapists. An effective way of getting to the heart of a client’s problems.
Bruno & Louise Huber
Swiss astrologers/ psychologists Bruno & Louise Huber collaborated with Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, to develop their system.
They founded and ran the Astrological Psychology Institute (API) in Zurich 1968-2009, training many thousands of students. Linked Huber Schools in England and Spain closed 2019; courses still available in Germany/Switzerland.
The Books
The Huber teachings are now documented in German, English and Spanish – a series of 8 books by the Hubers, plus works by further authors, including English teaching Principals Richard Llewellyn and Joyce Hopewell.
Full original teaching of the English Huber School is now available in book form.
Blog
Moderated forum for ideas related to astrological psychology.
You are welcome to submit, read and comment on any post.
See latest posts and blog archive below.
You
The books provide the basis for study of astrological psychology, together with a set of complementary resources.
Services are provided by Tutors/ Consultants to help your study process or help with your self development process.
Featured Books
- Best introduction: The Cosmic Egg Timer
- Most popular: Aspect Pattern Astrology
- Foundationstone: The Astrological Houses
- Age progression: Life Clock, The Second Time Around
- Planets: The Planets
- The Hubers: Piercing the Eggshell
- Complete course: Astrological Psychology
“Astrological psychology has changed my life, it helped me know myself better, be kinder to myself and to be more accepting of the cycles in my life, the ebb and flow of energies. It has also helped hugely in my relationships, especially with my partner and my children. ”
HL, Manchester
On the blog (most recent first):
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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 Read more
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Sylvia Plath. Mercury’s Child.
Sylvia Plath won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of confessional poems posthumously, after she committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. Throughout her life she was clinically depressed, always aware of death. Understanding her psyche is an undertaking for a psychiatrist, which I am not. But perhaps Astrological Psychology could throw some Read more
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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 Read more
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Gustav Holst and The Planets Suite
I recently visited the Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham and was fascinated to learn about this British composer’s life. I’ve long been a fan of his Planets Suite and have occasionally wondered how he was inspired to write music about seven planets with their correct, traditional astrological characteristics. At the museum I discovered that he Read more
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Opposites Maketh Mann.
The Nobel Prize winning Thomas Mann, who wrote many novellas, novels and essays, is considered the most influential and representative German author of his time. Although he supported the Weimar Republic as a young man, he later wrote against Nazism and Hitler. Consequently, Mann spent the rest of his life in Switzerland and the USA. Read more
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Beyond the Robot
A Review of Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson, by Gary Lachman (New York: TarcherPerigee, 2016), with reflections on Wilson’s astrological chart and Sun in Cancer’s search for meaning and purpose Whether or not you are a fan of Colin Wilson (1931-2013), Gary Lachman’s biography of his life and thought is Read more
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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 Read more
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Thomas de Quincey. The Chart of an English Opium Eater.
Best-known for his novel Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey was one of the most prolific English writers of his time. Almost two centuries ago, he also started the tradition of addiction literature in the West, resulting in the drug-induced writing of the seventies. Neptune or Jupiter? There is no birth Read more
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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” Read more
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Oscar Wilde. A Smooth Diamond Turned Rough.
The chart looks like a rough-cut diamond with many facets – an apt symbol for Oscar Wilde the brilliant dandy who entertained society with his plays, shocked the Victorian world with his homosexuality, invented today’s celebrity cult and left posterity many witty epigrams such as “We are all in the gutter, but some of Read more
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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 Read more
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T S Eliot. The Love Life of a Saint.
The first thing that strikes one when looking at the chart is the red band of oppositions keeping the blue aspects, the Venus side of T S Eliot, well removed from the lower hemisphere, particularly the 3rd quadrant of Instinct in which there is not a single planet, only oppositions to his age point from Read more
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