Tag: history
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Astrology and the Birth of Psychology in the 20th Century
This article is published with permission from Mark Jones’s blog. Mark presents an interesting perspective on the evolution of astrology and the birth of psychology in the 20th century, describing the fertile ground from which emerged the astrological psychology of Bruno & Louise Huber, who were closely involved with Roberto Assagioli in particular. As many…
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The Nature of Astrology
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Astrological psychology is mostly used as a practice to help the personal development and evolution of an individual human being. Most practitioners are not particularly concerned with the philosophical underpinnings of a practice that they know works for them. This has perhaps been the case for most astrologers over the ages. Yet we live in…
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Huber and Assagioli
In these extracts from the Huber biography Piercing the Eggshell, Bruno Huber tells the story of his first visit to Roberto Assagioli and Florence, and the subsequent period of time he and Louise spent working there, which resulted in their system of astrological psychology. “In the early spring of 1958… I was hit by a…
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Alan Leo (1860-1917) and Kim Farnell’s biography, Modern Astrologers: The Lives of Alan & Bessie Leo (2019)
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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…

