Tag: John Grove
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Research on Archives at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in Florence – Part 1
By John D. Grove, MA, MSW I spent three days from the 18th of September through the 21st attending a conference on Psychosynthesis in Florence, Italy. This was an international conference held with the purpose of making real the legacy of Roberto Assagioli to an audience in over 50 years since his death. Roberto Assagioli’s…
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John’s Dream Workshop
As a follow-up to our recent post on The Dream Dimension, we are providing material made available by John Grove some time ago from his Dream Workshop – for potential use by those wishing to explore their dreams related to their astrological charts.
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The Dream Dimension
John Grove’s two books provide a valuable means of helping the uncovering of unconscious aspects of our personality that may begin to come to light through astrological analysis and intuition.
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Practical astrological psychology consultation
What follows is a description of theories used in my clinical social work practice and my consultant work in astrological psychology. These theories and their application are the bases of operations in astrology and psychology disciplines. There are sections of practical experiments which can guide the beginner to the Huber method to discover how to…
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The spectrum of severe mental health disorders and astrological research – a beginning
This post comes from John Grove’s website, identifying corrrelations between mental health disorders and astrological psychology. A continuum of Mental Health Disorders: This article will explore the factors both environmental and genetic that lead to a sliding continuum of mental problems rather than discrete disorders. The medical model has been imposed upon mental disorders which…
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The Astrological Neptunian Character 2
This is the continuation of John Grove’s explorations into his Neptune, following on from the previous post. A complex is an inner state of opposition between these two contrasting energies within the psyche; based on my personal psychological past of early attachments. The way a complex works in the outer world is that a bipolar…
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The Astrological Neptunian Character 1
This is the first of two posts on John Grove’s explorations into his Neptune. What is written here is an example of my life-long project to understand the effect and siren call of the planet Neptune in my natal horoscope. The struggle I have had is nothing less than a battle with my own ego,…
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Colour Charts in Books
We all know that colour is an essential feature of astrological psychology, and it gives immediate meaning to the Huber-style birth chart. In the early days of the English Huber School, charts were hand-drawn with coloured pens. Then along came computers to help the process, and many charts were of necessity black-and-white. Of course, this…
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The Authors: John Grove
What motivates people to write books about astrological psychology? Joyce Hopewell devised a questionnaire to find out. Here are the answers from John Grove, author of the books Dreams and Astrological Psychology and Life Passages. 1) What inspired you to write this book? As I was finishing my course for my APA diploma in 2015…
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The Saturn impulse towards conservative reaction and repression
As we move into 2018-2019 we can see now the increase in anti-scientific bias on the part of the Trump administration evidenced in their recent censoring in the Center for Disease Control (CDC)of certain words like science- based, fetus, transgender, and diversity. One can see where this is going. Science- based evolution is a theory…
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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…
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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”…
The Astrological Psychology of Bruno & Louise Huber 