One year since APA

It is nearly 1 year since the Astrological Psychology Association closed its books and ceased trading. What is now the state of Huber Astrology (or Astrological Psychology) in the English-speaking world in these times of increasingly turbulent change? The inspirational effect of meeting Bruno & Louise Huber directly has long since subsided. Their last seminar…

The Life Clock Revisited

I recently reread Bruno and Louise Huber’s book Life Clock, which struck me anew as  being quite remarkable, with profound implications. The Life Clock or Age Progression was extensively researched by Bruno and Louise in collaboration with Roberto Assagioli, the founder of the transpersonal psychology of Psychosynthesis, and founded on the spiritual principles of the…

Aspect Pattern Astrology

Aspect Pattern Astrology represents the culmination of Bruno & Louise Huber’s life work, in outlining for the first time to the general astrological public the crucial significance of the aspect pattern for psychological interpretation of the birth chart. The book was first published, with full colour illustrations, in German in 1999, the year that Bruno…

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…

Bruno, Louise and the language of colour

In this short extract from her book Astrological Psychology, Esotericism and the Transpersonal, Sue Lewis highlights the influences that led to the Hubers’ pioneering the use of colour in the interpretation of the astrological chart. It begins with the period the Hubers spent in Florence, working with Roberto Assagioli at his Psychosynthesis Institute, helping with…

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…