Tag: Louise Huber

  • Telling the Huber Story

    Telling the Huber Story

    While I was a Foundation Course student in the mid-late 1990s, I attended several seminars held by Bruno & Louise Huber, in England, Spain and Switzerland, culminating in the Seven Rays seminar of 1998. It was here that I became aware of the full depth of the Hubers’ understanding of psychology and spirituality, and it…

  • Huber questions answered?

    Huber questions answered?

    The development of astrological psychology by Bruno & Louise Huber was a revolutionary combination of astrology with depth psychology and spirituality. How and why were the young Bruno & Louise inspired to dedicate their lives to this endeavour? What and who were the key influences in the world they grew up in that led them…

  • Thanks to all involved in The English Huber School

    Thanks to all involved in The English Huber School

    Bruno & Louise Huber began teaching their wonderful new system of astrological psychology in the 1960s in Zürich, initially in the form of seminars and later as formal courses. All the teachings were originally in German and a large following of students was soon established. Over subsequent years a series of books began to appear,…

  • Aspect Pattern Astrology

    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

    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…

  • The Zodiac in Colour

    The Zodiac in Colour

    Bruno & Louise Huber were pioneers in the use of colour in astrology. This piece is an extract from Chapter 8 of their book Transformation: Astrology as a Spiritual Path. The colour spectrum, when laid round the horoscope, gives a picture of personal development very simi­lar to that given by the theory of Age Progression;…

  • Bruno, Louise and the language of colour

    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…

  • The Zero Point of the Zodiac – the Pisces/Aries Border

    The Zero Point of the Zodiac – the Pisces/Aries Border

    At the turning point of the year, we publish this article by Louise Huber on the ‘zero point’ of the zodiac, extracted from the book AstroLog I: Life and Meaning. It was first published in ‘Astrolog’ Issue 36, February 1987. Many years of observation have shown that a certain place in the zodiac has something…

  • Roberto Assagioli

    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…

  • Bruno Huber – a brief biography

    Bruno Huber – a brief biography

    This brief biography appeared in Astrolog, German language magazine of astrological psychology, in March 2016. A more detailed history of the Hubers, astrological psychology and the API school will appear in the forthcoming Conjunction 66, available to members. Bruno Huber, the well-known Swiss astrologer, was born on 29.11.1930 at 12:55 and died on 3rd November…

  • How did you get into Esotericism?

    How did you get into Esotericism?

    Extract from an interview Louise Huber gave to Verena Bachmann in 2003, first published in German in ‘Astrologie Heute’, recently translated into English by Sue Lewis. VB: How did you get into esotericism? LH: As a result of the Second World War. I suffered four years of war. Initially I wanted to study sports, then…

  • It had to be them

    It had to be them

    This post was written by Pam Tyler, who was joint founder of APA in 1983. The Hubers rocked my world in 1978. The first time I heard them speak was in Atlanta at the American Federation of Astrologers Conference. I had come from London to sit for the AFA’s Teacher and Professional Certification exam. My…