The Zodiac. Inspired by Swiss psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung
I discovered psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung when I was 18 and stumbled across a book discussing his research on couples using [astrology] charts as a tool. The findings supported his interest in synchronicity (Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle), or “meaningful coincidences.” It piqued my interest in astrology and Jung, including the “collective unconscious.” That is his term for the structures of the unconscious mind shared among beings of the same species. According to him, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts and archetypes, universal symbols like the Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow, the Tower, Water, the Tree of Life, and many more. In the Zodiac series, I attempt to apply archetypes to each sign.
“The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.”