#jungian dictionary

[outoflimbo]

Dream dictionaries are hilarious. I don’t know what motivates people to think they’re helpful. At their best, they make vague remarks about Freudian or Jungian concepts in their attempt to crudely define dream symbolism; more egregious are the ones with completely arbitrary, nonspecific definitions with no explanation given at all, especially the ones that make portents. It’s all very strange.

[magical-glimpse]

heya there! not sure if anyone has asked you this, but do you have a beginner to properly travel in the astral world?? Or be more aware of your dreams??? Thank you 🩵🩵

Sure !

Astral travel is incredibly random for me, i can spend years not being able to do it then two weeks doing it very easily.I honestly think my guides only let me do it when they want me to do something specific. When it comes to dreams, a lot of it has got to do with sleep quality.If you relax, meditate and invite your guides before sleeping, you are putting yourself in a environment for good sleep quality so better ability to remember your dreams, or be receptive to them.Some teas help, such as linden, camomile or verbena, which are in most night/sleep teas you can find in store.Please look up any medical interactions before you try to take them though, verbena can cause palpitations, so if you find any unwanted side effects please talk to a doctor or pharmacist.

Keeping a dream journal and writing in it first thing when you wake up is also a great habit to take to grow more aware of your dreams !I personally tend to remember my dreams quite easily, so i only write them down when they are getting long and complex.I analyze them based on Jungian interpretations, they are to me the most sensible ones.But if you like Freud or spiritual sources more you totally can use them and create your own dictionary of dream meanings. Also, a dream is better analyzed when you take all of its elements into account.Some elements are dominant, some are minor, but the construction of the dream which usually holds the most meaning. I personally dream extremely easily on full moons, so maybe try some of those on the next one !

[onewomancitadel]

It is really interesting tracing where Jungian storytelling (as a conscious form) emerges so organically:

All the mythologized processes of nature, such as summer and winter, the phases of the moon, the rainy sea sons, and so forth, are in no sense allegories of these objective occurrences; rather they are symbolic expressions of the inner, unconscious drama of the psyche which becomes accessible to man's consciousness by way of projection—that is, mirrored in the events of nature.

That's just describing narrative. Even if you don't go along with his conception of the psyche or psychonalysis in general, that's literally just the way narrative works.

(From Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9, Part 1: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious).

Of course, analyses of unconscious Jungian storytelling is kind of another matter altogether. Most of the sources I've looked at over time (like analysing Greek tragedy through Jung) have only ever been about unconscious employment of Jungian storytelling, but the bit I'm specifically trying to untangle - in my clumsy fashion - is when storytellers use it in a conscious way (e.g. The Last Jedi, most recently and in a major production, or something like Dark) as a conscious narrative/character structure (or as a way of representing characters' psyche... so in other words, conscious use).

I have a source on reading Jung and Campbell together so I'm looking forward getting into that next, because they're so obviously linked (so much of Campbell is grounded in Jung), though I'm less clear on the alchemical storytelling (alchemical/Jungian/monomyth are all kind of linked) but it's not really in my wheelhouse beyond looking at the alchemical dictionary lol.

Anyway, this is part of a bigger post on R/WBY and Jung, and ofc I want to instantly become a Jungian scholar overnight which is impossible. I would at least like to be somewhat confident with the topic, and familiar enough to describe what I think is within the reasonable reach of the story.

Of course, what is complicated at hand here is that in my academic studies neither Jung nor Campbell are actually that serious methods of the study (the latter much moreso; Campbell doesn't really figure into the academic world of archaeology at all, if anything he's sort of taboo) and differentiating between that and the narrative use of them is also somewhat of a mental task. I do think there was a bit of baby and bathwater moment with psychology and psychoanalysis, but this is less true of Campbell (in that case, he's working with limited sources and limited source analysis, so from the get-go his work is academically impaired). Particularly because in many ways Campbell is more about self-help or self-actualisation than is he an archaeological scholar.

[eligalilei]

More Aion Notes

[5]

“When I said that the ego “rests” on the total field of consciousness I do not mean that it consists of this. Were that so, it would be indistinguishable from the field of consciousness as a whole. The ego is only the latter’s point of reference, grounded on and limited by the somatic factor described above.”

‘Origo’, as in deictics, refers to a *point* of consciousness: a direction or moment without opaque/transparent self-apparency:

Here we have, finally, the assembly of something like a psychoanalytic formulation of the Ego, but grounded, ordinally, in a phenomenological description of the horizons of appearance. Now, we have, with a nominal nod to reference, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary as the field of appearance, but constituted in memory: the fold of the Ego. <<The Real might be shoehorned in with the i/undiscernible difference between the absolutely and possibly inaccessible, if we were to Lacanify the description.>>

But if it rests on it, and it is both the personality and the Origo, and memory is a function of the unconscious, then how does it ‘contain’ anything? Perhaps the key here is the misrecognition of the Origo and the Other’s face as the same being, in such a way as the unconscious is elided? There is a basic sense in which what we are doing here is heterophenomenology.

The Ego is the point of reference for consciousness (in my term, the Origo), though not synonymous with it, grounded in the Body

[6] ‘The Ego is a conscious factor par excellence’: ‘it is even acquired…’ a nod here is made to the Ego’s production: ‘It seems to arise’ due to an interaction between the ‘somatic factor’ and the environment, and then develops further through interaction between outer and inner worlds.

(discussion of Egogenesis is oddly elided, though it is acknowledged that its ‘bases are unknown.’ This is, I suppose, in keeping with the phenomenological vector of entry into the subject matter/)

[this does prompt me to work on a(nother…) de novo conception of the Ego…. a project for later.

Prior treatments in Deleuze [Logic of Sense] Simondon, and my forthcomings more than suffice for a critique of the Jungian sketch, but will need to be readdressed to the Jung materia

Lacan’s Other’s language, Stade du Miroir, &c. are allowed herein.]

There is the Organism, and there is the Environment: both are prestructured by Langue and Logos; the emergence of the [Divided] Subject and Origo as such (in my terms) occurs (mis)calibratively.

The Ego emerges in the relation between the ‘somatic factor’ and the environment, and continues to evolve through the interactions between outer and inner, which, as spaces, are presumably established as such thereinby, as is the psychical. It is worth considering, at this juncture, the notion of ipseity disturbance. At least in this sketch, the stade du miroir, fits nicely, or perhaps just well enough, with Jung’s theorization. Phraseologically, it’s interesting that actual Others somehow just… vanish into the scope of the concept of ‘the environment.’

All in all, it must be asserted that … the book gets better from here, and the translation may need to be reworked from last I looked at it, since it appears almost formal at this juncture, relative to the specificity of later chapters. I think it will prove a useful alternative introductory text for some, though as a dictionary easily harmonized with the history of psychoanalysis, I believe it will leave a substantial residue of (*de*/ its ) lack.

[mumblelard]

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[coughloop]

IDM = Intelligent Dance Music

EDM = Educational Dance Music

DnB = Dictionaries and Books

Jungle = Jungian Lessons

[pop-punklouis]

which book did you read on dream interpretations?? I'm very interested and want to get one

hi!! i read most of mine as a teen and a few as i got a little older but these are the ones that were really fascinating to me and helped me learn:

• The Illustrated Dream Dictionary — Russel Grant (one of my first and favorite go-to books mainly because of how easy to understand its contents are and the pictures are beautiful)

• The Hidden Meaning of Dreams — Craig Hamilton-parker & Lynne Milton

• Inner Work by Robert A. Johnson (a great one as it describes in detail why dreams are important for peace and clarity and why they shouldn’t be written off as unreal. has some jungian analysis in it as well)

• The Ultimate Dictionary of Dream Language— Briceida Ryan (it has over 25,000 interpretations of dreams)

• The Dream and the Underworld— James Hillman (kinda dense, but once you get in the groove it’s such a thought provoking book that i think about more often than i don’t)

[teacherintransition]

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”

― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

We have a natural, instinctive need to communicate and share with our fellow humans; just think of the ways we share ideas : music, Art, theatre, writing etc. etc., it can be disconcerting to lose this when we have no one to have a conversation with during the day...

Those are some pretty broad generalizations about people and the level of certitude would vary from person to person: there are anti social loners and those with a strong dependence on talking with anyone about anything... I, of course, fall somewhere in the middle.

I find myself alone a good part of the day which allows me to pursue my interests whether they be simply walking, painting, reading ... what have you. Early in my life, I pictured myself a confident loner. I did enjoy my own company, but in retrospect I think I was modeling what I thought was my father’s personality type. Fear not reader,I won’t get all Freudian or Jungian on you regarding father/son relationships, but there is some truth to be found there. Regardless of the reason why I was seeking to be a loner, my interactions with people were awkward. This could be embarrassing at times and yet I couldn’t abandon the feeling that the awkwardness stemmed from trying to share too much too quickly.

DAMN! I needed people... this wasn’t the plan, but it did address the mind of racing thoughts swirling through my brain when I was with people. I realized this need wouldn’t be totally met with familial conversation of the generalized version: how was your day? Is anything bothering you? Have you done your homework? This is family chit chat.... and I hate chit chat on any level. The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines “chit chat” as inconsequential conversation or a discussion of trivial matters. Don’t care for chit chat. It’s not that I’m above such trivial, mundane musings.... though I guess what I seek to discuss may seem arrogant and of the egg head variety, but you are what you are...

We all would feel out of place within a discussion of things of which we don’t feel comfortable. In a crowd of automotive gear heads, I’m the monkey wrench; in a group of business people... I get the eye rolls and so on. I can carry my weight in the stereotypical man convos about hunting, sports, cable tv and excel, IMO, in discussions about music. I’m pretty well rounded or so I’d like to think, but a lot of what I’ve written about these last few weeks have been about taking time to self discover. We all should determine who we are and what motivates us and as we’ve established, we are social animals... this is pretty damned important to determine. I’ve also alluded quite often that as we “mature,” we often come to the realization that, “I don’t have time to waste on that bull****.” Living definitively and on your own terms doesn’t just include skydiving, making a pilgrimage or something equally dramatic; sometimes it’s as simple as having deep conversations about abstract passions that fill your waking hours.

“Oh crap, nerdy talk, geek convos, talkin’ about impractical stuff ..blah, blah, blah.” Yeah, I get that a lot, but “bite me!” As I mentioned, we are what we are .... and I treasure talking about topics that are totally subjective, unique to the individual, abstract in nature and that carry deep significance. I think that is what made me an effective teacher... students are opening their minds to the “what if’s “ of the world for the first time and it excites them. It’s one of the few times in life when ideas are not beaten down into a bloody pulp by the weighty obligations of practical necessity of the chit chat world... wow, where did that come from? I’m sorry for the enraged, indignant eruption, but conformity not ideas of the mind win out in the everyday world: work, produce, consume ...repeat. As you can see, my tone is taking on a flair for the metaphysical, outside the box realm; that’s where I feel on fire. Young people will feel freed from the constraints of a structured learning environment and relish the chance to really think. Nonsense is great stuff ... it often leads to amazing stuff, sometimes it leads ... to just nonsense; but as the saying goes, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

Idealism sprinkled with a lot of innocent naïveté is my bag I suppose, not practical.... but that’s where the good stuff can be found. Open ended exchange where there is no right or wrong in what you share, hope for ... believe... is the place where agreement can be more easily attained; new ideas developed without fear of judgement; feeling and expression spoken with no ridicule. In my early childhood, there was a program called, “Free to be You and Me,” which is what I’d like everybody to experience when talking with me or learning in my classroom. Time is short, stress is intense, happiness elusive ... why do we have to be all business all the time?

The naysayers have placed a pejorative on this type of discourse: mental masturbation. Ah... that just screams respect doesn’t it? While preparing for this blog entry, I found two different explanations of mental masturbation (I’m not attaching my ideas to this label ...not too comfortable with it): the act of engaging in intelligent and interesting conversation purely for the enjoyment of your own greatness and individuality; (I like this one...); The act of engaging in useless yet intellectually interesting conversation, usually as an excuse to avoid taking constructive action in your life (OUCH). Both of these definitions came from the Urban Dictionary, my attempt to remain contemporary, and both give a similar description of the tone of this type of conversation but present different motivations for doing so. In the spirit of “Free to be You and Me,” I’d add a caveat to the second definition and declare that one needn’t always take constructive action ... sometimes, “wasting your time” is the point. Scott Shaw in his book, Zen O’Clock posits that if “wasting time” was enjoyable, was it truly a waste? You gotta love that subjectivity. Rarely, can a person totally avoid conformity in their day to day lives; but not everything, especially conversation, need have a “productive outcome.”

Life is so structured, so short, so predetermined by society you have to set your mind loose sometimes to communicate for no other reason than the excitement of sharing ideas with a like minded friend. Talk about nonsense sometimes, be silly, live the bulk of your existence outside the box before you end up in one six feet deep; we all will one day. Don’t spend all of your time with tasks and actions that don’t nourish your heart and mind. “Nothing compares to a beautiful conversation with a beautiful mind.”

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[tomasorban]

THE ZODIAC: CAPRICORN THE GOAT

Date of Rulership: 21st December-19th January; Polarity: Negative, female; Quality: Cardinal; Ruling planet: Saturn; Element: Earth; Body part: Knees, Joints, Bones; Colour: Black, dark grey, and brown; Gemstone: Turquoise, Amethyst; Metal: Lead.

Following on from Sagittarius, Capricorn is a sign that is immensely focused on how developments made in various disciplines like science, economy, law, and psychology can be used to improve living standards, raise collective consciousness, and foster a powerful society that runs as quickly and efficiently as a Japanese bullet train or a Swiss Rado watch. The Goat possesses the memory of a Tibetan monk, or rather an Indian elephant and its intuition extends far, far back before the conscious will crawled its way out of the primordial sludge. Interestingly, everything about this primitive state of chaos unsettles and scares the Goat. In fact lack of structure and organization, whether on a personal level or a collective level, induces psychological complexes within the Capricornian psyche that may drive it over the edge. In light of this, one can begin to understand this star sign’s compulsion and obsession with developing systems that tabulate and organise information into coherent hierarchies, raising and enforcing social standards and laws, and encouraging individuals to turn their passions and interests into full-time careers. According to the Goat, compartmentalization is a must; how will contemporary society function effectively, grow, and prosper without specialists to put forth broad-based models and inspired leaders to assess their levels of practicality and decide whether or not they should be implemented. Capricorns are innately good at taking on the comprehensive responsibilities of such collective ventures for they are naturally born leaders and committed ones at that.    

People born under the stars of this constellation are usually of an intellectual adroitness beyond their actual years. A personalized form of the Capricornian formative energy might be a three year to four year-old toddler with a very high IQ. Have you ever watched one in action in a kindergarten playground? These little mischievous angels are masters of manipulation. They loiter about sizing other kids up, figuring out what makes them tick, and subsequently flicking on the mental switches that will elicit complete acceptance, veneration, respect, and affinity on their part. Moreover, they also love the power that comes with positions of elevated status and authority and will always pick roles where they are able to order everyone around and be the centre of attention. The wisdom and insight pervading these little beings carry is extraordinary; they learn and identify what behaviours are encouraged and rewarded by parents, teachers, and other adults and will cunningly adopt them for the sake of obtaining what they want. Mature Capricorns very much like mischievous children with very high IQs. They are creatures of atypical restraint and a calculated, cautious temperament that can use their charm, wit and infective cheerfulness to ascend the wrungs of the social ladder and miraculously leave the people they mingled with to get there feeling cherished and esteemed. This talent serves them especially well in professional endeavours whereby expertise, skill level, and personality provide the requisite ammunition in catapulting an employee to the top of the pecking order. The Goat wants to please and to be pleased; a mutually satisfying situation it hopes will assist in its plans to achieve widescale success.    

If we were to attach a Jungian archetype to this star sign it would definitely be The Perfectionist. Mediocrity, poor performance, procrastination, and indolence are non-existent in the Capricornian language and dictionary. The Goat expects much of others and even more of itself, a characteristic which sometimes proves beneficial and sometimes detrimental. It gravitates towards and gels well with those who are equally ambitious, driven, conscientious, and tunnel-visioned but can intimidate meeker and more submissive character types that lack focus, aspirations, and long-term goals. Generating a vision that will contribute something valuable to the society in which it lives and slowly lighting the hermetic fires that will bring it to fruition is big on its lifelong list of things-to-do. Lamentably, a motivated Capricorn can become so fixated on achieving success in all areas of his or her life–finance, love, and professional career–that he or she becomes merciless, indifferent, and as unyielding as a piece of sandalwood trapped between two giant boulders. Unlike a great many that capitulate to the ideals of political correctness, Capricorn is not afraid to employ disciplinary action against inferiors that persistently transgress.

Being a cardinal sign Capricorn is no stranger to activity, fast-paced rhythms, and spirited involvement.  The Goat prefers to circumnavigate the world over and over and over until its limbs drop off rather than remain motionless and caged up in some suburban neighbourhood. It likes to be in constant motion physically, mentally, and intellectually; it wants to be creative and innovative in adding to its chosen field of inquiry but at the same time it yearns for recognition, honour and vindication as validation of these valuable contributions. Just as the sure-footed mountain goat can persevere in traversing precipitous terrain that other animals wouldn’t go anywhere near for fear of plunging to their deaths, so too does the Capricorn soul exude inner strength and resilience in the face of adversity. Unlike some of the other members of the zodiac which give up prematurely or won’t even try for fear of failure, Capricorn will keep chipping away at a foot of a megalithic problem until so much of it is underrun that it collapses in on itself. Of course there are times when the Goat’s unrelenting efforts don’t pay off and this can create psychological torture that leads to bitterness, depression, neurosis, and even psychosis if the condition remains unaddressed. An afflicted Goat can become so riddled by insecurities, self-doubts, and psychological hindrances that it will invert its own social nature and seek solace in escapist activities like daydreaming, reading romance fiction, playing computer games, and watching movies.

“What doesn’t hurt you will only make you stronger!” the resilient Capricorn shouts. “You must endure pain, suffering, and symbolic death during the course of your life in order to become the person you were meant to be. Life is all about improving the world in which we live and adding to it in a constructive manner. Hence there is no room for laziness, lawlessness, or immoralities. The world is our only home. What good would it be to us if it were an asymmetrical place of anarchy, confusion, and absurdity? Everybody needs to have a meaningful role in society that contributes to the harmonious functioning of the whole. Look at bees, for instance. Their society is a sort of autonomous monarchy comprised of drones, female workers, and the queen herself. All these little beings are intensely aware of their position and function in the hierarchy and adhere to it like the universe adheres to the laws of physics. They are all as assiduous as each other and we would do well to borrow and implement the same approach. Success in life comes through industry, focus, and hard yakka (hard work) folks; nothing more, nothing less.

Some people say that I resemble the winter solstice in that I’m sometimes cold and chilly, reserved, and rather impersonal in my dealings with others. This is not my true self, but rather an iron armour or shell which the contingencies of life have forced upon me. I’m a realist so I’d be the first to admit that the world can be a cruel and nasty place. Even though most wouldn’t admit to such, self-interest happens to be a primary urge amongst human beings and their tireless search for validation usually entails a confrontation with the less flattering attributes of the collective temperament. Hence it’s important to put up psychic defences that will guard your soft, squishy, and sensitive interior at all times. The human soul, my friends, is an abyss of human sentiments, and mine is no different. I will sing, dance, cry, laugh, and share intimate details of my life with individuals who manage to gain my love and complete trust, namely those that are going places and doing exciting things with themselves.  As you know, I’m a sucker for security, attention, and status and the best way to get it is to be around those VIPs best able to open doors and facilitate it. I’m not an elitist in any way, but relationships built on synthetically constructed dependencies are an outgrowth of the Western culture in which we are born and raised. We need to work with that rather than against it for the sake of acquiring what we want!”

Capricorn the Goat is connected to two symbols that link the constellation with the reascention of the sun from its seasonal slumber. The first of these is a terrestrial goat or goat-fish crossbreed that has its iconographical origins in the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. This is depicted morphologically as a sea monster; sometimes as a hybrid goat-fish with the four limbs of a goat and a fish tail and at other times as a sea goat with the posterior of a serpent. Most early cultures perceived that their collective histories were woven into the heavenly constellations and the Sumerians were no different.  Foremost of the symbols belonging to the Sumerian god Enki were a goat and a fish, both of which had amalgamated into the astrological totem we recognise today by the second millennium bce. Originally, Capricorn probably descried an early matriarchal situation of the Middle East in which the earliest monolithic structures of Babylon rose vertically out of a semi-arid breadth of shallow lagoons, reed banks, mud flats, and marshes. The horns of the goat were celestial markers for Mesopotamia’s two principle cities, Babylon and Nineveh; the first was built along the river Euphrates and the second along the Tigris, respectively.

Constructed during the Ptolemaic Period (323-30bce) of Egypt’s illustrious history, the circular and rectangular zodiacs in the Temple of Hathor at Denderah bequeath to us the ancient zodiacal pictograms for the twelve signs. A fleeting glace will show that the vast majority of these have remained largely unchanged. With respect to the Capricorn constellation, the zodiacal band on the circular Denderah zodiac shows the figure of a goat with two legs adjoined to the rear end and tail of a fish. Though the signs and figures of the sky represented on these chronometers express a markedly Chaldean and Hellenistic influence, we can be sure that the autochthonous Egyptians explicitly understood the celestial zone and functional image of the sign as a marker of astronomical rebirth and solar reascent because demotic representations show an ankh, the symbol of life, and an aquatic tadpole with its hindquarters on solid ground (the inverse of the sea-goat image). Hence the Egyptians may have been aware of the twelvefold division of the zodiacal band way before Babylonian cosmogony merged with that of their own under a Hellenistic patina.

The Greeks themselves, who borrowed leisurely from Chaldean astrology, forged an association with their god Pan and with Zeus’s foster mother Amalthea. According to a cycle of Hellenistic myths that chronicle the Titanomachy, a ten-year war between the fearsome Titans and the renowned Olympians, the horned goat-god Pan fought the monster Typhon. In order to evade detection and escape unscathed, he dove into the tepid waters of the Nile. The section of the river into which Pan jumped encompassed magical properties and instigated a physiological transformation upon anything it came into contact with. Thus the parts that were submerged in water, namely his lower body and legs, morphed into a fish whilst his head and upper torso remained unchanged. On the other hand Amalthea was the she-goat that suckled the infant Zeus in a grotto of Mount Aigaion on the Mediterranean island of Crete. In order to save him from being cannibalised by his own father Cronus, Amalthea gathered the Kouretes, the armed and crested dancers of the earth, and prompted them to create an aural bedlam as to mask the cries of the infant.

The second symbol, an astrological shorthand used by astrologers in the casting of horoscopes, is a squiggle comprised of curves, a loop, and sometimes a straight line that could be interpreted as the goat’s horns. Looking at the variant forms of the Capricorn sigil, it is easy to see how the zodiacal imagery was appropriated to create a much simpler and rudimentary illustration recalling the Capricorn’s dualistic nature and primary ambition. With half of its being in the watery chaos of other worlds and dimensions and the other half trotting on three-dimensional and material notions of solid ground, Capricorn wishes to find a balance between the ethereal and material and the sigil no doubt demonstrates this. There are many sayings associated with Capricorn, the best known being that time itself would end when its cluster of stars huddled above the horizon. This sentiment probably has its origins in the fact that the sun transits this section of the zodiacal band at a time when the formative forces of Mother Nature are at the weakest, as well as in the perception that Saturn, the deity intimately connected with cosmic law and the mediation of time, was exalted in this sign.

In the northern hemisphere the constellation of Capricorn appears in the night sky at the time when the solar orb has descended to the nethermost regions of its celestial journey, also known as the winter solstice. Many cultures of the world such as those of the Far East have interpreted this time as the astronomical resurrection of the annual cycle, and therefore a marker for the New Year. This was usually a just and prosperous period which might be equated with a Golden Age when the earth gave back to its mortal children abundance by sending down the rains and offering up a good harvest. It’s probably no surprise that the ruler of this sign, Saturn or the Greek Cronus, holds a sheaf of corn in one hand and a sickle in the other. Together these symbols denote an earned condition of fecundity, justice, and strength which so often comes when one is patient, diligent and perseveres in their chosen field of physical or intellectual inquiry. Taking into consideration the time of the year in which the sun traverses its domain, its earthly, cardinal nature along with its planetary ruler, it would not be unjustified to claim that the Capricorn psyche is honourable, self-disciplined, ambitious, and grounded with partial participation in mystical and speculative philosophy. Just as the astrological pictogram suggests, Capricorn is a very versatile sign once it has completely evolved and can switch from a worldly and ambitious extroversion to a spiritual and contemplative introversion in the manner that nymphs, the larvae of dragonflies, will desert their aquatic environment and transition to an avian mode of existence upon reaching adulthood. Consequently Capricorn’s formative energies reconcile the conscious and sure-footed will with its intuitive and psychic origins, the somnolent unconscious.

[wordgoods]

Self. The archetype of wholeness and the regulating center of the psyche; a transpersonal power that transcends the ego.

The self is not only the centre, but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness. ["Introduction," CW 12, par. 44.]

Like any archetype, the essential nature of the self is unknowable, but its manifestations are the content of myth and legend.

The self appears in dreams, myths, and fairytales in the figure of the "supraordinate personality," such as a king, hero, prophet, saviour, etc., or in the form of a totality symbol, such as the circle, square, quadratura circuli, cross, etc. When it represents a complexio oppositorum, a union of opposites, it can also appear as a united duality, in the form, for instance, of tao as the interplay of yang and yin, or of the hostile brothers, or of the hero and his adversary (arch-enemy, dragon), Faust and Mephistopheles, etc. Empirically, therefore, the self appears as a play of light and shadow, although conceived as a totality and unity in which the opposites are united.[Definitions," CW 6, par. 790.]

The realization of the self as an autonomous psychic factor is often stimulated by the irruption of unconscious contents over which the ego has no control. This can result in neurosis and a subsequent renewal of the personality, or in an inflated identification with the greater power.

The ego cannot help discovering that the afflux of unconscious contents has vitalized the personality, enriched it and created a figure that somehow dwarfs the ego in scope and intensity. . . . Naturally, in these circumstances there is the greatest temptation simply to follow the power-instinct and to identify the ego with the self outright, in order to keep up the illusion of the ego's mastery. . . . [But] the self has a functional meaning only when it can act compensatorily to ego-consciousness. If the ego is dissolved in identification with the self, it gives rise to a sort of nebulous superman with a puffed-up ego.[On the Nature of the Psyche," CW 8, par. 430.]

Experiences of the self possess a numinosity characteristic of religious revelations. Hence Jung believed there was no essential difference between the self as an experiential, psychological reality and the traditional concept of a supreme deity.

It might equally be called the "God within us."[The Mana-Personality," CW 7, par. 399.

[mbtimyths]

MBTI Mythbusting

MBTI is pseudoscience and no better than astrology. False. By the common definition of pseudoscience (i.e. that there is no empirical evidence for the claims that are set forth by the theory), the MBTI is not pseudoscience. No scientific study has ever found that there is no validity to the MBTI. On the contrary, every study ever carried out has found that, while there are problems with the MBTI, there is nonetheless an acceptable level of empirical evidence supporting its claims. By contrast, astrology has repeatedly been found to have no empirical validity. Thus no skeptic who says he is “just following science” can claim that the MBTI is no better than astrology or that the MBTI is pseudoscience without relinquishing his status as a skeptic.

There are personality tests that are more scientific than the MBTI. True. The MBTI is an old instrument, its earliest roots dating back almost a century, namely to C.G. Jung’s typology. The MBTI was developed prior to most modern means of validating personality tests and so it is not surprising that the MBTI does not pass such validation with flying colors.

Part of the reason that the MBTI is more popular than the Big Five is that the Big Five constricts itself to making claims that can be verified by direct observation. In other words, the Big Five only tells you what it has measured. It does not tell you anything about what these measurements mean. Thus people tend to find the insights yielded by the Big Five to be either boring or commonsensical. To put it plainly, the Big Five only describes personality traits – it does not explain them the way the MBTI does.

In terms of empirical evidence, types don’t exist. Human traits are distributed on a bell curve, not as two camel humps. True. Empirical evidence suggests that the measurable dimensions of personality are not distributed bimodally (as two camel humps) but fall along a continuum (on a bell curve)... one can get around the impasse by regarding the types as a heuristic device (i.e. as a mental shortcut to describe a large body of material) rather than regarding the types as distinct empirical entities.

The Big Five also has a major weakness and that is the so-called lexical hypothesis. Unlike the MBTI, which is based on the cognitive theory of C.G. Jung, the Big Five was literally derived by looking up adjectives in a dictionary. Again, the Big Five describes personality traits but does not explain them. The strength of the Big Five approach is that you get a high level of empirical validity. But the downside is that, without a cognitive theory to fall back on, the Big Five is essentially inductive and relies on circular logic (e.g. “he is conscientious because he delivers his work on time, and he delivers his work on time because he is conscientious”). By contrast, the MBTI, for all its flaws, was developed deductively.

So while the MBTI has the weakness of ‘types’ not being supported by empirical data, the Big Five has the weakness of not having a cognitive theory to underpin it. This means that the MBTI and the Big Five are not exclusive to each other, but rather complementary to each other. At IDRLabs (and MBTImyths) we use both the Big Five and the work of C.G. Jung in our own work. If we want to get an accurate description of somebody’s behavior, we use the Big Five model. And if we want to get an idea of why somebody does what he does, we use the Jungian theory, which is the theory that the MBTI was based on.

People who take the MBTI multiple times often come out as different types (Low Test-Retest Reliability). True. However, as we will discuss below, the MBTI is not an end in itself. It is an attempt to quantify C.G. Jung’s cognitive theory empirically. And as most people who have grappled with Jung’s theory will readily attest, his concepts are by no means as straightforward as the Big Five’s ideas that someone who delivers his work on time is ‘conscientious’ and someone who talks a lot is an extrovert. Jung’s concepts of the cognitive functions are not only staggeringly complex, they also stand in a dialectical relationship to each other where they alternatively imply, negate, and complement each other.

In other words, the complexity that goes into the definition of Jung’s cognitive functions is well beyond what we are currently able to prove or disprove empirically. Since Jung’s cognitive theories were not laid out in a format suited to empirical analysis, the advocates of Jung’s ideas can always claim that the fault lies not with the concepts but with the process of translating and interpreting the concepts into a format that will suit empirical testing.

MBTI descriptions contain vague and flattering statements that anyone would agree to (Forer Effect). True. While the MBTI descriptions are indeed peppered with vague and flattering statements, they don’t just induce the Forer Effect. There is usually enough that is concrete in the MBTI portraits for people to be able to recognize the overall ambiance of the type that is being described.

Likewise, it should be noted that just like how type descriptions are not the meat of the Big Five, type descriptions are not the meat of the MBTI either. That is the cognitive theory of C.G. Jung. However, Jung’s theory is very poorly understood and it is not profitable to work on it, as opposed to re-hashing the same old truisms that you find on every MBTI website. Jung had the Rockefeller family sponsoring his work, but today we are not so lucky.

Psychologists and academic researchers don’t take the MBTI seriously. True and false. The MBTI has often been criticized by the academic community and as a rule, the criticisms have been balanced and fair. However, some of the researchers who criticize the MBTI are completely ignorant of its functioning as well as alarmingly dishonest in the way that they quote from the scientific source material. Likewise, it is demonstrable that some (but not all) of the MBTI’s academic critics have used sensationalism, double standards, and straw men where they should have been offering an academic critique.

The MBTI makes use of pseudoscientific practices like handwriting analysis (Graphology) and “face reading” (Physiognomy). False. Both Jung’s typology and the MBTI were developed exclusively as instruments for ordering psychological material and no publication by Jung or any official publication regarding the MBTI has ever relied on handwriting analysis or “face reading” in relation to people’s personality types.

Four dichotomies don’t say everything about human personality. Even if the MBTI isn’t pseudoscience, it is often used by amateurs and often used to explain things that it can’t explain. True. Different personality inventories capture different elements of the personality and the MBTI should not be taken to say everything about the personality. That’s why we always encourage our visitors not to constrict themselves to the MBTI, but to study personality broadly.

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What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to learn more about astrology? Is there a website you went to or maybe a blog here? I love your blog and I'd totally love to understand it all! 😘😘❤️

“How did you first start learning and how should I?”

Hello ~ I think online astrology sites provide decent resources for beginners. Here are some starter-sites:

Dr. Standley - Informative content that is easy to understand

Wizzards - a directory of articles and explanations, a site that serves as a guide to interpret your own natal chart. 

South Florida Astrologer | Natal Chart Calculator - Pulls up your natal wheel and shows only your strongest aspects. Provides small interpretations of your placements and aspects. 

Cafe Astrology | Natal Chart Calculator  - Pulls up you natal table and natal wheel. Provides interpretations of your aspects and placements. 

Alabe | Natal Chart Calculator - Pulls up your natal wheel and gives basic descriptions of your placements. 

Astro-Charts | Natal Chart Calculator - Pulls up your natal wheel and both major/minor aspects along with some other features.

Astro Dienst | Natal Chart Calculator - Pulls up your natal wheel and aspect table. Offers various interesting, informative articles and several other features that customize your natal wheel.

 Astro-theme | Natal Chart Calculator - Pulls up your natal wheel, aspect table and offers others features as well. 

Astrology Forums:

Astrology Weekly - Astrology forum site, a good place to learn and interact with other people on astrology without worrying about trivial discourse you find here on tumblr. 

LindaLand - Astrology forum site dedicated to Astrologer Linda Goodman, but is no longer accepting members. If you’re interested all you can do is browse as opposed to interacting with others. There are some good discussions archived on this site though!

Beginner PDFs:

Rae Orion’s Astrology For Dummies - Despite the condescending title, this is an excellent starter-astrology-book. Provides brief interpretations on your placements, the meaning of the planets/elements/archetypes, how to read/calculate your natal chart and much more.

Intermediate: 

James R. Lewis’ Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences - Astrology dictionary! Good to have.

Maritha Pottenger: Past Lives | A Time For Love | Astro Map Analysis | Astrology Lessons

Junior Astrology Course 1 | 2 | 3

Senior Astrology Course 1 | 2

Bob Makransky’s Primary Directions: 1 | 2 | 3

Starfisher - Simple astrology program with many features

ZET Lite - More complex astrology Program with several features 

Other Free Astrology Softwares

Aspects Patterns

And then most importantly, to further advance your studies I highly recommend purchasing books. Astrology books are not that expensive when you buy them from places like ebay or thriftbooks. I think instead of listing specific books, which can become an excessively long list, I will say buying books from authors like Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas, Alice Bailey, Alan Oken, Isabel Hickey, Steven Forrest, Dane Rudhyar, Alice O. Howell, The Parkers (Derek/Julia Parker) and anything on Jungian Astrology or esoteric astrology would benefit and interest you v much.

I think finally, astrology requires a lot of observing but also socializing…Reading about placements will not give you firsthand experiences on how they manifest in others. Nor does simply observing someone allow you to understand expressions of certain placements when you are not interacting. Read and then apply what you’ve read in the real world, you know?

As for how I learned, I don’t remember all too well I’ve always been interested. I do remember when I was a little girl my first official astrology book ever was The Secret Language of Birthdays by Gary Goldschneider, which helped me get into astrology with more structure. Its a cool book, one of my favorites. It explains misunderstood concepts like cusp signs, discusses the archetypes and goes through every single birthday along with other interesting things, such as each birthday is assigned a tarot card, numerology, keywords, stones/gems and more~ I think since the internet is such an open resource you should start online and gradually move onto books :-) hope this helps ♡..

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Research: Dream Dictionary Interpretation of Symbols

The importance of my exploration into the unconscious and its links with conscious existence is not necessarily to pin point the meanings of my dreams; as of course this is subjective. However I still felt it was important to explore this notion in response to the points I had taken from my dreams upon waking. There are many dream theorists who consider different meanings behind specific dreams. The main theorists in history are noted in my handwritten notes in a previous post. However I have found the most notable to be Freud and Jung. I attempted to read their books ‘Dreams’ and ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ in order to reap specific symbols from them relating to my own dreams however, due to their structure, this was not possible. Instead therefore, I decided to focus my research into Freud and Jung’s theories about dreams and the unconscious, rather than trying to find out what their ideas are about specific symbols. Instead, I focused this aspect on the ‘Dream Dictionary from A-Z’ book by Theresa Cheung as this is designed specifically for looking up keywords and symbols. This book was also written in consideration of Jungian and Freudian theory. 

As stated, the theory of the links between dreams and the unconscious is more pertinent to my practice at this juncture so I am not too concerned with incorporating their specific meaning just yet. However, I feel it is an interesting point of departure to consider what these dreams represent in the context of understanding the relationship, and ‘space’, between the conscious and unconscious self. As my work is always approached from an autobiographical perspective, the purpose of acquiring meaning and understanding of the unconscious voice is to allow for growth within myself which, in turn, allows for growth within my practice.

I have decided to tap into key words from the dreams whose themes are reoccurring or more prominent within my notes as I feel these are the ones that must represent the most important meanings that are being spoken by my unconscious. To do this, I am utilising ‘The Dream Dictionary from A to Z’ by Theresa Cheung. Cheung is a modern New Age writer and spiritualist who specialises in dream theory and symbols.

Tidal waves:

Water - a common association with the fluid of the womb and its role in evolution. An archetypal symbol in the dreamer’s emotional life. Also a symbol of the spiritual life force. Healing waters and spiritually cleansing. As the governing element of the Zodiac signs Cancer (my sign), Scorpio and Pisces, it is said to endow people with the feminine qualities of gentleness and changeability. Deep water are symbols of the unconscious or of being out of your depth. Strong winds creating a stormy sea - symbolism suggests you might be contemplating human emotion in general, with all its ebb and flow from rage to calm and rage again.

Tidal waves - “This frightening image can suggest that your personal problems have raged out of control and that your place in the world is uncertain and shifting.”

Tornados:

Symbolises emotional turmoil occurring in your waking life. Symbolic of verbal arguments, fighting and emotional tension in a relationship. The presence of tornadoes or hurricanes suggest that you are an extremely emotional person and that either you or those around you are prone to emotional outbursts. Alternatively, you may feel as if you are being swept along by forces that are beyond your control. It can also represent the power of your own passion or passionate belief.

Conflict:

Argue - “Indication that you are feeling conflict about some aspect of your life and that you are perhaps not releasing or expressing these feelings of conflict in your waking life.”

Anger - May express the tension between your conscious and unconscious urges. The aggressor in the dream will often represent the part of you that is demanding to be acknowledged.

Just missing something (late), e.g. a train, a lift in a car:

Cheung: Suggests you feel others are moving ahead of you and leaving you lagging behind. Can also symbolise frustrating at having missed an opportunity.

Being left behind:

Jung:

Freud:

Cheung:

Violence:

Any violence in dreams is a reflection of your own inner feelings about yourself and sometimes about the situation around you. Dreams about being attacked or being threatened may be a warning of an attack in waking life, e.g. on your integrity or character. 

Dismembered body part - Indicates emotional and mental distress. Perhaps you are tearing yourself apart over something or someone. Half a body dream images suggest a lack of balance in tour life between your outer and inner life.

Pregnancy:

To dream you are pregnant is an example of wish-fulfilment. Pregnancy dreams if you are not pregnant suggest a yearning for unconditional love and acceptance. They can also indicate a period of waiting before the completion of a project. A new area of your personality or potential is developing or ‘hatching’. 

Trains:

To dream of missing a train may suggest missed opportunities.

Losing things:

A dream if losing something important can suggest lost opportunities, past relationships or, according to Jungian analysis, forgotten aspects of yourself. Losing something suggests that you have become distracted in waking life and have lost sight of what really matters. What does the lost thing symbolise? It may be a symbol of something that is missing from your life that you never had in the first place. Try a free association exercise (write down 10 or so words that immediately come to mind in relation to that symbol) to decipher the lost object’s symbolism. 

House from childhood:

The homes in which you once lived can become symbols of certain factors that shaped the person you have become. Houses in dreams often represent parts of your mind or personality.

REFERENCES:

Cheung, T., (2019). The Dream Dictionary from A to Z [Revised edition]: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams. HarperCollins UK. Available at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=wtyxDwAAQBAJ.

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☀️ The Sun & the Hero Archetype

The Sun is also described as the hero. Whatever the Sun is doing in the chart will say something about the+ challenges that the hero within us all is fated to meet. Jungians use the word individuation to describe this process. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word ‘individuate’ means ‘...to form into an individual or distinct entity, to give individual organisation or form to. To distinguish from others of the same species.’

Arguably, this is what the Sun is about; the hero’s purpose is about becoming a distinct individual. To become oneself, the person one really is somewhere inside. The acorn can only ever become an oak tree, as Liz Greene would say. But each oak tree is unique and its potential uniqueness exists in a latent form inside the acorn. So the Sun seems to symbolise the process of finding one’s identity. Planets aspecting the Sun will not only help define what the hero looks like but will describe the challenges that this inner core of the person will meet. All the helpful and not so helpful inner figures who may accelerate or impede the process.

— Tompkins, Sue. Aspects in Astrology: A Guide to Understanding Planetary Relationships in the Horoscope. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1989.

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BESTIARY - Research

19/11/17

MYTHOLOGY - What is it?

(from the Greek 'mythos' for story-of-the-people, and 'logos' for word or speech, the spoken story of a people) 

“A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.” - Google dictionary 

Myths are stories, usually with a deep symbolic meaning, that are often used to explain natural or unnatural phenomena, such as the weather, the shape of mountains and particular landmarks or features, or to tell how a culture or civilisation began or ended.  They typically involve some sort of supernatural being/event, be that a god or creature, an act of magic, a miracle or a curse. 

Myths vary hugely across civilisations and cultures, as a number of factors - including habitat, visual inspiration, cultural relationships and even the mindset/way of life of a civilisation - can affect them. Despite this, however, many myths are curiously similar, in how weather works or how the Earth was created, certain creatures, the different Pantheons, etc - even across civilisations and cultures that never interacted. 

“Therefore, even the lover of myth is, in a sense, a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonders.”

- Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.)

MYTHS, LEGENDS AND FOLKTALES

Myths, Legends and Folktales/lore are often hard to differentiate, and often overlap each other. The main differences are usually how much of the story is based on fact, and how symbolic it is. 

Legends tend to be at least partly based upon historical fact, like a certain person or event. They’re semi-true stories with mythical qualities, and often encompass the spiritual beliefs of the culture in which they originate.

Myths are stories based on tradition of or a legend, and usually have deep symbolic meanings. Myths 'convey a truth' to those who tell and hear it, rather than necessarily recording a true event, although some can be re-tellings of an actual event, only shifted in time/place or transformed by symbolic meaning. They often involve supernatural beings, and - due to the meaning and connection they have with their cultures - can survive for, sometimes, thousands of years.

Folktales are hard to precisely categorise because they often fit into so many, and a popular stories passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next.  The author is usually unknown often many versions of the tale exist. Folktales include fables, fairy tales, old legends and even 'urban legends', some tales possibly being based on a partial truth that has been lost or hidden over time.

JUNGIAN THEORY OF MYTH 

Carl Jung speaks about the psychological truths of myth, claiming that it’s “universal and necessary for the health of the human psyche”, and that we need these stories to make sense of the confusion of our society and own psyches; that myths were an expression of the Collective Unconscious in that they express core ideas that are part of the human species as a whole.

“In other words, myths express wisdom that has been encoded in all humans, perhaps by means of evolution or through some spiritual process. For Jungians, this common origin in the collective unconscious explains why myths from societies at the opposite ends of the earth can be strikingly similar. A Jungian analysis of classical mythology would claim that the main gods and goddesses express archetypes that are common to human thinking everywhere. The main Olympian gods can be seen as expressions of archetypes of different stages of life within the archetypical family. Zeus is the patriarch, Apollo the young man on the cusp of manhood and independence. Hermes expresses the archetypes of the Trickster. Zeus shares some of the features of the archetype of the ‘wise old man’.” - Wikiversity

 - The Gods, Goddesses and Heroes embody aspects of cleverness, creativity, aggression, joy, grief, etc.

 - The Monsters are actually Monsters of the Mind.

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