The astrological birth chart is a roadmap for life, a portrait of the personality and the distinctive potentials of each individual. It depicts the full spectrum of our involvement in a complex world. Astrology’s precise understanding of phases of time and life cycles is of immense benefit to everyone who seeks to understand themselves, their relationships, the spiritual meaning of past challenges, and the future they envision and intend. In this course, Greg will teach the basics of astrology in the light of spiritual teachings and depth psychological concepts, as a path of wholeness and individuation. The class will have a process-oriented focus where the instructor will work with participants’ charts live in the moment, explain the chart symbolism, and demonstrate the process of chart interpretation, the analysis of transiting planetary influences, and progressions of the birth chart. No prior knowledge is required, only a willingness to learn and study yourself.

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Astrology and
Jungian Depth Psychology

LIVE PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

WITH AUTHOR GREG BOGART, PH. D.

Wednesdays
April 10, 17, 24, and May 1
2024

Live worldwide via Zoom
4-6pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
+ Video recording
will be made available

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Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist who has also practiced astrology professionally since 1981. His work unites dream studies, clinical research, humanistic astrology, attachment theory, Jungian depth psychology, Psychosynthesis, and dynamic group process work.
He is the author of Dreamwork and Self-Healing, and Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression, Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling and Astrology as a Therapeutic Art: Healing Human Relationships.  His other books include Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, Astrology’s Higher Octaves and In the Company of Sages. Greg is a lecturer in psychology at Sonoma State University. Previously he taught for 20 years in the Counseling Psychology, East-West Psychology, and Community Mental Health Programs at California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University).

www.dawnmountain.com & www.gregbogart.net

In every tradition, saints and poets speak of the soul’s search for the beloved, the seeker’s yearning for the divine, for the Self beyond ego. This holy longing is a secret feeling with many disguises, leading us to pursue a higher union in spiritual practice, religious discipleship, even romantic embrace. It guides us to timeless wisdom and transcendent experiences.

But it also can go awry when we project the divine onto a therapist, teacher, priest, guru, rabbi, or roshi who is all too human – who has unhealed wounds, undeveloped empathy, or authoritarian tendencies; in effect, a woman or man who has a shadow. If he or she abuses power-- sexual, financial, or emotional coercion -- we feel the shock of betrayal, our innocence lost, our faith destroyed.

Today, we have witnessed many contemporary teachers of Buddhist, Hindu Hasidic, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant groups act out their shadows in destructive ways, leaving their followers traumatized and lost. This can be viewed as a mythological moment of ordeal or dark night of the soul.

Suffering spiritual disillusionment, we can learn to apply the tools of depth psychology and spiritual shadow-work to help us recover and rekindle the flame of longing in our souls.

This presentation explores personal and archetypal projection, spiritual bypassing, as well as the evolution of consciousness, the nature of awakening, and the role of the Shadow.

Based on my book,
 Meeting the Shadow
on the Spiritual Path:
The Dance of Darkness and Light
in Our Search for Awakening

We will explore why we are drawn to charismatic leaders, what we unconsciously give away to them, and how to reclaim it for our own treasury.

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“Most spiritual traditions have a dirty little secret: when you surrender to an authority, you will face the dark side of human nature. At last, this book explains why and how to recover.” ― Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D.

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Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path:

A Depth Psychological Exploration of Spirituality

with Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

Thursday • May 2, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
Session will be available via video recording

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Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D. is a retired Jungian therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her recent book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path is available now. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. Now, after all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.

For nine weeks beginning in January 2024, award-winning artist and educator Ann McCoy will take us into the alchemical processes within the psyche and how artists have created these images in varied art forms.

In addition to reviewing some of the most powerful of classical alchemical images, an in-depth examination of the role of contemporary artists in each of the alchemical processes will be a touchstone of the course.

This is a class for anyone, including artists and writers, wanting to explore alchemy and psyche in general.

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Ann will be hosted by JUNG Archademy faculty member Chantal Powell, Ph. D..

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Join Chantal for THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Sundays beginning Sept. 10.

Sundays
beginning Jan. 7, 2024

10-Noon Pacific, 1-3 Eastern

+ Video recordings of all live classes will be made available

Course Outline

1. The Alchemical Axis. This first class will use Plate One of The Splendor Solis, as a jumping off point to explore the voyage from the conscious world into the depths of the unconscious–and the trepidation that may accompany this process.

2. The Solutio, this bathing in the waters, breaking down into solution, occurs in many forms and is portrayed in many paintings and videos in the work of Bill Viola and others.

3. The Calcinatio and the Fires. Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens of fire and furnace will be moved into the present as they resonate with our world in flames.

4. Moving from Three into Four, the Axiom of Maria the Jewess, and the role of the feminine in alchemical active imagination, and the process in general. Works by women artists will be featured in this section.

5. Mortificatio and Putrefactio. Dismemberment and Putrefaction will move into a discussion of agricultural and spiritual rebirth using the myth of Osiris and the work of artists like Agnes Denes with her urban wheatfield.

6. Coagulatio, when liquid returns to solid form. This image from the laboratory relates to many creation myths as well as artists working in the foundry. We will explore contents movement from the unconscious as they enter the realm of ego consciousness.

7. Will be a discussion of the alchemical colors (black, white, red) and focus on the Nigredo, Albedo, and Rubedo. This will include a discussion of depression as part of an introductory process.

8. Sublimatio, as the spirit ascends. From images of ascending doves and the assumption of the Virgin, this is still fertile ground for artists. This lecture loops back to the first lecture.

9. This lecture will feature images of the steps on the Mountain- Caves of the Adepts, it will be a summary discussion of movement between processes.

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Week One

January 07, 2024

Week Two

January 14, 2024

Week Three

January 21, 2024

Week Four

January 28, 2024

Week Five

February 4, 2024

Week Six

February 11, 2024

Week Seven

February 18, 2024

Week Eight

February 25, 2024

Week Nine

March 3, 2024

Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She is an artist with a fifty year career, and known for her large scale drawings of the dream world. Her work is found in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum and many others and was featured in the Venice Biennale 1985 Art and Alchemy curated by Arturo Schwarz. She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in art. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000.

Ann worked with Prof. C.A. Meier for twenty-eight years in Zurich and with James Kirsch in Los Angeles. She has a background in Jungian psychology and philosophy. She has studied alchemy since the 1970s in Zurich, and Rome at the Vatican Library. Most of her work is based on her dreams, and their relationship to alchemical texts, and Christian alchemy in particular.

Ann lectures on Jung and the artistic process from over fifty years of analytical experience and feels strongly that creative people have a unique approach to the unconscious, that comes from working with actual materials, and in-between dream states.

Week 1: Introduction & Archetypal Background

• Helping Behaviour in Morality and Religious Ethics

• The Savior Archetype 

• The Victim archetype 

Week 2: The Professional Helper 

• Identifying the persona and shadow aspects of helping professions 

• Power in Helping Professions

• The Helper Syndrome

• Transference /

  Counter-transference

• The Wounded Healer 

Week 3: The Non-Professional Helper

• Who is the non-professional helper? 

• The helper’s inner life

• The helper child

The Helper

A Jungian Exploration of Helping Others 

Helping or the role of the helper is widely respected and highly regarded.
Often, helping is accepted to be the right thing to do. But is there no negative potential for helping others? Does helping never inflict harm?
What is the cost of the helper role for us?

This course explores the unconscious dynamics underlying the helper role through a Jungian lens. First, we will look at the archetypal energies associated with the helping role and get in touch with its positive and negative poles/potential.
At the second session will focus on helping professionals and their persona and shadow aspects. The last session will focus on the “non-professional helpers,” those who take on the helper role outside of a profession. 

Live-Video Seminar

SUNDAYS
Mar. 10, 17 & 24, 2024

10am-12pm Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern
5-7 pm GMT / 6-8 pm Zurich
+ Video recording will be available

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer, MSc., IAAP 

Begüm is an Istanbul-born
Jungian analyst based in Switzerland. 

For the majority of her life,  Begüm has been a helper. Besides her Jungian practice, she worked as a learning support for neurodiverse children, as a social worker with adults with autism (and with violent behavior), and she volunteered and later worked for an NGO.  “The helper” role has been a  theme that touched and intrigued her deeply, which brought her to the writing of her Jungian Diploma thesis on this topic.

Begüm grew passionate about helping helpers in and outside their helper role. As a helper, she aims to raise awareness of the unspoken aspects, challenges, and blindspots of being a helper.
She offers courses and group work focusing on helping professions, and burnout. You can find more about her work at www.begumgurses.com

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This course will be hosted by JUNG Archademy faculty member Chantal Powell, Ph. D..

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Join Jungian analyst and Keeper of the Stories, Muriel McMahon as we explore the archetype of the Wise Old Man.

Familiar to us as Gandalf in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series, Mr. Miyagi, in The Karate Kid (1984), and Dumbledore in the wildly popular Harry Potter series, this elusive and mysterious figure of the masculine as mentor and guide is often sought after and too often disappointed when he asks for nothing less then everything. We must learn how to answer his call, accept his challenges, suffer his tests, and finally withdraw our projections if we are to embrace the agency necessary to achieve our destiny. The third act is where we meet the old man. Will he be a ranting mad King Lear, or a measured and wise King Arthur?

For modern men and for modern women, in a contemporary culture of confusion that too often turns teachers into gurus and gurus into fallen saints, how do we meet the archetype of the wise old man and receive his blessing?

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LIVE JUNGIAN
PSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR
& Discussion

COME JOIN US

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SATURDAY

February 3 & 10, 2024

11am-1pm Pacific, 2-4pm Eastern

with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon

Muriel McMahon, M. Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst who leads an international weekly fairy tale seminar. Trained extensively in indigenous wisdom traditions, Muriel is a Keeper of Stories. She formerly served as a training analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Based in Canada, she has a busy online international praxis and has offered workshops and teachings in Russia, Zurich, Colombia, France and the United States. Muriel has a passion for story and the ways in which our wounds and our wonders are expressed in the enduring narrative of our lives.

www.murielmcmahon.com

david pressault, Iaap

David Pressault is a Jungian analyst with a strong background in the Arts. He has a Masters in dance from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and was a professional dancer and choreographer for 20 years. He developed a relationship to the unconscious through that art form. Today, he works in private practice and is a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

Tuesdays
Sept. 19, 26 & Oct. 3

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

Elisabeth Pomès, Iaap

Originally from France, Elisabeth Pomès is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada and online and a faculty member of Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She has Bachelor of Music (Université de Montréal), a Master of Music (University of Toronto), and a Master's Degree in Literature (Paris). She has given concert and opera performances on both sides of the Atlantic and is the developer of Performance Without Fear, a course in which she used her background in singing, yoga, Qigong, meditation and psychotherapy to help artists release tension both physically and psychologically. She belongs to the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA) and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Born in 1875 in Basel, Switerzland, C. G. Jung was a medical doctor and psychiatrist who, along with Freud, opened up our research into the nature of the human unconscious and founded psychotherapy. Their work led to the modern re-popularization of interest in dreams and archetypes.

Jung gave us the psychological type categories that led to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and coined the terms introvert and extravert.  He also coined the terms synchronicity (and his writing on that topic is the main reason for its continued popularity in our culture today) and collective unconscious – giving us a term for the deeper layer of the psyche that transcends the personal.

Jungian psychology is a larger on-going tradition rooted in psychotherapeutic approaches to the unconscious.

JUNGIAN FUNDAMENTALS SERIES:

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Introduction to Jungian Psychology

WEEKLY TOPICS:

1. Jung’s attitude to psychotherapy. The ego; the unconscious and its levels; the archetypes

2. The archetypes continued; archetypal motifs in myth and folklore

3. The archetype of liminality and initiation; archetypal structures in the psyche; the shadow; anima and animus

4. Complexes; puer-puella; the divine child; the trickster; the wise old man

5. The symbol; individuation; Jung on myth

6. The Self; Jung on religion; dreams and active imagination

7. Jung on alchemy

8. Jung’s typology; the Freud-Jung break

Tuesdays starting May 9

8 Weeks
4-6pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
+ Video recording of all sessions
will be available

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with author and Jungian Analyst
dr. lionel corbett

Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he teaches depth psychology.

Dr. Corbett is the author of numerous professional papers and six books: Psyche and the Sacred; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering, and Understanding Evil: A Guide for Psychotherapists and his latest: The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung.

He is the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories; Depth Psychology, Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold;  Jung and Aging.

“Only the symbolic life can express the daily need of the soul.” With this statement, Jung indicates that the practice of the symbolic life is essential to the experience of psychological and spiritual health. It is the means by which life is given focus, direction, and meaning.

But just what is meant by the concept of the symbolic life?

And, perhaps more importantly, how does one practice it?

In this course, we will discuss the core principles of the symbolic life and explore some concrete steps by which we can make these principles active in our lives. In our exploration we will be guided by the symbols of one of the Grimm brothers most enigmatic fairy tales which will become a kind of map that will direct us in our practice.

Along the way we will attempt to answer the question that Jung asks in his seminal essay, The Transcendent Function: “How does one come to terms in practice with the unconscious?”

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recommended Reading:

The Transcendent Function (in Collected Works, vol. 8)
by C.G. Jung

Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life
by Jason E. Smith

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Mondays
October 16th - Nov. 20th, 2023
6 Weeks

4-6 pm Pacific /
7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recordings of all classes will be made available

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Jason E. Smith

Jason E. Smith is an author and Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He was previously the president of the Training Board of the C. G. Jung Institute in Boston. He received his Master’s degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute and graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston with a diploma in Analytical Psychology.

Jason is the creator and host of the podcast, Digital Jung: The Symbolic Life in a Technological Age and the author of Religious But Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life (2020).

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“Humankind is masculine and feminine, not just man or woman. You, man, should not seek the feminine in women, but seek and recognize it in yourself, as you possess it from the beginning.”

– C.G. Jung [The Red Book]

Using quotes of C. G. Jung, we will help define and differentiate aspects of his theory of Anima and Animus to acquire a better understanding of these. We will look at their function and consider why they are so difficult to work with consciously.

We will relate Jung’s view of these contrasexual archetypes with our present time and the questions of gender and sexuality and formulate a better adapted way of considering these archetypes for our time. 

The technique of coming to terms with the animus is the same in principle as in the case of the anima; only here the woman must learn to criticize and hold her opinions at a distance; not in order to repress them but, by investigating their origins, to penetrate more deeply into the background, where she will then discover the primordial images, just as the man does in his dealings with the anima.

– C.G. Jung [CW 7, par. 336]

Saturday
November 11 & 18

Noon - 2pm Pacific / 3-5pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

david pressault, Iaap

David Pressault is a Jungian analyst with a strong background in the Arts. He has a Masters in dance from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and was a professional dancer and choreographer for 20 years. He developed a relationship to the unconscious through that art form. Today, he works in private practice and is a faculty member of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.

What is your unique visual language?

What kinds of flow feel right to you? What does your soul have to “say,” non-verbally? Reaching into a deep place inside of ourselves, what images, symbols, marks, colors and shapes speak to you?

What scares you and what stops you? What excites you and lights you up?

In this course, I will serve as a non-judgmental, supportive witness for you, as you learn to face your fears, becoming freer and more unencumbered by your self-expression. Connecting with others in the course, as you embark on this maiden voyage, will also support and encourage you along your way. You are welcome into this playful, experimental laboratory. There are no mistakes here!!

Each week, I will give art prompts that will allow you to begin your process. We will work individually during the week, coming back together online to share our process and receive support and feedback. There will be no critiques, only suggestions and positive encouragement.

I will give you a simple materials list. This course is for everyone – seasoned artists, as well as for those who feel desire to paint or draw, but have not yet found the courage to do so. Each person will have personal attention over the course of our weeks together.

The class will meet for 2 hours for 5 consecutive weeks.

A licensed art therapist in New Mexico since 1993, Nina is passionate about the transformative aspects of the creative process and its relationship with the archetypal imaginal mind.

TUESDAYS

Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29th and
Nov. 5th, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 6-8pm Central
/ 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be available
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THIS IS A SMALL GROUP CLASS
with LIMITED ENROLMENT

Nina S. Ross received her PhD. In the Psychology of Art from Union Institute and her MA in Art Education/Art Therapy from the University of New Mexico. Over the past 35 years, Nina has catalyzed art, art therapy, and archetypal psychology throughout her long career as both an artist and a therapist. A published author and painter, Nina has led numerous workshops, classes and retreats focused on art and psyche. She is currently in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

www.ninarosspsychotherapy.com

Intimacy with Images:
The Art of Archetypal Psychology

by Nina S. Ross, Ph.D.

New book is available here

“As an artist, I was struck by how powerful and accessible Nina’s use of dream imagery was in connecting it to my own work. It gave me insight as to how to more deeply commit my own inner impulses to my creative process.”

— Robin Johnstone, Artist

This book was written for all those who help others using the creative process. For artists, art therapists, arts educators and those who transform lives by using an archetypal lens.

— Dr. Nina S. Ross, PhD

Hafez is the most revered poet in Iran, a country renowned for its rich poetic heritage, including luminaries like Rumi, Ferdosi, Khayyam, and Nizami. His works transcend traditional literature, serving as a divination tool in Iranian culture akin to the Tarot and I Ching. Consulting Hafez's poetry, especially during significant times such as the New Year or critical life junctures, exemplifies a deep cultural fusion of poetry and psychology in Iran.

Hafez's poetry encapsulates the essence of synchronicity, a core concept in Depth Psychology. This principle highlights a profound connection between the reader's psyche and the universal truths expressed in his verses. The synchronistic experiences that arise from engaging with his poetry stem from the depth and universality of the symbols Hafez employs.

In the richly symbolic realm of his poetry, Hafez allows readers to project their unconscious onto his verses, providing a reflection of themselves more accurately than any mirror. This interaction facilitates deep insights and stimulates introspection, aligning perfectly with the process of individuation.

Depth Psychology offers an excellent framework to experience and interpret the rich symbolism in Hafez's poetry, illuminating how these symbols resonate with and reveal the reader's inner world.

In this seminar, we will delve into Hafez's life and his pivotal role in Iranian culture. We will explore the intricate link between his poetic universe and the depth psychological aspects of his verses, uncovering the profound ways his poetry resonates with and reveals the human psyche.

Thursday
October 10, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be made available to registered attendees

Hafez (c. 1315-1390) was a celebrated Persian Sufi poet, best known for his lyrical Ghazals expressing themes of love, spirituality, and critique of religious orthodoxy. His influence is profound in Persian literature and culture.

arash golnam, ph. D., Iaap

Arash Golnam, Ph.D., IAAP is a psychoanalyst trained at CG Jung Institute, Zurich.

A citizen of Iran and Switzerland, I now call Lima, Peru, my home. My journey seamlessly intertwines Persian poetry, Jungian psychoanalysis, and plant medicine; a matrix of cultures, traditions, and paradigms spanning continents and centuries.

This global perspective has enriched and deepened my understanding of the human psyche.

Thanks to my father, a dedicated Persian literature teacher, I was immersed in Persian poetry and mythology from a young age. This rich heritage of mystic poetry and mythology opened my first door to the soul, guiding me on a path that would eventually lead me to embrace the teachings of Carl Jung.

I am currently immersed in the study of Persian mystic poetry, delving into the psychological, symbolic, and archetypal layers of Hafez's poetry. I presented my preliminary findings in a thesis at the CG Jung Institute and am now in the process of adapting and expanding it for publication as a book.

Before discovering my passion in psychoanalysis, I took on diverse roles: university lecturer, scientist, consultant, and engineer. My academic journey led me to the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich after earning a Ph.D. in Systems Science from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a Master of Science in System Dynamics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

www.arash.ch

In addition to Jung's interest in dream interpretation, he was an avid astrologer who cast a birth chart for many of his patients. Contemporary astrologers influenced by Jung view the planets and zodiacal signs as symbols of the archetypes, the eternal patterns of transformation, which constantly appear in dreams. Contemplating astrology and dreams together can be a transformative spiritual practice. Dreams and astrological symbols both convey the guidance, the dynamism, and the intentions of the unconscious; both touch us emotionally, evoke pivotal memories, clarify our pressing tasks, and offer glimpses of our emergent potentials. This talk explores how planetary archetypes manifest in dreams, how dream symbols reflect the symbolism of natal and transiting planets, and how astrological symbols illuminate the deeper meaning of dreams.  Greg will describe the potent methodology of combining dream interpretation with reflection on astrological cycles and symbols. 

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JUNG, ASTROLOGY & DREAMS

WITH AUTHOR GREG BOGART, PH. D.

Friday
Dec. 8, 2023

7-9pm Pacific
+ Video recording will be made available

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Within the workshop’s time constraints, a few participants will have the opportunity to briefly share a dream, which we will look at through an astrological lens, in the light of natal chart symbols and current transits.

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Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist who has also practiced astrology professionally since 1981. His work unites dream studies, clinical research, humanistic astrology, attachment theory, Jungian depth psychology, Psychosynthesis, and dynamic group process work.
He is the author of Dreamwork and Self-Healing, and Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression, Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling and Astrology as a Therapeutic Art: Healing Human Relationships.  His other books include Astrology and Spiritual Awakening, Astrology’s Higher Octaves and In the Company of Sages. Greg is a lecturer in psychology at Sonoma State University. Previously he taught for 20 years in the Counseling Psychology, East-West Psychology, and Community Mental Health Programs at California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, Dominican University, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University).

www.dawnmountain.com & www.gregbogart.net

Week 1: Introduction to Tarot & the Shadow

• How the tarot acts as a mirror of the psyche

• The framework of the psyche and the relationship between ego & shadow

• Breaking down the alchemical process of individuation

• Illuminating the true archetypal nature of the Shadow

• What really is “shadow work”?—its dangers, misconceptions, and power

Week 2: Shadow in the Minor Arcana

• The suits and the imbalance of our cognitive functions

• Court cards and our complexes

• Active imagination & the Archetypal Tarot Techniques

• The Shadow Work spreads

Week 3: Shadow in the Major Arcana & Reversals

• The path of shadow in the major arcana from dissolution to redemption

• Reversals and the revelation of our hidden patterns

• Walk through & practice of the tarot shadow work process

Shadow Work has become one of the most popular methods of self-betterment over the last decade, but what that work really is and the power it actually holds for our lives is deeply misunderstood. While we talk about shadow work casually, the way we might talk about meditation or journaling, the truth is that working with the shadow, as Carl Jung originally defined it, is a deep and often frightening process of psychic investigation. It is something that can be both overwhelming and intimidating, and requires the right tools and foundation of information to practice safely.

Tarot is one of the best tools for real and meaningful shadow work. If we use it effectively, it can offer us a way to reflect on what we do not see about ourselves, integrate it, and transcend it. In Shadow Work & the Tarot: A Guided Workshop of Self-Reckoning with the Cards, we will explore exactly how to do this shadow work with the tarot, while also establishing the deeper purpose of this work in your lives and the collective. Come join this workshop to master this potent and transformative work with the shadow.

Live-Video Seminar

WEDNESDAYS
Jan. 17, 24 & 31, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video recording will be available

Mariana Louis, M.A.

Mariana Louis, M.A. is a professional tarot counselor, scholar, and creator of Persephone's Sister, a platform for psycho-spiritual education and guidance. After stumbling upon The Undiscovered Self in her grandfather's attic library, Mariana entered into Jungian analysis and began her academic study of analytical psychology. This led her to pursue a degree in Western Intellectual Traditions at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she focused on archetypal perspectives of occultism and transformations of the feminine principle. Mariana then integrated her scholarship into her developing expertise in the tarot and formulated an approach she calls Archetypal Tarot. She teaches this approach, which marries Jungian concepts with the symbolic depth of the tarot, in the well-received Archetypal Tarot School. Mariana also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Hunter College, and is a published lyricist and poet. Learn more about Mariana at: https://persephonessister.com/

Suggested Reading:

Fairy Tale Bluebeard (several versions are available)

Irene Claremont de Castillejo’s Knowing Woman, especially the chapter on the Animus.

Tuesdays
Feb 20, 27 and March 5, 2024

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern

+ Video recording will be available

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Format: Interactive with a general discussion of the concepts and a detailed analysis of the Fairy Tale Bluebeard.

Elisabeth Pomès, Iaap

Originally from France, Elisabeth Pomès is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Toronto, Canada and online and a faculty member of Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts. She has Bachelor of Music (Université de Montréal), a Master of Music (University of Toronto), and a Master's Degree in Literature (Paris). She has given concert and opera performances on both sides of the Atlantic and is the developer of Performance Without Fear, a course in which she used her background in singing, yoga, Qigong, meditation and psychotherapy to help artists release tension both physically and psychologically. She belongs to the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts (OAJA) and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).