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The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. 1

Book by Liz Greene · 3 quotes · Astrología

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“This is called the tabula rasa theory—the notion that how other people treated you in early life gives rise to certain patterns or “scripts” which then determine your self-image and your expectations of what will happen to you later in life. (...) Now psychological astrology views all this slightly differently. Rather than just being born a blank slate and having things done to you which then lead you to form opinions about life and yourself, psychological astrology believes that you are already born with an innate predisposition which expects certain things to happen.”

“Psychological astrology has, like the old Roman god Janus, a double face. It can provide a surgical scalpel which cuts through to the underlying motives, complexes, and family inheritance which lie behind the manifest problems and difficulties which the individual faces; and it can also provide a lens through which can be viewed the teleology and purpose of our conflicts in context of the overall meaning of the individual's journey.”

“An archetype can be defined as a mental representation of an instinct. (...) We are already born with an image of mother, an image of that archetype; and we are already born with an image of father, an image of birth, an image of growth, an image of death, etc. But different people have slightly different images of these archetypal phenomena.”