Pathways to Wholeness: Archetypal Astrology and the Transpersonal Journey

Both of these drives—expansion and integration—entail growth out into the world, but in different ways. Expansion makes something bigger by incorporating the surrounding area into itself. The process of integration, on the other hand, consists of recognizing a commonality with the surrounding area and adopting a new identity that includes both it a

People who adhere to the old materialistic, Newtonian understanding of the world may be pragmatic in their everyday lives, but their inner experience will over time become dry, barren and dissatisfying, and without higher meaning. In order to be truly healthy—embodying what Grof calls “higher sanity”—people need to learn to be comfortable in both w

astrologers recognize that the planets do not cause events—rather, they are only physical reflections or mirrors of higher cosmic principles that inform both the physical universe and our experience of it.

During my own three decades of research with workshops, consultations and personal experience, I have come to believe that archetypal astrology and holotropic exploration have the potential to revolutionize humanity's relationship with its deeper nature and help us to rediscover a more harmonious relationship with each other, the natural world, and

During transits of Neptune, people often feel a heightened yearning to connect with the divine source. The current position of Neptune in alignment with the position of Neptune in a person's birth chart is referred to as a Neptune-Neptune transit. The most important of these are the sextile (in the mid-twenties), the square (early forties), the tri

In archetypal astrology, we thus refer to “archetypal causation” rather than “planetary causation.” The planets themselves are not seen as causing our experiences—they are only symbols or representations of timeless archetypal forces that ultimately transcend the physical realm.

People's birth charts record the “cosmic state” of the archetypes at the moment of their birth, reflecting patterns of experience that will unfold and express themselves in many different forms throughout their lifetimes.

Individuals engaged in deep self-exploration under the influence of BPM IV experience a cluster of themes centered around breakthrough and transcendence. The volcanic arousal and suffering of the previous stage of BPM III eventually reach the extreme limit, then culminate in a sense of total failure on every imaginable level—physically, emotionally

Of course, what usually happens is that the intense perinatal emotions that would ideally be faced in a condensed form during a single holotropic session will, in everyday life, be spread out and experienced in a diluted way over the course of weeks, months, or years. Instead of experiencing the BPM II feelings of compression, entrapment, and meani