10. Development of Psychological Astrology in 20th Century

From the early 1960(s), the modern world changed their attitude towards traditional Astrology. The progressive thinkers of Charles Carter and Dane Rhudiar proposed reformulation of astrology, delinking the traditional fatalist to a moralist. Aiming at modernization, modern astrologers absorbed the disciplines of psycho-analysis and humanistic psychology with more sophistication and interpretations. From the last three decades, astrology became more accessible to the commons as part of spiritual revolution.^[1]

The ideas of C.G.Jung became prominent due to Synchronization of Eastern and Western astrological visions. The amalgamation of spiritual and cultural aspects exposed newer dimensions to investigate the modern astrological thoughts. The humanistic and transpersonal approaches promoted the Astrology from prediction to character analysis.

Each planet represents different phases of life with significant psychological aspects of the individual traits:—

[Table 15.2 Psychological Character of Planets]

SLN	Planets	Psychology of self	Gender	Nature	Portfolio	Key Word
1	Sun	I am	Masculine	Static	King	Integrate
2	Moon	I feel	Feminine	Movable	Queen	React to
3	Mars	I act	Masculine	Ferocious	Commander	Assert
4	Mercury	I think	Neutral	Mixed	Prince	Communicate
5	Jupiter	I grow	Masculine	Mild	Minister	I expand
6	Venus	I love	Feminine	Crooked	Minister	Harmonize
7	Saturn	I achieve.	Neutral	Hasty	Servant	I control

The textual narrations supported the moderns to analyze the individual character instead of evaluating the dynamics of the joint family and its connections. The new stream explores the interconnection between the psyche and cosmos whereas the archetypal cosmology does not cover human psychology. The modern dichotomy targets with subjective human self and objective cosmos. Psychological Astrology becomes more relevant in terms of intra-psychic factors, generalizing the unity between the psyche and cosmos similar to microcosm and macrocosm. The modern psychological outlook calls for self-centered research by side-tracking the comprehensive evaluations of traditional astrology. But the post-modern Astrologers realized the need of modernity and developed psychoanalysis of life incidents in a pragmatic way. The Asian Countries continues fair practices of Vedic rituals for universal well-being supported by Astrology. Vedic Karma in Vedic Jyotisha comprehensively analyzes the concurrent environment of the man and his karmic bondage. As the Indian Astrology keeps the rounded value of Karma as Dharma to uplift the soul for eternal salvation, it will go on further with wellness and justice as life experience.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Ferrer, Jorge (2002); A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality; State University of New York Press, Albany.