Archetypal Astrology and the Evolution of Consciousness: from Anima Mundi to the Great Turning

Traditional astrology looked to the fully determined and eternally recurring cycles of the planets (and stars) for insight into the meaning of terrestrial events. Contemporary archetypal astrology, for its part, sets these cycles within a larger evolutionary context, which, if not strictly linear, can nevertheless be characterized by a singular, unrepeatable, and teleologically guided trajectory. Grounded in the paradigmatic research of Richard Tarnas, and drawing as well from his own integration of Hegel,