What is Astrology?

Astrology, as a psychological language and diagnostic tool, is a guide for the wholeness and transformation of the personality. Planets should be seen not as transmitters of physical influences, but as symbols of human functions. Every birth chart is unique; each element is part of an organic whole. Here, events are not isolated situations with fortunate or unfortunate effects. They are manifestations appropriate to the evolutionary stage of developmental cycles. Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who recognized the great potential of astrology in exploring the depths of the human psyche, regarded the zodiac signs and planets as archetypal symbols of the collective unconscious.

An archetype is both subjective and objective; it shapes matter as well as the mind. The task of the birth chart is to build a bridge between inner processes and the external events that reflect these processes. The meaningful parallelism between external events that arise simultaneously with inner subjective states is called synchronicity. Therefore, the psychological structure of a person about to be born will parallel the positions of the planets at that moment. The human psyche reflects universal consciousness; indeed, it is embedded within it. The psyche is a dynamic union of opposing forces held in balance. The birth chart, like the psyche, is not merely the product of external forces. It has a natural tendency toward wholeness.

Thus, astrology can be seen as a tool that aids the psyche’s process of self-realization.