anyan25 wrote
I don't buy into it but i fit my description almost perfectly. Something interesting is that the word "disaster" comes from the Hellenic word "-astria" meaning stars, so if something is a disaster it means the stars are out of alignment
fjones wrote
Similar to archetypes in Jungian psychoanalysis: metaphors, conditioned by the "times"; stories to which one does or doesn't relate; shorthand for complex psychodynamics; myth-based and therefore thousands of years old; always in danger of falling into interpretosis or over-interpretation; John Cage used astrology to limit his ego-choices as a chance-method, much like his compositions; literary as opposed to scientific; Dom DeLillo's book about Oswald = "Libra"; themes to watch out for in oneself - Oedipus, hero, Mars, co-dependency, Hera, Odysseus, etc.; said to compose a "collective unconscious, but obviously cultural, as chinese astrology is different from the middle eastern version, rarely derogatory towards difference (family, tribal, religious, national), impersonal descriptive device, used by royalty...
anyan25 wrote
Thoughts on MBTI? Although being based in jungian theory it seems more empirical to me
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