Why astromythology

In a nutshell

All cultures in the world have their myths, and there is no doubt that Asian myths have a symbolic meaning for people of Asian origin. The same is true for African or Native American myths. It is not easy to make a European understand the deeper meaning of Asian mythology and vice versa, because we are borrowed from the history of our geographical region in a transgenerational way.

Myths are alive and carry symbolic meaning that touches the collective unconscious of different cultures around the world.

In our approach to transpersonal astrology, astromythology, we are interested in Greek myths, which are close to our European origins. Greek mythology is more directly familiar to us and will allow us to experience a similarity in opening up to the deeper meanings of ourselves.

However, we think that myths are a roundabout way and that there are more direct ways of knowing ourselves, such as meditation, yoga, tantra, qi gong, tai chi, etc. Yet human confusion and doubt drive us to seek understanding, and not all are necessarily symbiotic with meditation. Indeed, myths allow us to experience and discover an intimate resemblance to the various mythological heroes, and to assimilate a deep source of teaching that most often shows us the pitfalls to be avoided in the myth to which we are connected. Finally, nothing in this blog claims to be a truth, but rather a proposition that makes sense from the moment we integrate the analogy between our life, the myth(s) and the different configurations of our birth cards in relation to these myths and our life experiences.

We all carry one or more myths within us.

Indeed, the relationship between mythology, astrology and the collective and individual unconscious allows us to gain an understanding through the study of our birth chart. The different configurations between the planets in aspect, the signs and the astrological houses, the position of the black moon, relate to the different myths and become a path to self-knowledge.

Let us try to briefly describe the meaning of the collective unconscious which, in the most common interpretations, tells us about the associations of ideas, feelings and emotions of a group, of a society, which are in the collective unconscious as influential effects of the reciprocity of the group and/or the society and of which we are unconscious. This interpretation of the collective unconscious, however, seems reductive. Although the issue is controversial, we would say that for us the collective unconscious links the human soul and the various archetypes throughout human history and takes on an initiatory significance in individuals both within and outside society as they know it. However, for this to become initiatory, it is necessary to understand the symbolic meaning of the link between the archetypes and the soul, as described in the stories, legends and myths of our history and beyond.

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