The exploration of the psyche in non-ordinary states of consciousness provides access to powerful transformative experiences that can lead us toward the realization of a deeper identity while also yielding extraordinary insights into the ultimate nature of reality. The journey towards psychological wholeness, however, can be disorienting and challenging; it exposes us to the whole range of human experience, from the sublime heights of spiritual illumination to the dark depths of the psyche. How, then, can we better predict what experiences we will encounter during specific periods of our inner journeys? In this book, Renn Butler explains how to use archetypal astrology as a guide to the transpersonal journey. Described by Stanislav Grof as "the Rosetta Stone of consciousness research," archetypal astrology is based on a correspondence between planetary alignments and archetypal patterns in human experience.
Here, by drawing on the work of Grof and Richard Tarnas, Butler systematically describes the archetypal themes and qualities associated with each of the major planetary combinations studied in astrology and considers how these themes might manifest and be supported in deep psychological self-exploration. Based on over thirty years of research, Pathways to Wholeness is an indispensable reference book for explorers of the inner worlds. Pathways to Wholeness: explores the intersection between Stanislav Grof's transpersonal psychology and Richard Tarnas' archetypal astrology describes the nature of the planetary archetypes in astrology explores the archetypal meaning of all the main planetary combinations as they manifest in everyday life, in perinatal psychology, and in transpersonal experiences provides many illuminating case studies and vignettes is illustrated with evocative mandala drawings depicting the experiences of journeyers in non-ordinary states