CHIRON MUSINGS 7

Let’s have a look at Carl Yung who lived from 1875 to 1961. He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist and known for founding analytical psychology. He initially worked with Sigmund Freud but then split from him so he could develop his own theories. Key concepts in Jungian psychology include the collective consciousness so a shared reservoir of memories and experiences across generations, archetypes being universal symbols and themes that reflect shared human experiences and individuation being the process of self-actualisation and differentiation of the self from both conscious and unconscious elements. His work has significantly influenced various fields, including psychiatry, literature and the study of religion. I will discuss some topics that Jung presented which resonated to me post my Chiron return. Carl had an incarnation cross of the Unexpected, it was realising that life was unexpected and his teachings would have been orientated around how to deal effectively with that. He would have recognised life occurs in cycles and he would have found stability through movement. Understanding that anything that is real and of value, has to end. Life is of value because there is death, the ultimate cycle, because if life was infinite, it would carry no value for us.  He had a defined emotional Solar Plexus as well, like Alan, so he very much could relate to fluctuating emotions of the human condition. How to deal with the nature of desire, passion and need that are very much adrenalised pressures of what it is to be human. Desire was something that consistent in him so managing and recognising that was part of his emotional wave. Carl’s wave was Collective where he had a desire to share his understanding of his theoretical concepts with the world. This is the birth of the Human Experiential Way, which is abstract. This means going through an experience and not being able to make sense of it during, only at the end of the experience. The conclusion of that experience you will always meet the fates, that is life determining the outcome, whether you perceive it to be good or bad is another story. Human Design demands experience as evidence of its validity, not just believing in it. Carl would have understood the nature of crisis and the importance of the nature of your shadow and the necessity of integrating it, not demonising it. He carried a level of intuition that he would have been able to listen to others and know in the moment whether something one said would resonate to his own experience, even in which way he could help a client depending on what they said. A level of intuition that would have been able to determine his correct behaviour in order to ensure his survival. He would have also been able to gauge the feeling he had when in the presence of a specific other and what they truly needed to hear. He would have understood that a love for life and himself is the only way to determine the correct fixed direction he needs to follow. Having a defined identity (G centre, yellow diamond), Jung clearly understood the difference between the true-Self and the not-self and that will be a topic for another day. He would have understood the aspect of family dynamics of how we are byproducts of parental conditioning for good and for bad. That pressure can be placed upon us to plan for the future as a priority not considering aspects of our own individuality. He would have the potential to be a natural leader of his networks where he could influence others with his teachings. The truth is knowing that as a leader you do not need to recruit followers but simply lead by example and others will follow.  He had a hermit personality, so he was a natural in what we did, he simply responded to a call to do the work that he did, the correct opportunity. This is a gift of the 2nd line to be able to do things and not necessarily go through the formal pathways in order to be accredited, if they existed then. He just was able to do what he did and not necessarily explain how he knew, he just knew.