ABSTRACT

One of the most readily identifiable planetary personae whom C. G. Jung describes in detail in Liber Novus is called 'The Red One'. In his later explorations into alchemy, Jung discovered and quoted many descriptions of the dangerous Martial spirit and its potential transformation. In the course of Jung's encounter with him, The Red One alters, as does Jung's 'I'. This mutual transformation highlights Jung's unique understanding of planetary symbols as psychic dimensions of life: subjective dynamisms and archetypal patterns that, although universal, can nevertheless undergo change through the intervention of human consciousness, which is it changed in the process. In the narrative, Jung is in high mountains, accompanied by a 'little brown man'. He hears Siegfried's horn sounding in the distance and, armed with guns Jung and the brown man hide beside a narrow, rocky path until Siegfried appears in a chariot made of the bones of the dead.