ABSTRACT
Based on his published statements, his letters, and the materials in his private archives, the evidence of Jung’s profound and lasting commitment to astrology is inarguable. When Jung’s involvement with astrology is acknowledged, the ways in which it is treated can be equally problematic. Jung’s painful conflict between scientia and ars, poignantly described in Liber Novus in his encounter with the giant Izdubar, was not unique to him. It has existed since ancient times, evidenced in the philosophical debates between Platonists, Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics, even when astrology was ‘mainstream’ and an integral part of the religious and philosophical currents of the cultures of the time. The 'Spirit of This Time', as it gradually reveals itself in the first decades of the twenty-first century, seems to exhibit a preference for avoiding those ‘big’ questions that preoccupied Jung throughout his life.
