Carl Jung's Red Book + Astrology – Details, episodes & analysis

Satya Doyle Byock, co-host of this podcast, has a new book out with Random House, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood. In this Bonus episode, Satya introduces the book to listeners and reads a short excerpt from Chapter 2. 

Quarterlife is the book that Satya needed in her 20s and that she's been looking for since for her clients. As a psychotherapist, Satya has focused on the stage of early adulthood—what she calls Quarterlife—and the need for a Jungian lens for that population. 

Learn More:

Book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Visit: satyabyock.com

In this final episode of our journey, Satya begins by reading Jung’s Epilogue to the Red Book from 1959. 

Satya and Carol discuss Scrutinies, which Sonu Shamdasani considers the third book of "The Red Book." They talk about the recent synchronistic publication of "The Black Books." Satya breaks down the history of Scrutinies and The Seven Sermons of the Dead.

Satya explores Richard Wilhelm and the Secret of the Golden Flower, and Jung's emerging understanding of Alchemy.

Carol shares the horoscope from this time and the shift from the 12th house to the 1st house astrologically. Jung is beginning to translate this journey into a psychology, rather than a religion. Carol and Satya read through Jung’s “Seven Sermons of the Dead” from 1916 and the strange experiences in Jung’s home, in which the Christian dead visit Jung’s home. They explore how Philemon has changed since “The Magician”. Satya concludes by returning to the beginning.

Chapter: “Scrutinies.” THE END!

Astrological Charts:

• Scrutinies - Dark Crowd / Worm

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded October 25, 2020 

Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris enter a series of more playful Red Book chapters, beginning with "Divine Folly" in which Jung departs from his own religiosity to express the critical importance of living one's own existence. Jung picks up a copy of "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis and starts a dialogue with the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Carol illuminates the astrology of January 14th, 1914 and the Grand Cardinal Cross in Jung's horoscope. Ann Carroll explores Western Civilization's wrestling with the 2,000 year-old Christian narrative. Satya defines courage as vulnerability and inner work.

Chapter: “Divine Folly”

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded August 9, 2020

Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris dive into The Red Book's most visceral chapter in which Jung eats the liver of a murdered girl. Carol discusses the role of the liver in Chinese Medicine, Jung's natal chart, astrology of this chapter, & the science fiction in world-making. Satya discusses animal embodiment, humanity's relation to the guilt of existence, the image of and the reclamation of evil. Ann Carrol translates the German word for “mensch.”

Chapter: “The Sacrificial Murder”

Astrological Charts:

Jung Hell, The Sacrificial Murder

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded July 26, 2020

While Jung enters "Hell" and experiences torture, Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris reflect on the federal occupation of their hometown, Portland, OR. Carol, Satya, and Ann Carroll explore the symbolism of The Eye. Carol discusses narrative time, collective trauma, the underworld & WWII. Satya explores projection, shadow & redemption, and the typology of Introverted Sensation. Q&A opens up topics such as the myth of Athena, Medusa, and the symbolism of masks.

Chapter: “Hell”

Astrological Charts:

• Jung, Second Night Hell

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded July 19, 2020

In this episode Jung opens his Egg. Carol Ferris discusses duality, Kathleen Raine, William Blake and James Hillman. Satya Doyle Byock shares a Gilgamesh Dream and explores the animus / anima binary. A guest, Leonora, illuminates the images in this chapter. Ann Carroll translates the German word for “evil” and the original meaning of "sin.” Q&A, features anti-racist dream-work, the intersection of the material and the quantum, and a heart-felt story of recently departed Swan.

Chapters: “Incantations” & “The Opening of the Egg"

Astrological Charts:

Jung, Opening of the Egg 2

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded June 28, 2020

Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris explore "where healing comes from." Satya introduces depth psychological concepts through Audre Lorde's "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "Uses of the Erotic." Carol reads from the epic of Gilgamesh, the work of Ursula K. le Guin, and reflects on ancestry & love in the work of mythologist Kwame Scruggs. Q&A is alive with the topics "political bypass", psychic-reality, the astrological return to care, and forgiveness in the works of Hannah Arendt.

Chapter: “Second Day”

Astrological Charts:

• Jung, Opening of the Egg

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded June 28, 2020

Carol Ferris and Satya Doyle Byock explore Jung's deep contemplation on the potential harm of scientific thinking and the power of fantasy through the encounter with Izdubar. "The real is what works," Jung says. This chapter has a relationship to Gilgamesh and the pursuit of immortality. Carol begins this week's exploration discussing eclipses and times of abundance. Jung begins to pursue the meaning of magic and fantasy. Izdubar and Jung dialogue about Truth and where Truth is found in various forms.

Chapter: "First Day"

Astrological Charts:

• Jung, Second Day Izdubar

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded June 21, 2020 (Father's Day)

Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris explore the darkness of Hell, Pluto, and Death through Jung's journey. Carol discusses the astrology and archetypal nature of Pluto. Satya explores the inherent mess of existence. Carol dives into the horoscope of the Birth of America in 1776 and Pluto's role. Other topics include Buckminster Fuller's "trim tab", Nietzsche, the Divine Mother, Joy, and the dualities of vice & virtue, hot & cold, good & evil, and what it means collectively for the return of the Feminine. 

Chapters: "Death" & "The Remains of Earlier Temples"

Astrological Charts:

• Jung, First Day Izdubar

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recorded June 14, 2020

Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris explore Jungian Psychology and what it means to live one's myth, one's animal life, and follow one's own calling. Satya and Carol discuss introverted life and action versus extroverted life as Jung speaks with a monk he encounters living alone in the desert for ten years. Additional topics include the difference between science and soul, the greening of the desert, and the image of the inverted tree.

Chapters: "The Anchorite" & "Dies II"

Learn More:

• Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com
• Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com
• Satya: SatyaByock.com
• Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Astrological Charts:

• Jung, Red Book Death, Remains of Temples

Recorded on June 7, 2020