A personal reflection on how astrology and depth psychology meet within the shared language of symbolism, offering new ways to understand psyche, relationship, and meaning.

Different landscapes in our sense of the world also speak to us differently, and here it serves us to consider the aspect of ‘North’ in Phillips’s work. Made on and of the chalklands of England’s South Downs, then nurtured and moulded in art school in South Wales (where his dissertation for his degree in Fine Art provides us with another clue -  ‘Remedy in the Affliction: Beginning with the Wound’) the intervening years have slowly led the artist Northwards.

What struck me most during the workshop, and what I have since revisited in reading his work, is Romanyshyn’s ability to remain faithful to both scholarship and soul. He does not reduce myth to symbol, or psychology to a set of tools or techniques. Instead, he invites us into a relationship with psyche, with image, with story.

What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.

Imagination is the ground of reality. What a treasure trove this book is. "It must be understood that Imagination in the poetic,...

Important writing on imagination, by Gary Lachman . This book describes the various ways in which imagination has been (mis)understood,...

I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...

An exploration of material becoming living presence in the art object. Jungian Analyst Warren Colman explores the formation of Archetypes as derived from human engagement with their social and material environment. This is a phenomenological approach which sees psychic life as emergent from embodied action in the world, in contrast to a classical Jungian perspective which would view archetypes as pre-existent, either 'inborn' biologically, or metaphysically a priori . As I

This is the opening sentence of Thomas Moore's prologue. I thought that this book would make a good first post as I begin to describe some of the influences and inspirations for my work. This copy has been with me for the best part of twenty years, and it was one of the first 'psychology' books I owned. It is a little rough around the edges now, but I think Hillman would approve. He valued evidence of age, lines on a face, signs that life has been lived. I remember not having

Carl Jung’s reflections from Bollingen reveal a psyche that is not confined to the individual but flows through nature, ancestry, and the deep roots of life. This expanded post explores Jung’s vision of the interconnectedness of self, soul, and the living world.

The First Encounter I discovered the work of Carl Jung during my mid-late teens, when I plucked this text from a shelf in a local book shop. Having no idea at the time who this man was, or about psychoanalysis, I imagine I was attracted by the title. A Timely Passage in a Culture of Speed I find this following passage fascinating today, in a world where we must all be ever quicker to 'know'. Alluding to a way of working that seeks not to impinge upon the patient/client/analys

"Images arise from the fountainhead of human life--the heart, the solar centre from ancient memories in the blood, and from the polarity and fire of the spirit." Cecil Collins is an artist I have a great appreciation for. This book documents the thoughts and reflections of many of those who knew him, whether as a collector, curator, student of his unique teaching methods, or through other connections. "The purpose of Art is to worship and praise life through wonder and magic.