Carl Jung's Red Book + Astrology
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Exploring Carl Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book, chapter-by-chapter. In each episode, Salome Institute director, Satya Doyle Byock, and Astrologer Carol Ferris discuss C.G. Jung’s vast work while reflecting on Jungian psychology and history, the astrology of Jung's time and ours, and the political, social, feminist, and anti-racist relevance of this work today.
C.G. Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. It was this descent, laboriously documented in a large red leather book that has come to be known as "The Red Book" that underlies all of Analytical Psychology, also known as Jungian Psychology.
You do not need to be steeped in Jungian Psychology or in astrology to enjoy this Jungian Podcast. Satya & Carol make this work socially and personally relevant for people of all backgrounds, even those with little experience with this material.
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Bonus - Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
July 18, 2022 01:54 - 8 minutes - 14.9 MBSatya 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 popula...
Coming soon: Satya & Carol on Jung's Black Books
December 23, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this short epilogue to the Red Book podcast, psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock and Astrologer Carol Ferris reflect on their journey through Jung's Red Book one month later. After nearly 30 weeks after the unexpected beginning of Covid social distancing, they share the joy in what unfolded and the ability to dive-in to the journey of Individuation and the messy process of becoming human alongside so many others. They also announce their plans to dive-into Jung's newly published Black Bo...
Jung's Epilogue, Scrutinies, and the Seven Sermons of the Dead - Ep. 28
December 01, 2020 10:30 - 1 hour - 181 MBIn 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 t...
Ep. 28 - Jung's Epilogue, Scrutinies, and the Seven Sermons of the Dead
December 01, 2020 10:30 - 1 hour - 181 MBIn this final episode of our journey, Satya begins by reading Jung’s Epilogue to the Red Book from 1959. Satya and Carol discuss Scrutinies, what 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 th...
Toni Wolff, The Black Books, and The Magician - Ep 27
December 01, 2020 10:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBAs The Red Book nears conclusion, Satya & Carol explore the second half of "The Magician." Satya reflects on the origins of this podcast and its synchronistic ending with the release of The Black Books. Carol reflects on the beginnings of Jung's journey with the horoscope of October 13th, 1913, highlighting the explosive energy of Jupiter in both our time and Jung's. Carol explores the image of the serpent as woman and looks to Michelangelo's Adam, Eve and The Serpent in the Sistine Chape...
Ep 27 - Toni Wolff, The Black Books, and The Magician
December 01, 2020 10:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBAs The Red Book nears conclusion, Satya & Carol explore the second half of "The Magician." Satya reflects on the origins of this podcast and its synchronistic ending with the release of The Black Books. Carol reflects on the beginnings of Jung's journey with the horoscope of October 13th, 1913, highlighting the explosive energy of Jupiter in both our time and Jung's. Carol explores the image of the serpent as woman and looks to Michelangelo's Adam, Eve and The Serpent in the Sistine Chapel...
Together like Philemon and Baucis in the Age of Aquarius - Ep. 26
October 31, 2020 18:30 - 1 hour - 151 MBCarol Ferris read’s from "the Magician" and illuminates the intersection of healing, time, and space, weaving in the mythology of Philemon and Baucis as she and Satya explore the union of opposites with Philemon and Baucis, and Elijah and Salome. Satya tracks the feminine in Jung’s "Red Book" as Baucis stands in the kitchen. Carol discusses the coming into form of the yin yang pair of opposites. Jung asks where does one go to learn magic? Carol incorporates the Six Conformations of Chinese M...
Nothing Matches the Torment of One’s Own Way - Ep. 25
October 31, 2020 18:10 - 1 hour - 170 MBThis episode follows the news of the White House super spreader event and the president and white house staffers testing positive for COVID-19. As Jung arrives at the "portal of a great mystery" our hosts explore the various definitions of magic in Jung's Red Book, Satya speaks to Jung’s notion of individuation, the need to relinquish will power in favor of psyche, and the pain of going one’s own way. Ann Carroll speaks to Nietzsche, Will to Power, and Jung’s wrestling with Nietzsche’s “fai...
Carl Jung and Rilke on the Future and Fate - Ep. 24
October 31, 2020 17:30 - 1 hour - 141 MBIn this episode, Carl Jung is in conversation with his Soul about the gift of magic. Satya Doyle Byock reflects on the uncanny similarity between Jung and Rilke on fate and future, she explores the meaning of Shuddering and Jung’s journey into embodiment through the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Youth Who Goes off in Search of Fear.” Carol Ferris explores Jung's many paintings in this section, hexagram 38 of the I Ching, the symbolism of snake bites, the Greek Moirai, Anthropos, and astrologer Liz...
Prophecy & The Coming New Religion - Ep. 23
October 06, 2020 18:30 - 1 hour - 149 MBSatya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris read this chapter in call and response fashion. Carol discusses the similarity of our time to Jung’s and reads from Paul Shepard's "Nature and Madness." Both accompany Jung into the complexities of maturation and psychological adulthood. Satya discusses her manuscript on Quarterlife, and Jungian psychology for younger adults. She also reads Max Zeller’s dream of the 600-year-coming religion and Jung's thoughts. Chapter: "The Three Prophecies" Learn More:...
Parsifal Got Out of the Wasteland by Uniting Left and Right - Ep. 22
October 06, 2020 18:20 - 1 hour - 167 MBSatya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris discuss the Union of the Opposites within Jungian Psychology. Carol explores Parsifal and the Wasteland at length and how it relates to Jung’s journey. Ann Carroll explores the gender translation in this chapter. The image of Atmaviktu shows up, a many-armed dragon creature and symbol of God. Carol discusses the 12th house and Jupiter. Q&A explores racism, projection, and cleansing with dirt. Chapter: "Nox Quarta" Learn More: Salome Institute: SalomeIns...
Madness, Neptune, Nietzsche & The Collective Unconscious - Ep. 21
October 06, 2020 18:10 - 59 minutes - 137 MBSatya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris discuss the union of the opposites within Jungian Psychology. Carol explores Parsifal and the Wasteland at length and how it relates to Jung's journey. Ann Carroll explores the way gender is translated in this chapter. The image of Atmaviktu shows up, a many-armed dragon creature and symbol of God. Carol discusses the 12th house and Jupiter. Q&A explores racism, projection, and cleansing with dirt. Chapter: "Nox Tertia" Learn More: Salome Institute: S...
The Serpentine Path to Wholeness - Ep 20
October 06, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBSatya & Carol discuss C.G. Jung's "Red Book" and its social relevance for our times. In this episode, Jung enters through the left door and deconstructs man’s prejudice toward animals. Satya discusses the “serpentine path to wholeness" and how to reclaim one's embodied self from the projection onto animals. Carol reminds us the Zodiac is not an idle abstraction. Ann Carroll illuminates the image of the cook through Erich Neumann’s "The Great Mother." Chapter: “Nox Secunda” Astrological ...
The Imitation of Christ, Nietzsche, and Jung - Ep 19
September 17, 2020 21:30 - 1 hour - 171 MBSatya 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 Civiliza...
Murder, Blood, Guilt: Jung Receives The Sacrament - Ep 18
September 17, 2020 20:45 - 1 hour - 189 MBSatya 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” Astrolo...
The Torture of the Maiden & The Eye of the Evil One - Ep 17
September 17, 2020 19:45 - 1 hour - 163 MBWhile 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” Astrologic...
Jung Finds His Inner Mother & Incubates an Egg - Ep 16
September 17, 2020 19:35 - 1 hour - 173 MBIn 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: “I...
For Izdubar, Fantasy is the Other Reality - Ep 15
September 10, 2020 21:35 - 1 hour - 165 MBSatya 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: “Se...
Science Has Taken the Capacity of Belief - Ep. 14
September 10, 2020 21:30 - 1 hour - 177 MBCarol 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 vari...
Death, Hell, Pluto & the Mess of Existence - Ep. 13
September 10, 2020 21:20 - 1 hour - 138 MBSatya 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 t...
The Anchorite, Paganism, and Living One's Myth - Ep. 12
September 10, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour - 153 MBSatya 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: S...
George Floyd, Baldwin, Jung & Black Lives Matter - Ep 11
August 31, 2020 15:15 - 55 minutes - 127 MBHosts Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris step away from the chronology of The Red Book to discuss the grief and rage surrounding George Floyd's death and police brutality. In solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the nightly protests in Minneapolis at the time, Satya explores the projection of white people onto Black citizens through James Baldwin’s Letter from a Region in My Mind and Jung’s The Undiscovered Self. Carol explores Venus retrograde and the alchemy of hard-won love. Chapte...
Carl Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous & The Shadow - Ep. 10
August 31, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung encounters his shadow in "The Lowly." Satya Doyle Byock introduces Jung’s ideas on the shadow and individuation. Carol Ferris illuminates the horoscope of this night, December 29th, 1913 and discusses the lowly depths of the ocean. Ann Carroll discusses alcoholism, addiction and homelessness and C.G. Jung’s contribution to the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, AA. Chapters: “One of th...
How Jung Can Heal the Patriarchy - Ep. 9
August 31, 2020 14:45 - 1 hour - 158 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book, Carol Ferris and Satya Doyle Byock continue to explore how Jung confronts his own toxic masculinity and heals the discarded feminine soul. Jung contemplates gender, "manliness, the contra-sexual soul of Men and Women, and psychological androgyny. Carol Ferris discusses the complexities of relational life and the horoscopes Toni Wolff, Emma & Carl Jung. Satya reads about "projective identification" from Jung’s Collected Works No. 7, Ursula K Le ...
Tootsie & The Experience of Being Female - Ep. 8
August 25, 2020 20:30 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode, C.G. Jung's visions take him to “The Castle in the Forest.” Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris explore the psychological experience of patriarchy and the dismissal of the feminine, Sydney Pollock’s Tootsie, Jung dressing in drag, Edward Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche, and Dante's Inferno. They embark on an impassioned discussion on the nature of projection. Carol reviews the feminine planet, Venus, and the masculine planet, Mars in Jung’s natal chart. Ann Carroll translates t...
Encountering the Devil as Joy - Ep. 7
August 25, 2020 20:15 - 1 hour - 172 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung encounters his devil in “The Red One.” Our hosts Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris reintroduce themselves and their background with the Red Book. Carol jumps into I Ching reading Hexagram #5 and the topics of waiting, suffering, pleasure and fantasy, while Satya touches on racism and reads Rumi’s The Guest House. Carol reads Ursula K. Le Guin and Satya introduces Ann Carroll as resident...
The Union of Opposites & The Value of Evil - Ep. 6
August 25, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 173 MBSatya Doyle Byock breaks-down the Christian history of the young Salome and updates it with a feminist lens. Carol Ferris illuminates the horoscope December 25, 1913. Jung encounters Salome and Elijah on Christmas. This episode explores crucifixion and resurrection, good and evil, projection, and suffering, the collapse of systems amidst the contraction of winter, matter and time. Ann Carroll translates the German word for “forethinking.” Chapters: "Resolution" Learn More: Salome Inst...
Salome & Elijah, Pleasure & Thinking - Ep. 5
August 13, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 131 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung meets Elijah & Salome. Satya Doyle Byock explores the masculine and feminine in Jung's psychology, the meaning of thinking versus feeling, the importance of engaging with the inner, rejected soul, & Jung's Seminar of 1925. Carol Ferris illuminates the horoscope of Jung's "Mysterium Encounter." Chapters: “Mysterium Encounter," & “Instruction” Learn More: Salome Institute: SalomeIns...
Episode 5
August 13, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung meets Elijah & Salome. Satya explores the masculine and feminine in Jung's psychology, the meaning of thinking versus feeling, the importance of engaging with the inner, rejected soul, & Jung's Seminar of 1925. Carol illuminates the horoscope of Jung's "Mysterium Encounter." Chapters: “Mysterium Encounter," & “Instruction” Astrological Horoscopes for Episode 5 Jung: Grand Cross Wi...
Killing the Hero, Death & Resurrection - Ep. 4
August 13, 2020 16:30 - 1 hour - 142 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book, Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris discuss the value of killing the hero, the myth of Siegfried, leadership, ideas of God, the duality of good and evil, soul, the feminine soul, and an emphasis on the idea of linear growth versus a circular existence. This episode was recorded on Easter and explores the death and resurrection of Christ. Jung's exploration of Christianity is consistently being explored. Carol compares Jung's natal horoscope with...
Episode 4
August 13, 2020 16:30 - 1 hour - 142 MBIn this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book, Satya & Carol discuss the value of killing the hero, the myth of Siegfried, leadership, ideas of God, the duality of good and evil, soul, the feminine soul, and an emphasis on the idea of linear growth versus a circular existence. Carol compares Jung's natal horoscope with the horoscope of Jung's visions on December 14th, 1913. Chapters: “Splitting of the Spirit” + “Murder of the Hero” + “The Conception of the God” (pgs. 156-174 in the Read...
Episode 3
August 13, 2020 16:00 - 58 minutes - 135 MBIn this episode, Satya & Carol explore Carl Jung's Red Book in three more early chapters, discussing Jungian Psychology and Astrology, and the power of creative response and engagement with the Unconscious. The discussions explore the social relevance of Jung's psychology and what is has to offer individuals in these times. In this episode, they weave-in Elizabeth Gilbert's thoughts on Genius and a further exploration of "the Spirit of the Times", Active Imagination and more as they accomp...
The Spirit of the Times & The Spirit of the Depths - Ep. 3
August 13, 2020 16:00 - 58 minutes - 135 MBIn this episode, Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris explore C.G. Jung's Red Book in three more early chapters, discussing Jungian Psychology and Astrology, and the power of creative response and engagement with the Unconscious. The discussions explore the social relevance of Jung's psychology and what is has to offer individuals in these times. In this episode, they weave-in Elizabeth Gilbert's thoughts on Genius and a further exploration of "the Spirit of the Times", "Te Spirit of the Depth...
Episode 2
August 13, 2020 15:30 - 1 hour - 150 MBSatya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris begin to explore Carl Jung's Red Book and the relevance for our times, chapter by chapter. Satya introduces a feminist reading of Jung's work, along with Emma Jung and Toni Wolff as instrumental companions in Jung's deep dive into the unconscious. We also explore the essence of Active Imagination. Carol explores the horoscope of Jung's call to his own soul on November 12th & 13th, 1913 and the deep contraction of winter. Chapters: "The Way of What is ...
Emma Jung, Toni Wolff, & C.G. Jung - Ep. 2
August 13, 2020 15:30 - 1 hour - 121 MBSatya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris begin to explore Carl Jung's Red Book and the relevance for our times, chapter by chapter. Satya introduces a feminist reading of Jung's work, along with Emma Jung and Toni Wolff as instrumental companions in Jung's deep dive into the unconscious. We also explore the essence of Active Imagination. Carol explores the horoscope of Jung's call to his own soul on November 12th & 13th, 1913 and the deep contraction of winter. Chapters: "The Way of What is ...
The Astrology of Jung's Red Book - Ep.1
August 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 184 MBAn introduction to our hosts psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock and astrologer Carol Ferris, as they embark on a socially relevant exploration of Carl Jung’s Red Book through the astrology of those extraordinary times, and ours. Satya provides a summary of the content of The Red Book and Jungian Psychology, as well as a feminist reading of Jung's work. Astrologer Carol Ferris uses an astrological lens to explore the nature of Jung's descent into the unconscious that began in 1913, and its...
Episode 1
August 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 184 MBAn introduction to our hosts psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock and astrologer Carol Ferris, as they embark on a socially relevant exploration of Carl Jung’s Red Book through the astrology of those extraordinary times, and ours. Satya provides a summary of the content of The Red Book and Jungian Psychology, as well as a feminist reading of Jung's work. Astrologer Carol Ferris uses an astrological lens to explore the nature of Jung's descent into the unconscious that began in 1913, and its...
The Astrology of Jung's Red Book -Ep.1
August 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 184 MBAn introduction to our hosts psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock and astrologer Carol Ferris, as they embark on a socially relevant exploration of Carl Jung’s Red Book through the astrology of those extraordinary times, and ours. Satya provides a summary of the content of The Red Book and Jungian Psychology, as well as a feminist reading of Jung's work. Astrologer Carol Ferris uses an astrological lens to explore the nature of Jung's descent into the unconscious that began in 1913, and its...