In this video, a longtime scholar of Archetypal Cosmology, Dr. Keiron Le Grice talks about which philosophers and psychologists created archetypal astrology.

Our spring quarter professors spent an afternoon in February 2025 discussing their upcoming courses in a truly inspirational Zoom session. If you are researching courses in Neoplatonism, the Philosophy of Music, or Archetypal Astrology you will find this video illuminating.

The widespread skepticism toward astrology stems from several factors, many of which are tied to the historical conflict between materialist science and the qualitative, symbolic approach of astrology. To address this skepticism and make a compelling case for astrology as a serious tool for exploring the psyche, we must first understand the key objections and then craft a response that bridges the gap between symbolic wisdom and modern empirical thinking.

What I find fascinating in Hermetic and Gnostic Genesis myths are the formative encounters with limitation (and/or malevolent and inherently constricting daimons) that occur for the incarnating soul. In the myth of Sophia, for example, this limit is called Horos, meaning boundary. We can recognize the prefix from the well-known word “horoscope”—an astrological vision of a soul that has come under the dominion of a specifically limiting boundary.