Images of Soul: Reimagining Astrology - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Hadley; Harte, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692270531 ISBN 13: 9780692270530

Publisher: Iris & Acorn Press, 2014

Synopsis

Out of a friendship and collegial conversation spanning three decades, Hadley Fitzgerald and Judith Harte have created a provocative fusion of astrological symbolism, Depth Psychotherapy, and Imaginal Psychology. Their discourse interfaces with the “acorn theory” of the late archetypal psychologist James Hillman who conjectured that each life has its own soul's code, its own calling. The authors see this as resonant with a natural, yet sophisticated astrology wherein the horoscope's trajectory is viewed as a pathway to one's personal archetypal ground. They suggest that we can evolve in the direction of our own life's calling by viewing the horoscope as analogous to an acorn, inside of which is one’s unique soul's code with a mysterious timepiece all its own. As licensed psychotherapists who are actively engaged in the arts, they often use images, imaginal dialogue, and evolutionary astrological methods to deepen their clients’ psychotherapeutic processes.

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Review:

This dialogue between Hadley Fitzgerald and Judith Harte draws us into a valuable fresh imagination of the very nature of astrology. It's beautiful and fun. I hope it moves astrology itself into a new era, focusing on images that have the power to shape our lives and enrich our understanding of them.
 -- Thomas Moore, author of The Care of the Soul, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

What a feast for mind and soul! Two women, each one of them a master astrologer and an experienced psychotherapist, toss both crafts into the alchemical pot of their shared creative imagination. In pushing the boundaries of both systems, they reveal a path into a wider, saner, and more integrated future.
-- Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky, Yesterday's Sky

In the form of their intimate and loving correspondence, the authors beautifully illustrate the ways in which the astrological birth chart reveals the spiritual ground plan for the soul's evolution. The authors' focus on images of this sacred pattern deepens and personalizes this approach to astrology. I particularly recommend this text to readers who value a depth psychological approach to astrology.
-- Lionel Corbett, M.D., Jungian Analyst, author of The Sacred Cauldron, Psyche and the Sacred

An occasion for the reader to dip a toe into the sacred pond of Imagination, Images of Soul is an intimate conversational portrait disclosing the living waters of Psyche. It revivifies and deepens the trivialized remains of a once vibrant and animated wisdom tradition bringing it new life.
-- Brad Kochunas, author of The Astrological Imagination

Judith and Hadley have created something very special and unique in exploring the resonant space between depth psychotherapy and astrology. I love the book!
-- Brockton Hill, JD, MFT, Jungian Analyst/Archetypal Astrologer

I found Images of Soul to be a creative, original, and inspiring example for clinicians like myself who see it as part of our life's work to merge the astrological and psychological perspectives in a clinical setting. The images of soul explored throughout this book forge a creative pathway toward the deeper fusion of psychotherapy and astrology—the two companionable modes of perceiving psyche.
-- Gisele Terry, MFT, President, International Society for Astrological Research

About the Author:

Hadley Fitzgerald, MA, MFT, has been a licensed psychotherapist almost as long as she’s been an astrologer. She had visions of becoming a Shakespearean scholar, but her soul had other plans. She has a BA in English from UCLA, and after a 1974 epiphany in which she envisioned astrology as an integral part of psychology and psychotherapy in the future, she received her MA from Phillips Graduate Institute in 1979 and her Marriage and Family Therapy license in 1981. She authored the Psychological Astrology section of "Under One Sky" by Rafael Nasser and is a free-lance writer. She has a certificate in Ecopsychology from the Institute for Cultural Change and is also a Certified Tarotpy® Practitioner. While traditional therapeutic methods are her foundation, Hadley often expands on those methods by using astrology’s ancient archetypal symbols to help clients address the conundrums of individual and family dynamics on another level. When appropriate, she brings in a wide variety of tarot and other images to explore the mythic dimensions of each life alongside the daily emotional issues, choices, and opportunities for expression that can aid the evolution of the soul as it travels through this lifetime. At the heart of her training and her work is this question: “What does your soul--your daimon--want of you, want with you?”

To learn more, visit: www.HadleyFitzgerald.com

Judith Harte, PhD, MFT, has been an archetypal astrologer since 1975 and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1985. She has an MA in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology. Not only does her work embrace the mythic and depth dimensions of human experience, she also has a clinical practice with an emphasis upon crisis intervention, hospice, and coping with ordinary problems of daily living. She has a great love for the astrological language, the language of myth and story. Whether astrological or psychological, she respects the coexistence and interplay of all modes of perceiving psyche and knows there are, in fact, many licensed psychotherapists worldwide who share her views. She has a burgeoning interest in clay sculpture and spends much of her free time actively creating images of soul out of clay. Her work has been shown in the “Mirrors of Your Mind” exhibitions sponsored by the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, created especially for and by psychotherapists who are also artists.

To learn more, visit: www.Imagesofsoul.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Iris & Acorn Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692270531
• ISBN 13: 9780692270530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210