As part of my question to merge astrology with personality types, the ancient concept of temperament is something I continue to study. Temperament is innate whereas personality is both innate and influenced by other factors such as environment. The four…
Archetypal psychologist James Hillman wrote eloquently about spirit vs. soul and I think it applies very much to personality types (specifically John Beebe's model) as well as the astrology of the Sun and the Moon. I see it as a…
The phrase "shadow work" is almost trendy these days and I hesitate using it, as the way it is often used isn't at all like the lengthy work with the shadow one undergoes in a lengthy Jungian analysis. But Jungian…
I'm currently reading Personality by C.A. Meier. Dr. Meier was a close associate of Carl Jung's, so I've been keen to read this book, because Jung published Psychological Types early in his career, so Meier has an understanding of Jung's…
Becoming a better version of our personality type tends to be the focus of Myers-Briggs and other typology systems. However, as Steve Myers writes in Myers-Briggs Typology vs. Jungian Individuation: ...as the Jungian analyst Joseph Wheelwright put it, the most…