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The Wound and the Try

  • Post author:Anita Ashland
  • Post published:December 14, 2025
  • Post category:Astrology/Jungian Psychology
The Wound and the Try

My all-time favorite documentary is Buck, which features renowned horseman Buck Brannaman. People bring their difficult horses to him at clinics, but what he really is doing is "helping horses with people problems." He describes a horse as "a mirror…

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Your inner “resident therapist”

  • Post author:Anita Ashland
  • Post published:December 5, 2025
  • Post category:Astrology/Personality Typology: Jungian
Your inner “resident therapist”

With all the concerns these days about AI replacing human creativity and wisdom, let's take a moment to consider how there is at least one thing it can never replace: your inner "resident therapist." This is how Naomi Quenk describes…

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Advance Like a Mouse, Surmount the Throne Like a Lion

  • Post author:Anita Ashland
  • Post published:November 17, 2025
  • Post category:Symbols
Advance Like a Mouse, Surmount the Throne Like a Lion

When Marie-Louise von Franz wrote the following sentence down while researching a military battle, it triggered the "craziest synchronicity" she ever experienced: "Sometimes a very insignificant man holds the threads of world history in his hand without knowing it" (Conversations…

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Trees as Mirrors of the Soul

  • Post author:Anita Ashland
  • Post published:November 5, 2025
  • Post category:Astrology/Jungian Psychology
Trees as Mirrors of the Soul

When a magnificent tree in front of your apartment window is unexpectedly cut down at the exact time a beloved mentor six thousand miles away from you dies, the synchronicity of it all might give you pause. That is what…

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The Great Pumpkin and Individuation

  • Post author:Anita Ashland
  • Post published:October 31, 2025
  • Post category:Symbols
The Great Pumpkin and Individuation

 "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." So says Linus Van Pelt in the It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Halloween TV special from 1966. This was must-see TV…

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