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Apollon The Journal of Psychological Astrology The Generation Gap ~ Liz Greene Born In The Sixties - The Uranus-Pluto Generation ~ Darby Costello The Romance Of Sibling Rivalry ~ Christopher Renstrom Icarus & Persephone ~ Erin Sullivan The Thirteenth Fairy ~ Lynn Bell Charles Harvey - An Appreciation Issue 5 April 2000 £6 Apollon Apollon Apollon Apollon The Journal of Psychological Astrology The Journal of Psychological Astrology The Journal of Psychological Astrology The Journal of Psychological Astrology Brother-Sister Marriage ~ Brian Clark Astrology As A Healing & A Wounding Art ~ Anne Whitaker The Oracle & The Family Curse ~ Liz Greene The Sun-god and the Astrological Sun - Liz Greene The Eternal Triangle ~ Liz Greene The Sacred Marriage & The Geometry of Time ~ Robin Heath Spirit Child - Melanie Reinhart & Isabella Kirton Thinking Magically & Critically ~ Erin Sullivan Creativity, Spontaneity, Independence: Three Children Of The Devil - Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig Wounding & The Will To Live ~ Liz Greene The Golden Age ~ Nicholas Campion Whom doth the grail serve? - Anne Whitaker Eros & Aphrodite, Love & Creation ~ Erin Sullivan The Saturn-Uranus Duet ~ Charles Harvey Measuring the Daimon ~ Lynn Bell Fire and the imagination - Darby Costello Neptune and Pluto: Romance in the Underworld ~ Sophia Young Wilderness Transformation Trails ~ Marilyn McDowell & Philomena Byrne The Progressed Moon ~ Brian Clark Leonard Cohen’s "Secret Chart" - John Etherington A Fatal Vocation To Witness ~ Suzi Harvey An Encounter With “The Ambassadors” ~ Simon Chedzey Issue 2 April 1999 Issue 1 Issue 3 Issue 4 £6 October 1998 August 1999 December 1999 £6 £6 £6 Issue One - Creativity Issue Two - Relationships Issue Three - Healing Issue Four - Fate & Prediction To order back issues of Apollon, see centre pages Madonna and child Cover Picture The Chosen One Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland - Gottfried Keller Foundation After an early period of uninspired naturalistic landscapes, Ferdinand Hodler turned to a style of flat, often repet- itive forms, precise outlines, and rhythmic patterns that he termed "Parallelism." His works have a monumental effect. In landscapes and large murals, he presented his mystical preoccupation with the power of nature and the plight of humanity. In his famous mural Night, the ominous figure of Nightmare hovers over a group of restless, sleeping nude figures. Hodler's alpine landscapes and vivid portraits, such as his intense “Self-Portrait” (left), (1891, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva), relate him to the fauvists. Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2000 Apollon The Journal of Psychological Astrology Table of Contents Published by: The Centre for Psychological Astrology Editorial 4 BCM Box 1815 Dermod Moore London WC1N 3XX England The Generation Gap 5 Tel/Fax: +44-20-8749 2330 [email protected] Liz Greene www.astrologer.com/cpa Born In The Sixties - The Uranus-Pluto Generation 14 Director: Dr Liz Greene Admin: Juliet Sharman-Burke Darby Costello Distribution: The Thirteenth Fairy 19 John Etherington Lynn Bell Midheaven Bookshop 396 Caledonian Road A Celebration of the Joyous Child 22 London N1 1DN Anne Whitaker England Tel: +44-20-7607 4133 The Romance of Sibling Rivalry 27 Fax: +44-20-7700 6717 Christopher Renstrom [email protected] Persephone and Icarus Adolescence: a psyche in progress 39 Advertising: Anne Whitaker Erin Sullivan 74 Victoria Crescent Road “I like children. If they’re properly cooked.” 48 Glasgow G12 9JN Kim Farnell Scotland Tel/Fax: +44-141-337 6144 Film: Pluto Rides Again: Sleepy Hollow 50 [email protected] Kay Stopforth Edited by: Moon-Pluto: Fault or Fate? 52 Dermod Moore Sophia Young 4 Midhope House Midhope Street Reflections: Pathos, Children and the Yearning for Slowness 55 London WC1H 8HJ Philomena Byrne England Tel: +44-20-7278 9434 The Tarot Fool and the Archetype of the Child 58 Fax: +44-20-7209 1648 Juliet Sharman-Burke www.astrologer.com/apollon [email protected] Charles Harvey - An Appreciation 60 Subscriptions: Lindsay Clarke, Richard Tarnas, Anne Whitaker and Liz Greene Please see centre pages A Letter to Students of Astrology 65 Contributions: Charles Harvey Please do not send unsolicited articles. Suggestions with out- lines are welcome, and should CPA Seminar Schedule and CPA Press Order Form - centre pages be sent to the editor. Printed by: Apollon The Magazine Printing Company Plc Mollison Avenue, Enfield EN3 7NT, polon he who causes the heavenly bodies to move together in harmony United Kingdom haploun the simple, a euphemism for the complexity of the oracle, which is also honest iepaieon to heal, also to throw or strike (with consciousness) Copyright: ©2000 from Greek and Egyptian Mythologies, compiled by Yves Bonnefoy, transl. Wendy Doniger Centre for Psychological Astrology University of Chicago Press, 1992 All rights reserved Editorial e never stop being children at heart, if ealing with the expectations of parents, when Wwe’re lucky; without that curiosity and play- Dasked to comment on the chart of a new- fulness, that mania and risk-taking, we lose the born infant, is no easy task for an astrologer, and point of living. Just as we went to press, I was sent both Lynn Bell and Kim Farnell address this issue in a lovely story by email, about an eighty-seven year two original, contrasting pieces. Lynn draws on the old woman called Rose, who decided to go to col- tale of Sleeping Beauty to caution us against leaving lege, because she had never been. She became a something out in what we say; Kim comes to campus icon, immensely popular wherever she (more or less) the same conclusion, but only after went, and she revelled in the attention. She was spinning her own vivid Chandleresque tale, in her invited to speak to the students at a function, and inimitable comic style. she told them: “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ophia Young, in a moving, bravely personal She spoke of the secrets to saying young: the need Spiece, reflects on her own life-threatening to laugh and find humour every day; the need to experiences of childbirth and mothering. She tack- have a dream - “Those who are without dreams les head-on the guilt that many mothers feel when Dermod Moore is a are dead inside.” On the difference between grow- facing the implications (accusations?) of a stark Dubliner. A former actor ing older and growing up: “If you are nineteen Moon signature in the chart of their child, and does with Ireland’s National years old and lie in bed for one full year, you will so with honesty and dignity. Following on, Theatre, the Abbey, he turn twenty. If you are eighty-seven years old and Philomena Byrne makes an eloquent plea for time holds the Diploma in stay in bed for a year you will turn eighty-eight. and space in our culture, to allow room for mean- Psychological Astrology Anybody can grow older. That takes no talent or ing-making, and reflects on what is happening in from the CPA, where he is a ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the our society when children are being medicated student supervisor. He is a opportunity in change.” And on regrets: “The against mania and depression, in her thoughtful and writer and columnist, and is elderly usually have no regrets for what we did, but challenging Reflections piece. in training as a for what we didn’t do. The only people who fear Psychosynthesis therapist. death are those with regrets.” oth Christopher Renstrom and Erin Sullivan He practices as a psycholog- Bexplore childhood in two longer, more in-depth ical astrologer in London’s ne week after she graduated, she died, and articles; Christopher, in his entertaining retelling of Neal’s Yard Therapy Otwo thousand students attended her funeral. sibling myths, brings Mercury and Gemini energy to Rooms. He moderates the life for us, while Erin looks at the complex issues at discussion group on the he child” is the seed idea of this issue, and, as work in the liminal state of adolescence, drawing on Internet on psychological “Tever, the contributors have each responded the myths of Icarus and Persephone. astrology, and runs the to the theme in their own unique way, reminding us, Metalog Directory of if we need reminding, of the diverse richness that is est we forget, Anne Whitaker is here to remind Astrologers at to be found in the seams of common experience. Lus of the Joyful Child, the one that is inside all www.astrologer.com. of us. Add to that Juliet Sharman-Burke’s continua- oth Liz Greene and Darby Costello have tion of her excellent Tarot series, focusing on the Bdrawn their inspiration from the sixties. With Fool archetype, and, a new addition to Apollon, a her customary incisiveness, Liz looks at the various regular Film column by Kay Stopforth, in which she ways in which successive generations reflect the reviews Sleepy Hollow, and examines the charts of values and drives of the sign placements and con- both director and lead actor, and I believe we have figurations of the outer planets, starting with a look a full and entertaining issue for you to enjoy. at that turbulent decade, when the generation gap seemed at its widest. Through an examination of ur last pages are devoted to an appreciation successive generations of the Royal Family, she Oof the life of Charles Harvey, co-director of explores how such symbolic shifts manifest in the the CPA, and regular contributor to these pages, lives of public figures. Darby focuses on those of us whose passing has seemed difficult to believe for who were born in the sixties - a decade which has anyone who was lucky enough to know him. We a special memories for her.