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analytical psychology, you’ll discover that
there are many characters in us that even
we don’t know.

Not only our society, our culture and our

families, but especially our parents can
be instrumental in giving us reasons to
deny who we are when they recognize

characteristics natural to us, but not
acceptable to them.

What Astrologers call planets,

Jung called archetypes.

We are not born tabula rasa (blank
slates) which is a state of not having
preconceived ideas or predetermined

goals. Indeed, we are born with
predisposed patterns imprinted from

birth.

“… the individual disposition is already a

factor in childhood; It is innate, and not
acquired in the course of life.”

— Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a
Soul, pg 80

Our birth chart (time, place and date)
describes our archetypal character traits

and learning about our astrological
blueprint is life changing. Briefly, the Sun
is symbolic of our ego consciousness, our

center, identity and our inherent need for
self-esteem. Through our Sun we shine and

our creativity is born. The Moon describes
our emotional nature, our capacity to
nurture and connect with others and along

with Venus, both are descriptive of the
feminine in us. Mercury symbolizes how
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