Page 10 - December 2024

I am relieved and hopeful for the future
of the World.
This is a country that had almost lost
its way. We are a democracy and what
democracy means to me is that each
individual has a vote and that is who won
this recent election. US!
I started to sense that an ‘enantiodromia’
was taking place and told my friends that
by text a few days before the election. We
were at the tail end of the transit of Pluto
in Capricorn and I had been waiting for
years for something BIG to happen.
The following is an excerpt From A
Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis,
by Andrew Samuels, Bani Shorter and
Fred Plaut
ENANTIODROMIA = ‘running
contrary-wise,’ a psychological ‘law’ first
outlined by Heraclitus and meaning that
sooner or later everything turns into
its opposite. Jung identified this as the
principle which governs all cycles of natural
life, from the smallest to the greatest.
10 myindigosun.com
See — Carl G. Jung, Collected Works 6:
Psychological Types, par 708
The ubiquity of his references to
enantiodromia (clinical, symbolic and
theoretical) emphasize that, for Jung,
this was not a formula but a reality, not
only of personal psychic development
but of collective life as well. Over-
emphasized therapeutically, it could
lead, of course, to always looking on
the bright side of things or, conversely,
expecting the worst. Jung’s recognition
of the inevitability of enantiodromic
change helped him anticipate psychic
movement and he believed it was
possible both to foresee and also to relate
to it, such an attitude being the essence
of consciousness.
He applied the term to the emergence
of unconscious opposites in relation to