Hubris of the Heavens: Archetypal Dreamwork and Rudhyarian Astrology

In Archetypal Dreamwork, the plumb line of any work done with an individual is always the dream. The body of the work that is the dream and the process of going vertical is the process of going deep into what is true from the inside, dropping underneath what is not true. The process of looking to the dream that comes from an individual s own unconscious to find the path that is particular and specific to that person.

Rudhyarian astrology, on the other hand, is the process of going horizontal and is an extremely general process. This is why this book is called, Hubris of the Heavens. Hubris means pride and arrogance, but the root of the word is from the Greek hybris and means wanton violence, insolence, outrage. The application of astrology, of the horizontal, without the anchor of the dream, the vertical, is general and extremely dangerous. When we are faced with generalities, pathology can use them in any way it wants. This is why the dreams are so incredibly precise for each of us and our particular process in a particular moment.

Rudhyarian astrology can be used, however, in service to dreams, for the application of astrology can hone and clarify the dreams themselves. In that process of clarifying dreams, we can sense the uniqueness of the individual that is being reflected in the dream. The chart can actually act as a sounding board to the complexity of the dream, lending a structure and a depth of understanding.