Gnosticism And The Roots Of Evolutionary Astrology
From Steven Forrest Evolutionary Astrology Podcast by Steven Forrest
September 1, 2025 · 20 min · Episode 95
About this episode
Steven Forrest explores the connections between Gnosticism and the development of evolutionary astrology, reflecting on personal experiences and insights from Carl Jung.
“I always do what the voices in my head tell me what to do.” That’s become a familiar gag line. I don’t want to recommend psychosis as a lifestyle, but recently while rereading Carl Jung’s biography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, I was struck by how much emphasis he puts on trusting cues from the unconscious mind even when they don’t seem to make any rational sense. There’s one such cue that has tugged at me persistently for much of my adult life. It’s the feeling that as I’ve been developing the methodology of evolutionary astrology as I practice it and teach it, that what I was experiencing was more like a process of remembering than one of me actually inventing anything. There’s a problem though – ostensibly, what we call evolutionary astrology only dates back to the 1970s and 1980s. I was born in 1949. How could I have been “remembering” something that hadn’t been invented yet? Last May, I taught a class in Athens, Greece, primarily for students in my school. There were many signs and omens that I had some unresolved karma with that country so I approached the trip with some nervousness. I don’t want to be too personal in this essay, but if you want the deep background, go…
People in this episode
Host: Steven Forrest
Topics covered
- Gnosticism
- Evolutionary Astrology
- Carl Jung
- Unconscious Mind
- Past Lives
- Karma
Keywords
- Gnosticism
- Evolutionary Astrology
- Carl Jung
- Unconscious Mind
- Past Lives
- Karma
- Memories
- Dreams
- Reflections
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Master’s Musings
Places: Athens, Greece
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