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eighth house
counseling and coaching
by means of Jungian astrology
“No one develops his personality because somebody tells him that it would be useful or advisable to do so. Nature has never yet been taken in by well-meaning advice. The only thing that moves nature is causal necessity, and that goes for human nature too. […] The developing personality obeys no caprice, no command, no insight, only brute necessity; it needs the motivating force of inner or outer fatalities. ”
C. G. Jung
Lap teteje
Welcome!
Welcome!
My name is Kristóf Csörnyei, and I work as a Jungian astrologer and self-awareness development mentor. I created the Eighth House to support and inspire my fellow human beings who come to me in their process of spiritual fulfillment—a journey that can sometimes take us through challenging waters. During these process, I'm guided by my knowledge in astrology, psychology and esotericism, and most importantly, by my own self-awareness and intuition.
In the self-discovery consultations I offer, the psychological significance of your birth chart plays a central role. Since your horoscope indicates your psychological functioning and temperament in all areas of life, there is no obstacle or problem for which astrology cannot provide guidance.
Ultimately, self-improvement is something only you can achieve. However, I can inspire you to consciously open doors within your soul, doors that support your thorough self-discovery and complete self-acceptance. During our work together, we may knock on several of these doors, and the direction will be guided by your personal horoscope.
Rule of three
Rule of three
1. The key to change is self-knowledge and self-acceptance.
I am convinced that our emotional tensions and trials can ultimately lead us toward self-fulfillment. However, an essential prerequisite for this is transforming our complexes into constructive and creative sources of energy during the process of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
Therefore, if I had to formulate in one sentence what I consider the primary goal of my counseling work, I would say: to assist others in shaping a more authentic and complete self-image, in which the tension between conscious and unconscious "parts" diminishes. Thus, current obstacles or conflicts are seen in a new light.
That is why, whatever you come to me with, please bear in mind that, at best, I can only inspire your inherent self-healing abilities. Even if we shed light on certain things together that were previously hidden in the "darkness" of your unconscious, the subsequent self-acceptance is something only you can accomplish—specifically through your free (conscious) will, the power of which should never be underestimated.
2. The topics of the "eighth house" require serious in-depth study
and persistent spiritual work.
During our sessions, any aspect of the eighth house can arise. Therefore, it might be helpful for you to know which psychological areas are symbolized by the most contradictory house in the birth chart, which inspired the name of my counseling practice.
The eighth house (or the Pluto/Scorpio domain analogous to it) symbolizes one of the most crucial aspects of human compulsion: the need for persistent research into the core, origins, and hidden motives of things, determinedly seeking the most essential starting point and fundamental building block. It also reflects our fear of death and our life instinct—our psychological drive both to destroy, dismantle, and eradicate, as well as to regenerate, rebuild, and be reborn. Thus, our internal conflicts, crises, and struggles are all themes of the eighth house, each hiding the potential for complete transformation and spiritual rebirth. This house also encompasses human tendencies toward extremes and radicalism, the desire for power, the ability to manipulate, every psychological aspect of sexuality, and latent, hidden talents and abilities waiting to unfold within the unconscious mind.
Lastly, but not least, the eighth house symbolizes our unconscious attitudes and expectations towards our fellow human beings, especially our partners.
In the context of Jungian psychology, this house represents the personal unconscious and the complexes residing within it, the shadow, the inner psychological representative (the anima or animus), and the mechanism of projection (the projection of our own unconscious onto the external world).
3. Change yourself on the "inside" so that you don't want to change
others on the "outside"!
In light of all this, I can promise you one thing for sure: after dedicated research into the mysteries of the eighth house, your life can change forever, and doors can open within you and in front of you that you never dared to dream of before. Most importantly, if you have done your work well, you won't want to change the world anymore, as during your psychic metamorphosis, you will realize that the world around us always changes in harmony with the world within us.
The long-awaited collective change of humanity can only be born from individual transformation. The key prerequisite for this is voluntary cooperation with our own unconscious and the resulting processes of becoming conscious. I offer you assistance in this journey if you feel the need for it and if you are curious enough to honor me with your trust.
About the consultation
About the consultation
My philosophy as a consulting astrologer
The role of the birth chart is undoubtedly crucial, yet it's far from sufficient for a successful consultation. Without your personal story and our interaction, delving into deep analyses of it would be meaningless. Contrary to common belief, the birth chart contains no concrete facts; it merely hints at possibilities in the form of a complex system of symbols. The celestial bodies depicted in the horoscope symbolize nothing but the eternal basic motifs of human existence, or, in Jungian terms, the archetypes manifesting within and through us — expressed with the noble simplicity of the Emerald Tablet: "as above, so below", and "as within, so without".
As the horoscope reveals only spiritual and physical potential, it's impossible to determine, without a thorough understanding, in what form and at what level of development (i.e., consciousness) a specific individual embodies the complex archetypal patterns of their psyche. Therefore, although I deeply immerse myself in your birth chart before our session, initially, the floor will be yours, and I will listen to you (assisting with guiding questions if necessary). Afterward, I will apply my knowledge and intuition collectively to determine, based on what you share and what I observe, what requires deeper introspection. Naturally, I approach every question and problem holistically because everything is interconnected, and often, the "simpler" the questions, the less straightforward the answers. Genuine self-awareness work induced by the right questions can lead to honest answers and real solutions, and your birth chart serves as an excellent compass in this process.
In light of all this, I don't wish to rigidly define or establish specific consultation frameworks, detailing what questions and problems you can bring to me or the precise sequence in which we address them. Every individual psyche is unique, and there's no method that suits everyone in the same way—this is particularly true for spirituality. For this reason, the following overview of the three main "types" of consultation is only intended to serve as an incentive, since they actually only differ from each other in that they approach the same unique topic from a different perspective—namely You. During a consultation, these can even be combined, since they are inextricably linked.
1. Self-awareness and shadow-work
We examine the hidden aspects of your personality that might hinder you in the process of individuation. Your psychological reading of your natal chart provides an unparalleled tool for this. Our goal is to recognize and bring into consciousness those unconscious patterns that, through projections, can negatively impact your life.
Jungian psychology refers to the personality's unconscious side as the shadow, which still remains unconscious, leading a quasi-independent life within the psyche's unconscious realm. We tend to project our shadow onto others, often onto close relatives, and encounter it in the form of intense emotions seemingly triggered by them. During this process, our consciousness often holds the external world events and certain behaviors of our fellow human beings responsible, while the entire mechanism originates from our own psyche's unconscious regions. The most critical aspect of our projected complexes is that they literally drain energy from other psychological areas, energy that could be used to develop our hidden talents and achieve our creative goals. With dedicated shadow work, we can liberate a significant portion of this bound energy and consciously invest it in something that genuinely contributes to our personal growth and self-realization.
It's no mere coincidence that the lotus flower became the symbol of my counseling practice. Its roots clinging to the mud, it submerges every night in turbid waters, spending the entire night at the dark, muddy bottom. Yet every morning, it resurfaces in unchanged splendor, as if drawing its radiant beauty from the darkness. This analogy holds true for humans as well. The primary condition for a spiritually mature, meaningfully lived life in harmony with the cosmos is that the conscious aspect of the psyche establishes a harmonious relationship with the unconscious. Once this harmony is achieved, yin and yang will no longer sabotage but support each other.
2. General forecast (prognosis)
Here, we examine the significant tendencies that await you in the near future (1-2 years) which you must absolutely consider on a spiritual level. I determine these using various prognostic techniques (directions, progressions, transits, and solar returns), but we can only discuss their individual manifestations after I have gained a comprehensive understanding of your life during our conversation.
The purpose of this kind of counseling is, of course, not to "outsmart" your destiny or attempt to avoid making urgent decisions in the present. Its benefit lies in providing your consciousness the opportunity to attune itself and prepare for certain future currents. Prognostic methods can certainly determine their fundamental archetypal nature, but the specific manifestation and emotional experience are influenced by individual factors such as the level of basic consciousness or the extent of fear regarding necessary transformation. Paradoxically, astrological prognostics can alleviate the latter by addressing with great awareness the undeniable fact of life's constant, cyclical changes.
There are two types of development toward our ultimate goal—growth through consciousness: voluntary and compelled. If we are unwilling to learn voluntarily from life experiences, signs, dreams, intuitions, thoughts, and emotions—and thereby evolve through them—eventually, fate itself will force us to do so. Hence, there is no astrological transit to fear, as ultimately, each one is meant to support our individuation—by contributing to our psychological development in a specific way. It's solely up to us whether we willingly surrender ourselves to the cosmic script—feeling completeness through the conscious acceptance of our designated role or task—or whether we resist it out of ego, thus slowing down or even sabotaging the "cosmically" timed process of our psychological evolution.
3. Consultation on specific topics/life areas
Certainly, we can discuss specific problem areas and questions as well. The hidden, complex, and often hard-to-define contradictions of our psyche usually manifest in specific and precisely definable areas of life, often in the form of (internal) doubts and (external) conflicts. Since your natal chart contains information about every important area of your life, there is hardly any question that we cannot thoroughly examine based on it. Whether it's about family, children, friends, colleagues, studies, work, career, finances, sexuality, love, relationships, marriage, health, talents, or specific future plans—whenever you are plagued by doubts or find yourself in inner conflict regarding any subject, questions based on your natal chart, followed by introspection, always help in stripping things down and seeing the essence more clearly.
It's important for you to know that even if you come to me with "simple" (or straightforward) questions, I never provide answers for you. Since the fundamental requirement for a good decision is that it comes entirely from within, I consider it unethical for an astrologer or any advisor to assume the authority to make decisions on certain matters. However, I do not reject the work with specific questions at all, as it can be very targeted in conducting internal exploration. Therefore, profound questions like "should I speak up at my workplace?" or "is it a good decision to stay in this relationship?" or "how should I tackle this challenging task?" can definitely help in concretizing the direction for our self-reflective work. Hence, please don't be surprised if, eventually, your questions about another person lead us back to you—because ultimately, it's never someone else causing internal conflicts; it's always about our relationship with ourselves ("so within, so without...").
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Booking Guidelines
Booking Guidelines
First Time as a New Client
As a new client, the first consultation is 90 minutes long and costs 24,000 HUF. This includes the time I spend preparing, as before our session, I thoroughly delve into your birth chart, as well as your current transits and progressions (prognostic methods). I don't offer a one-hour consultation for the first session because that time would be insufficient for us to have a conversation with the necessary complexity and depth, given the lack of prior knowledge.
Birth Time
Since I need your exact birth time down to the minute to create your birth chart, please inform me during the scheduling if the provided time is only approximate and to what extent. Based on this, I can determine whether it is necessary or even possible to rectify the birth time based on major life events (this always happens before the consultation). Please note that while we can conduct a general self-awareness session even with an unknown birth time (based on the planets in signs and their aspects to one another), this type of horoscope analysis has its limitations. Also, if the uncertainty about the birth time is greater than a one-hour time frame, I do not undertake to rectify the birth time.
Discounted Consultation for Returning Clients
If you decide to continue self-development sessions after the first appointment or return within a year, you will receive a discount as a returning client: the longer 90-minute consultation will cost only 20,000 HUF, and the shorter 60-minute consultation will be 17,000 HUF for you.
Multi-Session Packages with 10% Discount
If you feel that your current issues or obstacles require a more comprehensive self-awareness deepening process, as a new client, you have the opportunity to purchase three- and six-session consultation packages with a 10% discount (this applies to each consultation within the package). With the three-session package (58,000 HUF), you receive a total discount of 6,000 HUF, and with the six-session package (112,000 HUF), it is 12,000 HUF. When booking, you only choose the date of the first consultation, and we will coordinate the rest afterward. It's important to note that in the case of packages, a maximum of 3 weeks can elapse between consultations (and ideally, I aim for a one-week interval).
Gift Card
You also have the opportunity to surprise someone you love with a gift card on a special occasion or holiday.
This voucher entitles the recipient to a first-time, 90-minute self-development consultation (in person or online), and it must be used within a maximum of 6 months after receiving it.
Since the appointment booking system unfortunately requires selecting a date to finalize the reservation, please choose any date a few weeks away. Don't worry, I will delete this from my calendar immediately after receiving the reservation, as the final appointment is always coordinated with the recipient of the voucher.
During the booking, I will need the billing details of the gift-giver, and I will naturally issue the invoice in their name. As for the recipient's information, you only need to provide their name during the reservation process — shortly afterward, I will send you the voucher in their name via email in PDF format (here you can view a sample). After you have handed over the voucher in printed or digital form, your loved one will need to contact me via email or phone to coordinate the appointment and provide their birth details.
More About the Appointment Booking Process
You can easily and quickly book the most suitable time for you for personal or online consultations in my online scheduling system. After booking, you will immediately receive a confirmation email. If it involves online credit card payment or pre-bank transfer, I will send you the related invoice through the szamla.hu system shortly after finalizing the reservation. If you choose an online session, I will also send you the Google Meet link for the video call in an email invitation.
During the booking, you can briefly mention the purpose or topics you want to address in our sessions (although this is not mandatory; you can also discuss this during the consultation). If you prefer to elaborate on this beforehand or have questions about any other aspect of the consultation, feel free to contact me via email (nyolcadikhaz@gmail.com). You can also reach me using the form under the "Contact and Location" menu, or send an iMessage or WhatsApp message to +36 30 958 18 02.
Payment Methods
For first-time and online consultations, as well as gift vouchers: online debit/credit card payment during the appointment booking (via Stripe's secure system), or bank transfer in advance (in this case, please choose the cash payment option during the reservation, and I will soon send you the invoice with the necessary details for the transfer).
For personal consultations as a returning client: cash payment.
For multiple-session consultation packages: bank transfer in advance.
Discretion, Data Processing and Protection
I treat what is said during our sessions with complete discretion. I assure you that I only need your birth data down to the minute for the creation of your birth chart, and, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation, I handle and store it extremely confidentially, along with your other personal data. Therefore, it is mandatory to accept the terms of the Data Processing and Data Protection Declaration when scheduling an appointment or using the message-sending form.
Disclaimer
It is crucial to emphasize that the self-awareness development sessions and supportive conversations I provide are not intended to replace the therapeutic processes carried out by clinical psychologists or psychiatrists, nor are they a substitute for psychiatric treatments. The main purpose of the consultations is to develop self-awareness and stimulate self-acceptance through a personalized map, namely, the birth chart, rather than to replace a potentially justified therapeutic process.
Rules Regarding Appointment Changes and Cancellations
Free modification of the reserved time is possible up to 48 hours before the consultation. If a request for time change is received after this period, you must pay half of the consultation fee, as I may have reserved a specific time slot for you for weeks, which was taken away from other clients.
For complete cancellations (without scheduling a new appointment), the following rules apply: if the cancellation is made more than 5 business days before the consultation, I will refund the full amount, deducting a 2% transaction fee. If you go beyond this but are still within 48 hours, I will refund 50%; between 48 and 24 hours, I will refund only 30%. In the case of a complete cancellation within 24 hours of the consultation, I will not refund any amount paid, and the same applies if you fail to appear at the consultation without prior notice.
Appointment booking
Appointment booking
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22,000 Hungarian forints
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Location & contact
Location & contact
eighth house
counseling and coaching by means of Jungian astrology
Kristóf Csörnyei
Address: 1147 Budapest, Telepes utca 33.
Mail: nyolcadikhaz@gmail.com
Phone: +36 30 958 18 02 (able to receive iMessage és WhatsApp messages)
Web: www.nyolcadikhaz.com
Blog & writings
Blog & writings
Sorry, my writings are currently only available in Hungarian.
Lectures
Előadások
Sorry, my lectures are currently only available in Hungarian.
Herewith the most recent ones though from my YouTube-channel:
Kattints ide az Elán Podcast YouTube-csatornájának megtekintéséhez.
Legutóbbi epizód:
About me
About me
I was born on the 29th of October 1993, at 7:06 am in Keszthely, Hungary — you can view my natal chart here if you would like to. Ever since I was little, I’ve been trying to find answers for myself to the most essential philosophical questions about human existence. My uncompromising way of thinking that I had as a child, always on the lookout for resolute explanations, led me eventually as a young adult to the various answers of psychological, spiritual and esoteric disciplines. These have helped me a lot to uplift some of the eternal, collective knowledge that lies deep within each human soul, to a conscious level. During this process, astrology and Jungian psychology in particular have become highly reliable compasses for my earthly life. Through my counseling work, I am keen on sharing their many blessings with people who are open to it.
I was a fifteen-year-old high school student when I first came into contact with the psychology of C.G. Jung, and in my memories the encounter has become quite mystical in the meantime. In the summer of 2009 I walked into a bookstore in Keszthely with a gift voucher in my hand that I had received from the school for participating in a language contest. Out of a growing interest, I was definitely looking for a book on some psychological topic, and out of my naturally strong “Saturnian” urge I even wanted the price of the book to be exactly the same as the value of the voucher. After thorough inspection and long hesitation I still decided intuitively and bought “The Psychology of C.G. Jung” by Jolanda Jacobi — as luck would have it, it had just been translated to Hungarian at last. Jacobi wrote this book on the basics of Jungian psychology in 1942, as a close associate and former student of Jung. I remember being caught up in the symbolism of the cover and the magical picture appendix at the end, as well as the table of contents which was full of strange but fascinating Jungian definitions. Little did I know back then that I was mostly captivated by future potential — judging from the divine nature of that first encounter, I might have even subliminally envisioned what Jungian psychology would come to mean to me one day. The law of attraction manifested even in the Saturnian sense, as the price of the book was exactly the same as the value of the voucher…
Although I read the whole book that same summer, at the age of fifteen I had no chance to grasp its very essence. So even though I was often reading Jacobi's book throughout high school, and I would also read a lot from and about Jung in Hungarian, English or German on the internet, the true meaning of quite some concepts remained quite fuzzy for me (in hindsight). This was of course inevitable, as the gathered theory was not yet supported by enough life experience that could serve as a benchmark. My curiosity was revived again in 2011 with the release of the movie called “A Dangerous Method”, a drama that scrutinized the complex relationship of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud based on their intense correspondence, but it also examined Jung’s relationship with his wife, Emma Jung, and with his former patient, friend and then lover, Sabina Spielrein. I was extremely fascinated by this movie at the time, and it made me feel an unspeakable “déjà vu” as well which multiplied my interest and belief in Jungian psychology. In retrospect, the positive form of the projection is apparent, as for a while I did not only feel empathy for Jung, but a pronounced admiration as well, for the reason that he bravely faced the flood of stigma and prejudice that befell him, and that he dared to tread his own path, courageously standing by his own views that conflicted more and more drastically over the years with the theories of his former mentor, Sigmund Freud.
Based on all the above, it would seem most likely that I chose psychology as a university study after graduating from high school, but I do have a surprise: it didn’t happen that way. When reading through the curricula of various psychology departments, I only felt an aversion, rather than a motivation, which I was unable to overcome during my decision-making process, in spite of my essential interest in psychology. Even today, I clearly remember the demotivating images of my future self that were unfolding before my eyes, making clear in a subtle way that “institutional” psychology was not my path to follow towards self-fulfillment. So I did not apply for any psychology majors in the end, even though I would have been admitted to any of them based on my grades.
I finally chose Dutch Studies at the Liberal Arts Department of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, for a number of reasons. First of all, I wanted make sure that my choice was a secure one, and I already regarded my outstanding language skills as a conscious ability that I could always rely on in the future in order to make ends meet. After having studied popular languages such as German, English and Italian at high school, I now wanted to master a scarce foreign language that was not spoken by too many Hungarians. I chose Dutch as through my Dutch godparents I had already been having quite some contact with the culture and language since I was a child. My Hungarian godfather, who is one of my father’s best friends, married a Dutch woman in the 70’s and emigrated to the Netherlands where they would have five (bilingual) children together. My family and I would meet them every summer as they would come and spend several weeks in their Hungarian house, but we would also travel quite a lot to visit them in the Netherlands. Since I had always loved the peculiar sound of Dutch, and several aspects of the Dutch culture had always been appealing to me as well, I let this particular, seemingly coincidental family circumstance define my study choice.
My decision soon turned out to be a good one, as everything was going as smooth as possible with regard to the study. I was absorbing the language like a sponge which had become my passion in the meantime, so much so that even in my free time I was reading Dutch literature. Reading and writing had always been an important “refuge” for me, and that was particularly so in the difficult years to come that were marked by my mother’s cancer and long demise, followed by the mourning period, and a psychic metamorphosis at last. As always, life had to go on, but considering my strong Martian and Saturnian nature it was actually very helpful for me to go and study a semester on scholarship at the Utrecht University in the meantime, facing a great deal of intellectual challenges, as well as to start teaching English and Dutch to small groups of people, which was keeping me spirited too.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree, I didn't feel motivated enough to pursue a master's degree, so I started working. I was hired at an international company in Budapest where I continued to utilize my language and people skills in the world of HR, with a satisfactory salary and great working conditions. For a short time, I also got lost in the infamous maze of being a well-paid corporate employee, which had brought a growing sense of emptiness and aimlessness into my life. My laziness and apathy led to an increasing psychic tension that was made manifest by minor illnesses. Out of a sudden I was offered a way out from this hard learning phase, as I got an unexpected call from a friend, who had recently emigrated to the Netherlands, asking me I wanted to move to Utrecht, now that the other room in his rental had become vacant. It was one of those rare and unspeakable moments in life when the future potential of something is distinct in the present moment, and therefore it fills one up with divine motivation. I had every reason to feel that way, as I was saying yes to almost for years in the Netherlands, blissfully unaware that this period was going to become the most turbulent and transformative period of my life.
After my move, I immediately began to “attract” all the things that I needed to make a quantum leap in my individualization process. First of all, in a turbulent relationship I got relentlessly confronted with my own shadow that I had been projecting onto my lovers, and that gave me the chance to become conscious of certain complexes of mine that would otherwise have been restricting my further spiritual growth by their unconscious way of working. I also got a satisfactory part-time job at the HR department of an international company, which left me enough free time to establish a new lifestyle and to broaden my horizon. This is when astrology came into my life like an explosion, and after a few months of intensive self-education I decided to study it officially, as I already knew that I had found my greatest passion which I wanted to pursue professionally as well. And then I attracted a mentor and a school where, in addition to the psychological aspects (“how do I operate and why do I behave like this?”), the metaphysical perspective (“for what purpose am I the way that I am?”) was given equal emphasis. I feel like it was part of my destiny to wind up at the school of Dick van der Mark, and to learn from him — not only because of his exceptional astrological knowledge, but also because of his moral teachings about spirituality in a broader sense, for which I am ever grateful.
The acquisition of Dutch has ultimately proven to be an instrument for exploring important astrological and spiritual oeuvres that are not widely known in Hungary. Now that I have returned home after completing my “pilgrimage”, it is my personal mission to adapt and advance them within the framework of my consultations. Among them, it was undoubtedly Karen Hamaker-Zondag, a world-renowned Dutch astrologer, who has made the greatest impact on me. I experienced my first encounter with her work at the age of 24 the same way I experienced discovering Jung’s work at the age of 15. Hamaker-Zondag played the same key role in incorporating Jungian psychology in astrology such as the well-known Liz Greene or Stephen Arroyo, but while their books have been extensively translated into Hungarian, only two of Hamaker-Zondag's complete oeuvre (consisting of more than 35 books) have been published in Hungarian. In English and German there are far more translations available, but many of her important books are still only accessible in Dutch, which is a great pity, considering everything that she has written down, already in the first years of her astrological career. In 1978, at the age of 26, she published her first book “Planetary Symbolism in the Horoscope”, in which she clearly and coherently laid out the indisputable similarities between astrology and Jungian psychology. In her books she illustrates in many ways how the Jungian interpretation of even the most basic astrological components (such as elements and modalities) yields a much more complex picture about the human psyche, and how the Jungian “reading” of the natal chart can shed light on inner dynamics that would otherwise remain undiscoverable or incomprehensible.
Nevertheless, during my studies in the Netherlands I became acquainted with several contemporary astrological methods, and as a result I began to open up to new dimensions. By this I primarily mean the method laid down by Jean Carteret in France and then further developed by George Bode in the Netherlands. It works with the so called invisible luminaries (the lunar nodes, Lilith, Priapus, Black Sun, Diamond, etc.), and by analogy with the revolutionary metaphysical discoveries of the last century, it transcends the purely psychological approach, examining the origin and mission of the soul, along with its relation to higher dimensions. It is absolutely astonishing what we can learn about our hidden spiritual dimensions with this technique. For that matter I could also mention the pioneering theosophical work of Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner or Alice Bailey (of whom Bailey founded her own esoteric astrology), as well as the increasingly well-known evolutionary astrology represented by Jeffrey Green or Steven Forrest. In any case, it is certain that there are more and more new, alternative astrological trends, while astronomical discoveries have accelerated as well. The numerous newly discovered celestial bodies are revealing to us that there are even more archetypal driving forces within us than we originally thought, and in the Age of Aquarius it is time we understood those as well.
In light of all this, it may seem paradoxical, though it is actually very logical, that it is in the very midst of all these innovations that I feel the greatest urge to stay true to my “roots” as well — which is to me the psychology of Carl Jung and the Jungian astrology of Hamaker-Zondag. Although I'm applying three types of astrological systems for my consulting work, in my experience it is still the conceptual system of Jung's psychology that offers the most effective support in establishing extensive self-knowledge, which then necessarily results in better acceptance of ourselves and better tolerance of our fellow human beings. And it's not as if we have to compete against time at all costs — since “how” is always more important in the end than “when” —, but Jungian astrology can accelerate the progress of our self-awareness very effectively, preventing us from becoming our own worst enemy over the years, and from wasting the precious time and energy that we could invest for the purpose of our self-fulfillment.
Like many others, I have also been through difficult crises and periods full of pain and fear before arriving at the central path of my life, which is far from the easiest of the many walkable paths — but that is exactly why it is the most gracious one. Today, I want to help others in this process: on the one hand, to recognize the path that the universe has set for them, and on the other hand, to find the courage within themselves to set foot on it. As we have been given our skills and talents to complete this individual “pilgrimage”, we can only develop them to the fullest if we are actually walking it. And if we manage to stay on it despite all the ordeals, we will always receive divine providence — even if it’s not always in the exact same way or right at the time that the personal interests of our ego need it the most.
27 December 2021
Kristóf Csörnyei
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