Carl Jung used more astrology than the establishment gave him credit for. Over the course of his career, both he and his colleagues felt pressured to silence him about his belief in astrology. When Jung and Freud sailed to the US to talk to the college of psychotherapists, right as their relationship was fracturing, Jung said,
“sympathetic connection between psyche and cosmos”
Britain: Jung started to get interested in astrology with Helena Blavatsky, Theosophical Society, founded in 1875, and hermetic order of the Golden Dawn, founded by William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and William Robert Woodman in 1888. Theosophical astrologers such as Alan Leo,… were conecertend with wha the natal horoscope might indicate about the individual’s spiritual development…Although astrologers involved in the Golden Dawn and other occult societies used horoscopes for characterological and divinatory purposes, particularly in assessing the suitability of a neophyte for initiation and the correct timing of a magical ritual, their focus was more interior and provided a prototype for the psychological approach to astrology that Jung himself developped.- pg. 16.
Time he worked on Liber Novus.
In a lengthy letter to the French astrologer André Barbault, written in 1954, Jung declared, `There are many instances of striking analogies between astrological constellations and psychological events… Astrology, like the collective unconscious with which psychology is concerned, consists of symbolic configurations: the “planets” are the gods, symbols of the powers of the unconcsious… I would say that the astrologer does not always consider hist statements to be mere possibilities. The interpretation is sometimes too literal and not symbolic enough.” pg. 16 and 17.
Jung’s concern about keeping his sastrological work under wraps is also evident in a letter written in 1953 by the American psychotherapist Ira Progoff (1921-1998), whoc studied with jung in Zurich from 1952 to 1955, to Cary F. Baynes, who translated a number of Jung’s works into English:
“You’ll be very interested to know that Dr. J. has advised me to study Astrology when I get back… he says that every analyst should be equipped with it because there are borderline cases where it gives a very valuable clue. I don’t think he would like it known that he holds Astrology in such respect. Altho, he did say that he doesnt’ feel that he needs to be as cautious about it as he used to be.” pg 17