The
Family Inheritance
Parental Images in the Horoscope
Juliet Sharman-Burke
This
volume offers new insights and a compassionate approach to
our psychological inheritance. It explores in depth the images
we carry of our parents and our experience of the kind of
relationship they created with each other, which is also the
kind of relationship we tend to create ourselves in adulthood.
Parents are patterns, and no amount of effort can eradicate
these inherent patterns which are passed down to us over generations.
Rather than avoiding our roots, we must learn to understand,
live with, honour, and express them as creatively as possible.
Part
One, Images of Mother and Father in the Natal Horoscope,
presents material on planets in the 4th and 10th houses
as they reflect the individual's perceptions of the parents
in the birth chart. Family patterns associated with the
planets are explored, as well as how the parental unconscious
may affect children and the hidden psychological dynamics
of the family inheritance which drive all of us in adulthood.
Planets placed in the parental houses are carefully examined,
not as a means of "blaming" one's family background, but
in terms of how they reflect the individual's own experience
of and feelings toward each parent, and how greater consciousness
of these feelings and experiences can help to break destructive
patterns and release creative energy for the individual.
Seminar participants contribute their own experiences of
planets in the parental houses, creating a lively interchange.
Part
Two, Zodiac Myths and their Correlation with Parental Images,
emphasises the enormous value of looking at charts through
mythic eyes. This seminar concentrates on the parental signatures
in the horoscope by exploring the meaning and ramifications
of the zodiacal signs at the MC and the IC, and the myths
associated with those signs. The myths of the zodiac are told
and discussed psychologically, particularly in terms of how
they reflect the images of the parents - their personalities
and behaviour - as seen through the eyes of the individual.
Myths are invariably embedded in and disguised by personal
experience, and the discovery of the mythic backdrop underpinning
the personal experience of the parents can be enormously healing,
not only for the individual but also for his or her actual
relationship with the parents. Group participation in the
material fleshes out the archetypal images and gives direct
and immediate insight into how these mythic themes are enacted
in individual lives.
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