This Jungian Life Podcast The Age of Aquarius: A Jungian View of a Changing World
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Mar 26, 2026 They explore Jung's idea that humanity is shifting from Piscean to Aquarian symbolism and what that cultural transition feels like. They trace historical eons and how collective breakdowns spur renewal. They unpack Aquarius themes: holding opposites, inner authority, and new symbols from UFOs to mandalas. They link individuation, dream work, and technology to the challenges of living through this turbulent shift.
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Archetypal Ages Shape Cultural Ethics
- Jung used astrology to map long rhythmic shifts in collective consciousness, proposing eras like Taurus, Aries, Pisces and a coming Aquarius.
- These 2,000-year aeons alter dominant archetypal images and thus reshape cultural ethics and institutions, not overnight but through breakdown and renewal.
From Piscean Certainty To Holding Opposites
- The Piscean age privileged faith, moral certainty, and external authority, requiring splitting into clear goods and evils.
- Jung saw the emerging Aquarian task as holding opposites consciously rather than swimming unconsciously in Piscean waters.
Archetypes Wax And Wane Like Midlife Crises
- Jung suggested archetypal dominance can wane and new archetypes arise, forcing collective spasms of breakdown before emergence.
- He compared this to midlife psychic crises: painful but necessary for new attitudes to take hold.