MEd(Hons), MNZAP, Registered Psychotherapist, Archetypal Astrologer
ANZSJA CGJI Training Candidate: Jungian Psychoanalysis
Auckland New Zealand
Welcome to my website.
I am available for consultations in Auckland,
New Zealand, and also by Skype for those
who live outside the Auckland region.
I offer both counselling and longer term analytic psychotherapy to clients 18 years and over.
Sessions are generally scheduled on a regular weekly basis. A limited number of evening times are available.
In my analytic psychotherapy practice I work predominantly from a Jungian perspective which places high value on
the role of the symbol, myth, image and dreams and other creative products of the unconscious. My areas of special
interest include individual archetypal patterning; major life transitions (Early Adult transition, Midlife transition, Late
Adult transition) and the transitional experience of the liminal zone; the Individuation process; dream work; early life trauma and developmental arrest; anxiety and depression; loss and grief; relationship issues.
Astrological consultations are available for those seeking to understand their individual archetypal patterning and
constitutional characteristics, and their experience of life - its cycles, its ups and downs, the crises and the breakthroughs, the periods of major change and transformation. An archetypal perspective serves as a particularly useful referential guide during the major transitional passages experienced by each of us over the course of the life cycle. These passages, while essentially purposive and developmentally significant, can be experienced as disorienting, confusing, and even traumatic, unless we have ways to make meaningful sense of what is occurring at personal and transpersonal levels of experience.
From an archetypal cycles' perspective, the human life-cycle unfolds through a series of stages in much the same way
as the annual seasonal cycle. Each of the four 'seasons' or stages of life – pre-adulthood, early adulthood, midlife, and
late adulthood - has its own evolutionary emphasis and each is 'bridged' by a period of transition which extends over several years, a 'betwixt and between' phase characterized by change and reorganisation. In this liminal zone of 'seasonal change' we can expect to find ourselves less secured or constrained by our former realities and sense of identity, with the freedom, and the necessity, to heed he dictates of our own individual but archetypally informed evolutionary process. At each of these major thresholds - early adult transition (17 – 23 years), midlife transition (36 - 45 years) and late adult transition (59 - 65 years) - we are challenged to undergoa symbolic death and transformation, prompted yet again to depart the enclosure of life's harbours and to embark on a journey into the unknown to rediscover ourselves anew.
Available services:
- Jungian Analytic Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy
- Counselling
- Supervision
- Astrology: counselling and consultation
Natal charts
Individual archetypal patterning &
constitutional characteristics;
Transit trends: 45 degree graphic ephemeris
Major life transitions
Synastry
Astrocartography
Cell: 0210674676
Skype: rachael.feather54
Consultations: Kingsland, Auckland
Analytical Psychology
& Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy:
Dr Dale Dodd - Jungian Training Analyst,
Australian & New Zealand Society of
Jungian Analysts CG Jung Institute,
Auckland'.
Analysis began nearly a century ago with Freud´s Psychoanalyse in Vienna and Jung's Analytische Psychologie in
Zurich. Contemporary schools of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have evolved from their early collaboration with
Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Kohutian and Lacanian clinicians now represented within New Zealand. As an intensive
psychotherapy, psychoanalysis involves a commitment to the exploration of the depths and subtleties of the psyche.
Analytic sessions are often more frequent and over a longer period of time than is generally the case in psychotherapy
or counselling. The fundamental goal of analysis is the freeing of the psyche to express itself creatively and meaningfully.
Analysis involves a thorough revisiting of early childhood and subsequent developmental issues. The analysis of
dreams and other symbolic expressions of the unconscious, together with exploration of the transference relationship between the analysand and the analyst, assist the analysand to resolve problems that re-emerge. Analysts have undertaken years of post-professional training including extensive personal analysis in preparation for their analysis of others. Qualified analysts are members of international associations with defined codes of professional practice.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapists also make use of psychoanalytic theory and practice and have had personal experience of analysis and supervision by an analyst as part of their training.
'Whatever is born or done in this moment of time has the quality of this moment in time'1
Carl Jung
An Introduction to Archetypal Astrological Analysis
Richard Tarnas, Ph.D.
A birth chart or natal chart is a portrait of the heavens at the moment of one’s birth. The Sun, Moon, and planets are
positioned around the chart to reflect their positions around the Earth when one was born. For example, where the
symbol for the Sun ( ) is located in the chart reflects the time of day one was born: thus if one was born at noon, the
Sun would be at the top of the chart (called the Midheaven), while if one was born at dawn the Sun would be shown
rising on the left side of the chart near the eastern horizon (called the Ascendant).
The main difference between the natal chart and the astronomical reality it portrays is that the natal chart has two
dimensions rather than three, and it does not reflect the varying distances of the planets from the Earth. What the birth
chart does convey is the exact pattern of angular relationships existing between the planets and the Earth at the time
and place of one’s birth. The basic principle of astrology is that the planets have a fundamental, cosmically based
connection to specific archetypal forces or principles which influence human existence, and that the patterns formed
by the planets in the heavens bear a meaningful correspondence to the patterns of human affairs on the Earth. In terms
of individuals, the positions of the planets at the time and place of a person's birth are regarded as corresponding to the
basic archetypal patterns of that person's life and character.
Astrology makes possible a further understanding of one's life-- its cycles, its ups and downs, the crises and the
breakthroughs, the periods of major change and transformation--through the study of transits. Transits occur when the
planets currently in the sky form certain geometrical patterns with respect to the planetary positions at one's birth.
The nature of those patterns--which planets are involved and how they are positioned--appears to correlate in a strikingly
consistent way with the archetypal character of the experiences one tends to have at that time.
Image by Frederick Hundertwasser
'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 unconscious'.2
Carl Jung
References:
1. C.G. Jung (1930) InMemory of Richard Wilhelm, memorial address delivered in Munich, 10 May 1930. Included in
Jung's Foreward and Commentary in Wilhelms' The Secret of the Golden Flower, from 1957 onwards.
2. C.G.Jung (1954),Letters (London: RKP), letter to Andre Barbault, 26 May 1954, p. 175-177.
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