Cosmos and Psyche — Book Guide
Richard Tarnas's Cosmos and Psyche (2006): planetary cycles, archetypal patterns, participatory epistemology — summary and key ideas.
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View (Richard Tarnas, 2006) argues that planetary cycles correlate with archetypal patterns in history and biography.
Core thesis
The modern disenchanted cosmos can be re-read through a participatory epistemology: the knower and known co-participate; planetary alignments mirror archetypal dynamics.
Example
The 1960s Uranus–Pluto conjunction is analyzed as aligning with revolutionary cultural upheaval — an interpretive case study, not a laboratory causal proof.
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