THE SALOMÉ PODCAST
Season 1:
C.G. Jung’s Red Book + Astrology
In each podcast episode, Director of The Salome Institute, Satya Doyle Byock & Astrologer Carol Ferris, explore Carl Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book. Audio is adapted from the live Sunday salons begun online in March, 2020.
Satya & Carol discuss Jung’s vast work chapter-by-chapter while reflecting on themes ranging from Jungian psychology and the history of depth psychology to the astrological relationship between Jung's time and ours, to the feminist, anti-racist, and anti-fascist relevance of this work today.
C.G. Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. It was this descent, laboriously documented in a large red leather book, that underlies all of Analytical Psychology, also known as Jungian Psychology.
You do not need to be steeped in Jungian Psychology nor in astrology to enjoy these episodes.
Satya & Carol make this work socially and personally relevant for people of all backgrounds, even those with little experience with this material.
You can order your own copy of Jung’s magnum opus to follow along with the reading: The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition, or the larger facsimile edition.
Click above to find the show on your favorite streaming platform
Thank you for your support of this work. Your donations keep this material free and available to the public.
Episode 1: The Astrology of Jung's Red Book
An introduction to our hosts psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock and astrologer Carol Ferris, as they embark on a socially relevant exploration of Carl Jung’s Red Book through the astrology of those extraordinary times, and ours.
Satya provides a summary of the content of The Red Book and Jungian Psychology, as well as a feminist reading of Jung's work.
Astrologer Carol Ferris uses an astrological lens to explore the nature of Jung's descent into the unconscious that began in 1913, and its relationship to the outbreak of WWI.
In this episode we also explore precognition, "The Spirit of the Depths," "The Spirit of the Times," the Battle of the Marne, Jung's natal horoscope, and the horoscopes of 2020, amidst the outbreak of Covid-19 in United States and around the world.
This scholarship on Jungian Psychology and The Red Book is presented by Portland Astrologer Carol Ferris, and The Salome Institute Director and psychotherapist, Satya Doyle Byock.
Astrological Charts:
Recorded March 22, 2020 Portland, OR
Episode 2: Emma Jung, Toni Wolff, & C.G. Jung
Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris begin to explore Carl Jung's Red Book and the relevance for our times, chapter by chapter.
Satya introduces a feminist reading of Jung's work, along with Emma Jung and Toni Wolff as instrumental companions in Jung's deep dive into the unconscious.
Carol explores the horoscopes of Emma, Toni, and Jung and of Jung's call to his own soul on November 12th & 13th, 1913 and the deep contraction of winter.
The two also explore the essence of Active Imagination.
Chapters: "The Way of What is to Come," "Refinding the Soul," & "Soul and God."
Astrological Charts:
Recorded March 29, 2020
Episode 3: The Spirit of the Times & The Spirit of the Depths
In this episode, Satya & Carol explore Carl Jung's Red Book in three more early chapters, discussing Jungian Psychology and Astrology, and the power of creative response and engagement with the Unconscious. The discussions explore the social relevance of Jung's psychology and what is has to offer individuals in these times.
The two weave-in Elizabeth Gilbert's thoughts on Genius and Creativity and a further exploration of "the Spirit of the Times," Active Imagination, and more as they accompany Jung into "The Desert."
Chapters: "The Desert," Experiences in the Desert," & "Descent into Hell in the Future."
Recorded April 5th, 2020
Episode 4: Killing the Hero, Death & Resurrection
In this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book, Satya & Carol discuss the value of killing the hero, the myth of Siegfried, leadership, ideas of God, the duality of good and evil, soul, the feminine soul, and an emphasis on the idea of linear growth versus a circular existence.
Carol compares Jung's natal horoscope with the horoscope of Jung's visions on December 14th, 1913.
Chapters: “Splitting of the Spirit” + “Murder of the Hero” + “The Conception of the God”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded April 12th, 2020
Episode 5: Salome & Elijah, Pleasure & Thinking
In this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung meets Elijah & Salome.
Satya explores the masculine and feminine in Jung's psychology, the meaning of thinking versus feeling, the importance of engaging with the inner, rejected soul, & Jung's Seminar of 1925. Carol illuminates the horoscope of Jung's "Mysterium Encounter" and so much more.
Chapters: “Mysterium Encounter," & “Instruction”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded April 19th, 2020
Episode 6 : The Union of Opposites & The Value of Evil
Satya Doyle Byock breaks-down the Christian history of the young Salome and updates it with a feminist lens. Carol Ferris illuminates the horoscope December 25, 1913. Jung encounters Salome and Elijah on Christmas. This episode explores crucifixion and resurrection, good and evil, projection, and suffering, the collapse of systems amidst the contraction of winter, matter and time. Ann Carroll translates the German word for “forethinking.”
Chapters: "Resolution"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded April 26th, 2020
Episode 7: Encountering the Devil as Joy
In this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung encounters his devil in “The Red One.” Our hosts Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris reintroduce themselves and their background with the Red Book. Carol jumps into I Ching reading Hexagram #5 and the topics of waiting, suffering, pleasure and fantasy, while Satya touches on racism and reads Rumi’s The Guest House. Carol reads Ursula K. Le Guin and Satya introduces Ann Carroll as resident German translator.
Chapters: “The Red One”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded May 3rd, 2020
Episode 8: Tootsie & The Experience of Being Female
In this episode, C.G. Jung's visions take him to “The Castle in the Forest.” Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris explore the psychological experience of patriarchy and the dismissal of the feminine, Sydney Pollock’s Tootsie, Jung dressing in drag, Edward Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche, and Dante's Inferno. They embark on an impassioned discussion on the nature of projection. Carol reviews the feminine planet, Venus, and the masculine planet, Mars in Jung’s natal chart. Ann Carroll translates the German word for “joy.” This is one of the richest stories of Jung's Red Book.
Chapters: "Castle in the Forest."
Astrological Charts:
Recorded May 10, 2020
Episode 9: How Jung Can Heal the Patriarchy
In this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book, Carol Ferris and Satya Doyle Byock continue to explore how Jung confronts his own toxic masculinity and heals the discarded feminine soul. Jung contemplates gender, "manliness, the contra-sexual soul of Men and Women, and psychological androgyny. Carol Ferris discusses the complexities of relational life and the horoscopes Toni Wolff, Emma & Carl Jung. Satya reads about "projective identification" from Jung’s Collected Works No. 7, Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, and Ai-jen Poo’s TedTalk on domestic workers. Ann Carroll translates the German words for “joy,” “pleasure” and “lust.”
Chapter: “The Castle in the Forest”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded May 17, 2020
Episode 10: Carl Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous & The Shadow
In this episode exploring Carl Jung's Red Book and its political and social relevance for our times, Jung encounters his shadow in "The Lowly." Satya Doyle Byock introduces Jung’s ideas on the shadow and individuation. Carol Ferris illuminates the horoscope of this night, December 29th, 1913 and discusses the lowly depths of the ocean. Ann Carroll discusses alcoholism, addiction and homelessness and C.G. Jung’s contribution to the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, AA.
Chapters: “One of the Lowly”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded May 17, 2020
Episode 11: George Floyd, Baldwin, Jung & Black Lives Matter
Hosts Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris step away from the chronology of The Red Book to discuss the grief and rage surrounding George Floyd's death and police brutality. In solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the nightly protests in Minneapolis at the time, Satya explores the projection of white people onto Black citizens through James Baldwin’s Letter from a Region in My Mind and Jung’s The Undiscovered Self. Carol explores Venus retrograde and the alchemy of hard-won love.
Chapters: No chapter today -- Black Lives Matter
Letter from a Region in My Mind, James Baldwin
Letter to a Young Activist, Satya Doyle Byock
Astrological Charts:
Recorded May 31, 2020
Episode 12: The Anchorite, Paganism, and Living One's Myth
Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris explore Jungian Psychology and what it means to live one's myth, one's animal life, and follow one's own calling. Satya and Carol discuss introverted life and action versus extroverted life as Jung speaks with a monk he encounters living alone in the desert for ten years. Additional topics include the difference between science and soul, the greening of the desert, and the image of the inverted tree.
Chapters: "The Anchorite" & "Dies II"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded June 7, 2020
Episode 13: Death, Hell, Pluto & the Mess of Existence
Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris explore the darkness of Hell, Pluto, and Death through Jung's journey. Carol discusses the astrology and archetypal nature of Pluto. Satya explores the inherent mess of existence. Carol dives into the horoscope of the Birth of America in 1776 and Pluto's role. Other topics include Buckminster Fuller's "trim tab", Nietzsche, the Divine Mother, Joy, and the dualities of vice & virtue, hot & cold, good & evil, and what it means collectively for the return of the Feminine.
Chapters: "Death" & "The Remains of Earlier Temples"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded June 14, 2020
Episode 14: Science Has Taken the Capacity of Belief
Carol Ferris and Satya Doyle Byock explore Jung's deep contemplation on the potential harm of scientific thinking and the power of fantasy through the encounter with Izdubar. "The real is what works," Jung says. This chapter has a relationship to Gilgamesh and the pursuit of immortality. Carol begins this week's exploration discussing eclipses and times of abundance. Jung begins to pursue the meaning of magic and fantasy. Izdubar and Jung dialogue about Truth and where Truth is found in various forms.
Chapter: "First Day"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded June 21, 2020
(Father's Day)
Episode 15: For Izdubar, Fantasy is the Other Reality
Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris explore "where healing comes from." Satya introduces depth psychological concepts through Audre Lorde's "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "Uses of the Erotic." Carol reads from the epic of Gilgamesh, the work of Ursula K. le Guin, and reflects on ancestry & love in the work of mythologist Kwame Scruggs. Q&A is alive with the topics "political bypass", psychic-reality, the astrological return to care, and forgiveness in the works of Hannah Arendt.
Chapter: “Second Day”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded June 28, 2020
Episode 16: Jung Finds His Inner Mother & Incubates an Egg
In this episode Jung opens his Egg. Carol Ferris discusses duality, Kathleen Raine, William Blake and James Hillman. Satya Doyle Byock shares a Gilgamesh Dream and explores the animus / anima binary. A guest, Leonora, illuminates the images in this chapter. Ann Carroll translates the German word for “evil” and the original meaning of "sin.” Q&A, features anti-racist dream-work, the intersection of the material and the quantum, and a heart-felt story of recently departed Swan.
Chapters: “Incantations” & “The Opening of the Egg"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded June 28, 2020
Episode 17: The Torture of the Maiden & The Eye of the Evil One
While Jung enters "Hell" and experiences torture, Satya Doyle Byock and Carol Ferris reflect on the federal occupation of their hometown, Portland, OR. Carol, Satya, and Ann Carroll explore the symbolism of The Eye. Carol discusses narrative time, collective trauma, the underworld & WWII. Satya explores projection, shadow & redemption, and the typology of Introverted Sensation. Q&A opens up topics such as the myth of Athena, Medusa, and the symbolism of masks.
Chapter: “Hell”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded July 19, 2020
Episode 18: Murder, Blood, Guilt: Jung Receives The Sacrament
Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris dive into The Red Book's most visceral chapter in which Jung eats the liver of a murdered girl. Carol discusses the role of the liver in Chinese Medicine, Jung's natal chart, astrology of this chapter, & the science fiction in world-making. Satya discusses animal embodiment, humanity's relation to the guilt of existence, the image of and the reclamation of evil. Ann Carrol translates the German word for “mensch.”
Chapter: “The Sacrificial Murder”
Astrological Charts:
Jung Hell, The Sacrificial Murder
Recorded July 26, 2020
Episode 19: The Imitation of Christ, Nietzsche, and Jung
Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris enter a series of more playful Red Book chapters, beginning with "Divine Folly" in which Jung departs from his own religiosity to express the critical importance of living one's own existence. Jung picks up a copy of "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis and starts a dialogue with the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Carol illuminates the astrology of January 14th, 1914 and the Grand Cardinal Cross in Jung's horoscope. Ann Carroll explores Western Civilization's wrestling with the 2,000 year-old Christian narrative. Satya defines courage as vulnerability and inner work.
Chapter: “Divine Folly”
Recorded August 9, 2020
Episode 20: The Serpentine Path to Wholeness
Satya & Carol discuss C.G. Jung's "Red Book" and its social relevance for our times. In this episode, Jung enters through the left door and deconstructs man’s prejudice toward animals. Satya discusses the “serpentine path to wholeness" and how to reclaim one's embodied self from the projection onto animals. Carol reminds us the Zodiac is not an idle abstraction. Ann Carroll illuminates the image of the cook through Erich Neumann’s "The Great Mother."
Chapter: “Nox Secunda”
Astrological Charts:
Recorded August 15th, 2020
Episode 21: Madness, Neptune, Nietzsche & The Collective Unconscious
In this episode, Jung enters the madhouse. Satya Doyle Byock explores Jung's early training with schizophrenia and his patients' contribution to the discovery of the collective unconscious. Carol Ferris discusses the concept of world-making, the dissolution of reality, and the alchemical powers of Neptune. Carol examines the horoscope of 1/18/1914. Ann Carroll explores Nietzsche and reads from "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" in a discussion on madness.
Chapter: "Nox Tertia"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded August 23, 2020
Episode 22: Parsifal Got Out of the Wasteland by Uniting Left and Right
Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris discuss the Union of the Opposites within Jungian Psychology. Carol explores Parsifal and the Wasteland at length and how it relates to Jung’s journey. Ann Carroll explores the gender translation in this chapter. The image of Atmaviktu shows up, a many-armed dragon creature and symbol of God. Carol discusses the 12th house and Jupiter. Q&A explores racism, projection, and cleansing with dirt.
Chapter: "Nox Quarta"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded August 30, 2020
Episode 23: Prophecy & The Coming New Religion
Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris read this chapter in call and response fashion. Carol discusses the similarity of our time to Jung’s and reads from Paul Shepard's "Nature and Madness." Both accompany Jung into the complexities of maturation and psychological adulthood. Satya discusses her manuscript on Quarterlife, and Jungian psychology for younger adults. She also reads Max Zeller’s dream of the 600-year-coming religion and Jung's thoughts.
Chapter: "The Three Prophecies"
Astrological Charts:
Recorded September 20, 2020
Episode 24: Carl Jung and Rilke on the Future and Fate
In this episode, Carl Jung is in conversation with his Soul about the gift of magic. Satya Doyle Byock reflects on the uncanny similarity between Jung and Rilke on fate and future, she explores the meaning of Shuddering and Jung’s journey into embodiment through the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Youth Who Goes off in Search of Fear.” Carol Ferris explores Jung's many paintings in this section, hexagram 38 of the I Ching, the symbolism of snake bites, the Greek Moirai, Anthropos, and astrologer Liz Greene. Ann Caroll provides a translation for “Solace” and a discussion of comfort which leads to a new reading of this chapter. Q&A explores potentiality, the Gospel of Thomas, Yoda and The Force, Stanislav Grof, and the tools of Magic.
Chapter: “The Gift of Magic”
Astrological Horoscopes for Episode 24
Recorded September 27th, 2020
Episode 25: Together like Philemon and Baucis in the Age of Aquarius
This episode follows the news of the White House super spreader event and the president and white house staffers testing positive for COVID-19.
As Jung arrives at the "portal of a great mystery" our hosts explore the various definitions of magic in Jung's Red Book, Satya speaks to Jung’s notion of individuation, the need to relinquish will power in favor of psyche, and the pain of going one’s own way. Ann Carroll speaks to Nietzsche, Will to Power, and Jung’s wrestling with Nietzsche’s “failed individuation." Satya and Carol explore the meaning of the Symbol. Satya reads from Jung’s "Psychological Types" and refers to Gandhi and Mandela’s experiences in prison. Carol shares a "decumbature" chart showing the movement of planets from the 12th House to the 1st in Jung's Chart at "The Way of the Cross." Carol discusses snakes, serpents, incubation dreams, and the image of the snake coming out of the mouth. Carol introduces Shawn Nygaard, an astrologer, to share some thoughts on the images. Satya emphasizes fantasy as Jung’s return to the feminine and offers an analogy of “the crazy girlfriend” as the neglected soul gone crazy
Chapter: "The Way of the Cross"
Astrological Charts:
Episode 26: Together like Philemon and Baucis in the Age of Aquarius
Carol Ferris read’s from "the Magician" and illuminates the intersection of healing, time, and space, weaving in the mythology of Philemon and Baucis as she and Satya explore the union of opposites with Philemon and Baucis, and Elijah and Salome. Satya tracks the feminine in Jung’s "Red Book" as Baucis stands in the kitchen. Carol discusses the coming into form of the yin yang pair of opposites. Jung asks where does one go to learn magic? Carol incorporates the Six Conformations of Chinese Medicine and Satya discusses the history of Jung’s psychology as it leads to Taoism and the union of the opposites. Satya & Carol discuss the Ego-Self Axis, Jedi’s, the Force, Karate Kid, and the importance of practice in connecting to the divine and the rhizome-like nature of the unconscious. Carol discusses the thinker and magician, David Abram. Carol speaks to the Age of Aquarius, The Great Ages (see chart), and when the “I” becomes “We.” Q&A touches on Tecumseh’s Curse, Baucis in the Kitchen, Jung & Quantum Physics, a return to our animal selves, the etymology of anima, and the somatic of Jungian Psychology.
Chapter: "The Magician" Pt. 1
Astrological Charts:
Recorded October 11, 2020
Episode 27: Toni Wolff, The Black Books, and The Magician
As The Red Book nears conclusion, Satya & Carol explore the second half of "The Magician." Satya reflects on the origins of this podcast and its synchronistic ending with the release of The Black Books. Carol reflects on the beginnings of Jung's journey with the horoscope of October 13th, 1913, highlighting the explosive energy of Jupiter in both our time and Jung's.
Carol explores the image of the serpent as woman and looks to Michelangelo's Adam, Eve and The Serpent in the Sistine Chapel.
Satya highlights a shift in Jung's tone from surrender and query to enchantment and assertion. She relates Toni Wolff to Salomé, then quotes from the recently released Black Books, illustrating the influence of Toni Wolff on Jung, and Jung's need to make her "go away."
The episode concludes with a discussion of feminism in Switzerland. Next week: a dive into Scrutinies.
Chapter : “The Magician." Part 2.
Astrological Charts :
Recorded October 18, 2020
Episode 28: Jung's Epilogue, Scrutinies, and the Seven Sermons of the Dead
In this final episode of our journey, Satya begins by reading Jung’s Epilogue to the Red Book from 1959.
Satya and Carol discuss Scrutinies, what Sonu Shamdasani considers the third book of "The Red Book." They talk about the recent synchronistic publication of "The Black Books." Satya breaks down the history of Scrutinies and The Seven Sermons of the Dead.
Satya explores Richard Wilhelm and the Secret of the Golden Flower, and Jung's emerging understanding of Alchemy.
Carol shares the horoscope from this time and the shift from the 12th house to the 1st house astrologically. Jung is beginning to translate this journey into a psychology, rather than a religion. Carol and Satya read through Jung’s “Seven Sermons of the Dead” from 1916 and the strange experiences in Jung’s home, in which the Christian dead visit Jung’s home. They explore how Philemon has changed since “The Magician”. Satya concludes by returning to the beginning.
Chapter: “Scrutinies.” THE END!
Astrological Charts:
Recorded October 25, 2020