Community Dreamwork

An Interactive Seminar with Satya Doyle Byock

six sessions

Fridays, September 6th - October 11th, 2024

9-11am PT | 12-2pm ET | 5-7pm UK

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants. | Certificate for 12 Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute

This practice of community dreamwork at The Salome Institute has been an enlivening opportunity to join with others who are interested in expanding their relationship with the unconscious, symbols, and dreams.

In this series, Satya briefly introduces foundational elements of recording and observing dreams for those who are new to the practice. Then, we learn by doing and learn by observing others. In each of our six sessions, Satya will host live dreamwork for two participants who have expressed interest in “working a dream” in a live, interactive format. (Participation is never required.)

We establish a compassionate, permissive container within the group to support the witnessing of the symbol-making function of the Psyche. Through a simple, guided process, Satya invites those present to support the day’s dreamers to gain an understanding of their dream through back-and-forth dialogue.

While not everyone is able to explore their own dream with Satya and the group, everyone present learns about their own dreams, symbols, and the process of dreamwork through this form of engagement and observation.

Some optional readings on dreams and dream work may also be incorporated.

Details about Community Dreamwork at The Salome Institute:

Those who wish to work a dream in the group setting will be invited to submit their name prior to each live meeting. Trusting synchronicity—and past success with this process—dreamers’ names are selected at random and each week’s dreamers are notified in advance. The process invites the right dream for all of us at the right time, and often, a conversation between the two dreams each session.

Exploring dreams in a community allows for amplifications and associations from a wide array of experiences beyond those of Satya and the dreamer. Community dreamwork offers all participants a window into the collective unconscious, enabling us to witness our own psyches in dialogue with the numinous.

Between live sessions, all registered participants are welcome to continue exploring the dream, sharing symbolic references and other thoughts on our private online discussion space. This is a vibrant place for those who are only able to join via recording to be able to contribute as well.

Register:

Cost: $225

Self & Society Paid Subscribers: New and existing paid subscribers of Self & Society have access to a code for 15% off this class. Please look for this in your emails or send an email to inquire.

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from participating, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join us.

Readings: This course is primarily experiential; supplemental readings will be posted to the online course page and available to all participants.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants within 24 hours of the live gathering. It is not necessary to attend live.

CEU: Participants can earn 12 CEs (Continued Education Credit hours) for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the director of The Salome Institute, a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House + Penguin Press). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, goop, and on NPR, the BBC, and many podcasts. She has lectured on various topics at C.G. Jung societies in the US and the UK and is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast (now completed). She writes regularly for her Substack newsletter, Self & Society.

Community I Ching

Using Divination for Individual and Collective Guidance

A Practice Group with Satya Doyle Byock

two sessions

Saturdays, August 24th & 31st, 2024

10am-12pm PT | 1-3pm ET | 6-8pm UK

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Carl Jung was instrumental in introducing the I Ching to the Western world, and he regularly used this ancient Taoist divination tool in his own life. He found tremendous comfort in the parallels between his then burgeoning understanding of psychology as a dance between the masculine and feminine, and the Taoist pursuit of balance between the yin and the yang.

What is The I Ching?

The I Ching is a method of divination in which the rational mind is set aside for a moment to invite in the “irrational” or yin wisdom. The easiest parallel might be to the Tarot, although the Tarot is a deck of cards and The I Ching is comprised of what’s known as Hexagrams, which are arrived at by throwing three coins and recording their pattern.

No one can quite say how divination works, but once you’re in relationship with a tool like this, you experience undeniable insight. Think of it as adjusting an antenna to pick up radio signals that you wouldn’t have otherwise been able to hear.

In this two-part series, Satya Doyle Byock will introduce how to “throw” The I Ching for beginners in the first hour of four. All are welcome to attend to learn for the first time, or for review. The second hour of the first session (August 24th), and the entire second session (August 31st) will provide space for “Community I Ching” in which we ask questions individually and share responses for group reflection. Satya will facilitate throughout to support maximum insight, and safety for participants.

This book of 64 Hexagrams can be used to support self-knowledge, the development of consciousness, and an exploration of “right practice” within a struggling society. Within our time together, you are welcome to inquire into big and small life decisions, questions about personal relationships, or guidance on responding to collective suffering.

Satya encourages all registrants to purchase one or two translations of the I Ching, if you don’t already own your own copy. Her favorites for beginners are Susan Dening’s The Everyday I Ching & Stephen Karcher’s Total I Ching.

Register:

Cost: $65

Self & Society Paid Subscribers: New and existing paid subscribers of Self & Society have access to a code for 15% off this class. The code can be found here.

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from participating, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join us.

Materials: To participate fully in these sessions, you’ll need three pennies or coins of the same value; a journal and something to write with; Translations of the I Ching or you can use this online resource.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants within 24 hours of the live gathering. It is not necessary to attend live.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the director of The Salome Institute, a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House + Penguin Press). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, goop, and on NPR, the BBC, and many podcasts. She has lectured on various topics at C.G. Jung societies in the US and the UK and is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast (now completed). She writes regularly for her Substack newsletter, Self & Society and has over twenty years of experience in dreamwork and The I Ching.

June 19-23, 2024

Quarterlife, Transformation & the Summer Solstice

Led by Satya Doyle Byock
Food by Gracie Gardner
Saturn's Return Farm + Inn
San Juan Island, WA

Wednesday - Sunday | June 19-23, 2024

In two daily workshops, Satya will guide us in exploring the journeys of our own lives through exercises and discussions grounded in the framework of her book, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, centering the four pillars of growth: Separate, Listen, Build, and Integrate.

Through the use of storytelling, self-investigation, group chat, and dialogue with Satya, we'll clarify the steps we each need to Separate from past dynamics or belief systems that no longer serve us; Listen to our bodies and souls for what they know about our paths; clarify what we need to Build (or deconstruct) to make a life of stability and meaning possible; and craft a dream for how Integration in our lives might appear. You can imagine this retreat like when you re-center the navigation arrow on the map on your GPS: understanding where you are and re-centering you to move with clarity onwards on your journey.

Simple breathing exercises will be incorporated to support grounding and daily integration, and there will be plenty of space for alone time as well as downtime with others. This retreat is meant to be just that: a retreat for quiet, community, insight and self-reflection.

On the summer solstice, we’ll take to the water, journeying by boat to the outer islands where we’ll have a picnic, and who knows what else! Evenings may end in fireside chats. Mornings may be greeted by a rooster crowing, a sunrise walk, or a sleep-in. This retreat is yours to do whatever you feel called to do in the moment.

At its core, this retreat is a place for us to gather, fortify, and remember the magic of our lives, in order to welcome in the next level of ourselves. We can’t say exactly how this year’s retreats will unfold. So much of that has to do with you, those who join us. Last year we experienced kismet synchronicities, had animal visitations, and rediscovered our hunger for home-cooked food and for the limitless potential of our lives. We can’t wait to share the space with you and see what comes through this time around.

Farm Fresh Meals 

Chef Gracie Gardner will provide three daily meals, along with an opening dinner on Wednesday and closing breakfast on Sunday.  Enjoy slow mornings with self-service breakfast at the inn. Lunches and dinners will be an opportunity for us to gather, whether at a long table, a beach picnic, or in the surrounding fields. 

All food will be sourced as intentionally and as close to home as possible, much of it from Saturn's Return Farm! Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated; just let us know your preferences ahead of time.  Throughout the retreat, participants can talk with Gracie about how food and cooking can support a nourishing life. You can also join Emma of Saturn's Return to walk in the gardens, collect eggs, and harvest produce for dinner.

Cost + Registration

Cost: $1999 + lodging — various options available.

To register, we ask for a $450 non-refundable deposit. The remainder of the cost will be charged two months in advance (April 19th) and will be non-refundable. If you need an alternate payment plan, please reach out: hello@saturnsreturn.com

If finances would prohibit you from joining us but you are very interested in attending, please apply for a full or partial scholarship. We will not ask for any proof of need or a lengthy application but request that only people who are otherwise unable to join apply.

We expect this retreat to fill up very quickly, so please register if you know that you are interested or send us a note with any questions as soon as possible: hello@saturnsreturn.com

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the director of The Salome Institute, a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House + Penguin Press). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, goop, and on NPR, the BBC, and many podcasts. She has lectured on various topics at C.G. Jung societies in the US and the UK and is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast (now completed). She writes regularly for her Substack newsletter, Self & Society.

About Gracie Gardner, Chef

Gracie Gardner has worked in fine dining (Blue Hill at Stone Barns), owned and operated her own catering company (Nellie’s on Salt Spring Island), and now works as a freelance chef and writer back in her hometown of New York City. She has spent the majority of her career cooking for others, but believes that true change in one's approach to food has to come from empowering them to find joy, ease, and sacredness in feeding themselves. A pillar of a vital life. When Gracie is not cooking, she’s reading and writing, sharing her musings on her Substack, “This Morning.”

About Emma Rastatter, Host

Emma Rastatter is the co-owner of Saturn’s Return, along with her husband, Wiley. She had the privilege of working with Satya throughout her 20s via consultations to find deeper alignment: from studying biology and pre-med at Stanford, to working in health tech, and ultimately upstream to a wellspring of human and ecological health, food & farming. She worked at Blue Hill at Stone Barns as the chef Dan Barber’s assistant, where she gratefully crossed paths with Gracie. After living and working on regenerative farms across the country, she and Wiley fell in love with the farming community on San Juan Island and bought Saturn’s Return on the Summer Solstice of 2022, where she’ll weave her passions of health, food, and wholeness.

Community Dreamwork

An Interactive Seminar with Satya Doyle Byock

six sessions

Fridays, May 10 - June 14, 2024

9-11am PT | 12-2pm ET | 5-7pm UK

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants. | Certificate for 12 Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute

This practice of community dreamwork at The Salome Institute has been an enlivening opportunity to join with others who are interested in expanding their relationship with the unconscious, symbols, and dreams. In this series, Satya will introduce some foundational elements of recording and observing dreams for those who are new to the practice, as well as our process of exploring dreams in community online. Then, in each of our six sessions, Satya will host live dreamwork for two participants who have expressed interest in “working a dream” in a live, interactive format. (Participation is never required. More details below.)

As always, we’ll establish a compassionate, permissive container within the group to support the witnessing of the symbol-making function of Psyche. Through a simple, guided process, Satya will invite those present to support each dreamer to gain an understanding of their dream through back-and-forth dialogue. Everyone present learns about their own dreams, symbols, and the process of dreamwork through this form of engagement and observation.

Some optional readings on dreams and dream work will also be incorporated.

Details about Community Dreamwork at The Salome Institute:

Those who wish to work a dream in the group setting will be invited to submit their name prior to each live meetings. Trusting synchronicity—and past success with this process—dreamers’ names are selected at random and each week’s dreamers are notified in advance. The process invites the right dream for all of us at the right time, and often, a conversation between the two dreams each session.

With each dream, Satya supports the dreamer to settle into their body and “feel into” the dream for associations and amplification of images, inviting personal reflections and self-exploration. After engaging with the dreamer, Satya then invites the community to safely contribute insights through the “if this were my dream…” format: a safe, guided query into the way the dream impacts and resonates with others. Through witnessing and exploring each dream together, we learn more about the process of dreamwork, the symbols that arise from our own psyches, and ways of working with the dreams of others.

In between live sessions, all registered participants are welcome to continue exploring the dream, sharing symbolic references and other thoughts on our private online discussion space.

Register:

Cost: $225

Self & Society Paid Subscribers: New and existing paid subscribers of Self & Society have access to a code for 15% off this class. Please look for this in your emails or send an email to inquire.

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from participating, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join us.

Readings: This course is primarily experiential; supplemental readings will be posted to the online course page and available to all participants.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants within 24 hours of the live gathering. It is not necessary to attend live.

CEU: Participants can earn 12 CEs (Continued Education Credit hours) for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the director of The Salome Institute, a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House + Penguin Press). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, goop, and on NPR, the BBC, and many podcasts. She has lectured on various topics at C.G. Jung societies in the US and the UK and is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast (now completed). She writes regularly for her Substack newsletter, Self & Society.

“Memories, Dreams, Reflections” by C.G. Jung

A Study Group with Satya Doyle Byock

Six Sessions

Saturdays, March 16 - April 20, 2024

9:30-11:30am PDT | 12:30-2:30pm EDT | 5:30-7:30pm UK*

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants. | Certificate for 12 Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute | *Daylight savings time is on March 10th in the US and will temporarily disrupt time for those in the UK and elsewhere.

For so many people, Carl Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, provides an entryway into his psychology. Within its pages, we find explorations of all the major ideas in Jung’s psychology with so much relevance to our daily lives: archetypes, the collective unconscious, dreams, divination, psychic experiences, mental health and illness, the familial unconscious, the feminine and the masculine, The Red Book, near-death experiences, Christianity, yoga, Kabbalah, God, physics… it’s all here.

And while this is Jung’s memoir, it is also only kind of a memoir. Jung hesitated for years to write anything autobiographical to this extent and only agreed to collaborate on a book of this kind if its focus wouldn’t be on the accolades he received or the important people he met. For Jung, those were the least interesting aspects of his life. And so, an agreement was made and a collaboration was born. Jung’s longtime colleague and secretary, Aniela Jaffe, spent countless hours interviewing Jung and poring over his writings both published and unpublished. In the end, while MDR is known as Jung’s memoir, it is most certainly also a work of Jaffe’s.

In this six-part seminar, we will have an opportunity to explore this work together, diving into the classic stories that make up Jung’s history and the complex ideas that always beckon for greater understanding. We’ll also weave in small pieces from the recently published Reflections, Aniela Jaffe’s previously unpublished thoughts on the process of creating MDR.

Whether you’ve read this classic work several times or have yet to crack its covers, our session gatherings and lectures will broaden your understanding of the text and bring to life so many timeless ideas.

Participants will be assigned approximately 60 pages per week for preparation, though reading and live engagement are never required.

Register:

Cost: $225

Self & Society Paid Subscribers: New and existing paid subscribers of Self & Society have access to a code for 15% off this class. Please look for this in your emails or send an email to inquire.

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from participating, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join us.

Readings: You’ll want access to Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung for this seminar, available on Kindle and in paperback. Each gathering will cover approx. 60 pages of reading.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants within 24 hours of the live gathering. It is not necessary to attend live.

CEU: Participants can earn 12 CEs (Continued Education Credit hours) for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the director of The Salome Institute, a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House + Penguin Press). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, goop, and on NPR, the BBC, and many podcasts. She has lectured on various topics at C.G. Jung societies in the US and the UK and is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast (now completed). She writes regularly for her Substack newsletter, Self & Society.

After The Red Book:

Jung’s 1925 Seminar

Fridays, December 1 - 15, 2023

9 - 11am PST | 12 - 2pm EST

a three-session seminar with Satya Doyle Byock

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Jungian psychology was born from Jung’s dive into the unconscious, as captured in the Red Book. The poetic, novelesque, complex writings of that journey—unpublished until 2009—provide a great deal of insight into his thinking, but far more elucidation is required to understand the foundations of his psychology and how it came to be.

In 1925, Jung delivered a series of lectures that were his first public presentation about his Red Book. Captured in an accessible book entitled, “Introduction to Jungian Psychology,” his words provide rich entryways into his thinking and the origination of his ideas.

Each week in this three-part seminar, we’ll read and discuss “Introduction to Jungian Psychology.” It is this work that Red Book editor, Sonu Shamdasani, believes all readers should go to following an exploration of the Red Book, as it's where Jung began to thoroughly explicate his system of psychology. It is not at all necessary, however, that participants in this course have read The Red Book. No matter where you’re beginning, his 1925 seminar provides an elucidating exploration of his ideas. Some themes include Jung's typological system, the collective unconscious, archetypes, his notion of the anima and animus, and some on alchemy.

Register:

Cost: $95

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

Readings: You’ll want access to “Introduction to Jungian Psychology,” for this seminar, available on Kindle and in paperback. We will read approximately 50 pages each week in order to complete the whole book.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants within 24 hours of the live gathering. It is not necessary to attend live.

CEU: Participants can earn 6 CEs (Continued Education Credit hours) for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on a number of podcasts. She has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Toward Wholeness:

Integrating the Masculine & Feminine in Self and Society

an eight-session seminar for all genders

with Satya Doyle Byock

Fridays, September 8 - November 3, 2023

one week break on October 6th

9 - 11am PDT | 12 - 2pm EDT

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Jung’s deep research and innovative thinking around the masculine and feminine, the anima and animus, and the integration of opposites were core to his entire psychology. His emphasis on the contrasexual aspects of male and female psychology had a revolutionary impact on the Western world, challenging a lopsided patriarchal society to wrestle with its shadow. And yet, many of Jung’s writings contradict one another and many require re-examination in a world in which mainstream understandings of gender, sexuality, and marriage have transformed. (This is true not just for Jung’s work, but for the Jungians who have lectured and written on these topics since.)

In this eight-part seminar, we’ll explore the various ways in which definitions of “masculine” and “feminine” and “animus” and “anima” can be interpreted and how these ideas can evolve forward from outdated assumptions about gender, the gender binary, and rigid heteronormative frameworks—without being tossed out completely. We will read the writings and hear the voices of many different thinkers from the Jungian canon and beyond. What deep wisdom can be gleaned from these writings to serve all of us today? How can we discern what nourishment is to be retained and what outdated ideas can be discarded?

The integration of the masculine and feminine aspects of self is central to the pursuit of individuation, but tackling what this means is not an easy task.

Each week in this seminar, we’ll parse through various powerful readings on these subjects (some old, some much more modern) to make sense of how the ideas can be applicable and illuminating for our own lives today, and for society at large.

Register:

Cost: $275

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

Readings: All readings and podcasts will be provided to registered participants via a class portal and scanned pdfs. Materials will be drawn from a wide variety of authors.

Recordings: Same-day recordings will be provided. Recordings will expire to protect confidentiality.

CEU: Participants can earn 16 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Psychology. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on a number of podcasts. She is also the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast, and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Jung’s Red Book & Black Books

eight sessions

with Satya Doyle Byock

Fridays, March 17 - May 5, 2023

9 - 11am PDT | 12 - 2pm EDT

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

In 2009, nearly fifty years after Jung’s death, his magnum opus was published in a stunning facsimile edition, a large red tome with dramatic paintings and visions inscribed in calligraphy. It is a modern illuminated manuscript whose story began shortly before the outbreak of WWI. It was not until 2021 that the six books of raw material that underlay the more polished red leather-bound volume were then also published. In total, these books capture Jung’s “confrontation with the unconscious” which began when he was thirty-eight years old. The extraordinary stories that they contain convey Jung’s personal experience with the living psyche and the genesis of his entire original psychology.

In this eight-part seminar, we’ll read through the first two parts of The Red Book and weave-in readings from The Black Books as we explore the foundations of Jung’s groundbreaking concepts, including individuation, the anima and animus, the shadow, the Self, the collective unconscious, the personal unconscious, and more. We’ll see his thinking around the feminine and the masculine and the necessity of inner balance emerge, evolve, and then regress. While The Red Book can be a challenging and dense read, it is a riveting doorway to the rest of Jung’s works and an opportunity to read later writings with a more informed eye. It’s a wonderful book to read with others, discuss, and hear read aloud.

Readings: You’ll want a copy of The Red Book reader’s edition to follow along with readings, though it’s not necessary to own the larger facsimile edition or The Black Books. And while we’ll explore some of Jung’s incredible paintings, the paintings themselves do not correlate clearly to the text (as is clarified with the text of The Black Books) and will not be the focus of our seminar. No matter your background in Jung’s work, this seminar will invite your curiosity and deepened understanding of his psychology.

“The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. …My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me.” — C.G. Jung

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants with 24 hours of the live gathering.

Cost: Non-Subscriber $295 / Community Subscriber $207 (30% discount)*

*To receive this discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on a number of podcasts. She has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Satya received a first edition of The Red Book for Christmas in 2009 and read it then for the first time. Shortly thereafter she went on to work for The Philemon Foundation, the organization responsible for the publication of The Red Book and Black Books. As one of two staff members, she had the opportunity to travel to Zurich to help with the opening of the Rietberg exhibit of The Red Book in 2010 and to work with the editors of Jung’s unpublished works. She has since led courses in reading The Red Book half-a-dozen times, inviting people who are both familiar and unfamiliar with Jung’s work to explore this profound work and explore the parallels to their individual lives and the modern world. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast.

Register:

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

Readings: All students are strongly encouraged to purchase a copy of The Red Book, Reader’s Edition. Weekly chapters will be shared in advance with those who are registered. It is not necessary to have a copy of The Black Books or the folio edition of The Red Book.

CEU: Participants can earn 16 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

Recordings: Same-day recordings will be provided. Recordings will expire to protect confidentiality.

Subscribers: To receive a 30% subscriber discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

To learn more about becoming a subscriber, click here.

Community Dreamwork + Active Imagination

Six Sessions with Satya Doyle Byock

Sundays | 9:30 - 11:30am PST / 12:30-2:30pm EST

Daylight savings will change to PDT midway through class.

February 19th- March 26th

Sessions will be hosted live online & same-day recordings will be provided

Certificate for 9 Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute

This practice of community dreamwork at The Salome Institute has been an enlivening opportunity to join with others interested in expanding their relationship with the unconscious, symbols, and dreams. In this series, we’ll continue a similar practice of dreamwork with which we’ve engaged in the past and begin exploring more active imagination together as well.

In each of our six sessions, Satya will host live dreamwork for one or two class members who have expressed interest in “working a dream.” Through a simple, guided process, Satya will invite those present in the live gatherings to support the dreamer to gain an understanding of the dream through back-and-forth dialogue with the dreamer. Whether in the second hour, or mixed in with the dreamwork, Satya will also introduce methods of active imagination as an additional tool for listening to psyche and compassionate self-witnessing.

As always, we’ll establish a compassionate, permissive frame within group and outside with structure for writing down dreams and witnessing the symbol-making function of psyche.

Some Details about Community Dreamwork:

Those who wish to work a dream in the group setting will be invited to submit their name in advance of the live meetings. Trusting synchronicity—and past success with this process—dreamers’ names are selected at random and dreamers are notified in advance. The process invites the right dream for all of us at the right time, and often, a conversation between the two dreams each session.

With each dream, Satya supports the dreamer to settle into their body and “feel into” the dream for associations and amplification of images, inviting personal reflections and self-exploration. After engaging with the dreamer, Satya then invites the community to safely contribute insights through the “if this were my dream…” format: a safe, guided query into the way the dream impacts and resonates with others. Through witnessing and exploring each dream together, we learn more about the process of dreamwork, the symbols that arise from our own psyches, and ways of working with the dreams of others.

Between live sessions, all registered participants are welcome to continue exploring the dream, sharing symbolic references and other thoughts on our online discussion space.

Cost: Community Subscriber $158 (30% discount)*/ Non-Subscriber $225

*To receive this discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

CEU: Participants can earn 9 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

Recordings: Same-day recordings will be provided. Recordings will expire to protect confidentiality.

Subscribers: To receive a 30% subscriber discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

To learn more about becoming a subscriber first, click here.

Disability as The Human Experience

Socially Relevant Salon Series

with Charles Hall and Jenny Montgomery

hosted by Satya Doyle Byock

Saturday, February 11, 2023

10 - 11:30am PST | 1- 2:30pm EST

All events are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Community Subscribers are registered automatically for this salon as part of their subscription.

The Salome Institute is deeply honored to host Charles Hall and Jenny Montgomery to explore “Disability as the Human Experience” in this installment of our Socially Relevant Salon Series.

Longtime Salome community members, Charles and Jenny, are two people for whom disability has been a lived, personal experience, as well as an area of rich academic study and creativity, influenced by mythology, dreams, symbols, the unconscious, and Jungian psychology.

Charles Hall was born in 1960 in Dallas, Texas, with multiple congenital disabilities. He has no arms below the elbows, facial anomalies (80% paralysis), and speech issues classified as Moebius Syndrome. His parents insisted that he be mainstreamed during the 1960s, giving him a much more normal childhood before it was the standard for disabled children. His life has been filled with remarkable encounters, synchronicities, deep relationships, and transformative insights into the human experience through the lens of a disabled person in an able-bodied society. Charles’s stories and wisdom hold tremendous space for learning and self-reflection for people from all backgrounds.

A journalist, classicist, and astrologer by training, Jenny Montgomery is also mother to a middle school aged son, Heath, who is a wheelchair user. She and Heath are active with advocacy groups supporting the independence and civil rights of people with disabilities, and she is currently at work on a graphic memoir about parenting and disability titled The Outlaws, informed by an early disability community that used fairy tale, myth, and depth psychology in their work.

In this salon, Charles and Jenny will be in dialogue with one another about their experiences and will present some of their independent creative work, as well as share insights on various mythic and archetypal themes related to disability as a lens to understanding the whole of the human experience.

As always, we will hold space at the end of their presentation for community Q&A and conversation.

Recording: If you are unable to join us live or would like to watch this on your own time, a recording will be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event.

About the Presenters

Jenny Montgomery, Ph.D. has been a practicing astrologer for over twenty-five years. Her Ph.D. studies at Columbia University focused on the history of esoteric sciences in the medieval Greco-Arab world. Her practice is influenced by Jungian psychology, emphasizing the archetypal and unconscious realms. Concurrent with her astrological practice, she has pursued creative work as a writer and cartoonist. Her journalism, comics, and poetry have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Sensitive Skin, A Gathering of the Tribes, Tar River Poetry, Calyx, the Cairo Times, and others. She loves to travel and has lived in New York City, Cairo, Malta, and Missoula, Montana, where her husband, Ryan, and she own a small whiskey distillery. Their son Heath is a middle schooler and a wheelchair user.  She and her son are active with advocacy groups supporting the independence and civil rights of people with disabilities. She is currently at work on a graphic memoir about parenting and disability titled The Outlaws.

Charles Hall was born in 1960 in Dallas, Texas, with multiple congenital disabilities. He has no arms below the elbows, facial anomalies (80% paralysis), and speech issues classified as Moebius Syndrome. His parents insisted that he be mainstreamed during the 1960s, giving him a much more normal childhood before it was the standard for disabled children. In High School, Charles was in a unique class called “Man and His Environment,” where he attended a three-hour-a-day class in the Humanities, introducing him to the works of Carl Jung, Margaret Mead, and more. He attended a small college in East Texas, majoring in the Humanities. After college, with no prospect for a job, Charles founded a nonprofit working with disabled individuals, their families, and caregivers. At 30, he returned to school and did post-graduate work in Accounting and Finance. It took his mentor three years and an offer for a money-back guarantee for Charles to get his first job. Within six years, he was working at Intel. After ten years in corporate life, Charles had proved he could survive in the “real world” of corporate America and decided to quit. For the last eighteen years, he has been living in Mexico, helping his family’s business to integrate disabled individuals into the workplace. Charles’s passion is the issue of Disabilities about which he speaks, consults, and writes. “What It Means to be Disabled.” His work is highly influenced by Jungian, Archetypal, and Depth Psychology, and Family Systems Theory.

Moderated by Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.

Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event.

Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require explanation, just an email.

Subscribers: If you are a subscriber to the Salome Community, you do not need to register for this salon. You will automatically receive an email with login information in advance, as well as the recording following the event.

To learn more about becoming a subscriber, click here.

“Translate this Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan”

three sessions

with Satya Doyle Byock

Fridays, February 3rd, 10th & 17th, 2023

9 - 10:30am PST | 12 - 1:30pm EST

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

“My dear, dear Christina Morgan, you are just a bit of a marvel to me.” - C.G. Jung

When she was just twenty-eight years old, Christiana Morgan, an American, began analysis with C.G. Jung in Zurich. Through analysis, Morgan began an inner journey with profound parallels to Jung’s own confrontation with the unconscious, though her age defied Jung’s notion of individuation in the second half of life. Because of her relatively young age, Jung spoke of her as having a “benevolent fate”—an opportunity to round out her personality at a younger age. Much like the visions and art that fill Jung’s Red Book, Morgan engaged in robust active imagination, producing a prolific body of artwork. That work, and what unfolded after her analysis with Jung, then also became the basis of Jung’s four-year series of lectures, now known as The Vision Seminars, an exploration of a female journey of individuation. (Morgan did not originally know that her material was being used in this way.)

When she began analysis, Morgan was a new mother, married, and with a long-term lover. Both her husband and lover were also in analysis in Zurich. Jung, in a complex love triangle of his own, experienced complex countertransference in regard to Morgan’s situation, though it went relatively unexamined and was bound up with his perception of gender at the time. The consequences to all parties concerned were arguably devastating—consequences that may have radiated out into the larger world.

In this three-part seminar exploring the life and work of Christiana Morgan, we’ll read through the remarkable biography Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan by Jungian analyst, Claire Douglas (also the editor of The Vision Seminars) and discuss the many unfolding questions about analysis, individuation, gender, and countertransference that the book provokes.

In addition to our reading and discussion of this engrossing biography, Satya will also introduce additional context for Christina’s life, and explore how her story is connected to other figures and tragedies, including that of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.

Oh, there is so much in this material to unpack. Translate This Darkness is a remarkable work of scholarship and a riveting story. The whole journey of this book, and Claire Douglas’s incredible work, is impactful, illuminating, and at times, devastating.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Times of London, and NPR, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded, and videos will be made available to registered participants following the live gatherings.

Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require an explanation, just an email.

Reading: All students are strongly encouraged to purchase a copy of Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan. Weekly chapters will be shared in advance with those who are registered.

My Two Conflicting Selves

A Workshop for Integration

with Satya Doyle Byock

Sunday, January 29, 2023

10 - 12:30am PST | 1 - 3:30pm EST

“Life is born only of the spark of opposites.” — C.G. Jung

All seminars are hosted online.

A recording of this gathering will be available for just one week following the live gathering to protect the confidentiality of participants.

NPR’s Life Kit recently featured an exercise from Satya’s recent book, Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood. Satya created this exercise out of a desire to work with clients on a very frequent inner conflict, a sense of being pulled in two (or more) different directions, without a clear sense of how to make a choice or move forward. This feeling can manifest in big and small ways but often feels uncomfortable, awkward, scary, or anxiety-inducing.

We often feel inner conflict or confusion around points of life transition. While we tend to speak about ourselves in the singular as whole beings, we very frequently feel at odds with ourselves and not quite concise, put together, or whole. This is normal and healthy, but support is often needed to make sense of the inner conflict and to find a way through.

This inner conflict can often be the root of our most creative breakthroughs personally and professionally, but the solution is rarely easy. Indeed, this inner battle—akin to an inner civil war—can in fact be the beginning of our most creative transformations. But at the start, it’s more likely to feel sludgy, muddy, depressing, and stressful.

In this special 2.5-hour workshop, Satya will guide participants through a more robust version of this exercise than was shared via NPR and host space for expanded self-exploration and community dialogue.

Recording: If you are unable to join us live or would like to watch this on your own time, a recording will be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event. IMPORTANT: This recording will only be available for one week to protect the safety and confidentiality of all participants.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Times of London, and NPR, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.

Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event. This recording will expire after one week.

Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require an explanation, just an email.

2023:

Astrology for the Year Ahead

with Carol Ferris, MA

Sunday, January 15th

10 am - 12 pm PST / 1pm - 3pm EST

The event will be hosted online

A recording of the live salon will also be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the event.

While we celebrate a new year on December 31 every year, what’s “new” for us doesn’t arrive all at once on New Year’s Eve. Here’s a taste of what is to come in 2023: 

Pluto broke through the surface of Capricorn in January 2008 and then unpacked for the long haul in late November 2008. Remember 2008?  Worldwide financial market collapse and a reassuring rush of the Saturnian handlers of governance and markets to “tarp” everything over? Pluto hasn’t left Capricorn since, and 14+ years later, the power and darkness of the underworld covering over all things structural and conservative have brought us to a worldwide plutocracy, where power matters more than relationships. Pluto is now staring across at Aquarius, the wild and wooly frontier, where he’ll get his passport stamped as he crosses the border in March of 2023, before returning to Capricorn a few months later. (In 2024, Pluto will move into Aquarius to stay until 2044).   

Uranus has been in Taurus since 2018, seeking to confront and change a world that is warming globally, where women’s bodies are still under the thumb of the patriarchy (see Pluto in Capricorn), and where children everywhere need to be nourished and educated. While Uranus will remain in Taurus through 2023 to make a revolution around dirt, all last year saw its bitter struggle with Saturn.

Saturn has been camped in Aquarius (Uranus’ home territory) for a few years now. Saturn’s traditional power base of Capricorn and Aquarius has supported his forces for structure, conservative politics, and the status quo. But Old Man Saturn is about to find himself in Pisces, beginning in March of 2023, where his ability to command the familiar is decidedly fluid and resistant to containment.

Jupiter, meanwhile, will spend the start of 2023 in hot, incendiary Aries—where it spent much of 2022.  This force for growth, creativity, and expansion will heat up everyone’s engine in the early days of the year before Jupiter cools off and comes down into Taurus to become more opulent, more productive, and more directable in May.

These are the year-long warp threads around which the faster-moving filaments of Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon will weave themselves in 2023. We’ll discuss this and all of the above in our two-hour salon on the astrology for the year ahead.

 If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. If you would like to take a course in preparation, the recording of “How to Read Your Horoscope 101” is available in the video store.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A Zoom link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants the day before the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A streaming recording will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours.

Scholarships: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

New Moon Capricorn
Thursday, December 22

6-7:15 pm PST

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

This year closes and the new one begins with a Grand Cardinal Cross. In the early degrees of Capricorn, the New Moon opposes Cancer at the Midheaven (MC)—both Cardinal signs—and also squares Jupiter in spring’s cardinal sign of Aries, opposite the autumnal cardinal sign Libra ascending.

Theosophist Alice Bailey, in her book, Esoteric Astrology, discusses the three Grand Crosses: Mutable/Fixed/Cardinal.

“This is the Cross [of the Risen Christ] whereon: a.  … the spirit is crucified . . .. an exalted stage of consciousness; b. it is pre-eminently the Cross of Initiation and of ‘beginnings’; c. it is the Cross of the ‘widespread arms, the open heart and the higher mind’; d. the energies … blend with ‘the Light of the seven solar systems’ of which our solar system’ is one.” 

Whew! 

The Saturn/Uranus square—authority/rebel dance—is now in the rearview mirror. Mars continues its retrograde into 2023, delaying progress and creating frustration and dissent worldwide. Pluto in Capricorn continues to undermine systems. 

All in all, an important time to remember the light inside the dark. Bailey’s occult mantra, called The Great Invocation:

Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind.

Let the Spirit of Peace be spread abroad.

May men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation.

May forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynotes at this time.

Let power attend the efforts of the Great Ones.

So let it be, and help us to do our part. 

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

Trans Ways of Knowing

Socially Relevant Salon Series

with Cybele Brandow, Rae Davis, and tyler redskye

hosted by Satya Doyle Byock

Saturday, December 3, 2022

10 - 12pm PST | 1 - 3pm EST

All salons and seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Community Subscribers are automatically registered for this salon.

The Salome Institute is deeply honored to host Cybele Brandow, Rae Davis, and tyler redskye—three trans academics, artists, and community members—in this special two-hour salon exploring the trans experience and its direct correlation to Jung’s work.

In a time when trans people find themselves under constant threat from legislative, political, physical, and emotional attack, and when the vast majority of people still do not personally know a trans person, we heartily encourage your presence and participation in this salon to engage collectively in a deepened understanding of the lived experience of trans individuals, and the remarkable ways in which trans people’s lived understanding of individuation and the union of the opposites illuminates Jung’s core ideas.

In this salon, Cybele Brandow, Rae Davis, and tyler redskye will share some of their experiences on the path to individuation as trans people, convey the ways in which imagination and dreamwork supported and confirmed their trans identities, and how Jung’s understanding of the Transcendent Function mirrors trans identity and the emergence of “the third” within the gender binary.

In particular, Cybele, former Director of the Maine Jung Center, may speak to the parallels between their lived experience of “third gender,” the Taoist search to move beyond the binary, and the transcendent "third thing" of Jung's psychology in which the opposites can unite. They’ll explore: how is the transcendent function of Jung’s work in direct conversation with the trans experience?

Rae, a lifelong visual artist, may convey some of his understanding of the beauty of cis men that cis men struggle to see, or how nature finally felt like a place of freedom and joy for him once he was able to locate himself in a story that had otherwise been denied him. He may share some of the dreams he had while transitioning that indicate the sense of freedom his psyche finally felt after decades of confusion.

tyler may speak to paradox and how it informs and undoes the concept of trans "identity." The use of imagination was an essential part of tyler's ability to dream their trans self into existence—to see possibility emerge from two opposites and, as Jung wrote, use the tension as a way to allow a third to emerge. They may reflect on the concept of man and woman as man-made concepts and the expanse that is gender, and that these are just two possibilities amidst infinite possibility. They may speak on the kind of unimaginable compassion and self-love that trans people hold for themselves—not just in recognizing themselves, but also loving themselves.

After the panel presentation and discussion, Satya will moderate a Q&A with the community.

Recording: If you are unable to join us live or would like to watch this on your own time, a recording will be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event.

About the Presenters

Cybele Brandow is a third-gender writer, poet, and divinatory counselor of Magyar, Welsh, English, and German descent. They studied late antique Christian mysticism and pre-imperial Chinese religion and philosophy at Reed College, presenting a thesis on Trialogic Hermeneutics in the context of Tarot Divination events. Cybele served as Director of the Maine Jung Center for three years before leaving to pursue full-time publication of their debut novel of mid-grade nonsense literature. Their writing weaves mythological motifs, fairy tale, dream symbolism, and magical imagination to create whimsical yet familiar worlds where mycelial synchronicity abounds and wordspells lead readers deeper into their own playful awareness of sElf. Cybele lives atop a hill in a book-brimming Seussian bungalow in South Portland, Maine with their beloved partner and a well-worthy-of-worship tortoiseshell cat named Persephone ('Persy' for short).

Rae Davis, born 1970 in Cambridge, England, holds a BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited across the United States, and are included in many private and public collections. Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA represents his work. He has made Portland, Oregon home with his family for the last 16 years. Instagram @raedavisart

tyler redskye is a queer non-binary trans settler whose ancestors come from Sicily, the Maghreb, the Aegean islands, Malta, and Ireland. They were raised by the great eastern white pines and the Muhheakunnuk, The River that runs both ways. They make medicine, furniture, and timber frames in the Dawnland with their spouse and cattle dog. They attended Sarah Lawrence College for Semiotics and Gender theory and completed their Master's at Pratt for Environmental Design. They see their work in this world to decolonize and dismantle violent colonial systems by listening, remembering, and imagining new ways of being—to hold the truths and always say the things that need to be said.

Host

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.

Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event.

Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require an explanation, just an email.

Subscribers: If you are a subscriber to the Salome Community, you do not need to register for this salon. You will automatically receive an email with login information in advance, as well as the recording following the event.

To learn more about becoming a subscriber, click here.

New Moon Scorpio
Thursday, November 17

6-7:15 pm PST

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

As the year closes, the Sun and Moon are joined by an embracing Mercury and Venus – again – but this time they meet up in the sign of Sagittarius, The Archer: He of the dead eye aim and the lofty philosophies. Our desire for the truth (finally, please!) following the elections will be hammered by the continuing retrograde Mars in Gemini opposing Venus and Mercury as they head deeper into Sagittarius. These polarized energies square Neptune in Pisces, and Neptune is joined once again by Jupiter (as was the case in April): a tsunami of emotion and information, bringing plenty of obfuscation, outright lies, beliefs, and delusional behaviors.

The Sun transiting in Sagittarius—higher purpose, loftier goals, aim at the possible, don’t be dissuaded by disappointments—reaches an exact opposition with retrograding Mars in Gemini on December 7-8. The tension between possibility and pragmatics is high here, and we’ll all have tough choices to make about who and what we believe.  At the same time, Mercury and Venus begin their journey into Capricorn: collaboration around mission with timetable and budgets will bring some of the more mutable arguments into clarity and action.

The Capricorn New Moon of December 23 anticipates a communion with the Venus/Mercury/Pluto trio in Capricorn, the emergence of order around priorities, and we end the year and begin the next with resolution and grim optimism!

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

Listening to Psyche

A Six Week Community Dream Group

with Satya Doyle Byock

Sundays | 9 - 10:30am PST / 12-1:30pm EST

November 6th- December 18th

(with a one-week break for American Thanksgiving)

Sessions will be hosted live online & same-day recordings will be provided

Certificate for Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute

In this series, we’ll deepen our practice of listening to the living psyche through dreamwork. In each of our six sessions, Satya will host live dreamwork for one or two class members and later invite all participants to add insights through safe facilitation. Satya will also introduce some key aspects of working with dreams, and perhaps also engage in other ways of listening to psyche through synchronicity, symbols, and pattern witnessing.

We’ll begin by establishing a compassionate, permissive frame for writing down dreams and witnessing the symbol-making function of psyche. Weekly attention will be paid to creative practice around dreams, be it through writing poems or prose, painting, dancing, sculpture, or creating ritual.

Some Details about Live Dreamwork:

In each session, we’ll spend time with the dream of a group participant (or two). Those who wish to work a dream in the group setting will be invited to submit their name in advance of the live meetings. Trusting synchronicity—and past success with this process—dreamers’ names are selected at random and dreamers are notified in advance. The process invites the right dream for all of us at the right time.

With each dream, Satya supports the dreamer to settle into their body and “feel into” the dream for associations and amplification of images, inviting personal reflections and self-exploration. After engaging with the dreamer, Satya then invites the community to safely contribute insights through the “if this were my dream…” format: a safe, guided query into the way the dream impacts and resonates with others. Through witnessing and exploring each dream together, we learn more about the process of dreamwork, the symbols that arise from our own psyches, and ways of working with the dreams of others.

Note: It is not necessary to have been a part of past dream groups to register.

Course Details:

• All sessions will take place online.

• Recordings are shared with registrants within 24 hours of live meetings. There is no expectation that those registered attend the live gatherings.

• Recordings will expire to protect the confidentiality of participants.

• Each session will involve some lecture and live dreamworrk.

• An online community space is available to all participants for between-session discussion and sharing.

Dates:

• November 6, 13, 20

• One week break for American Thanksgiving

• December 4, 11, 18

Cost: Community Subscriber $175 (30% discount)*/ Non-Subscriber $250

*To receive this discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

CEU: Participants can earn 9 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

Recordings: Same-day recordings will be provided. Recordings will expire to protect confidentiality.

Subscribers: To receive a 30% subscriber discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

To learn more about becoming a subscriber first, click here.

New Moon Scorpio
RESCHEDULED

now at:

Sunday, October 30

10-11:15 am PDT / 1-2:15pm EDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

EVENT RESCHEDULED to Sunday, October 30th at 10am PDT

Our sincere apologies. Carol’s dear puppy, Charlie, was suddenly ill and is spending the night in the vet. While it looks like he’ll be okay (phew!!), he won’t be home until late shortly before our regular Thursday evening gathering. As a result, we’ve decided it’s best to reschedule.

Note: If you already purchased this single salon and no longer want to attend or receive the recording of this event, please send us a note and we’ll be happy to refund your purchase.

Event Description:

While Libra can be characterized as open-handed and fair, Scorpio is the time of year when judgment is meted out after deliberation. With Scorpio season comes darker and longer nights, decay and death, and deep interiority.  This is where the thread is cut, and certainly, in older interpretations of the Scorpion, the claws were the clipping of Fate itself, only moderated in evolving cultures to become the pans in the scales of justice.

This month, the Sun and Moon are joined at the initiation point of the lunation cycle by Venus entering Scorpio, so the hand of the Venusian (veins/venous; a network of connections) continues to lay her hands on the proceedings of these days and weeks. Venus in Scorpio brings passion and intensity rather than the just measure to the deliberations.  This trio of Sun, Moon, and Venus makes their way in the succeeding two weeks of early November into an opposition with Uranus in Taurus tilting towards the T-square to Saturn in Aquarius.  A passion for judgment leans into the struggle for change: will we change? Can we change? Are we too worn out?  Is it easier to just give up and let Saturn, the rules, and business-as-usual prevail?

As the Sun and the feminine struggle with judgment and commitment, Mars in Gemini slows to retrograde Halloween night, beginning a weeks-long square to Neptune in Pisces—arguments about beliefs and dreams. But a repeating trine to Saturn in Aquarius suggests that perhaps justice WILL be done.  The American election scheduled for November 8 will be held under these auspices, bringing to mind the retrograde election of George Bush by the Supreme Court. 

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private astrology tutor with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

On Democracy & Voting

Socially Relevant Salon Series

with Satya Doyle Byock

Sunday, October 16, 2022

9 - 10:30am PDT | 12 - 1:30pm EDT

All salons and seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Community Subscribers are registered automatically for this salon as part of their subscription.

Join Mimi K. Stokes, Nazli Rahmanian, and Satya Doyle Byock, in advance of the midterm elections in the US, as they explore together the relationship between depth psychology and democracy in Iran and in America.

How does our unconscious influence who we vote for? How is a determination to understand the Other critical for a healthy democracy? How is a well-functioning psyche a mirror for a well-functioning democracy (and vice versa).

This community space is the second installment in our new Socially Relevant Salon Series. After some presentation on the core ideas, we’ll invite Q&A and dialogue.

Suggested reading: Mimi K. Stokes’ piece on the marriage between psychology and democracy; Nazli Rahmanian’s reflections on the protests in Iran; and Erich Neumann’s book, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic.

All Salome community subscribers are automatically registered and will receive login information + the recording.

About Mimi K Stokes, MA

Mimi K Stokes lives into her name, ‘mimicking’ what life does, weaving diverse things together. Mimi combines theatre, eco-philosophy, Jungian psychology, astrology, and Foresight, in educational, therapeutic, and creative/artistic ways. She is a certified practitioner of Playback Theatre, an award-winning playwright, and a published author of fiction and poetry. Mimi has a Master’s degree in education; professional training in Foresight; is self-taught in astrology, and has studied Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently in the Assisi Institute Archetypal Pattern Analyst program. Among her many current creative projects are two fairy tale/ imaginative works about democracy.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.

Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event.

Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require explanation, just an email.

Subscribers: If you are a subscriber to the Salome Community, you do not need to register for this salon. You will automatically receive an email with login information in advance, as well as the recording following the event.

The Timeless Search for Stability & Meaning

A Guided Exploration into Jung’s concept of Individuation

Fridays | 9-10:30am PDT / 12-1:30pm EDT

September 30th - November 18th

An Eight-Week Seminar with Satya Doyle Byock

Sessions will be hosted live online & same-day recordings will be provided

Certificate for Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute

In this 8-week seminar, we’ll explore the journey of individuation in Jung’s psychology, and in our own lives.

Join psychotherapist and author Satya Doyle Byock in exploring individuation through the relationship between the ego & the Self, the masculine & the feminine, and—in Satya’s words—stability & meaning.

Through a combination of lecture, discussion, storytelling, fairy tales, and personal exercises, Satya will introduce more of the Jungian ideas and research that went into her own re-working of the classical themes of self-development in her recently published book Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood. We’ll all have a chance to deeply explore our own journeys—no matter our age!—and seek a greater understanding of where we’ve been and where we’re going.

People of all ages are encouraged to register.

In Quarterlife, Satya also identifies four pillars of growth that everyone must tackle in order to experience self-knowledge and a sense of inner alignment with the external world: Separate, Listen, Build, and Integrate. Based on the Hero’s Journey and the ego-Self axis of Jungian psychology, these various thresholds hold a great deal of guidance for surviving life’s trials and transitions, as well as understanding grace and synchronicity. We’ll also learn about this framework and how to apply it to our own lives, seeking to understand our pasts as well as the callings for what has yet to come.

It is not at all necessary to have read Quarterlife in order to participate in this seminar, and those who have read the book will be introduced to a great deal more material as well as new exercises.

Course Details:

• All sessions will take place online.

• Recordings are shared with registrants within 24 hours of live meetings. There is no expectation that those registered attend the live gatherings.

• Each session will involve a lecture/presentation, exercises, and Q&A.

• An online community space is available to all participants for between-session discussion and sharing.

• All ages are encouraged to register.

Cost: Community Subscriber $245 (30% discount)*/ Non-Subscriber $350

*To receive this discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and . Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

CEU: Participants can earn 12 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

Recordings: Same-day recordings will be provided. Recordings will expire to protect confidentiality.

Subscribers: To receive a 30% subscriber discount, please first purchase the subscription package and you’ll receive a discount code in your email for additional registrations.

New Moon in Libra
Thursday, September 22

6-7:15 pm PDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

At this point in the year, as the Sun and Moon join the Scales of Libra that hang in these skies, the nights and days balance equally—in fact, we’ll be gathering at the same moment of the Equinox!

This zodiac sign of Libra is often popularly mischaracterized as a psychological realm of people-pleasing or quid pro quo. But the capacity to calibrate one’s own nature with another and to find the just measure goes beyond the personal to the social as well. What is “right” strength? How do we find harmony and peace in a world of disequilibrium?

The lights are joined closely by Mercury and Venus traveling together in the late degrees of Virgo. In this place, Hermes (Mercury) brings his bright perspective together with Venus’ ardor to analyze and support the measurement of justice. In early October, Venus begins to fly into the Libra Sun, which together form a trine to Mars in Gemini and Saturn in Aquarius: a Grand Air Trine to celebrate society, communication, and justice. With the Supreme Court opening day on October 3, perhaps the idea of the “just measure” will reinstate itself on the national as well as the personal level.

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

On Reproductive Rights

Socially Relevant Salon Series

with Satya Doyle Byock

Sunday, September 18, 2022

9 - 10:30am PDT | 12 - 1:30pm EDT

All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.

Community Subscribers are registered automatically and the salon is free.

In this inaugural gathering of our new Socially Relevant Salon Series, Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock, will explore the issue of abortion and reproductive rights from a depth perspective. We’ll weed through various approaches to exploring this topic, including some of how it has been discussed recently in Jungian circles. Moving beyond the political or healthcare questions, we’ll inquire into the archetypal, symbolic, and unconscious issues at play regarding abortion, personal choice, and reproductive rights. What underlies the anti-abortion movement? What are some ways in which depth psychology can help us understand the modern American resurgence in anti-choice sentiment, even as many other countries are adopting more expansive reproductive rights?

Some of the specific questions that we’ll be exploring:

• How is the hatred of the feminine in culture and individual psychology woven into the anti-abortion / “pro-life” movement?

• How did the end of the Cold War shift the need for a projected enemy back inside the US against women and people of color?

• How does the discomfort with death in culture influence the inability to accept that miscarriage and abortion have always been a part of fertility and pregnancy?

• How can abortion—like giving birth—be an initiatory experience for many pregnant people?

• How is the archetypal obsession with Mother and Motherhood fueling the narrow understanding of women’s life choices?

• How does the religious story elevating “good men” force the reality of rape and incest into the shadow?

• How are reproductive rights core to individuation?

• How could a sacred honoring of abortion and miscarriage support healing rather than the experience being relegated to the shadow of isolation, guilt, and shame?

After readings and presentations, Satya will hold space for a Q&A and discussion with the community.

Recording: If you are unable to join us live or would like to watch this on your own time, a recording will be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.

Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event.

Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require explanation, just an email.

Subscribers: If you are a subscriber to the Salome Community, you do not need to register for this salon. You will automatically receive an email with login information in advance, as well as the recording following the event.

New Moon in Virgo
Thursday, August 27

6-7:15 pm PDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

In Virgo season, the days become noticeably shorter. Still sunny and warm, the days remain longer than the nights, but Nature has an eye on the approaching darkness, the need for storage, and preparations for autumn and winter.

The constellation Virgo, the winged woman, stands in the sky as a reminder that nature’s rhythms require human attention for human purposes. It includes the star Vindemiatrix (Epsilon Virginis) as the grapes on the maiden’s shoulder, as well as the bright star Spica, a sheaf of wheat held in the woman’s hand.

Virgo is the only "female" constellation in the zodiac and one of only three female constellations in the entire Western sky (the other two being the queen Cassiopeia and her daughter, Andromeda). Virgo is an image of earth’s fecundity and productivity, but Virgo’s human form also reminds us: if it’s time to reap, get to it!

This attention to pattern and calendar is emphasized not only by the Sun and Moon entering Virgo together but by the planet Venus joining the asteroid, Ceres, in Leo, highlighting the yin task of sorting. Ceres—the root of our word “cereal”—is the mistress of grain. This emphasis on harvest rises strongly as Ukraine, the world’s breadbasket, struggles to free itself from the Russian aggressor, and as women too struggle with repressive/regressive cultures worldwide.

On September 5, Venus enters Virgo, starts an argument with Mars in Gemini (that old story), and begins collaborating with Uranus in Taurus. A plan for revolution may emerge after all the dithering. Finally, this lunation period ends with, yes, a retrograding Mercury.

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

New Moon in Leo
Thursday, July 28

6-7:15 pm PDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

The lunation in the sign of Leo the Lion begins with a Grand Fixed Cross:

The fixed signs of the zodiac are points in the year’s round when the ignition of the preceding cardinal signs manifest materially: spirit comes down into form and an idea becomes a reality. But around this new moon in Leo, four different materially oriented energies will be polarized and squared to each other setting off a cosmic argument about which direction to move, what will dominate, and who will win. Will Mercury in Leo shout down the boss, Saturn? Will Mars in Taurus get dug in and refuse to change?

The meetup of Mars and Uranus in Taurus will clarify the direction of the revolution, getting ready for one more argument with Saturn later in the year, asking: will the status quo prevail, or will the change agents be able to push their agenda through? 

In your chart, where does this inner conversation land for you, and how will you integrate the year’s painful progress?

After the first week in August, Mercury steps into Virgo and clear-minded pattern-making will begin to prevail. This is one of the cross quarters of the year, and the halfway point between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox.

In mid-August, the Sun’s heat will touch off the Grand Cross again, so it will be a balancing act between the loudest voice and the biggest stick. The mediating influence of good instincts with consciousness will again be brought forward before the next New Moon.

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

“Quarterlife: The Search for Self In Early Adulthood”

Book Reading

with Satya Doyle Byock

Sunday, July 17th

10 am PDT | 1pm EDT | 5pm GMT

This free event will be hosted online. A same-day recording will be emailed to registrants.

In this free 90min salon, Satya will read from her forthcoming book Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, July 26th) and share the framework she’s created for understanding the search for wholeness in the first half of adulthood.

Weaving together the wisdom of Jungian psychology, literature, trauma-informed care, and social justice advocacy, Quarterlife fills a long-standing hole in soulful resources available to people in this stage of life. Born from Satya’s own need to understand herself and her search for meaning in her early 20s, this book represents fifteen years of research, inquiry, and clinical experience.

Quarterlife asserts that all people are fundamentally seeking two things in life, stability and meaning, and that Quarterlifers tend to fall on one side of that spectrum in their initial drive as either “Stability Types” or “Meaning Types.” Both types are ultimately seeking wholeness and need to learn what the other half knows.

Satya is excited to finally be able to share this book with the Salome community.

After her reading, there will be time for Q&A and some discussion.

This free event will be hosted online. A same-day recording will be shared. Registration is required.

Pre-orders help to support the success of the book! Thank you for your orders.

Available anywhere you buy your books, as well as in your public library. The audio book will also release on July 26th and is read by the author.

See what others are saying about Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the founder and director of The Salome Institute. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, forthcoming from Random House on July 26th.

Satya’s writing has been published in The Utne Reader, goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and the Jungian journal, Psychological Perspectives. She has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere. She was previously on staff at the Philemon Foundation, which published The Red Book, and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event.

Recordings: A recording will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of live event.

Scholarships & Discounts: This event is free!

New Moon in Cancer
Thursday, June 30

6-7:15 pm PDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

Just past the summer solstice, the Sun and Moon join in the zodiac sign, Cancer. Even as the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky, its journey in the opposite direction begins, the steadily diminishing light moving us towards harvest as the days grow shorter.

The great lights, now in an arena redolent of maternity and amniotic warmth, join Black Moon Lilith. The great lights illuminate the dark feminine, initiating the lunar cycle as America’s Supreme Court seems bent on using the law to return women to the dark for the state’s purposes.  A hard square from Sun/Moon/Lilith to the Jupiter/Mars conjunction in fiery-let’s-go-Aries suggests the court will be met with resistance.  And Venus and Mercury in airy Gemini can make the conflict and debate lively and even intelligent (we can hope).

Lest we forget the Pluto return of the USA, the Sun will be joined by Mercury in Cancer opposing Pluto in Capricorn: this relatively young nation is facing painful truths about our history, our present, and what that bodes for our future.  Pluto’s deep scour of social systems (Capricorn) will be tempered by the Sun and Mercury’s tender ministrations, perhaps some grace in our collective and personal soul searching.

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

New Moon in Gemini
Thursday, May 26

6-7:15 pm PDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following.

In May, the New Moon makes its way into Gemini, the sign of the twins, a “between-ness” place in the sky. In ancient Sumer, this constellation was known as “The Field,” and was associated with the timing of ploughing; in Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Phoenician sky culture, it was “Pairs”—of plants, of goats, of boys—a meaning which underlies the later Greek name of the Dioscuri, the twin gods, Castor and Pollux.

For the first time in several months, the Great Luminaries, the Sun and Moon, find themselves away from the major transpersonal forces from earlier in the year, out of their tango with Pluto, their embrace with Jupiter and Neptune, and their wrestle with Uranus. This month, we look back at winter and its struggles, at early spring and the births out of the deep Piscene dreams, and towards the newly stabilized structures that have emerged from those waters to observe their unfolding.

How do we, at this moment, hold the past and future now? 

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Register:

Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: A video will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.

Learning to Walk in The Dark:
The Radical, Transformative Ethos of Yin Wisdom

with Ann Carroll, Ph.D.

Sundays, May 22 & May 29

10am-12pm PDT

1-3pm EDT

Events will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & recordings will be sent following.

Ann Carroll, Ph.D., the beloved third contributor to The Red Book Podcast, returns to The Salome Institute with her unique approach to translation, this time using a multi-disciplinary point of view to arrive at new interpretations of four Taoist concepts: Fu (return), Su (simplicity), Wu Wei (action of no-action), and the overarching concept of spiritual longing.

In this two-part seminar, over two Sundays, each Taoist concept will undergo a “live translation,” as Ann uses images from art history, depth psychology, and several verses of the Tao Te Ching to better understand how these concepts are tied to the divine center of psyche: to the archetype of The Great Mother, and to what Jung called the ”inmost mystery of life.”

Ann’s unique methods of translation, from pictography to Joycean rendering, provide unique avenues to understanding, while simultaneously adding depth to otherwise elusive concepts, the meanings of which are difficult to express through English alone.

Ann’s teaching style combines life experience, group exercises, lectures, and discussions to leave participants with a felt sense of difficult concepts and the tools to apply the teachings to everyday life.

About Ann Carroll, Ph.D.

Known to the Salome Institute as the third contributor to The Red Book Podcast, Ann Carroll (“Ann from Maine”) is a scholar, translator, and sculptor. Ann received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Munich. Her dissertation, The Concept of Value in the Early Works of Martin Heidegger, examined the collapsing notion of 'value' at the turn of the twentieth century. Ann later taught art history and Eastern and Western philosophy at the University of Maine and the College of the Atlantic. Her most recent work, A Joycean sTripture of the Tao Ching: A Mediation on Yin Wisdom explores the combined ethos of Taoism and contemporary thought. Ann and her husband, Chick, have lived in Maine for fifty years, where she has taught Philosophy/Art History from a Jungian perspective; Qigong from a Taoist perspective; built and tends to a Meditation Garden open to all; and is the grandmother of eight.

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Symbols & Dreamwork:

Exploring Images of the Unconscious

with Satya Doyle Byock

A Six Week Series

Fridays, May 6th - June 10th

9 - 10:30 am PDT / 12-1:30pm EDT

Sessions will be hosted live online & same-day recordings will be provided

Certificate for Continued Education Credits available, issued by The Salome Institute

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This course is in progress. Registration is now closed.

The archetypal landscape of psyche is profound. Collective themes and images emerge in our dreams, inviting us individually to ponder shared questions and pursue similar areas of growth. Exploring dreamwork and archetypal themes together can provide a deepened understanding of our own individual psyches and the infinite ways in which we are connected.

In this six-week seminar on symbols and dreamwork, we’ll begin each session amplifying a frequent dream theme—one single image from a mythic, archetypal, and cultural perspective. There are countless directions in which we could move. Some of the symbols likely to lead this archetypal deep-dive are Snake, Spider, Water, Homes, Cars, and Airplanes. Dreams with these elements tend to share themes with one another and they’re commonly occurring.

After discussing a dream symbol through lecture and discussion, we’ll spend time with one of the group participant’s dreams. Satya will host the dreamer, “feeling into” the dream for associations and amplification of images, inviting personal reflections before opening up the exploration to the larger gathering for “if this were my dream…” ; a safe, guided query into the way the dream impacts and resonates with others.

All participants will be invited at the start of each session to state whether they’d like to work a particular dream with the group. A dream will then be chosen by psyche, through synchronistic chance, with total trust that the dream we’ll work is the dream meant for the group that day.

These sessions will build on Satya’s eight-week course held in March and April of this year, though it is not necessary to have taken that seminar in order to participate.

A closed, safe online community space will be available to group participants for continued sharing and collective learning between weeks.

Recordings: All sessions will be recorded for any participants who are unable to attend the live salons or who prefer to watch at a different time.

About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

Satya Doyle Byock is the founder and director of The Salome Institute. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, to be published by Random House July 26, 2022.

Satya was previously on staff at the Philemon Foundation, which publishes Jung's unpublished archives, including The Red Book and The Black Books. She has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork. Her writing has been published in The Utne Reader, goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and the Jungian journal, Psychological Perspectives. She has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere.

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Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants through a password-protected course website.

Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.

CEU: Participants can earn 9 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded. Same day access to recordings will be provided through the course website.

New Moon in Taurus
Thursday, April 28

6-7:15 pm PDT

All Salome events are hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent a day in advance & a recording will be sent following

Bulls and oxen share the characteristic known in the Spanish bullfighting world as querencia, loosely translated as "the place where one feels most comfortable and true.” As the Sun and Moon enter the zodiac sign Taurus, all of nature—giddy and perhaps rowdy from rapidly growing up and out—begins to find its happiest place, and begins to stabilize to feed, growing blooms with earth energy. Longer and warmer days heat the dirt, and the light opens the blossoms. All life begins to relax into arrival and solidity.

This month, the Sun and Moon join the revolutionary force, Uranus, who has been inhabiting the bulls’ world for some time now—Uranus took up long-term residence in Taurus in March of 2019. Western mythology associates Uranus with “outsider” qualities, and this journey of the revolutionary through the Earth field of dirt and stability has been provoking many insecurities and shakeups in the status quo.

When the luminaries heat up the revolutionary, amplifying its ongoing argument with Saturn—the authority figure—what encounters between change and status quo will we face? How will we reconcile these great forces in our directions?

Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences. For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101.

About Carol Ferris

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

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Online Attendance: A link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event. All New Moon Salon recordings expire after one month.

Scholarships & Discounts: If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. No questions asked. We would love for you to be able to join.