The Astrology of 2022

with Carol Ferris, MA

Friday, December 17th

5:30-7:30 pm PST

Event will be hosted online.

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

The big question of 2021 was “how much longer?” What we see now is that, to bring forth a new world, we’re in a marathon, not a sprint.

Astrologically, this continued marathon will include these planetary signatures:

• Pluto, the Potentate of the Underworld, continues his journey through Capricorn, a zodiac sign symbolizing structures of conservation, such as governments, Wall Street and banks, bones and teeth.  The deconstruction process initiated with the worldwide financial crisis of 2008 when Pluto first entered Capricorn approaches its conclusion through 2024. An old way of life is no longer viable.

• Neptune, Lord of the Ocean Realm, is home in Pisces and continues to create waves, tsunamis, storms, fog, and overwhelm in the public discourse. Too much information, often unreliable; waves of movement, immigration and exile, and a persistent hope for glamour will haunt us through 2022.

• Uranus and Saturn – the rebel and the ruler – will continue to duke it out through the entire year.  This should, by now, be a familiar struggle, both on the personal and the collective level: which rules work and where do we need to say enough is enough?

• In addition to these bigger movements, we’ll look at the retrogrades and the smaller movements of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus in the upcoming year. 

 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 within 24 hours of the event. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: Recordings of events will be password protected and emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Learning to Read in the Dark:
A Joycean Envisioning of the Tao Te Ching

with Ann Carroll, Ph.D.

Friday and Saturday, December 10th & 11

10am-12pm PST

1-3pm EST

Event will be hosted online.

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

“The English language keeps us unconsciously trapped within the patrilineal boundaries of a patriarchal mindset.” - Ann Carroll

In this two-part seminar, philosopher and Red Book podcast contributor, Ann Carroll Ph.D., will illuminate the deep, dark psychological wisdom of Lao Tzu and James Joyce, using the language of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to render anew Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. Ann Carroll’s self-published book, a translation and visual meditation on Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching will be presented live as part of this seminar.

In these 2 two-hour gatherings, Ann will take us through a number of key verses of the Tao Te Ching, reading a composite of traditional translations, followed by her own original Joycean rendering, unpacking the language within each.

Participants will be asked to examine patterns within the English language, while simultaneously embarking on a meditation on the archetypal significance of ‘the dark.’ Explorations of ‘the dark’ include examining how darkness has been maligned, both culturally and internally, exploring such themes as the lunar, the sacred, and the underworld, seeking to transform our understanding of the word ‘dark’ itself.

Throughout this process, Ann will use Joycean language to help participants understand the deep wisdom of Taoism, keeping things anti-cerebral and fun. The seminar will illustrate how time spent in playful imaginations and in what Jung called “The Spirit of the Depths” can lead to radical shifts in consciousness.

When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Salome Institute. Please note, a copy of either text is not required or needed to participate fully in this course

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.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Democracy and Depth Psychology

A three-part seminar with Satya Doyle Byock

Sundays, December 5, 12, 19

10 - 12pm PST

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

Half of all proceeds from this seminar will go to Fair Fight, defending US Voting Rights.

Thank you for your support!

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

Join Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock, in this three-part seminar exploring the political and social implications of the unconscious through two of the masterworks in the field of depth psychology: Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self & Erich Neumann’s Depth Psychology and a New Ethic.

These works were both created following WWII and convey urgent analysis of what occurred within individual psyches to allow “evil” to both spread and take root. They also define what, by contrast, individuals and democracies can do to protect themselves against such events. Authoritarian states and democracies are fundamentally expressions of the collective psychology of individuals.

Participants are encouraged to have a copy of Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self, which is widely available. Specific reading assignments will be shared in advance of the seminar. Erich Neumann’s book will be used as a reference in lectures and is not required reading.

Each session will be two hours in length with a short break and allow for lecture as well as discussion.

Attendance at live gatherings is not required. Recordings will be available within 24-hours of the live sessions.

50% of all proceeds from this seminar will go towards supporting American voting rights.

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 owner of Quarterlife, a depth psychological resource for people in the first half of adulthood. 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. Her article “Salome: the Antidote” was awarded the Cambridge Jung Circle Essay prize in 2019. She has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere, and has “mini-therapy” recordings available through the Simple Habit meditation app. Her book on Quarterlife is forthcoming from Random House.

Register:

Online Attendance: a link for Zoom sessions will be sent to all registrants via email.

Recordings: Recordings of the seminar session will be made available to all registered participants.

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

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.

December’s New Moon in Sagittarius

Thursday, December 2nd

6-7:30 pm PST

Event will be hosted online.

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

In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead.

In December, the New Moon is in Sagittarius:

"To Infinity and Beyond!"

-Buzz Lightyear, "Toy Story"

Sagittarius, the centaur archer, aims the seed that nature generated in Scorpio towards the return of the light.  As we approach the deepest dark of the Winter Solstice, Nature, even as she is turned inwards, imagines how to grow forward.  At this time of year, we burn candles and hang lights on trees, in order to manage the dark.

Astrologers often characterize Sagittarians as truth seekers. The motto “towards a more perfect and elegant model” describes our Sagittarian desire to “dream in the dark,” to reach beyond the ordinary, beyond the limiting, and to touch eternal possibilities.

As we come to the deepest dark, what shall we dream for the times to come?

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, recorded live on June 27th, 2021.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

November’s New Moon in Scorpio

Thursday, November 4th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead.

In November, the New Moon is in Scorpio:

The dragon fight is a universal motif, but it is particularly relevant to Scorpio, who must confront in perhaps greater depth and more frequently this reptilian face of instinctual life with its terrifying and destructive power.  

- “The Astrology of Fate” by Liz Greene (pp 228-229)

It’s during this time of year that the nights grow longer, temperatures drop, and Nature turns deeply inward and downward to create new life from death. If Scorpios are famously intense and passionate, bad at small talk and conventional conversation, it is because they are born at a time when life is taking itself very seriously, in the depths of winter, when all life struggles to exist.

In classical Chinese Medical philosophy, this time of year is associated with the organ system we call the Pericardium, the powerful muscle sheath that protects the heart. As darkness rises, the heart rests behind the careful watcher, able to prepare renewal in the deep dark of endings, loss, and regeneration. 

What will we say goodbye to? Now that harvest is over, weighed, measured, and stored, what will be distilled and preserved in this, the balsamic time of year?

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, recorded live on June 27th, 2021.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Writing Ourselves Through the Apocalypse with Octavia E. Butler

with Ayana Jamieson, Ph.D.

a Three Session Seminar

3 Sundays: (September 26th) October 24th & November 14th

10am - 12pm PDT / 1pm-3pm EDT

Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings provided.

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

Dr. Ayana Jamieson returns for session two of Writing Ourselves Through the Apocalypse with Octavia E. Butler, a three-session seminar focused on the practice of journaling the contemporary personal and collective experience through the works of speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler.

Participants joining us in session two will have access to the recording of our first gathering on the course website. No new participants will be able to register after session two.

Parable of the Sower, one of Butler's most well-known books, takes place just a few years from now, in 2024. It features a protagonist named Lauren Oya Olamina who, born in 2009, would now be twelve.

Lauren suffers from hyper-empathy syndrome, which causes her to experience the pain, and less often the pleasure, of others. In Butler’s Parable, Lauren writes journal entries and verses that help her to articulate what she is observing. She documents herself and her loved ones. She writes what it’s like to live in a world full of drugs, disease, drought, and uncertainty.

In this seminar, we will revisit Butler's depictions of apocalypse, hope, and planning for a future with community, with short readings and highlights from Butler's own research and journals.

Seminar participants will be encouraged, like Lauren Oya Olamina, to journal in response to writing prompts as we discuss how to write ourselves today toward more equitable and sustainable futures.

You need not have read Butler's books to participate. An accessible reading list will be provided, and there will be space for reading aloud in sessions as well.

A few important notes on the structure for this three-part seminar:

• Registrants will have access to a community page. In order to provide space for group engagement between sessions, we’ve created a password-protected community page for discussion and sharing.

• Readings will be provided to all who register.

• Recordings are available. For maximum accessibility, we record all sessions. For the sake of confidentiality, recordings can never be downloaded. Recordings are not available to anyone who does not register and will expire at the end of 2021. Recording of session one is immediately available to anyone who registers for the seminar before session two.

About Ayana Jamieson, Ph.D.

Ayana Jamieson, is an organizer, educator, and founder of The Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, a global community committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work, as well as creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. The Legacy Network grew out of Ayana’s research for her doctoral work in Depth Psychology on Butler’s life. Her dissertation is entitled, “‘Certainty of the Flesh’: A Biomythographical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Fictions.” She teaches ethnic studies courses at California State University Polytechnic, Pomona.

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.

Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email at least one day prior to the first session.

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

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded for those registrants unable to attend live. The recording of session one is immediately available upon registration.

Men + Mythology:

A Four Week Group Seminar

with Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Saturdays, October 9, 16, 23, 30

10am - 11:30 am PDT / 1pm-2:30pm EDT

Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings will be provided for two-week access.

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

This is an opportunity for men and non-binary individuals from all backgrounds and ages to explore life experiences together through myth. In this group, spanning four Saturdays in October, mythologist Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. will guide participants in self-inquiry, listening, and sharing within a group environment through storytelling and drumming.

In each 90min session, Kwame will share a portion of a myth, working through it piece by piece from start to finish. Throughout each gathering, participants will be invited to bring their understanding of the story to life. Whether vocalizing their reactions in the group or silently in a notebook, participants are encouraged to reflect on their own life through the mythic tale, exploring the meaning of symbols and trials that can take our whole being to overcome.

This unique, proven, and timeless process of psychological inquiry through myth is designed to increase awareness of one's "life behind the life" and promote a sense of connection and empathy.

Kwame is adept at using mythic stories to guide participants into a greater understanding of their place in the world, activating the knowledge that provides the impetus for living with meaning and purpose.

This seminar is open to new participants and anyone who participated in our previous two men’s groups. In this seminar, Kwame will select a new myth not yet explored in previous groups hosted by the Salome Institute.

A few important notes on the structure for this four-part seminar:

• Registrants will have access to a community page. In order to provide space for group engagement between sessions, we’ve created a password-protected community page for discussion and sharing off live zoom gatherings.

• Portions of myth will be shared following gatherings. Kwame shares a portion of a myth each week with the group and invites responses. After those Saturday sessions, we will post each week’s portion of the myth on the password-protected group page to allow for study and contemplation between sessions.

• Recordings will last for two weeks. For maximum accessibility as well as confidentiality, we record all sessions but set the videos to expire after two weeks. Recordings can never be downloaded.

Please note this group is for men and male identified persons; for women who are interested in participating, The Salome Institute will be hosting a group for women with Kwame Scruggs in August / September of 2021."

About Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Kwame Scruggs has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of youth and adults. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kwame also holds a MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. In 1993, he was formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (an African-based rites of passage).

Kwame is the founder of Alchemy Inc., a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio that has used myths to engage adolescents since 2004. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by President Obama’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. Alchemy was also the backdrop for a feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” 

He has taught and lectured widely, including various Jung Institutes nationwide. In 2020, Kwame received the Association of Teaching Artists (with Lincoln Center Education) Innovation in Teaching Artistry award. Kwame is a board member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation.

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.

Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email at least one day prior to the first session.

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

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded for those registrants unable to attend live. In order to protect confidentiality, recordings will expire two weeks after each gathering.

October’s New Moon in Libra

Thursday, October 7th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be emailed to all registrants a day prior & a recording will be sent following

In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology for the month ahead.

In October, the New Moon is in Libra:

Balance is “to be in a position where you will stand without falling…a situation in which two opposing forces have or are given the same power…”

-“Balance,” The Cambridge Dictionary

At the Autumn Equinox, as day and night are in equilibrium, the Sun enters the sign of Libra: the Balance. Astronomical and astrological cultures alike placed a set of scales in this sky, a testament to the weighing and measuring of the harvest.

Some astrological histories suggest the pans that hang from the scales of The Balance were once the claws of the Scorpion, symbolizing Fate’s spinning thread and the claws that clipped that thread. The Egyptian myth of the goddess Ma’at registered the evolution of human consciousness from a consciousness of fate to one of free will.

In Egypt, when you died, you traveled in the halls of the underworld to the throne of Ma’at and she extended her scales of justice towards you. In one pan, you placed your heart. In the other, she placed a feather from her headdress of Truth.  As your heart was weighed against Truth, you recited The Negative Confession, a list of all the bad things you could have done but chose not to do. Your evolution was based on the weight of your heart in balance with the Truth, your narrative, and her judgment.   

What will we weigh and measure in this New Moon and how will our hearts, our narratives, and our truths ready us for the coming winter? 

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, recorded live on June 27th, 2021.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Foundations of Jungian Psychology

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC

An Eight Week Seminar

Fridays

October 1 - November 19

9 - 11 am PDT

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

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

This eight-session seminar with Salome Institute director, Satya Doyle Byock, will explore some of the bedrock ideas and tools of Jungian Psychology from projection to the esoteric practice of alchemy. Each week’s material will build towards the next week to invite maximum accessibility and interest in these often complex and misunderstood concepts.

Each weekly session will include readings from Jung’s Collected Works and other authors, both Jungian and not, as well as journal prompts and exercises to make the material applicable to personal life and modern society.

The anticipated topics for week-to-week will be as follows (recently updated):

• October 1: Opposites, Balance, and Wholeness

• October 8: The Unconscious, Ego, Persona, and Self

• October 15: Individuation and the Ego-Self Axis

• October 22: Masculine and Feminine / Animus and Anima

• October 29: Alchemy and Androgyny

• November 5: Projection, Shadow, and Transference

• November 12: Synchronicity and Divination

• November 19: Active Imagination and Dreamwork

All course participants will have access to a password-protected portal that will provide the following:

• Weekly readings in pdf format

• Space for comments and dialogue with other participants

• Prompt weekly recordings of live sessions

• Additional resources

• Zoom link for live sessions

Each session will be two hours in length with a short break in the middle, time for teaching, exercises, and Q&A. Every effort will be made to balance teaching with group engagement, with an emphasis on staying on track with weekly material.

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. There is no expectation that those registered attend all—or any—live gatherings.

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 owner of Quarterlife, a depth psychological resource for people in the first half of adulthood. 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. Her article “Salome: the Antidote” was awarded the Cambridge Jung Circle Essay prize in 2019. She has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere, and has “mini-therapy” recordings available through the Simple Habit meditation app. Her book on Quarterlife is forthcoming from Random House.

Register:

Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email as well as a password-protected area of the Salome 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 16 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded for those registrants unable to attend live. Access to recordings will be provided within 24 hours of each gathering through an easy-to-access private portal on the Salome Institute website.

Writing Ourselves Through the Apocalypse with Octavia E. Butler

with Ayana Jamieson, Ph.D.

a Three Session Seminar

3 Sundays: September 26th, October 24th, & November 14th

10am - 12pm PDT / 1pm-3pm EDT

Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings will be provided for two-week access.

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

Dr. Ayana Jamieson returns to The Salome Institute for Writing Ourselves Through the Apocalypse, a three-session seminar focused on in-depth engagement with contemporary lived experience through writing and the works of Octavia E. Butler.

Parable of the Sower, one of Butler's most well-known books, takes place just a few years from now, in 2024. It features a protagonist named Lauren Oya Olamina who, born in 2009, would now be twelve.

Lauren suffers from hyper-empathy syndrome, which causes her to experience the pain, and less often the pleasure, of others. In Butler’s Parable, Lauren writes journal entries and verses that help her to articulate what she is observing. She documents herself and her loved ones. She writes what it’s like to live in a world full of drugs, disease, drought, and uncertainty.

In this seminar, we will revisit Butler's depictions of apocalypse, hope, and planning for a future in community, with short readings and highlights from Butler's own research.

Seminar participants will be encouraged, like Lauren Oya Olamina, to journal in response to writing prompts as we discuss how to document ourselves today toward more equitable and sustainable futures.

You need not have read Butler's books to participate. An accessible reading list will be provided, and there will be space for reading aloud in sessions as well.

A few important notes on the structure for this three-part seminar:

• Registrants will have access to a community page. In order to provide space for group engagement between sessions, we’ve created a password-protected community page for discussion and sharing.

• An accessible reading list will be provided to all who register.

• Recordings will last for two weeks. For maximum accessibility as well as confidentiality, we record all sessions but set the videos to expire after two weeks. Recordings can never be downloaded.

About Ayana Jamieson, Ph.D.

Ayana Jamieson, is an organizer, educator, and founder of The Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, a global community committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work, as well as creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. The Legacy Network grew out of Ayana’s research for her doctoral research in Depth Psychology on Butler’s life. Her dissertation is entitled, “‘Certainty of the Flesh’: A Biomythographical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Fictions.” She teaches ethnic studies courses at California State University Polytechnic, Pomona.

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.

Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email at least one day prior to the first session.

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

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded for those registrants unable to attend live. In order to protect confidentiality, recordings will expire two weeks after each gathering.

September’s New Moon in Virgo

Thursday, September 9th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead.

In September, the New Moon is in Virgo:

“For I am the first and the last/I am the honoured one and the scorned one/I am the whore and the holy one/I am the wife and the virgin/I am the mother and the daughter.”

- “The Thunder, Perfect Mind” from The Nag Hammadi Library, translated by George W. MacRae

With the New Moon in Virgo, the days grow shorter and nature bends her attention, with some urgency, to the gathering up of all that has been generated in the season before.  Virgo, the only feminine zodiac sign in Western astrology, carries a sheaf of wheat (the star Spica) and shoulders a cluster of grapes (the star Vindemiatrix). She reminds humans of harvest and the need to prepare for winter.  What, in this new moon, anticipating the inward turn of time, shall we focus on? How can we ready ourselves for times of darkness?

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, recorded live on June 27th, 2021.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Women + Mythology:

A Four Week Group Seminar

with Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Saturdays, Aug 21 and 28 + Sep 4 and 11

10am - 11:30 am PDT / 1pm-2:30pm EDT

Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings will be provided for two-week access.

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

This is an opportunity for women and non-binary individuals from all backgrounds and ages to explore life experiences together through myth. In this group, spanning four Saturdays in August & September, mythologist Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. will guide participants in self-inquiry, listening, and sharing within a group environment through storytelling and drumming.

In each 90min session, Kwame will share a portion of a myth, working through it piece by piece from start to finish. Throughout each gathering, participants will be invited to bring their understanding of the story to life. Whether vocalizing their reactions in the group or silently in a notebook, participants are encouraged to reflect on their own life through the mythic tale, exploring the meaning of symbols and trials that can take our whole being to overcome.

This unique, proven, and timeless process of psychological inquiry through myth is designed to increase awareness of one's "life behind the life" and promote a sense of connection and empathy.

Kwame is adept at using mythic stories to guide participants into a greater understanding of their place in the world, activating the knowledge that provides the impetus for living with meaning and purpose.

A few important notes on the structure for this four-part seminar:

• Registrants will have access to a community page. In order to provide space for group engagement between sessions, we’ve created a password-protected community page for discussion and sharing off live zoom gatherings.

• Portions of myth will be shared following gatherings. Kwame shares a portion of a myth each week with the group and invites responses. After those Saturday sessions, we will post each week’s portion of the myth on the password-protected group page to allow for study and contemplation between sessions.

• Recordings will last for two weeks. For maximum accessibility as well as confidentiality, we record all sessions but set the videos to expire after two weeks. Recordings can never be downloaded.

Please note this group is for female and female identified persons; for men who are interested in participating, The Salome Institute will be hosting a group for men with Kwame Scruggs in October of 2021.

About Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Kwame Scruggs has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of youth and adults. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kwame also holds an MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. In 1993, he was formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (African-based rites of passage).

Kwame is the founder of Alchemy Inc., a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio that has used myths to engage adolescents since 2004. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by President Obama’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. Alchemy was also the backdrop for a feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” 

He has taught and lectured widely, including various Jung Institutes nationwide. In 2020, Kwame received the Association of Teaching Artists (with Lincoln Center Education) Innovation in Teaching Artistry award. Kwame is a board member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation.

Register:

Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants in advance of class via a password-protected portal.

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded for those registrants unable to attend live. In order to protect confidentiality, recordings will expire two weeks after each gathering.

CEU: Participants can earn 6 CEs — Continued Education Credit hours — for this seminar.

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.

The Depth Psychology of Malcolm X

with Kwame Scruggs Ph.D.

Sunday, August 8th

4 - 5:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

-Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”

Kwame Scruggs identifies reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X as his “turning point,” the event that kicked off his “process of individuation.” This encounter with the revolutionary ideas, activism, self-respect, and evolution of Malcolm X ultimately sent Kwame Scruggs on a path towards a Ph.D. in Mythology and a life engaged with myth and depth psychology. Along the way, Kwame began to understand more about the individuation journey of Malcolm X as well.

In this 90min salon + Q&A, Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D., will explore the biography of Malcolm X through a depth psychological lens, highlighting the ways in which he detoxed from the dominant cultural narratives of white supremacy and patriarchy and ultimately integrated his once projected anima, shadow, and Wise Old Man.

Registrants of this salon can expect to learn more about the man, Malcolm X, his ideas and impact on culture, and the way that his life and activism on behalf of African Americans can be understood through a Jungian lens.

About Kwame Scruggs Ph.D.

Kwame Scruggs has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of youth and adults. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kwame also holds an MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. In 1993, he was formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (African-based rites of passage).

Kwame is the founder of Alchemy Inc., a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio that has used myths to engage adolescents since 2004. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by President Obama’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. Alchemy was also the backdrop for a feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” 

He has taught and lectured widely, including various Jung Institutes nationwide. In 2020, Kwame received the Association of Teaching Artists (with Lincoln Center Education) Innovation in Teaching Artistry award. Kwame is a board member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation.

Register:

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

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

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.

August’s New Moon in Leo

Thursday, August 5th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead.

In August, the New Moon is in Leo:

“In alchemy, the lion, the ‘royal beast’, is a synonym for Mercurius, or, to be more accurate, for a stage in his transformation.  He is the warm-blooded form of the devouring, predatory monster who first appears as the dragon . . . This is precisely what the fiery lion is intended to express – the passionate emotionality that precedes the recognition of unconscious contents.”  

- Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14

At high summer, the womb waters of the Cancer Solstice give birth to the fierce individual, Leo, the Lion. The New Moon in Leo heralds the arrival of the heart—the center. While modern governance celebrates the emerging, heroic individual, older cultures envisioned leadership as service to the divine: what was the Mandate of Heaven? Natural and economic disasters were laid at the feet of the ruler who was out of communication with the divine. 

The new moon in Leo wants to know: what is asked of our hearts in this time? How do our hearts hold the personal and the heavenly?

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, recorded live on June 27th, 2021.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

July’s New Moon in Cancer

Thursday, July 8th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

In this seventh installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead, including the Summer Solstice. Join us to hear all about it.

In July, the New Moon is in Cancer:

Why is the Summer Solstice constellation named Cancer, after the crab?  

If you stand in the same place every Winter morning, watching the Sun climb from the low horizon of the sky, day after day, you will see the Sun climbing higher and higher.  You might think the Sun will continue to climb higher in the sky throughout the year, however, at the Summer Sol-stice, the Sun, Sol is still stice. Then the Sun begins its descent, back the way it came—moving like a crab. 

At high summer, during the longest days of the year, Nature brings her pregnancy to full term, preparing to deliver the golden child of summer: Leo. At high summer, this part of the sky is full of ripe, productive constellations, including Praesepe, a milky cluster also known as The Beehive. Visible with the naked eye, near the constellation Cancer, you can easily imagine bees flying from it in the ancient world, a birthplace for new souls. 

In this evening salon, Carol will offer participants information on what this Dark Moon in Summer may deliver?  

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, join us also for the How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101 on June 27th, or purchase the recording.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

How to Read Your Horoscope 101

Sunday, June 27th

10am-12pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

In this two-hour morning salon, astrologer Carol Ferris will offer an introduction to reading one’s own birth chart. She’ll orient participants to the building blocks of a natal reading: the twelve signs, the twelve houses, the planets, and their related aspects. She’ll also provide resources for continued self-study.

This salon is for participants of our New Moon salons who are eager to understand more about their own horoscopes, beginners to astrology who would like more access to understanding their birth chart, and for more experienced students who are looking for a deeper dive into Carol’s style of natal readings.

All registrants will receive links to create their own birth chart in advance of the salon and are encouraged to have their chart to study. In order to make instruction within a group easier, Carol will be teaching via “whole sign houses” — a house system that is a bit different from the one she uses for personal readings. We’ll provide further instruction prior to the salon!

This salon will be recorded and all registrants will receive the recording within 24hours.

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:

Important note:

You can purchase this salon individually or as part of a seven-pack salon class, which includes all six New Moon salons with Carol Ferris from July-December. If you purchase the package, your login access for the New Moon salons will be sent to you automatically before the salon each month.

If you are registered with the package of twelve New Moon salons for all of 2021, you have a discount code to register to use in registering for this course. Please see prior emails that have been sent to you for more information!

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.

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.

Carl Jung & The Gnostics

The Gospel of Philip:
The Call to Sacred Union

with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Friday, June 25th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

This is our sixth salon of a six-part series on Jung & the Gnostics. Each salon can be attended as a stand-alone and videos of past salons are available for purchase.

"Light and darkness, life and death, and right and left are siblings of one another, and inseparable"

In this Friday evening salon, Kayleen Asbo Ph.D. will explore The Gospel of Philip, a controversial 3rd-century text that has often been cited to support the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married.

We will explore the psychological nuances of what "sacred union" means from an archetypal perspective as we examine this intriguing collection of enigmatic wisdom sayings, parables, and liturgies. A Jungian perspective on the alchemical concept of coniunctio will help shed light on the sacrament of the "bridal chamber" and point to the universal need for us all to marry the opposites within as a process of becoming anthropos—fully human.

About Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.

Register:

Videos of Past Salons:

June’s New Moon in Gemini

And Solar Eclipse!

with Carol Ferris, MA

Thursday, June 10th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

On the day of the Solar Eclipse!

In this sixth installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer Carol Ferris will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead. Join us to hear all about it!

In June, the New Moon is in Gemini:

June finds us emerging from solid earth into the duality and possibility of Gemini: Nature looks back to Spring, and forward to Summer. It’s a liminal space, a between-ness place, where longer, warmer days trend both upward and downward, requiring some middle ground sensibility. But things going in opposite directions can lead to separation, to arguments, to forensics (the original Twins, the Dioscuri, when separated by death, longed to be reunited, but could only ever trade places between the world of the living and world of the dead).

In this salon we’ll ask: How do we bridge this time, with the full-on productivity of Summer, the Sun, Moon, and retrograding Mercury in Gemini, the North node pulling support from Saturn in Aquarius, all with the dreaminess from Neptune in Pisces?

If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Carl Jung & The Gnostics

The Gospel of Thomas:
The Koans of Rabbi Jesus

with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Friday, May 28th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

This is our fifth salon of a six-part series on Jung & the Gnostics. Each salon can be attended as a stand-alone and videos of past salons are available for purchase.

"Bring forth what is inside of you, and what is inside of you will save you"

In this Friday evening salon, Kayleen Asbo Ph.D. will explore perhaps the oldest and most important of all the recovered Ancient Christian texts in the Nag Hammadi: The Gospel of Thomas.

Written perhaps even earlier than the canonical gospels, this work strikingly reflects the tradition associated with the Apostle Thomas, patron saint of India whom legend claims founded Christian communities in the South Indian state, Kerala.

A very Eastern-oriented text, The Gospel of Thomas is a miracle-free collection of wisdom sayings that read at times like Zen koans. We will explore this fascinating text, hailed as "the Fifth Gospel" with its emphasis on awakening here and now and discovering wisdom and illumination within.

About Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.

Register:

Videos of Past Salons:

May’s New Moon in Taurus

with Carol Ferris, MA

Thursday, May 13th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

In this fifth installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, astrologer Carol Ferris will offer insights into the astrology of the month. We'll explore the collective implications and offer insights for your month ahead.

In May, the New Moon is in Taurus.

"The pretty little Woodruff is in flower; what scent is so delicate as that of its leaves? They are almost sweeter when dried, each little whorl by itself, with the stalk cut closely away above and below. It is a pleasant surprise to come upon these fragrant little stars between the leaves of a book."

- Gertrure Jekyll, “Wood and Garden” - chapter: May

May's increasing light and warmth bring the rushing growth of spring back to earth, to root down firmly. In Spanish, the bullfighting term querencia describes the desire of a bull to take root in a particular spot—you may remember the Munro Leaf book "The Story of Ferdinand" about the little bullfighting bull who just wants to sit under the cork tree and smell the flowers.

In Taurus time, we too desire to take root: to settle in, get grounded, and begin to flower. But how will we settle in while there’s a revolution in earth and dirt—Uranus moving slowly through Taurus—and the conflicting need to pioneer something new and social—Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius, pushing past what’s comfortable and familiar and solid. Oh, and with all the conspiracy theories—Neptune in Pisces continues to square the nodes.

If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Men + Mythology:

A Four Week Group Seminar

with Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Saturdays, May 1, 8, 15 & 29

10am - 11:30 am PDT / 1pm-2:30pm EDT

Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings will be provided for two-week access.

This is an opportunity for men from all backgrounds and ages to explore life experiences together through myth. In this group, spanning four Saturdays in May, mythologist Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. will guide participants in self-inquiry, listening, and sharing within a group environment through myth and drumming.

In each session, Kwame will share a portion of a myth, working through it piece by piece from start to finish. Throughout each gathering, participants will be invited to bring their understanding of the story to life. Whether vocalizing their reactions in group or silently in a notebook, participants are encouraged to reflect on their own life as an epic tale, with trials that can take our whole being to overcome. This unique, proven, and timeless process is designed to increase awareness of one's "life behind the life" and promote a sense of connection and empathy.

Kwame has been guiding youth and men of all ages through self-inquiry via mythology for over twenty years. He was introduced to the healing properties of myth through the work of Michael Meade, with whom he has since worked through Alchemy Inc. half a dozen times. Kwame is adept at using mythic stories to guide participants into a greater understanding of their place in the world, activating the knowledge that provides the impetus for living with meaning and purpose, becoming the heroes in our stories.

This May seminar series is open to new participants and anyone who participated in our February group. Kwame will select a new myth for personal exploration in a community environment.

The first three sessions on May 1st,8th, and 15th will be 90 minutes long. After a one week break, the final session on May 29th will be 2 hours.

We’ve made a few updates to the structure for this group since the last gathering:

• There is now a community page. Some people had hoped for more between-session engagement with the men in the group. This time around, we have a password-protected community page for further discussion and sharing off zoom.

• Portions of myth will be shared following gatherings. Kwame shares a portion of a myth each week with the group and invites responses. After those Saturday sessions, some men had hoped to be able to sit with the myth for more personal contemplation and study. We’ll now post each week’s portion of the myth on the community page following session.

• Recordings will last for two weeks. For maximum accessibility as well as confidentiality, we record all sessions but set the videos to expire (and they can never be downloaded). This time around, videos will last for two weeks to allow time for catch-up.

About Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Kwame Scruggs has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of youth and adults. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kwame also holds a MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. In 1993, he was formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (an African-based rites of passage).

Kwame is the founder of Alchemy Inc., a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio that has used myths to engage adolescents since 2004. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by President Obama’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. Alchemy was also the backdrop for a feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” 

He has taught and lectured widely, including various Jung Institutes nationwide. In 2020, Kwame received the Association of Teaching Artists (with Lincoln Center Education) Innovation in Teaching Artistry award. Kwame is a board member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation.

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.

Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email at least one day prior to the first session.

Recordings: Sessions will be recorded for those registrants unable to attend live. In order to protect confidentiality, recordings will expire two weeks after each gathering.

Carl Jung & The Gnostics

The Hymn of the Pearl: The Myth of Forgetting and Remembering

with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Friday, April 30th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

This is our fourth salon of a six-part series on Jung & the Gnostics. Each salon can be attended as a stand-alone and videos of past salons are available for purchase.

In this Friday evening salon, Kayleen Asbo Ph.D. will explore the early Gnostic Christianity associated with the followers of Mary Magdalene and Thomas, communities who emphasized not the ideas of "sin and redemption," but the themes of "forgetting and remembering."

In the view of these Early Christians, Christ was the Great Teacher who awakens us from the Sleep of Forgetfulness. In their theology, it is through inner awakening that we are restored to our true image, which was created as Divine.

We will explore this central teaching of Gnostic Christianity through two texts: the Hymn of the Pearl, a gorgeous poem composed in Syriac in the second century that bears a resemblance to the canonical parable of the Prodigal Son; and the Gospel of Mary, in which Mary Magdalene shares a vision of Christ's teaching about balance, harmony, and inner awakening.

About Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.

Register:

Videos of Past Salons:

April’s New Moon in Aries

with Carol Ferris, MA

Thursday, April 8th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

In this fourth installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, astrologer Carol Ferris will offer insights into the astrology of the month. We'll explore the implications for the month and offer insights for your month ahead.

In April, the New Moon is in Aries.

A powerful trio joins the great lights in the dynamic, upthrusting, rock ‘n roll, let’s go!

“Damn the torpedoes! Louett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!”

                                               -David Glasgow Farragut, 1864

Cardinal, creative energy of Aries—the sign of the Ram.  As the light overtakes the dark and life pushes up with vigor and spontaneity, winter’s inhibitions are shed and long-delayed actionbegins to press itself forward. Delusion and illusion begin to slacken and optimism begins to grow. 

If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences.

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: Recordings of events will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of event.

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.

Carl Jung & The Gnostics

“The Round Dance of Jesus” and Rituals of Wholeness

with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Friday, March 26th

6-7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

This is our third salon of a six-part series on Jung & the Gnostics. Each salon can be attended as a stand-alone, and videos of past salons are available for purchase.

In our third evening salon on Jung & The Gnostics, Kayleen Asbo Ph.D. will explore the depictions of Jesus as Healer, Physician, Lord of the Dance, Musician, Gardener, and Flowering Fullness as found in early Christian art, text, and rituals. All of these depictions are archetypes that emphasize the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.

We will focus on The Gospel of Truth, a Valentinian text that is included in the Jung Codex, as well as The Round Dance of Jesus, a poem translated into English by G.R.S. Mead, and thus one of the texts that Jung would have been familiar with long before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library.

In The Round Dance of Jesus, Jesus invites the disciples to participate in a call-and-response that honors the non-dual nature of the world and humanity: life and death, wounding and healing. This was a song that early Gnostic communities danced during Maundy Thursday—April 1st this year. They were rituals during the first few centuries that offer us new and exciting possibilities for re-envisioning modern liturgies.

About Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.

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Videos of Past Salons:

The Radical Imagination and Depth Psychology of Ursula K. Le Guin

with David Naimon

Friday, March 19th

6 - 7:30 pm PDT

Event will be hosted online.

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

When Ursula K. Le Guin passed away unexpectedly in January of 2018, she was in the midst of editing a small book with David Naimon, after the two had previously recorded three live conversations on the craft of writing. This prolific author of science fiction and fantasy, and essays and poetry too, pioneered literature that crossed countless lines, forcing genres themselves to blur. Influenced by and steeped in Taoist philosophy—she also published a translation of the Tao Te Ching—Le Guin rarely saw a binary she couldn’t upend. Whether it was exploring ambisexual or androgynous gender in her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, or the capacity for dreams to enter and alter reality in The Lathe of Heaven, Le Guin was often exploring the in-between realms and the transcendent third.

Ursula K. Le Guin was always pushing against the expected and the known to encourage a more humane world. As David has written, “you could look to her canonical novels, some a half-century old now, that even then were including, in matter-of-fact fashion, not only characters but protagonists who were people of color and women, gender fluid and anticapitalist.”

Throughout her work, in almost every nook and cranny, one can also recognize a profound depth-psychological-mind at work, a person who understood psyche and the unconscious and could play proficiently and joyfully in those realms. Her writing conveys a clear understanding of what happens when humans don’t face their own shadow selves, and what stunning transformation can happen when they do.

In the introduction to their shared work, Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, David Naimon highlights a line of Le Guin’s that profoundly captures this depth psychological resonance and necessity of individuals to acknowledge and face our own shadows. Le Guin wrote, “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

In this 90min salon with David Naimon, writer and host of one the most respected and applauded literary podcast, Between the Covers, we’ll explore Ursula K. Le Guin’s radical imagination and social justice orientation. We’ll have an ear tuned to learning from Le Guin, and David’s experience of her, how we can best apply radical imagination and knowing to own lives and creative work today.

“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” - ULG

About David Naimon

Ursula K. Le Guin is the one and only guest to have appeared three times on the show, once each for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. After their third conversation, which took place not in the radio studio, but in the upstairs writing room of her house, David mentioned that he couldn't imagine what other person he could have done this triptych with, what other writer had a half-century of such deep engagement in all three genres. Ursula, in response, suggested they make a book together, one that built from these three conversations, and which became Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (Tin House Books). Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing was a Hugo award finalist and winner of the Locus Award in nonfiction. Naimon's own writing has appeared in Orion, Tin House, AGNI, Boulevard, and Black Warrior Review, among many other places. It has garnered a Pushcart prize, been anthologized in The Best Small Fictions, and cited as notable in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. He has also written the foreword to the upcoming anthology Dispatches from Anarres: Tales from Portland Authors in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, forthcoming this fall from Forest Avenue Press.

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

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

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.

March’s New Moon in Pisces

with Carol Ferris, MA

Thursday, March 11th

6-7:30 pm PST

Event will be hosted online.

A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .

Our ancestors knew that the Sun burned and the Moon did not: she carries light, they said. The New Moon is the phase in her monthly journey when she is completely dark and tidal.

In this third installment of our monthly salons, astrologer Carol Ferris will offer insights into the astrology of the month around the ritual of recognition of each month’s New Moon.

This month, the New Moon is in Pisces:

“To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there’s the rub.” 

                                                                        Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1

The Sun and Moon meet Neptune in its depths on March 13.  The alchemical solvent that dissolves ego may work on our divisiveness and our memory that we all come from an undifferentiated source. This is not so simple as a womb dream: this is seeding an emotional reckoning as a prelude to an outer dream of collective self-governance that includes everyone.  Delusion and illusion are heightened; revolution challenges authority everywhere.

If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences.

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 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.

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.

Exploring Carl Jung’s Black Books

with Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris

An Eight Week Seminar

Sundays, March 7 - May 2

10 am - 12 pm PST

Sessions will be hosted online + Recordings will be provided

Seminar will break for one week for Easter

This eight-session seminar with Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris will explore Carl Jung’s raw notebooks, the newly published original records of his “confrontation with the unconscious” from 1913 to 1932.

The Black Books tell much of the same stories as recounted faithfully in The Red Book, but they provide yet another layer of understanding. Many extraordinary lines were edited-out, characters were changed, and the feminine soul transformed during edits, becoming the snake or the masculine God. These are the stories as they originally occurred, and they provide some remarkable portals of understanding about Jung’s psychology and the collective unconscious itself.

There are also insights throughout these books into Jung’s ongoing relationship with the women in his life, those who supported his dive into psyche (namely Toni Wolff) and normalcy in the world of day (namely Emma Jung.)

Over eight sessions, Carol and Satya will dive into The Black Books in a similar fashion as they did during the 28 salon series on The Red Book in 2020. However, rather than moving chapter-by-chapter, this seminar will move book-by-book. There will be more space for participant engagement.

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

You do not need to own The Black Books to enjoy this course. Carol and Satya will read sections aloud each week and offer a break-down of the stories and timeline of each book to provide everyone access to what is unfolding. They will also reference The Red Book Reader for where stories overlap.

The schedule is as follows:

• March 7: Book 1 — The introduction by Sonu Shamdasani

• Weeks 2-7: Books 2-7 — Jung’s notebooks

• May 2: Wrap-up + discussion

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. There is no expectation that those registered attend all—or any—live gatherings.

A new password-protected area on the Salome Institute website will make recordings easily accessible, as well as any supplementary course materials.

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Online Attendance: Links for Zoom sessions will be made available to all registrants via email as well as a password-protected area of the Salome website.

Recordings: Recordings of events will be password protected and available through the online portal for all seminar registrants for all of 2021.

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.

An I Ching Gathering for Personal Consultation & Community Practice

with Satya Doyle Byock, MA

Sunday, February 28th

10-11:30 am PST

Gathering will be hosted online.

An access link will be sent 24hrs in advance. Recording will be sent later in the day.

The recording for this salon will expire after 1 week in order to protect confidentiality.

This salon provides space for consultation with Satya on the I Ching and the meaning of individual readings. The group will learn from each response and questions on personal practice. All participants are also invited to engage with one another.

Following some brief remarks, Satya Doyle Byock will begin by guiding all participants through the simple ritual practice of consulting the I Ching. All questions are welcomed as people learn how to use this ancient system of divination. However, the focus of this salon is on responses and community discussion. This salon is primarily for those who already have a basic working knowledge of how to consult the I Ching.

While Satya will not be teaching the mechanics of how to use the I Ching, she’ll provide insights into the greater nuance on best practices for consultation as well as how to receive its guidance.

There will be plenty of space for questions and answers to make sure everyone is finding their way.

Recordings: Given the focus on personal sharing in these salons, recordings will only be available for one week following the live gathering for those unable to attend live.

If you have yet to learn the basics of consulting the I Ching, you can purchase the recording of Satya’s salon on “How to Use the I Ching”, which makes this material accessible and prepares you for these community gatherings.

Materials: You’ll want your journal/notebook, copies of the I Ching, and three pennies for practice. Satya encourages all registrants to purchase at least one or two translations of the I Ching, if you don’t already own one.

About Satya Doyle Byock

Satya Doyle Byock is the founder and Director of The Salome Institute. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and the owner of Quarterlife, a depth psychological resource for people in the first half of adulthood. Her book on Quarterlife is forthcoming from Random House in 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. Her article “Salome: the Antidote” was awarded the Cambridge Jung Circle Essay prize in 2019. She has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere, and has “mini-therapy” recordings available through the Simple Habit meditation app.

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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.

Online Attendance: A Zoom link for this salon will be emailed to all registrants within 24 hours of the event, or immediately if you are purchasing the day-of. Household members are welcome to join for the single login.

Recordings: Recordings of events will be password protected and emailed to all registrants within 24hours of event.

Recording Expires: As this is an interactive gathering with personal information, the recording will expire after just one week. If you register but are unable to attend live for some reason, you will have one week to access the salon recording.

Carl Jung & The Gnostics

Thunder Perfect Mind: The Call of the Wild Feminine

with Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Friday, February 26th

6-7:30 pm PST

Event will be hosted online.

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

Thunder Perfect Mind: The Call of the Wild Feminine

(While each of these salons on Jung & the Gnostics is a stand-alone gathering, this is the second of a series of six salons present by Kayleen Asbo, PhD. )

One of the largest surprises about the treasure trove of early texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt was the emphasis on the Sacred Feminine. In this second episode of Jung and the Gnostics, we will explore how early Christianity of the first few centuries offered women a place of strength and empowerment beyond cultural gender expectations- and how that expansion evaporated after the advent of Augustine's Doctrine of Original Sin. In contrast, we will see how the ecstatic poem Thunder Perfect Mind echoes with images from Ancient mythology that calls us to a place beyond duality in a celebration of the feminine in all of its wild paradox.

You can attend only this one salon or purchase the package of all six salons, one Friday evening a month from January to June, 2021. Details below and at registration.

About Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.

Register:

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

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

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.

The Masculine & The Feminine in Jung’s Psychology: A Modern Update

with Satya Doyle Byock
author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Recording of Live Session Available

Salon is free to register and hosted online — Register to receive Login information.

Join Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock, in this donation-based salon to explore Jung’s radical ideas about sex and gender, and how to update those complex ideas for today’s transformed gender landscape.

Core to Jung’s psychology is his discovery that men have feminine souls, a contra-sexual inner organ that he termed “the anima.” In Jungian psychology, the individual retraction of projection of the anima onto women in media or in one’s life is core to healing and maturation. The goal is wholeness and psychological androgyny—an integration of the opposites.

Jung postulated too that women have masculine souls, “the animus,” and that the same structure applied: the masculine soul needed to be integrated for women in order for them to experience wholeness and mature. However, Jung struggled more with the definition of the animus, and it never elevated to the same place of importance and clarity in his psychology.

Today, as feminism, gay rights, and trans rights, have transformed the gender landscape from the bottom-up, many wrestle with how to understand this rather strict binary in which men have feminine souls, and women have masculine souls.

What if one doesn’t identify as male or female? What of transgender children? Or of women who were never mothers and never felt “feminine”?

Does anything change? Does everything change?

In this 90min salon, Satya will cover a wide range of these ideas within classical Jungian psychology and explore how to update them for today’s world, an Aquarian Age, in which gender expression looks quite different than 100 years ago. There will then be ample space for discussion and Q&A.

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 owner of Quarterlife, a depth psychological resource for people in the first half of adulthood. 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. Her article “Salome: the Antidote” was awarded the Cambridge Jung Circle Essay prize in 2019. She has been interviewed for her work on the goop podcast and elsewhere, and has “mini-therapy” recordings available through the Simple Habit meditation app. Her book on Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood is forthcoming from Random House.

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