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This Jungian Life Podcast

The Age of Aquarius: A Jungian View of a Changing World

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Jung suggested in Aion that humanity is moving from the great symbolic Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.


Join Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, as we ask what it means to live through the turbulence and vitality of this period of transition.


Jung pioneered the idea that human consciousness unfolds in great symbolic ages. The shift from one to the next is not a smooth or pleasant experience. As Jung saw it, each new age emerges through a process of decline, breakdown, and renewal, a process that can bring with it frightening levels of destabilization.


The Age of Pisces, shaped by Christianity, emphasized faith, morality, and the authority of external structures. But as this era wanes, Jung suggested we are coming under the influence of a new attitude, one that asks more of the individual psyche.


This new Age of Aquarius asks us to hold the tension of opposites consciously, rather than splitting experience into simple categories of right and wrong, and to be open to a genuinely new attitude that can contain much greater complexity.


We consider whether this emerging age calls us into a deeper interior life, one grounded not in external authority, but in an evolving relationship to the Self.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to read a quote from Jung, and this is actually from his essay on UFOs.

0:04.9

Apparently, there are changes in the constellation of psychic dominance of the archetypes or gods,

0:11.5

as they used to be called, which bring about or accompany is a cause or effect, long-lasting

0:18.3

transformations of the collective psyche. This transformation started in the historical era and left its traces first in the passing of the

0:26.6

Eon of Taurus into that of Aries and then of Ares into Pisces, whose beginning coincides

0:33.6

with the rise of Christianity. We are now nearing that great change which may be

0:39.5

expected when the spring point enters Aquarius. It's such a curious thing because he seems

0:45.1

to be saying that the archetypes themselves change. Welcome to this Jungian life.

0:59.6

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

1:03.4

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

1:09.6

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.

1:13.6

I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

1:18.6

I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.

1:42.0

Thank you. As Jung's work began to define as he himself came into a deeper understanding of the archetypal layers,

1:46.0

as he was having these extraordinary experiences that he details in the black books and the red books.

1:50.0

Jung's concept of the relationship between the individual, the collective, and the collective

1:57.0

unconscious began to ripen, mature, and he was able to find increasingly more

2:03.0

differentiated language to talk about it. One of the symbolic languages that he found very

2:09.8

interesting and very useful was astrology. The basis of astrology is that human beings have a

2:17.3

relationship symbolically and perhaps otherwise

2:19.9

with the events in the cosmos, that we are not separate, but in fact all influence by great

2:28.6

and powerful archetypal changes. One of the things that he was very interested and fascinated by is the idea of the ending of

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