The Dark of the Soul: Psychopathology in the Horoscope

Another phenomenal work from Liz Greene full of insight from this rather previously unexplored theme. Highly recommend.

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Good addition to my library

This is a very intersting topic but the book wanders a little between two different areas: psychology and astrology without being too precise in neither.It is an entertaining book though.As an astrologer I would have defined explanations more precisely from the astrological point of view, instead, the book says (for example) that if someone has a difficult configuration in his natal chart and he is exposed to a complicated family situation, those family conditions are going to make him dangerous,and that is ignoring, again, as astrologers, that that person (with those complicated planets) IS GOING to have a surronding environment that is going to make him what he is supposed to get to be. At least from the point of view of destiny, we can't blame family for pushing him over the top, it was meant to be and that family situation was also meant to be.So, basically, it is an interesting book without too much rigor on the astrological study.

Very interesting book.

Very informative and well written.

Liz Greene is just brilliant!

Best Greene one I've read this far-definitely relatable with pinpointing inner struggles and generational trauma perspectives. I knew my work in the helping profession related to astrological phenomenon I just couldn't put it into words. I definitely have not felt happy in my work within the helping profession. I finally figured out--why. I sacrifice self for others in a dangerous crisis ridden atmosphere-yet never work on my own issues and desires which leads to deflation,regret, and feeling unfulfilled in my own personal goals. The helping profession field over emphasizes "self care" but that has taken a whole new meaning for me in the last year. Self care sometimes means that you need to remove/get out until your own healing can transcend to greater places.

Well it is a fascinating, if not always unedifying read. Even if you do not subscribe to her brand of psychological astrology, nor agree with the orbs she uses or that she doesn't work with midpoints, she certainly know how to interpret the salient points in a chart that will make sense to an audience. This book is actually a transcription of two or three lectures and workshops on psychopathy and scapegoating - not entirely pleasant topics - but then, Greene does make a point of reminding us that Hannibal Lector and his ilk were not 'doing something' for you and I - or rather what she calls 'the collective' - or rather our Jungian collective unconscious.The Collective is also about sins passed on to our children's children, part of which can certainly accommodate the traumas of past wars, atrocities and holocausts. Mike Harding suggested that a mundane astrological imprints on some kind of primal zodiac. All of these, Greene suggests, can help ignite old feuds between neighbouring countries, as what happened with Milosevics, whose chart is included among the rogue's gallery of heavy-duty baddies on show here.Whether it not you take the view if the collective on board, something definitely seems to be at work wherever someone like Milosevics emerges.Greene is up-to-date with her definition of psychopathy, yet inevitably it does become a fudge word when applied to evil people. Many argue now that Hitler can't have been a psychopath as he was able to empathise with animals, for example.It also seems a pity that this book did not come out later. Evil dictators and sadistic serial killers are one thing, but where would that place the kind of common-garden psychopath that helped engineer the 2008 recession? And what are we to make of the current scandals in the UK regarding the likes of Savile in terms of both psychopaths and scapegoats?Ah well, that might be getting a bit too political. Yes, there might be a Uranian psychopathy as well as a Plutonic one.Either way, Greene, as said, argues convincingly for what can happen where certain difficult planetary configurations are in evidence in a chart and Chiron is also included a lot in these analyses. Perhaps the most interesting insight she has to offer is that having a lot of water in a chart may offer much in terms of emotional intelligence including the capacity for manipulation but if something goes badly wrong with that most fundamental 'watery' planet, The Moon, there may still be very little capacity for empathy.Definitely worth reading

Liz Greene is one of the most prominent teachers of the last century. Love every her book. Genius!

Very deep - but a good book

An exploration into the dark recesses of a ‘twisted’ pathological mind.A must for all serious Psychological Astrologers and Psychologists.

It is a very interesting book. Liz Greene definitely is my favorite anther on Physiological Astrology.