In his later years, after accumulating substantial experience,  Jung wrote his book "Memory, Dreams, Reflections". In this book, he wrote about those experiences which had impressed him markedly both in childhood and in later years. During childhood, he experienced event sequences in which his feelings and manner of adaptation varied. "Two souls dwell in my heart, continually seeking to differentiate themselves from each other", said Goethe's Faust, and Jung too recognized this process within himself. Conscious of his own inner duality, Jung later labeled this inner dichtomy as:

1) Vulgarity, stupidity, conceit, and their primal egotistical roots.

2) The temple in which I reside with others, where I see the subtle nature of the Divine in both personal and impersonal forms.

As a young student, Jung spent much time outdoors in nature, reflecting on the differences between his feelings and his actions -- and continued to preoccupy him his whole life long. Once attaining the wisdom of adulthood, he reported this openly to others. Still, he remained undecided about which professional field to pursue. He thus experienced what many multi-talented people do today, where what is done at the moment is undermined by the worry that one should have done something else. And consequently the emotional nature vacillates accordingly.

Jung therefore arrived at his choice of profession slowly, paying attention to his dreams in order to clarify his perspective on the issue. He started with medicine, changing to psychiatry, and then to psychology. He developed his own therapeutic methods after differentiating them from those of his teacher Sigmund Freud.

Soon thereafter, he traveled his own path, increasingly alone and isolated from his environs. Mental impressions from this travels and from his research, which included astrology, led him to a new level of awareness. He placed great value on the language of symbols, just as students and practitioners of Alfred Witte's do.

With Witte, the symbols of the planets and transneptunians are indicators of energies which range across a broad spectrum of possibilities, and the analyst must be aware of this when assessing how a person might act on them. Freedom of choice is always a factor in determining outcomes. The astrological analyst can only advise from the sidelines.

Jung's ideas integrated with those of Witte-derived Uranian Astrology, served as the basis for the Uranian Mandala, which provides a tool for depth psychological analysis -- to better understand an individual's disposition and behavior.

In dealing with his chart, the accumulation of data over his long life experience gave more data with which to work. We use 3 major midpoint axes to yield a core character assessment, these being of Sun, Mars, and the Mercury/Jupiter midpoint. In measuring the frequency of factors occurring in midpoints along these axes, each blackened circular point in the Mandala indicates a planet's frequency of greater than 10% on one of the 3 axes, and thus an accentuated strength and consciousness of that planet's energies. By contrast, a nil, or zero, next to a planet in the Mandala indicates that it is completely absent on any one of the 3 aforementioned axes, meaning that the energies are intially semiconscious and therefore correlate with the Jungian shadow function.

At first glance at Jung's Mandala, we can see that we find nearly as many nils as we do points. This indicates pronounced overall ambivalence, and swings from one extreme to the other (correlating with what Jung himself indicated in his writings).

Jung's paradigm of the polarity between introversion and extroversion led me to use these terms in the Mandala, while introversion correlates with the internally reflective life, and extroversion the more visibly manifest aspects of interactive behavior. We often ask ourselves why a person tends to make the same mistakes repeatedly, or why he or she continually fascinates others with personal talents.

The natal chart describes developmental foundations of every native from birth, as well as the potentials for further evolution. The Mandala serves to summarize the chart holistically and identify the native's strengths (indicated by the points) as well as initial weaknesses (indicated by the nils). These further elucidate the native's motivational factors manifest in actions and other behavior. Wherever a point and nil occur next to the same planet, there is a potentially marked evolutionary change in behavior during the individual's life. At the center of the Mandala is a circle defined by dotted lines, where nils indicating absences of the balancing energies of Venus and Cupido are shown, if applicable to the individual.

Therefore, in Jung's Mandala, there are numerous ambivalent planets, and thus many opportunities for substantial personal evolutionary changes. The polarization of introversion and extroversion, once ambivalences were resolved, was ultimately not as sharp as indicated in his earlier memories. He ultimately used his accentuated innate capacity to balance and synthesize, building bridges between the opposite tendencies with his strong Cupido and Poseidon -- his intellectual agility and understanding of social dynamics helped him find a middle path.

At left, in the introverted sectors, Saturn is the only fully-accentuated planet, while the ambivalent Apollon and Admetos ultimately contributed to a harmonious disposition once deepening of experiences and impressions through persistence, with quality over quantity of experiences, and led to the overcoming of fears and depressions. The absence of Jupiter indicates that he struggled with finding the resourcefulness to acquire the assets he needed, and which remained scarce.

At the right are indicated his outwardly-manifest actions to attain goals, which he approached energetically. His own status as a self-confident individual vacillated as he chose to withdraw. Uranus, Kronos, and Vulkanus gave him the power and influence to implement some reforms and progressive measures, despite the drawbacks of his lack of inner self-assurance.

That he did not always achieve all he wanted to, is indicated by the condition of the central synthesizing sector. Accentuation of the spirit and intellect manifested ideals which he lived out in social interactions with great lovingness and accommodation, and strong instinctual awareness. This is in turn allowed him, along with manifestation of his artistic instincts, to find inner balance and wholeness. This occurred despite the absences of Venus and Neptune, although these contributed to a certain debilitating delicacy of nature which sabotaged the duration of inner balance at times. And a shadowed Hades is no deterrent to higher spiritual development.

Levels of consciousness in the Mandala are marked by the three horizontal groupings, starting from the lower Id or collective unconscious. Above those sectors we find the three sectors of Ego and conscious awareness and experience. And at the top we find the Super-ego, or Supraconsciousness, the world of ideals and higher aspirations beyond the egoistic.

Jung experienced his inner contradictions intensely and through the primal instincts of the collective unconscious. Sparsity of material stability often prompted him to flee to the dream-world, where motives for his actions and goals should be found. There were moments when he neglected his capacity for persistence and intuition, and he subsequently reacted with alarming levels of despair. The semiconcious and instinctive doubts of Hades led him to worry negatively, undermining his activities.

He was however not without ideals, as indicated by the Super-ego. With strong Pluto and Poseidon, he eventually rebounded from the instinctual impulses of the Id. He was able to transmute the semiconscious impulses by directing his energies toward goals needed for the conditions of the moment.

On the conscious level, he was warm-hearted in social involvements. Collective matters predominated, as he sought inner calm, love, and situations where he could experience his various contradictory inclinations.

The art of conversation, searching for the right words to create a sense of communion, involves great variations. When he felt satisfied and calm, he made new starts with great vibrancy, persistence, consistency, and sensitivity. He eventually realized that in facing obstacles he tended to uncertainty and had difficulty in finding the needed inner equilibrium. Then, reflecting on his own feelings and thoughts in seclusion, he found tranquility beyond the material circumstances through meditation.

In his aforementioned book we read of his favorite places, out in natural settings during childhood, and later in life in his 'tower', where he fond inner calm. There he refueled his energies while recording his observations and experiences.

If we look for balance among the Body-Soul-Spirit sectors, we see a slight accentuation of Body, but an overall extraordinary equilibrium of all three in Jung's personality.

Jung functions as a pioneer in new ways of seeking Self-Mastery through application of psychological insights. I personally thank him for the inspiration of his writings which led to the development and evolution of the Uranian Mandala. Each open-minded astrologer needs only to seek similar experiences and blaze new paths with careful scrutiny and acceptance of the factual findings.

--Ruth Brummund, Hamburg, 2007

The chart and Mandala in this article were drawn on the 'Special Uranian' program by Aureas Software, designed in cooperation with Ruth Brummund.  (Click here for further information.