Inside the Cosmic Mind

March 25 th The triple conjunction of Jupiter, Pluto and Mars in Capricorn, in the shadow of January’s Saturn-Pluto conjunction in that sign, is scripting the course of the pandemic and pointing us to its deeper meanings. As Mars (warfare and fevers) draws closer to Jupiter and Pluto he’s fanning the flames, accelerating the infection rate along with the steep surge in deaths   in the West (surge=Mars-Jupiter, deaths= Pluto). Fear in the population intensifies. People in panic strip the supermarket shelves, aggressively acting out of self-interest (Mars) to stockpile huge reserves (Mars-Jupiter). The magnitude of the risk seems at last to be recognised   by the leaders, shaking off the spell of nebulous Mercury in Pisces (Blog 18th March) after, in the UK and America at least, dilly dallying and sending out mixed messages. But now while Mercury sextiles Uranus   (20th-24th March) minds are suddenly changed and a Capricorn Mars now supports the push to take decis...

Blog 1  March 12th The full moon in Virgo three days ago occurring opposite Sun conjunct Neptune describes our present collective and personal state of mind very well. Concerns about health and hygiene (Virgo) arise from the threat of the corona virus in the face of which we feel confused and helpless (Pisces and Nept une). As it's also unstoppable - boundless and invisible - it freaks us out! I see this scenario as occurring in the wider context of the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of last December-January, which saw the first reports of the virus. It's giving the tone to the whole of 2020 as it dominated the winter solstice chart. In brief Saturn-Pluto symbolises exceptional hardship, materially and economically, and on the psychological level deep irrational fear and dread. Although Mercury in Pisces is now no longer retrograde, and more clarity leading to decisive action should be available, in the prevalent Piscean energy the heightened collective imagination can produc...

I’ll start with an anecdote told to me by a friend, an example of the little synchronicities that happen in everyday life: ‘My cousin's father had died in Paris, so I booked Eurostar to go to the funeral which was on the coming Monday. I was given a seat in a set of four where three other women all strangers were sitting. One woman, traveling alone, told us that a relative had died in Paris and she was going to the funeral which was on Monday. The two other women, traveling together, said a relative of theirs had also died, and they were also going to the funeral in Paris on Monday. Four people, three funerals - all on the same day - and the train company had booked us in four seats together!’ Well what do we make of that? David Peat calls synchronicities ‘wake-up calls’ because they pull us up in our tracks. It’s as if we’ve noticed a little flaw in the fabric of space and time. There’s no cause and effect at work in this example; rather it’s a case of subject matter on the ment...

The Scottish astrologer Anne Whitaker, in an article published in this week's Mountain Astrologer's weekly blog, attributes her return from Placidus to the Equal House system to the philosophy of house division described in ‘Inside the Cosmic Mind’ ( http://mountainastrologer.com/tma/some-thoughts-on-the-astrologial-houses-placidus-equal-or-what ) She writes, “The students were very keen to know why I had decided to return to working with the Equal House system. For giving me the final shove in that direction, I want to thank Phoebe Wyss and her excellent recent book Inside the Cosmic Mind. I would urge any astrology student or practitioner to read this book if they are inclined to perceive astrology as a “top down” art, the practice of which reveals that we are expressing in micro form the shifting macro patterns of the whole cosmos. In Phoebe Wyss’ words: “Archetypal astrology is an approach to astrological chart interpretation that is based on this cosmological view. The m...

Review of a talk on 'Inside the Cosmic Mind' by Claudia Nielsen This talk was given by Phoebe Wyss to the London Scientific and Medical Network group in July 2015 “This month our speaker was Phoebe Wyss. Her talk was entitled Inside the Cosmic Mind, the title of her new book. Phoebe is a professional astrologer and this evening she explained her quest to validate astrology, which she found over the 35 years as a professional, was often dismissed as nonsensical because it cannot be tested with the tools of materialistic science. She started by pointing out the current perspective sees the cosmos as meaningless in accordance with the mainstream cosmological beliefs predicated on materialistic science. In contrast, ancient cultures had a more ‘right brain’ perception of the world in which they lived. Phoebe pointed out for example that the ancient Egyptians did not make a difference between inner and outer worlds. Both aspects were interrelated and the gods manifested in both...

In  Inside the Cosmic Mind Phoebe Wyss chronicles her journey of following her curiosity about how astrology works, while along the way recording a theoretical justification for the practice of archetypal astrology, and its place in the context of postmodern thought. This is an ambitious undertaking but Wyss has written her book after long research and contemplation. She has visited megalithic sites in Britain, and pyramids and temples in Egypt, studied geometry, numbers, new paradigms in science, ancient and modern cosmologies, worked for 20 years in academia, and is a long-time practicing astrologer. Her book underscores themes that have been woven into astrology’s history from the earliest days, ie. “a more organic world picture in which a ‘chain of being’ was the backbone of creation.” Wyss refers to Richard Tarnas and Kieron Le Grice, whose earlier books Cosmos and Psyche , 2006 and The Archetypal Cosmos 2010 respectively describe complex ideas that form a “holis...

The univer se is an organic unity, alive in every atom and molecule and conscious down to the smallest particle. Corresponding to the ordering principles of the outer material world (the laws of nature) there are ordering principles in the universal psyche (the archetypes). These are core ideas in the cosmic mind, which were personified as deities in the different religions, and are the source of all values and meaning in human life. The cosmos is an on-going process and we are partaking co-creatively in its story. This book explores how, when cosmology is extended to include the inner realm of the psyche, it can offer a new understanding of what astrology really is and of its role in making our lives meaningful. Visit astrophoebe.com