The Jungian Path - Christina Becker Jungian Analyst and Astrologer

10/12/2026

The October Astrological Town Crier explored the symbolism of the fixed star Algol and how political leaders might express it.

Drawing on the Medusa myth, we reframed Algol not simply as a destructive force, but as an image of rage arising from suppression—particularly the suppression of the feminine.

We discussed Algol on Mark Carney’s Ascendant and on the Midheavens of Donald Trump and JD Vance, distinguishing its expression through personal presence from its expression through public authority.

In our interpretation, Carney’s placement suggests the possibility of channelling intense anger into focused, contained, strategic action rather than being overtaken by it.

🎧 Hear the full discussion on Astrological Town Crier: https://juliesimmonsastrologer.libsyn.com/the-astrological-town-crier-october-2026

10/10/2026

In the October 2026 Astrological Town Crier, Julie, Mikka and I clarified our role: to provide clarity and groundedness in a turbulent world—an “anti-chaos” perspective to help listeners find their bearings rather than become overwhelmed.

By bringing astrology, psychology, and myth into conversation with current events, we offer a way to reflect on upheaval without being swept into it.

We hope to support thoughtful, steady responses to a changing world.

🎧 Listen to the October episode of Astrological Town Crier: https://juliesimmonsastrologer.libsyn.com/the-astrological-town-crier-october-2026

09/24/2026

We think regret is a detour from who we're supposed to be.

What if it's not a detour at all — what if it's the road?

New post on Sophia's fall, Jungian individuation, and why the mistake you're trying to get past might be the exact place wisdom lives. 👇

https://cjbecker.com/blog/the-fall-is-not-the-detour/

09/23/2026

🔮 The September Astrological Town Crier examined four events that reveal how the US trade war is reshaping Canada's politics, economy, and national identity.

Julie, Mikka and I did a deep dive into the astrology that was behind Canada leaving the negotiating table and the subsequent collective events.

Astrologically, we saw that Uranus square Canada's Mars prompted the country to abandon familiar peacemaking habits and act differently, while supportive influences to Mercury strengthened strategic thinking and communication.

Overall, the trade war was portrayed as painful but catalytic: it is forcing Canada to mature, diversify, rebuild domestic capacity, and awaken from its long admiration of the United States.

Canada, the younger sibling, now chooses independence over appeasement. 🇨🇦

🎧 Listen to the full episode — https://juliesimmonsastrologer.libsyn.com/the-astrological-town-crier-september-2026

09/20/2026

Most people come into therapy wanting the same thing: to be extracted from a mistake, the way a surgeon removes something diseased — cleanly, so they can go back to who they were before.

That's the therapy model: arrive damaged, leave functional, symptom reduction as proof it worked.

Individuation asks something different. It has no finish line, no "before" to return to. It's the lifelong work of becoming the specific person you already are — mistakes, shadow, and all.

In my latest post, I use the Gnostic myth of Sophia — who falls, and stays, and whose staying is what gives the material world its meaning — to think through why wisdom isn't a destination you reach once the hard year is behind you. It's already inside it.

Read it here: https://cjbecker.com/blog/the-fall-is-not-the-detour/

09/18/2026

"The right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings." — C.G. Jung

We tend to treat our worst year, our biggest regret, the thing we call "the mistake," as something to be surgically removed so we can get back to who we were before it happened.

But what if wisdom was never on the other side of the mistake? What if it was made of the same matter as the mistake itself — and the only way to reach it is to stay?

New on the blog: what the Gnostic myth of Sophia's fall teaches us about regret, individuation, and why healing isn't the same as becoming whole.

🔗cjbecker.com/blog/the-fall-is-not-the-detour

Explore how regret, Sophia’s fall, and Jungian individuation reveal that wisdom may be found within our mistakes—not beyond them.

09/07/2026

Revelation Is Not the Same as Certainty

Uranus has long been associated with awakening, breakthrough and sudden insight.

Neptune symbolizes imagination, transcendence, compassion and the dissolving of rigid boundaries.

When these planets cooperate, inspiration becomes possible.

But inspiration is not the end of the psychological process.

Jung repeatedly warned that the ego often mistakes an illuminating experience for complete understanding.

A dream, synchronicity or spiritual insight may genuinely open a new chapter.
Yet its meaning unfolds gradually.

The unconscious speaks in symbols because symbols remain larger than our immediate interpretation.

One insight is enough to begin a journey.

It is rarely enough to finish one.

09/06/2026

The Soul Needs Wonder More Than Certainty

Modern culture often seeks certainty.

Algorithms promise prediction.

Technology promises optimization.

Opinion promises confidence.

Wonder asks something entirely different.

Wonder asks us to remain available.
To allow reality to surprise us.

To acknowledge that the world still exceeds our explanations.

Jung insisted that symbols remain alive precisely because they cannot be exhausted by a single interpretation.

The soul matures not by mastering mystery, but by developing a lifelong relationship with it.

Perhaps awe is one of the psyche's oldest medicines because it quietly restores humility.

Not humiliation.

Humility.

The recognition that we belong to a universe far larger than our own narratives.

09/05/2026

The Third Way

Perhaps the deepest gift of today's astrology is that it refuses a false choice.

We do not have to choose between science and spirituality.

Between reason and imagination.

Between tradition and innovation.

Between psychology and faith.

The psyche grows whenever apparent opposites are held consciously rather than forced into competition.

Jung called this movement the transcendent function: the emergence of a new possibility that neither side could produce alone.

That may be today's invitation.

Not to defend one worldview against another.

But to ask: What larger understanding is trying to emerge through their dialogue?

09/04/2026

Another newly published article warns against reducing spiritual care to a set of practices detached from the deeper work of the soul. It argues that spiritual care risks becoming another technique unless it remains rooted in vocation, relationship, and the mystery of human existence.

It is a challenge for all contemporary spirituality.

We naturally ask:
What practice works?
Which meditation is most effective?

Which journal prompt creates the biggest breakthrough?

These are useful questions.

But they are not the deepest questions.

Jung rarely asked: "What works?"

He asked: "What is trying to become conscious?"

The soul does not unfold through optimization.

It unfolds through relationships with whatever seeks our attention.