Richard Tarnas

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Join us now for a conversation with cultural historian and astrologer Richard Tarnas and host Michael Lerner.

Rick Tarnas, welcome back to The New School at Commonweal.

Thank you, Michael.

But she very presciently realized how important it would be for astrologers to have the same kind of rigorous database and accurate data for something as important as the birth data of many famous people, you know, whether we're looking at for the birth chart of Beethoven or Taylor Swift, you know, Bob Dylan, et cetera.

And so she set this up, it was called Astro Data Bank.

And then now it has been very generously sort of supported by a website called astro.com. And it's also a, people in Europe it would be astrodienst.com but just astro.com gets you there and then you do astro data bank and you put in whoever Richard Tarnas or Friedrich Hegel or whatever they will have the best data that astrologers and researchers have been able to discover and as Lois Rodden once said birth data tend to be fluid.

Uh, and it's, we find like a better biographical source and that modifies an earlier time by, could be by several minutes or it could be by more.

Everything, everywhere, all at once, like the film name.

It's a collective rite of passage for a world of the uninitiated West, as Richard Tarnas, the cultural historian, implies.

So the judgment and punishment, as it were, you know, for our rogue species, as Caroline Casey calls us.

Jung helped us understand our moment in history.