CHAPTER 4: INTRODUCTION TO
KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURE

In this part, we will be exploring different combinations of these archetypal patterns as they play out in everyday experiences.  Through popular culture, especially through the medium of film, we can in essence "try on" all of these experiences, and be touched deeply by them, learning about ourselves and life in the process; we will see how the psyche plays in this way, which is all we can ever really see anyway.

 [Remember, you can click on the planets and BPMs chart at the top of each page and get more detailed descriptions on each of the different images.]

Overall Gameplan

** Situating Ourselves
** Roadmap for Our Kaleidoscopic Journey

Astrological Aspects at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

** Seeing the World Through Archetypal Eyes
** Astrological Excursion
*** The Circle Game
*** Planetary Positions
*** Planetary Relationships—Aspects and Transits
*** Outer Planetary Playbill
**** Structured Senex Saturn
**** Uniquely Innovative Uranus
**** Nebulous Nonordinary Neptune
**** Potently Primal Pluto

** As the Twentieth Century Turns —Astrologically

*** Uranus-Pluto—Revolutionary Transformation
*** Uranus-Neptune—Illuminating Imagination
*** Saturn-Pluto—Traumatically Transformative

Setting the Stage—As the Twentieth Century Turns

** A Celebration of Certainty?
** Science and Technology Take Center Stage
** Social Sciences Shine
** The Quantum Comes to Light as Chaos Creeps In
** The Dawn of Depth Psychology
*** Freud’s Foundations or Firsts
*** Jung and Flournoy and The Importance of Psyche’s Myth and Play
** Childhood Comes of Age
** Ain’t We Got Fun?
** Lights Camera Action —The Film Industry Begins
*** The First Films—Magic of Méliès
*** The Dream Factory Starts Production and a Star Is Born
** Famous Comings and Goings--Fads, Fancies, Art, and the Sports Scene
** Some Sad Shadows

Modern Popular Culture—A Consuming Passion

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