Frequently asked questions about astrology

Aleph is “the place where all the places in the world are, seen from all angles...it’s diameter is of about 2, 3 centimeters, but the cosmos is there, without becoming smaller”, wrote the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in The Aleph, a book of short stories. Throughout his work, he explored the world of a universal principles or archetypes.



The psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote that the archetypes are eternal structures of meaning that appear to structure and inhere in both psyche and matter. This means, for example, that there’s an archetype or universal idea of mother and father that we all share, however the idea is not just in my mind but that also relates with a reality. The archetypes allows us to filter and give meaning to our experiences.

The natal chart is also an Aleph where the each planet corresponds to an archetypal principle that shapes the structure of the personality; e.g. the archetype of the place of belonging or of the significant other, which each person then nourishes with experience in a very particular way.

Philosophers throughout time have debated the nature of archetypes, or ideas, in relation to the individual, the way we perceive, and the material world. Astrology is a tool that interprets what is the content of this universal principles is in practice, that is in dialogue with what a person has done to actualize them as the personality develops. There are also archetypes that refer to social and collective themes that describe how a personal life contributes to shape the world events that describe their sign of the times.