Carl Jung viewed astrology as a sophisticated symbolic language of archetypes rather than a literal science. He integrated it into his analytical psychology as a tool for understanding the "sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity" and used it as a diagnostic aid in his clinical practice.
: Jung regularly consulted patient natal charts to gain insight into character traits and "unconscious astrology" present in their personality. Jung on Astrology
: He argued that astrology operates through synchronicity —the principle of "meaningful coincidence"—rather than cause-and-effect. Carl Jung viewed astrology as a sophisticated symbolic
: He viewed astrology as "the elder sister of alchemy," stating that alchemical symbols were deeply saturated with astrological meaning. : He argued that astrology operates through synchronicity
: In the early 1950s, Jung conducted a statistical study to find correlations between marriage and planetary aspects. While the statistical results were inconclusive , he used the findings to further develop his theory of synchronicity.