Astrological Psychology - popularly known as the Huber School (pronounced HOO-b'r) - is a wholistic school of astrology first made public in 1968 when Bruno and Louise Huber founded the Astrological Psychology Institute in Adliswil in Switzerland. Though drawing on the teachings of classical astrology, Astrological Psychology blends this traditional wisdom with modern depth psychology, in particular with Roberto Assagioli's Psychosynthesis as well as Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. In doing so the Hubers developed numerous new methods of delineation, interpretation and counseling. Among the most significant of these new techniques are the wholistic view of the horoscope - the aspect-picture and its component aspect-figures, the age-point progression method, dynamic houses and the intensity-curve, the houses-horoscope, the moon's-node-houses-horoscope and new methods of chart comparison. This new approach to the horoscope appears dramatically in the differences between the standard depiction of the birth chart and the method employed by the Huber School. For purposes of comparison we can examine two different versions of Bruno Huber's own horoscope:
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The colors used in the Huber School for the birth chart are not primarily intended to be decorative. Rather, they are keyed to the basic psychological meanings of the different elements and aspects and enable us to grasp the structure of the individual's consciousness as an integrated organic whole.
The Hubers have characterized their approach as follows: (my translation)What is Astrological Psychology?
• Astrological Psychology is a new science of the human being, originating from the modern discoveries of psychology and the ancient wisdom of astrology. It is a synthesis between psychology and astrology.
• It has become fashionable today to bring psychology into astrology. The result has often been "new wine poured into old bottles" for the rules of interpretation in modern astrological literature still derive from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
• We bring astrology into psychology. To do this we first had to develop a completely new set of rules over the course of thirty years of work. The result was Astrological Psychology, an astrology for human beings of the New Age.
• Astrological Psychology is based on a wholistic view of the person as a totality: a human psyche interwoven with its environment as well as a spiritual entity, an individual, who can relate freely with others.
• In Astrological Psychology the individual horoscope is employed as a diagnostic instrument. Problems of vocational choice, child rearing, marriage and partnership as well as one's own spiritual development are seen in a causal connection with the whole of one's character. Fortune telling and other deterministic types of thinking are totally rejected.
• The synthesis of psychology and astrology makes possible a differentiated understanding of the personality as well as an integration and restructuring of the entire human being. The causality of human behavior is recognized as its roots. Deep motivations, unconscious strivings and inner life goals are raised into consciousness and provide space for the creative individual.
• In this sense Astrological Psychology places an instrument at our disposal that allows us to penetrate deeply into the core of our existence. Whoever makes conscious and responsible use of this tool will soon discover that insights are imparted that lead to an all-embracing understanding of life and of one's own being.
