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The preface explains how observations at Esalen Institute informed the Uranus insight, how the work circulated through multiple journals in revised versions, and how it was integrated into a unified monograph for Spring Publications. It frames astrology as a means to relate heavenly planetary patterns to archetypal forces shaping human life.","Copyright © 1995 , 2018 by Richard Tarnas All rights reserved  \nISBN 978-0-88214-072-8 ( revised e-book edition, v. 1.0.1 )  \nPublished by Spring Publications [www.springpublications.com](www.springpublications.com)  \nFirst published in 1995  \nRICHARD TARNAS  \nPROMETHEUS THE AWAKENER  \nSPRING PUBLICATIONS  \nTHOMPSON, CONN.  \nTo my son Christopher  \nThen felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken.  \n—JOHN KEATS  \nPREFACE  \nThe insight that inspired this book came to me in late 1978 while I was living and working at Esalen Institute on the coast of Big Sur, California. For the previous several years I had been studying correlations between planetary alignments and archetypal patterns in history and individual biographies while also spending long hours each night observing the stars and planets moving across Big Sur ’s luminous night sky above the Pacific Ocean. One night, during the week before the winter solstice, the archetypal understanding of the planet Uranus described in these pages suddenly opened up. I wrote the original essay over the next few weeks and shared it privately with several friends and colleagues—Charles Harvey, Robert Hand, Stanislav Grof, and a few others—who honored the thesis with their enthusiastic support. In the ensuing months I continued examining the empirical correlations while thinking through the archetypal implications. The essay grew, eventually becoming the catalyst for amore comprehensive exploration of all the planetary archetypes as well as a sustained inquiry into the evolution of the Western worldview. These studies resulted in two books, The Passion of the Western Mind (1991) and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations ofa New World View (2006) .  \nIn the meantime, a number of journals requested permission to publish the original essay—National Council of Geocosmic Research Monographs in 1981 (U.S. ), Spring Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought in 1983 (U.S. and Switzerland), Journal of the Astrological Association in 1989 (U. K. ), Journal of Astro-Psychology in 1990 (U.S. ), Galaxen in 1992 (Denmark), and Symbolon in 1993 (Netherlands) . Because of these several contexts, with differing requirements in terms of length and audience, over the years the essay ended up having multiple versions. The audience for the  \nSpring annual, for example, was composed primarily of depth psychologists and scholars in the humanities rather than astrologers, and their professional interests affected the essay accordingly. In other cases, most of the astrological journals requested that the text be published in serial installments, and thus the essay was revised so as to be divisible into fairly self-sufficient, internally coherent parts.  \nIn 1993, Auriel Press of Oxford, England, requested permission to publish the essay in more permanent form as a limited-edition small book, and so I took the opportunity to integrate these several parts and versions into its current form as a single integrated monograph. At that time I made a few minor additions throughout the text, but in general Chapters 1–3 derive from the version published in the British Journal of the Astrological Association, while the long Chapter 4 is adapted from the version published in the Spring Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought. 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