History & development
Psychological and evolutionary astrology are related modern approaches, not synonyms. Liz Greene's work joins astrology with depth psychology and Jungian interpretation. Jeffrey Wolf Green's school presents a distinct evolutionary paradigm centered on Pluto, the lunar nodes and their rulers, framed as a soul's development.
Mythology & symbolic world
Psychological readings can use myth as an image for inner conflict or development. Evolutionary teachings may make explicit claims about karma and reincarnation. Those metaphysical premises belong to the school and should not be reported as biographical discoveries.
Provenance: where the rules come from
Name the practitioner framework before assigning meaning to a placement. A shared Pluto or node coordinate can support quite different narratives in different schools.
How it is calculated
Choices that change the result: No automated personality, karmic or reincarnation assertions.
Inspect your calculated data →Uses & use cases
- Use a chart as an optional prompt for reflective writing.
- Compare the language of psychological themes with the assumptions of evolutionary teachings.
Interpretation methods
Reflective dialogue
Offer a symbolic theme and invite examples, counterexamples and alternative explanations rather than treating the theme as a diagnosis.
A Saturn discussion might explore experiences of limits and responsibility, while allowing the person to reject that framing.
School-specific mapping
For the JWG approach, distinguish Pluto, its opposite point and the nodal rulers before summarizing the school's proposed developmental narrative.
Label a 'soul lesson' statement as practitioner belief, not measured natal data.
Explore these reading approaches
Concepts in this tradition
Follow a term for its definition, word origin, evidence and connected ideas.
Disagreements & limits
- Astrological terminology does not establish clinical psychological validity or reveal past lives.
Sources & evidence
Practitioner sources describe their own systems. Historical and astronomical sources support different kinds of claims. Reading exercises are editorial teaching examples.
- Liz Greene at Astrodienst ↗practitioner publisher biography
- Jeffrey Wolf Green School of Evolutionary Astrology ↗original school description and doctrinal source