Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961)

I’m coming to this story, very late in the game. Perhaps the easiest way to help you understand about the man is to share this YouTube video about his 1944 near death experience. Part of the early description reminds me of Cash Peters‘ transition pictures for the man, the proverbial ‘cave’ entrance.

On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a myocardial infarction caused by embolisms from his immobilised leg. Treated with oxygen and camphor, he lost consciousness and had what seems to have been a near-death and out-of-the-body experience – or, depending on your perspective, delirium. He found himself floating 1,000 miles above the Earth. Seas and continents shimmered in blue light and Jung could make out the Arabian desert and snow-tipped Himalayas. He felt he was about to leave orbit, but then, turning to the south, a huge black monolith came into view. It was a kind of temple, and at the entrance Jung saw a Hindu sitting in a lotus pos­ition. Within, innumerable candles flickered, and he felt that the “whole phantasmagoria of earthly existence” was being stripped away. It wasn’t pleasant, and what remained was an “essential Jung”, the core of his experiences. 

He knew that inside the temple the mystery of his existence, of his purpose in life, would be answered. He was about to cross the threshold when he saw, rising up from Europe far below, the image of his doctor in the archetypal form of the King of Kos, the island site of the temple of Asclepius, Greek god of medicine. He told Jung that his departure was premature; many were demanding his return and he, the King, was there to ferry him back. When Jung heard this, he was immensely disappointed, and almost immediately the vision ended. He experienced the reluctance to live that many who have been ‘brought back’ encounter, but what troubled him most was seeing his doctor in his archetypal form. He knew this meant that the physician had sacrificed his own life to save Jung’s. On 4 April 1944 – a date numerologists can delight in – Jung sat up in bed for the first time since his heart attack. On the same day, his doctor came down with septicæmia and took to his bed. He never left it, and died a few days later.

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Perhaps, it would be better to look at his birth chart, for which the actual timing is not known, but rectified between 7:24 – 7:32 pm local Swiss time.

My initial thought is how his NDE would have happened @ age 49, but there are absolutely no planets there. So, we must take these charts with a large pinch of salt.

As it stands, this birth chart has three inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod, finger of God.

Mars Inconjunct Pluto (definitely)

At certain times in your life, when there are great changes taking place within you and in your environment, you will have to work very hard to make your affairs turn out right. There is nothing to be done at those times except do the work that must be done. Fortunately you have plenty of energy and enough endurance to pull through anything that you will encounter in life. You are basically tough and persistent. These changes are an integral part of your growth, and even if everything seems to go wrong they are necessary to your full development.

Planets in Youth (page 240) by Robert Hand (1977)

Jupiter Inconjunct Pluto (definitely)

You have a great deal of creative power, and the major challenger of your life will be learning how to handle it. First of all, you must realize that you will get the most out of life if you direct your energies toward helping the people around you and those you love. You will want to change many conditions in the world, which is fine as long as your reasons are not purely selfish ones.

If you use the energies of this aspect selfishly, you will have serious conflicts with authorities, persons in power and adults in general. You may try to make changes before you have learned how to do so creatively, without provoking such resistance that your efforts are blocked. To be effective, you must have the necessary skills.

Planets in Youth (page 272) by Robert Hand (1977)

Neptune Inconjunct Midheaven (probably not)

You are very impressionable, in that you pick up the energies around you very quickly. Therefore it is very important that you are surrounded by wholesome influences in your early years, because negative influences will weaken your self-esteem and make it much more difficult to accomplish anything when you are older. On the other hand, your impressionableness may give rise to some psychic ability, or at least a very sharp intuition when you are older.

Planets in Youth (page 342) by Robert Hand (1977)

Hmm.

So much of this NDE chart is speculative, the time and the place, for example. But the fact that Neptune is on the Descendant seems fortuitous. It is inconjunct to the transiting Sun, while a Yod is pointing at the transiting Moon, formed by inconjuncts to Jupiter and Saturn. This has all the hallmarks of a spiritual event. But when it is compared to Jung’s birth chart, another insight occurs.

The NDE South Node is conjunct Jung’s Ascendant (and conversely, the NDE North Node is on Jung’s Descendant, conjunct his natal Sun). This looks like one of Jung’s exit points. Otherwise, how can one explain it?

So, Are NDE’s Archetypal Events?

I’ve watched a lot of videos which narrate different people’s NDE’s. None are exactly the same as the next person’s. In fact, I’ve become aware that they are as individual as the people themselves. Most see some form of tunnel with a bright light at the end. Some are aware of others on their journey. And others are met by friends and family members who have preceded them. Whatever the religious upbringing, a spiritual figure speaks with them, and ‘discusses’ their concerns and questions. If you have fears of the future, these sometimes play out so that the fear hopefully subsides. But even images and experiences of hell occur. It all depends on the person needing them. (This was borne out by my friend, Chuck’s NDE.)

Ahh, that makes sense.

What will you see?