Shadow Work

Shadow Work

Shadow Work refers to the astrological practice of using the natal chart to identify, integrate, and heal repressed, rejected, or unacknowledged aspects of the psyche. Rooted in Jungian psychology, this approach focuses primarily on placements involving Pluto, the Eighth House, the Moon, Lilith, and challenging aspects to personal planets, evaluating how disowned trauma, fear, and instinctual drives manifest as self-sabotage, projection, or compulsive behavior until brought into conscious awareness.

How to Have Fun with Pluto – Duncan Nanney

Plutonian Astrology, Psychological Astrology, and Shadow Work. This archival document is a complete lecture transcript titled “How to Have Fun With Pluto (Revisited)” by Duncan Nanney, delivered at the NCGR San Francisco Chapter at Fort Mason on March 21, 2002. Nanney explores the psychological and experiential dimensions of Pluto energy, contrasting its transformative, taboo-confronting, and intensity-driven nature against the passive safety of Moon, Saturn, and Neptune dynamics. He emphasizes the necessity of bringing repressed shadow material, dark obsessions, mortality, and taboo expressions into conscious awareness rather than suppressing them. The text covers the 2002 Saturn-Pluto opposition and its alignment with planetary eclipses (comparing it to cycles in 1931 and 1965 to 1966), introduces his “Planetville” map, and demonstrates Local Space directional techniques. The lecture features detailed chart delineations for Madonna, Ed Wood Jr., Lenny Bruce, Jack Nicholson, John Holmes, Roman Polanski, Anton LaVey, Ed Gein, and Nanney’s own natal chart.

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