Fitcher’s Bird and the Return of Spiritual Life to Nature By Laurel Howe, MA

February 7, 2019. 6:30 - 8:30

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Newsletter, Spring 2019, Volume 32, Issue 2 *** Unless otherwise noted, all events occur at The Penrose Library Aspen/Pine Room***

In the fairy tale, Fitcher’s Bird, a rich wizard who lives deep in the forest has been kidnapping maidens for generations. He charms them and takes them to his home, where he offers each of them the key to a forbidden room, and an egg. The wizard kills all of the girls, except for the heroine. She is clever and tricks the wizard, breaking his destructive spell. We explore this tale from an archetypal perspective and try to understand what it means when maidens, depicting young feminine energy, are murdered by a wizardly being before they have a chance to make their way into life. How do we experience this phenomenon in our culture and in ourselves? And what can we learn from the heroine, who brings about a completely new situation by paying special attention to her egg? Dreams and artwork help us see how the wizardly spirit is destructive on the one hand, but when we look deeply enough into the tale and into the psyche we find something positive. He can be seen as a spirit of nature, of the mother-realm, caught in an artificial worldview but yearning to be realized in our lives as a light-bringer.

Laurel Howe, MA is a diplomat Jungian analyst and sandplay therapist with a private practice in Denver. She writes and lectures about the psychological meaning of Mary Magdalene and the evolution of pre-Biblical artifacts of the feminine from the Levant. Her book, War of the Ancient Dragon: Transformation of Violence in Sandplay (Fisher King Press) traces the uncanny alchemical imagery in the psyche of a 6-year-old boy whose bullying attitude goes through a profound healing process. She earned her analytic diploma at the Research and Training Centre in Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, Zürich.

2 A Psychological Perspective of the Opposites by Kathryn Kuisle and Janice Howard

March 7, 2019 6:30 - 8:30 This program will include a lecture by Kathryn Kuisle and Janice Howard and a hands-on experience around our awareness or not of opposites. Kathryn will address Carl Jung’s perspective on “the problem of the opposite”, a central intrigue for him that is interwoven throughout his writing. She will also discuss how his understanding developed and how fundamental this polarity is to all life. Most importantly, Jung’s work challenges us to our own awareness of the inner opposites that tug at our souls – a paradox yet necessary for totality. Janice will speak on Jung’s thoughts about “the pairs of opposites being as old as the world.” He said that if we treated it properly, we should have to go back to the earliest sources of Chinese philosophy, which is to the I Ching oracle and the Tao Te Ching. Jung refers to the ideas of Yin-Yang and of Lao Tsu, as well as to Nietzsche and the Upanishads. She will expand on Lao Tzu’s expression of the opposites in the Tao Te Ching.

Kathryn Kuisle, Ph.D., is a Diplomate Jungian analyst and graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. She holds a Ph.D. in analytical psychology from Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, OH. She has a private practice as a Jungian analyst in Colorado Springs, is the President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and is an affiliate faculty member for Regis University.

Janice Howard, M. ED, LPC, is a trauma therapist who has worked for

the past 26 years with adults and children, as a play therapist, a

psychotherapist, and a sand tray therapist. She is the past President

of the Alabama Play Therapist Association, and is currently the

Vice President and Program Chair of the C. G. Jung Society of Colorado

Springs. She has a private practice in Colorado Springs.

Mining the Gold: Psychology & Alchemy

By Lara Newton April 4, 2019. 6:30 - 8:30

Lara Newton, M.A., is a senior Diplomat Jungian Analyst in private practice in Denver, CO. She is the

director of training for the C.G Jung Institute of Colorado and the President of the C.G Jung Society

of Colorado.

C.G Jung saw his psychological work as similar to that of the solitary alchemist, striving both to liberate spirit, a cyclical process in which the transformative experience of individuation comes to life. In this lecture, Lara Newton will present and explore the psychological dimensions that alchemical imagery opens to us. She will discuss the alchemical process and some of the major operations from a depth psychological perspective, always recognizing that the container for this process is our human experience of the ever-evolving movement between matter and spirit. Throughout the presentation, dreams will be used to amplify and elucidate the alchemical images and process.

3 "The Alchemical Yellow in Dreams and Image”

by Nancy Ortenberg Saturday May 4, 2019, 10:00 am - 12:00

An early 16th century alchemist said, “The yellow dawn is the end of night, and beginning of day, and a mother of the sun.” To these medieval alchemists, color represented the phases of the long process of making gold - a metaphor for the individuation process and the changing nature of consciousness. The yellow, or citrinitas, is a transition, coming after the blackness of depression and chaos give way to the white of reflective consciousness and calmness. Jung points out that the black, white and red are discussed extensively in alchemical texts, yet the yellow, or fourth color, has fallen by the wayside. In her talk, Nancy invites you to move into your imagination and explore the experience of this abandoned fourth as manifested in dreams and image.

Nancy Ortenberg, M.A., LMFT is a Jungian analyst practicing in Boulder, Colorado with over

35 years of clinical experience. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado, has also

studied at the Jung Institutes of Zurich and Los Angeles and with people like Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman and James Hillman. She has

taught for both Naropa and Regis Universities, and is currently faculty for the C.G. Jung Institute of

Colorado.

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