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In a companion
paper (The Tripartite God of Ancient Greece), the hypothesis was advanced that, even in
the millenium before the birth of Jesus Christ, there existed an archetype for the mature,
individuated man. That archetype was the image of the god Zeus, or as the Roman‘s
named Him…Jupiter. In that companion paper, it is noted that relatively few adult men
made the leap from the archetype of "Kronos" (an archetype of the repressed masculine
tyrant king in consensus consciousness) to that of "Zeus" (the King of the Gods). In fact,
it is impossible to know relatively how many, but modern estimates from Jeff Green,
creator of the field of Evolutionary Astrology, suggests as many as one out of five
modern adult men may be in the process of individuation and therefore manifesting the
qualities of the Jupiterian Man in modern times. He estimates that perhaps 75 percent of
all persons (and males) are stuck in consensus consciousness acting out the neuroses of
the Kronos archetype.
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It is thought-provoking to realize that only in the ancient art of astrology is there today
any effort to document the qualities of manifesting individuation in the context of this
ancient, three-millenia-old masculine image. Although there are many works in modern
psychology that work with this concept of individuation generally, one of the more
interesting is Steven Arroyo’s book Exploring Jupiter, which takes advantage of the
huge astrological databases available to practitioners today on the behavioral, attitudinal,
and psychological characteristics of clients of astrologists. This paper serves as a
summary of his findings. In addition, it includes some of my own observations on the
manifestation of this archetypal pattern of behavior.