Joseph Campbell: Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an American professor of literature and comparative mythology. He wrote several popular books and appeared on television. Campbell had a different take on the question of God. He skirted around the question, but in 1987 he replied: "I don't think you can call a person an atheist who believes in as many gods as I do." I am sure that many atheists would find this answer quite perplexing. That truth can't be boiled down to a simple "yes" or "no" answer speaks to a different approach. Can Astrology shed some light on Campbell's attitude? The natal chart for Joseph Campbell is shown below. While Campbell is very decidedly Aries, with his Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter being in Aries, he is different from the four Aries atheists I described in the Four Horsemen blog. Campbell's most influential planets are his Aries planets which form a T-square with Neptune and Uranus. Neptune's energy of the tra...