Hermeticism & Uranus in Gemini: from Plato to the Printing Press (and Beyond)

In this episode of Archetypes and the Planets, we follow Hermes’ trail through history to rethink what Uranus in Gemini (c. 2025–2033) might signal. Instead of focusing on geopolitics, we track Mercurial patterns: dialogue, translation, dispersal of knowledge, trickster authorship, and sudden cross-pollination between disciplines.

Stops on the journey include Plato’s formative years amid the Peloponnesian aftermath; Pythagorean/Egyptian influences; the Renaissance return of Plato via Cosimo de’ Medici, Marsilio Ficino, and the Corpus Hermeticum; the printing press and the Council of Florence (a Gemini-style East/West bridge); Paracelsus’ iconoclastic blend of alchemy, medicine, and folk knowledge; Rosicrucian pamphlets and networked secrecy; Shakespeare’s alchemical imagination (with a nod to The Winter’s Tale). The hour culminates with Isaac Casaubon’s linguistic redating of the Corpus (1614) and a reflection on our present: AI, translation at scale, cybersecurity, and the perennial need to converse with a living cosmos (à la Richard Tarnas). Part 2 will pick up with Jung’s late works and the 19th–20th-century occult revivals.

Books mentioned (from the episode)

• Richard Tarnas — Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View

• Thomas Moore — The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino

• Thomas Moore — The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

• Frances Yates — Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

• “Three Initiates” — The Kybalion

• C. G. Jung — Psychology and Alchemy

• C. G. Jung — Answer to Job

• C. G. Jung — Mysterium Coniunctionis

• Priscilla Costello — Shakespeare and the Stars

• Corpus Hermeticum (classical Hermetic texts; frequently published in book form)

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