Online seminars
an online seminar series in the academic year 2025/2026
by ddr. Matjaž L. Regovec, PhD, DFAstrolS, DPsychAstrol, qualified psychoanalyst
PLUTO – THE RULER OF THE PSYCHE AND OF THE NECESSITY OF MAN'S TRANSFORMATION
October 4, 2025
All cultures of all times have featured symbolic narratives of an underworld deity that rules the psyche and man’s necessity of transformation. Death as a significant feature of Pluto's archetypal trajectory is both literal and symbolic, yet rarely appears as one's own demise, but as that of an important other, always symbolising an ending that is irrevocable. Endings are all vitally important because they create space for the individuation process. Myths like Demeter-Kore-Hades, Ereškigal and Innana, and Asclepius will provide us with starting points for our journey through the psychic landscape of man’s transformation as an inherent element of all of man’s individuating.
NEPTUNE, THE PHASES OF ONE’S INDIVIDUAL SOUL, AND THE BIRTH OF ONE’S PERSONAL SPIRIT
November 8, 2025
Historically, Neptune as the cosmological ruler of the Era of Pisces may be seen as an agency of the emergence, development and transcendence of the individual soul within the medieval metaphysical model. Such was the view endorsed by the theodicy and expressed by the religions and philosophies of both Christianity and Islam. This was followed by the death of the medieval image of godhead in Nietzsche in the 19th century, which opened up a new space for the necessity of the birth of the personal spirit. We shall look at the specific tasks of Neptune’s archetypal trajectory this entails for the individuation process. We need to be initiated into the psychic cogito (psychic apprehending, integrating emotional dynamics, and psychic creating of one’s own, inner images) first, then unravel its historical material and, finally, by processing and letting go of it – by both learning and forgiving. This prepares the grounds for the birth of the personal spirit as the heart and motor of one’s individuation process.
URANUS, THE COSMIC AWAKENER AND REFORMER OF LIFE AND ITS INDIVIDUATION PROCESS
December 13, 2025
Does life really have its own eccentric, yet at the same time centrally centred, individuating agency that works as a daimon (and sometimes as a demon) of one’s process of individuation? Namely: why do we experience a few incomprehensible challenges on our personal way to becoming an individuating individuum? These challenges enthuse with some ‘winds of change’ and reform that pushes us further away from our familiar world of both our personal historical past and the identity with the collective paths of development. We will explore the different facets of the awakening, reforming and upgrading of our conscious awareness that forms the crux of the Uranian component of the individuation process.
CHIRON, TRAUMA AND HEALING
January 17, 2026
The latest research into the dynamics of trauma shows that we are all familiar with trauma, given that one’s very birth is the first traumatising experience. The archetypal trajectory of Chiron requires that at times the emotional-physical tissue of our being is pierced with a poisonous arrow of life. Here, opening up to life and its individuating possibilities involves being wounded in order for the process of individuation to continue and be taken up a level. The healing of our wounds is ultimately possible with the holistic understanding of our unique and inimitable path of development that emerges as progress is made with the individuation process. Any such understanding must include working on ourselves with all four dimensions of our being: the psychic, spiritual, physical-bodily, and the thinking.
SATURN, THE RING OF PLEDGE, SMALL STEPS, COMMITMENT AND AUTHENTICITY
February 14, 2026
The individuation process is a journey to becoming truly authentic. It is only when we commit ourselves to something we experience as making us authentic that we stop losing ourselves in the twists and turns of our own process of individuation. Saturn’s archetypal trajectory as the anchor of man’s individuating comprises a few stages of development. Initially, we are all a part of a system whose boundaries we must, at some point, overlap. As the old, fixed organisation of life is dethroned, we need to cultivate our character by practising small steps within the frame of activities associated with Saturn’s position in the cosmogram. Saturn’s ring of pledge to our own development is a commitment to work on ourselves in depth steadily and at a pace that nourishes us and sustains our well-being.
JUPITER, THE SACRED SPACE OF INDIVIDUATION, AND LIMITING EXCESSES
March 15, 2026
Each individuation process is unique and inimitable – once it comes to the phase where the creating of a sacred space simultaneously becomes a need and must. It is working on ourselves in depth that brings us to the stage when developing a sense of the sacredness of living one’s own life becomes paramount. An individual image of god is born by following this sacredness. Jupiter’s archetypal trajectory requires that we all become ‘priests’ of our inimitable and unique ways of becoming an individuum, who nevertheless are well connected with the human collective. This involves regulating all the excesses in our lives so that the sacred and the profane dimensions of our lives can work together productively.
MARS, A TWOFOLD BATTLE WITH ONESELF, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COURAGE
April 18, 2026
The archetypal trajectory of Mars contains two dimensions: the emotional (Scorpio) and the spiritual (Aries). Both reveal the two dimensions of the battle with oneself as an integral dimension of one’s own unique and inimitable individuation process. On one hand, the development of emotional depth requires us to actively pursue the path of processing our own psychic historicity. On the other, we need to become the ‘warriors’ for the integrity of our own ability to sustain and nourish our personal spirit. It is only when we do both tasks simultaneously that the emergence of courage, as one of the most valuable products of the individuation process, is facilitated.
MERCURY AND VENUS, THE TWOFOLD DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATING, AND FORMING VALUES
May 16, 2026
Mercury and Venus form two dimensions that are each twofold in the sense of being physical-bodily on one side (Virgo and Taurus) and of the thinking dimension on the other (Gemini and Libra). We shall consider the ways the two dimensions of them both, i.e., the archetypal trajectories of Mercury and of Venus, may be practised and enacted. Whatever we think is one level, yet what we actually manifest either by doing (Virgo) or as putting into an actual shape (Taurus) is quite another. Once our thinking has been successfully verbalised and practised in reality (Gemini and Virgo), and our values have been successfully materialised on both our bodily and outer, material level (Taurus), our individuation process can reach its full potential. This is symbolised by the birth of Hermes-Aphrodite – the hermaphroditic essence as the lapis philosophorum, or the individuated man.
MOON, THE EMBODIMENT, AND THE CONTINUOUS GIVING OF BIRTH
June 6, 2026
The archetypal trajectory of the Moon comprises both the mother and her child. One’s position of the Moon in one’s cosmogram is thus descriptive not just of the mothering, on both personal and archetypal levels, but of the inner child as well. The individuation process itself involves developing and sustaining a warm, yet dynamic relationship with one’s inner child. However, we need to develop and sustain ways of continuously carrying and giving birth to new forms of our own four-dimensional (psychic, bodily, spiritual, thinking) self. But the primary level of the Moon is the physical-bodily dimension of mothering – or its embodiment. This always works simultaneously parallel to the psychic dimension of mothering and embodiment of one’s unique and inimitable individuation process.
THE SUN, BEING, ITS RADIANCE, AND THE SPIRITUAL HEART
July 4, 2026
The cosmological Sun and its archetypal trajectory is really about man’s Being as the core of his being. The Being is radiating out into the world, producing the effect of the light of one’s personal spirit, in turn leading to the development of one’s individual spiritual heart. The archetypal trajectory of the Sun describes one’s journey both outwards, i.e., by expressing and (re)affirming one’s uniqueness, and inwards, i.e., by working on oneself in depth. Both are equally needed so as to improve and upgrade the level of one’s quality of life and well-being. The position of the Sun in one’s cosmogram is namely descriptive of the basic tenets and practical circumstances of these two directions in one’s always unique and inimitable individuation process.
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The seminars take place online (via Zoom) on Saturdays between 4.30 and 6.30 pm CEST (UCT +2, GMT +2), be aware of summertime zone change.
There is a 120-minute time format: the theoretical presentation takes 90 min, which is followed by a 30-min workshop in which we shall work with two participants from the group.
Each seminar costs €45. A 20% discount applies to a bundle of 2, 5, and 10 seminars.
Recordings will be available.
Contact: institut.ipal@gmail.com,
+381 69 320 8774 (Stefana)
About the author
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Ddr. Matjaž L. Regovec, holds doctorates in psychology and philosophy. Trained and qualified originally as a Jungian, he is nowadays an independent psychoanalyst at the IPAL Institute. Having been working as a psychoanalyst and a psychotherapist for 30 years now, he also offers some individual consultations with the IPAL Method. He is the author of numerous books in Slovenian, Serbian, Hungarian, Russian and English language. He lectures and holds workshops worldwide.
Matjaž works best directly under the Sun, and his third-house Saturn in Pisces draws him next to the sea, on the island of Crete, where he wrote some of his recent books. He enjoys cooking, the art of horticulture and travelling, exploring different cultures, their ancient history, religion and other historical facets of human spirit and cosmological heritage. He understands alchemy and symbolic cosmology as a means and inspiration for the integration of the divide between mind on one hand, and body-psyche-spirit dimensions of man on the other. The very same processes that once upon a time were identified on the alchemical stove, may nowadays be usefully applied in working upon oneself in order to enhance one’s quality of life and well-being.