The Octarine Tree

Becca Tarnas | The Imaginal |

Show Notes

Dr. Becca Tarnas is a scholar, artist, counselling astrologer, and an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She is the daughter of renowned psycho-cultural historian, Richard Tarnas. Becca received her PhD in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. Her dissertation is titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. Becca now teaches at both Pacifica Graduate Institute and CIIS, as well as several other online education platforms. She has published one book thus far, titled Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

In this episode we explore:
- Californian geomantics
- Jung
- The astrology of our age
- Tolkien
- The nature of the Imaginal
- The meaning of history
- Re-enchanting the human worldview
- Hope and despair in the Great Turning, and much more...

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The Octarine Tree. A podcast exploring the meaning of ecology, spirit and human relationship. Hosted by Western Australian agro-ecologist Byron Joel.