Carl Jung’s Warning About Empaths — It’s Darker Than You Think

 

Carl Jung’s Warning About Empaths — It’s Darker Than You Think | Carl Jung Originalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cMCP9wKC0c

Carl Jung, a prominent psychologist, explored personality types and the unconscious, which includes concepts relevant to empaths—individuals highly sensitive to others' emotions. His work, particularly "Psychological Types," published in 1921, is a key source for understanding his views on empathy and its potential pitfalls.

 

Presented above is Jung’s horoscope. In 1921 when he wrote about empaths, his Primary direction (Van Dam) was Ascendant conjunct Neptune. Neptune is the very planet in astrology that we associate with empaths - those with no boundaries! 

Empaths, in contemporary understanding, are people who can deeply sense and absorb the emotions of others, often experiencing these feelings as their own. This sensitivity can be both a gift and a challenge, aligning with Jung’s exploration of psychological balance and individuation—the process of integrating various aspects of the psyche to achieve wholeness. 

The video clip on Jung’s warning to empaths comes just as the Sun enters Cancer (the sign associated with caring and feeling for others) and activates the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. As we know positive Saturn is about maturity and developing healthy boundaries in order not to overwhemed by Neptune’s infinite and overwhelming compassion.

 

Although Jung died long back, notice that his current lunar return chart has the Sun-Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune square straddling the Ascendant! 

To be a conscious empath is to wake up everyday and ask is this mine

Am I feeling or fusing, am I healing or controlling

Am I present or performing

These questions are not signs of doubt

They are signs of maturity

The conscious empath is no longer afraid to be unsure

They no longer rush to soothe or fix

They allow silence, they allow the other to be broken

Without rushing in as a saviour

They trust the psyche’s own intelligence

Knowing that sometimes the pain is the doorway

Not the enemy and what of relationships

Here too everything shifts

The unconscious empath is drawn to the wounded

The chaotic, the narcissistic

Not because they are naive

but because part of them believes

they must prove their worth through endurance

they are pulled to those who mirror their unhealed

inner child, the one who learned that love must be earned through suffering

but the conscious empath, they begin to crave clarity

they seek out those who see them

not just need them

they build bonds not rooted in trauma

but in truth and if loneliness comes

they no longer fill it with the ghosts of broken souls

they sit with it, they listen

they let the silence speak

it is here that the empath reclaims their true gift

not as a receptor of pain

but as a revealer of soul