What is Liz Greene currently working on?

Liz Greene is currently working on digitizing and annotating the Centre for Psychological Astrology’s archival lecture series from 1983–2010, while overseeing new translations and revised editions of her major texts. As of 2025, her primary public output consists of annotated seminar transcripts, new forewords for reissued titles, and the ongoing translation of her books into French, Italian, and Spanish editions.

The Centre for Psychological Astrology (CPA), which Greene co-founded with Howard Sasportas in 1983, continues to publish its seminar transcripts under her editorial direction. The Spanish edition of Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil was reissued in 2023, and French translations of The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption appeared within the last five years. These are not simple reprints. Each carries new contextual material that Greene writes herself.

What Is Liz Greene Doing in 2025?

The short answer is archival work. Greene is not producing new chart interpretations for public consumption. Her current labor focuses on three areas: the CPA seminar transcript project, the translation and reissuing of her backlist, and the writing of new forewords that connect her earlier ideas to contemporary psychological research.

The digitization project moves slowly because Greene insists on annotating every transcript personally. A 1990 seminar on the Moon now carries footnotes referencing attachment theory research that did not exist when the talk was originally delivered. These are not cosmetic edits. They are substantive revisions that update the psychological framework while preserving the original astrological analysis.

Who Is Liz Greene and Why Does She Matter?

Born in 1946 in Englewood, New Jersey, Greene moved to England as a child and earned a doctorate in psychology from the University of Bristol in 1982. That credential separated her from most astrologers of her generation. Her first book, Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil (1976), reframed the malefic planet as a psychological structure rather than a cosmic punishment.

Greene’s significance rests on a single achievement: she imported Carl Jung’s analytical psychology into astrological practice wholesale. Before Greene, astrologers who used psychological language were borrowing fragments. Greene built a complete system. The horoscope became a map of the individuation process, the natal chart a portrait of the unconscious pressing toward wholeness.

How Did the Centre for Psychological Astrology Begin?

The CPA was founded in London in 1983. Greene and Sasportas designed a diploma program that required students to study Jungian theory alongside traditional horoscopic technique. The seminar transcripts, published as the CPA Press series, are the closest thing the field has to a canon.

Sasportas died in 1992. Greene has carried the Centre alone since. The diploma courses continue under a faculty she trained, while the archive project proceeds at the pace of a single editor with exacting standards. The transcripts are not being republished as they were. Greene is revising them, and the revisions are substantive.

For a deeper look at the tradition she transformed, explore our astrology and zodiac hub.

What Is the Jungian Framework She Uses?

Greene’s method treats every chart as a narrative of the soul’s negotiation with itself. Her revisions apply that same lens to her own earlier work. She has said, in the few interviews she grants, that she reads her old lectures as documents of a younger mind, and that the annotations are a form of dialogue with her former self.

The 2023 edition of The Astrological Neptune includes a preface that addresses the cultural shift in how we understand addiction and escapism — subjects the original 1996 text treated through a purely mythological lens. The astrology is unchanged. The psychology has grown.

How Does Greene Compare to Other Astrological Authors?

The comparison that clarifies Greene’s position is with Dane Rudhyar, the other great theorist of psychological astrology. Rudhyar, who wrote The Astrology of Personality in 1936, was the first to frame the chart as a holistic pattern. Greene stands on his shoulders but moves in a different direction.

Rudhyar was a mystic. Greene is a clinician. She does not ask what the chart means in cosmic terms. She asks what it means for this person’s capacity to live a full life. Her prose is grounded in case material, in the specifics of a client’s history, in the texture of a transference.

What Are Common Misconceptions About Her Current Status?

The most persistent error is that Greene has retired. She has not. She simply does not maintain a public presence. There is no social media account, no YouTube channel, no podcast. The absence of new content reads as inactivity to a generation accustomed to constant output.

A second misconception is that her books are dated. The astrology is dated in the sense that any system is dated: it was built in a specific decade with specific assumptions. The psychology is not. Greene’s reading of Jung has aged better than most Jungian clinical writing because she never adopted the cultish tone that plagued analytic circles.

A third error is the assumption that she rejects traditional astrology. She does not. Her early training included classical technique, and her later work incorporates house systems, aspects, and transits with full respect for their predictive value.

What Is the Relationship Between Astrology and Depth Psychology in Her Work?

Greene’s recent forewords and essays argue that astrology and depth psychology are not parallel disciplines but the same discipline viewed from different angles. The horoscope is a symbolic representation of the unconscious, she writes, and the unconscious is a symbolic representation of the horoscope.

A 2022 essay on the Saturn return, published in the CPA’s The Astrological Journal, reads the transit not as a crisis but as a threshold ritual — a moment when the psyche demands that the persona be sacrificed to the self. The language is clinical and mythic at once, which is precisely her signature.

For more on this concept, see our glossary entry on Jungian archetypes.

FAQ

Is Liz Greene still teaching?

She no longer teaches the full CPA diploma curriculum, but she continues to supervise advanced students and delivers occasional lectures at the Centre’s London events. The teaching work is now largely in the hands of the faculty she trained.

What is the Centre for Psychological Astrology?

The CPA is a London-based school founded in 1983 by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas. It offers a diploma in psychological astrology that combines horoscopic technique with Jungian depth psychology, and its seminar transcripts are published as a book series.

Where should a new reader start with her work?

Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil remains the standard entry point. It is her most accessible book, and it introduces the core method: reading a planet as a psychological structure rather than a cosmic event.

Has she written anything new recently?

Her recent published work consists of forewords, essays, and revised editions of her backlist. The most substantial new material appears in the CPA seminar transcripts, which she continues to edit and annotate.

The Legacy and the Archive

The archive is the legacy. When the digitization project is complete, researchers will have access to forty years of seminar lectures, annotated by the author herself, covering the full arc of psychological astrology’s development. That is a gift to the field that no other living astrologer can match.

The work continues because the questions have not changed. What does the chart reveal about the soul’s task? How do we read the symbols without reducing them to formulas? Greene has spent fifty years answering those questions, and she is spending her current years making sure the answers survive her.

For further reading, explore our guide to the Saturn return and the full astrology and zodiac hub.