Authors at Astrodienst: Liz Greene
The Astrologer's Astrologer
Liz Greene is held in high esteem by astrologers all over the world, professional and non-professional alike. She is a prolific author of books and various publications and has been instrumental in shaping modern psychological astrology.
She holds doctorate degrees in psychology and (as of 2010) in history and is a qualified Jungian analyst. She also holds a diploma in counselling from the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology in London, and a diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies, of which she is a lifetime Patron.
Astrologer at Astrodienst
When the Psychological Horoscope
Analysis was developed, between 1985 and 1987, it set a milestone in
the history of psychological astrology. Liz Greene, the author, and Alois
Treindl, a brilliant programmer, created a computerized horoscope interpretation
which, to this day, has not been equalled in quality. While earlier computer
reports simply listed the elements of an astrological interpretation as
unrelated blocks, Alois Treindl, a specialist in "artificial intelligence",
went quite a bit further. He was able to create a program which could simulate
Liz Greene's very own method of horoscope interpretation during a personal
reading.
Instead of producing a list of sometimes contradictory elements of interpretation, the Astro*Intelligence Horoscope Analyses present the reader with a synthesis of the astrological chart, a personal profile describing their basic disposition, strong main themes and shadow figures. The unique combination of astrology, Jungian psychology and an amazing literary gift on the one hand, with real programming genius on the other, has led to the enduring success of these reports.
The Psychological Horoscope Analysis was followed by the Child's Horoscope, the Relationship Horoscope, the Yearly Horoscope Analysis, the Long Term Analysis and the vocational horoscope"Career and Vocation".
For the time being, "The Seven Sins" has been added as the last horoscope. It can certainly be described as the mature work of an exceptional astrologer, who asks her readers to deal honestly with themselves, without excluding the shadow. It was called "a real alchemical journey" by a reader in her customer feedback.
Beside her untiring work as an author of astrological books as well as writing for Astrodienst, Liz Greene co-directs the Centre for Psychological Astrology, a well-known school in London. She also directs the CPA Press, a publishing company that focuses on specialist astrological works.
With pioneering spirit to mastery
Liz Greene was born shortly after the end of World War 2 in New Jersey, USA. As a teenager, she immersed herself in the world of psychology and astrology and devoted herself passionately to these two fields. She soon realized the potential of linking psychology and astrology and the corresponding diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. After completing a Bachelor's and Master's degree in psychology in Boston and Los Angeles, she moved to London in 1975, and a few years later to Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2004 she has been living again in the UK.
Her first publication "Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil" (1976) attracted great attention and soon became a standard work of modern astrology - and she herself one of the most renowned astrologers in the world. In this book she revised the old-fashioned image of Saturn as an unlucky planet and showed in the light of Jungian psychology that Saturn as a boundary-setting element forms a central function of the human psyche. In her further publications, too, she always attached importance to replacing blind faith in fate by psychologically founded knowledge. She held seminars and finally, together with the astrologer Howard Sasportas, founded the Centre for Psychological Astrology (CPA) in London in the early 1990s, which still offers training in psychological astrology today. In parallel, she ran her psychoanalytic and astrological practice in London.
Insights into hidden impulses
With her books and seminars, Greene contributed a great deal to combining astrological elements with an interpretative system based on depth psychology, thus shaping psychological astrology worldwide.
She has the outstanding ability to illuminate the complex processes of the human psyche with profound astrological knowledge and to describe them in comprehensible terms. 
In her works, with the help of certain astrological concepts - within the framework of Jungian psychology - she illuminates conscious and unconscious levels of the human being, which provide insight into hidden motives and motivations of one's own actions. Her view of the human being is honest, open and direct. She names the downsides and qualities clearly and unambiguously, without moral undertones or soft-soap trivialisations.
A central concern of her astrological interpretations is to help people gain a deeper understanding of themselves and to provide insights into their personal motivations. Again and again she points out that darkness and chaos can only be sustainably illuminated by the light of personal awareness and that this can only happen through personal work on oneself. She offers wide-ranging perspectives on exploring one's own impulses on the path to self-discovery.
