Kahlo and Varo: Artistic Questors for Truth

Webinar Description

Remedios Varo and Frida Kahlo were compelled to create art that reflected the profound depths of their personal experiences. Their artistic expressions embodied their unique visions of essential being, presenting a striking contrast. In Kahlo’s work, we are immersed in a realm that relentlessly delves into the waters of emotional truth, while in Varo’s, we are entranced on an otherworldly journey towards spiritual truth. By examining the astrological Sun in their birth charts, we can understand how these visions are woven into their work.

The work of these artists remain critically relevant to the psychological, social, and spiritual realities of our time, particularly in the context of their resilience and courage in the face of psychic fragmentation and traumatic experience. What insights can we gain from the struggles of their lives and their art as a means of seeking meaning in light of our contemporary concerns?

Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program, teaching courses on mythology, archetypal cosmology & astrology, and scholarly praxis. For many years she was the Curator of the Joseph Campbell. James Hillman and Marija Gimbutas manuscript collections at Opus Archives. Her writing and scholarly studies focus on Greek mythology, archetypal psychology, astrology, and goddess traditions.

Safron is author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology (2021), co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017) and editor of Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013). Safron has published articles in Jungian, Archetypal, and astrological journals and lectures across the US and internationally in Europe, South America and Australia. Safron is also a consulting astrologer. Her website is www.thearchetypaleye.com.