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Astrology, Alchemy and the Mandala
Carole Taylor

Alchemy was fundamental to Jung’s idea of the individuation process and to his vision of the mandala as an image of the path towards wholeness and inner integration. The mandala thus becomes a visual representation of the alchemical journey, inclu...

Uranus in Gemini – Tricksters, Twins, and Re-making the World
Shawn Nygaard

When the planet Uranus – known as the Awakener – moves through the sign of Gemini, the twins, we enter the terrain of opposites, siblings, and conspicuous pairings; invention and innovation; and all forms of communicatio...

The Planets of Twilight: Mercury, Chiron, and Ceres in Myth and the Horoscope
Jason Holley

Ancient astrology suggested that three of the seven visible planets — the Moon, Venus, and Mars — were followers of Night, and three others — the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn — were followers of Day. The seven...

It’s not them, it’s you! – A new look at relationship astrology
John Green

So often relationship astrology is about diving straight into synastry to see what so-called ‘hits’ and ‘misses’ there are between your chart and theirs. Is this ‘the one’? Are we compatible? Actually much of the whys and...

The Importance of Being Aries
John Green

It’s a time of Aries, as Neptune and Saturn conjoin and then journey through this sign it’s time to think of the myths of Aries and look deeper at how these planets will operate here. Let this Aries speaker guide you through what the ram is and what it is...

A Brief Introduction to James Hillman’s “Re-Visioning Psychology”
Shawn Nygaard

In the wake of his presentation of four Terry Lectures at Yale University in the late-winter of 1972, psychologist James Hillman set to work, turning those lectures into his 1975 book, “Re-Visioning Psychology.” The ...

As Above, So Within: Jung’s Typology Through the Astrological Lens
Max Black

Jung’s typological model has long been admired by astrologers for its uncanny resonance with elemental and modal patterns in the birth chart. In this webinar, we will explore the exchange between typology and astrologic...

The Fourth House Endings and Beginnings
Lynn Bell

The Fourth house shows us the very beginning of our lives, our connection to home, to the kind of family we found ourselves in, to our sense of safety, or the lack of it. When this house is activated by transit or progression it can activate powe...

Saturn and the Kore Goddess Part II: The Power of the Kore-Virgin
Safron Rossi

In this webinar we will continue our work of cultivating a shift of vision in regards to the archetypal principle of Saturn via the Kore archetype. The Kore, personified by the Greek goddesses Persephone, Artemis, Ath...

Saturn conjunct Neptune in Aries: Attending Mars, our warrior/knight
Darby Costello

With Neptune entering Aries, we must each become attentive to our Mars energy – especially with Saturn conjoining it in its early months. There is work to be done. How do we each become aware of our Mars energy –...

Planets in domicile & exaltation: Blessing or curse
Martin Moritz

Combining classical and modern astrology can be the best of both worlds—if we are willing to tweak a few things here and there. In traditional astrology, planets in domicile and exaltation are considered blessings and signs of goo...

Mythic Archetypes of the Sun in Astrology
Jason Holley

The Sun is the one astrological body we cannot look at directly, yet the one which most conspicuously orders our lived experience of both space and time. In this webinar we will develop a deeper understanding of the astrological Sun through ...

Fate, Freewill and Forecasting
Sue Tompkins

If our clients have freewill, can we ‘predict’ and should we? Is it even possible? The answer is sometimes Yes and sometimes No depending on a number of factors. In this intensive, fully illustrated webinar, Sue will talk through the Why’s and Wherefor...

Working with T-squares – Tension & Sparks
Shawn Nygaard

The complicated astrological aspect called the “T-square” consists of 3 planets (or more), arranged by two in opposition to each other and the third squaring both planets in the opposition. The angles of the arrangement create a great deal ...

Never Grow Up: How Jupiter and Mercury Defy Time
Lynn Bell

How many people do you know who are, in Marie-Louise Von Franz words, “Charming, creative, affectionate but averse to any kind of emotional or material restriction? Mercury is known for its affinity for the “in-between” The planet and th...

Tracking your Saturn Cycle
Judith Robert

As the Devouring Father, Saturn swallows the creative potential before it can mature, creating frustration and resentment when we cannot actualize our goals. Limitations and depression challenge us to look inward and demand we focus on how to manifest our...

The Saturn-Neptune Cycle – Living, Dreaming, Ending, Beginning
Shawn Nygaard

In The Red Book, Carl Jung notes, “This tangible and apparent world is one reality, but fantasy is the other reality.” This statement, both simple and complex, is a doorway into understanding the dynamics between Saturn...

Religion and Spirituality in the Chart
Carole Taylor

This webinar will explore our personal experience of religion and spirituality, and our journey towards the beliefs we come to hold. Beyond the recognised designations of the 9th and 12th houses, or Jupiter and Neptune, the whole chart can be ...

Saturn and the Kore Goddess
Safron Rossi

We all know the outer face of Saturn which we encounter through limitation, restriction, frustration, delays and discipline. The gold is in the inner meaning of our Saturn experiences which is self-knowledge, authenticity and maturity. While we are famili...

Neighbours and yet strangers: How to combine planets in neighbouring signs
Martin Moritz

Planets in neighbouring signs are difficult to integrate and can lead to a kind of parallel existence in our consciousness, functioning on an on-off principle. Since they share nothing with each other—neithe...

The 6th and 12th houses: Service and Suffering? So much more.
Darby Costello

The 6th and the 12th houses are often described as places where there are more problems than delights. The 6th house is naturally connected with Service and Health and the 12th house has been called ‘The House of Self-U...

Progressions and Transits: Navigating Clues
Darby Costello

Over time we all become acquainted with transits over our chart and at some point we start using one or another form of progressions too. We shall look at secondary progressions here, and explore how to weave transits and these progressi...

The Moon and the Outer Planets – The Many Moods of the Modern Moon
Shawn Nygaard

Significations of the Moon across astrology bring together an interesting assortment of images. As the grand and revered Queen of the velvety night sky, overseeing our sleeping and dreaming, she is associated with “...

Relocation Charts: Place and Psyche
Jason Holley

Soul loves particularity, and often particular places. Most of us have experienced that different locations seem to call forward different dimensions of ourselves. An astrological way of saying that different creatures in our own Circle of Animals...

Interpreting the Whole Chart
Carole Taylor

The challenge in reading a chart is to bring the component parts together so that a sense of the whole person begins to form. Each chart contains its unique arrangement of planetary configurations, placements and house rulerships, the whole a map of the...

Opening Jung’s “The Red Book”
Shawn Nygaard

Carl Jung’s “The Red Book,” first published in 2009 though originally written starting in the autumn of 1913, is a raw, intimate, and mysterious book sitting at the foundation of Jungian psychology. Open “The Red Book” and what springs forth is an alto...

The Descendant and Partner Choices
Martin Moritz

As a couples therapist my bread and butter is to work out how this often complex cliché ridden pattern of ‘opposites attract‘ affect our relationships. Astrology has helped me many times to get a clearer picture of these patterns and how they play...

Seeing Eye to Eye: the Astrology of Brothers and Sisters
Lynn Bell

Our siblings can be companions or rivals, mirrors for the best and worst of ourselves. How wonderful to have a sibling as a guide, how terrible to encounter a bully. These first relationships carry an important imprint for later ...

Soul-Making and the Sky Within: James Hillman and the Archetypal Psyche
Safron Rossi

James Hillman’s writings provide an invaluable foundation for understanding the bridge between psychology and astrology. His theoretical frame and mythopoetic perspective grounds us in the archetypal psyche, off...

Another Look at Chiron & the Archetypal Wound
Shawn Nygaard

Late in his life, Carl Jung noted that, “The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?”

From the vantage point of this question and the backdrop of the infinite, this webinar looks at the mythology and a...

When there are two sign rulers: What to do?
Darby Costello

Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces are each dual-ruled signs. How do we describe the energy of planets in these signs to our clients and ourselves? We shall explore how to help ourselves and others to navigate the worlds reflected by these sig...

Pluto in Aquarius – Utopia or Dystopia?
John Green

Much has been written recently regarding the time Pluto will spend in Aquarius some profoundly positive, some very negative. In this talk John looks into the black mirror at the very nature of Pluto and the sign Aquarius to try and unpick what w...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Mars were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2024. Duration: 7 hours 11 minutes

Mars – The Astrology and Psychology of ‘The Red One’

Mars, known as the ‘lesser malefic’, has always had a bad pr...

Mars – The Astrology and Psychology of ‘The Red One’

Mars, known as the ‘lesser malefic’, has always had a bad press. Astrological texts throughout history have associated the ‘red planet’ with rage, violence, war, brutality, aggression, and sudden acute and violent illnesses, accidents, and dea...

Mars – The Astrology and Psychology of ‘The Red One’

Mars, known as the ‘lesser malefic’, has always had a bad press. Astrological texts throughout history have associated the ‘red planet’ with rage, violence, war, brutality, aggression, and sudden acute and violent illnesses, accidents, and dea...

Mars – The Astrology and Psychology of ‘The Red One’

Mars, known as the ‘lesser malefic’, has always had a bad press. Astrological texts throughout history have associated the ‘red planet’ with rage, violence, war, brutality, aggression, and sudden acute and violent illnesses, accidents, and dea...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Jupiter were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2021. Duration: 7 hours 1 minute

Jupiter: ‘Great Benefic’ or the Joker in the Pack?

Jupiter, known in Greek myth as Zeus, king of the gods, has b...

Jupiter: ‘Great Benefic’ or the Joker in the Pack?

Jupiter, known in Greek myth as Zeus, king of the gods, has been perceived for centuries as the ‘Great Benefic’, and many astrologers assume that this planet will always herald good fortune, opportunities for betterment, and material and emotion...

Jupiter: ‘Great Benefic’ or the Joker in the Pack?

Jupiter, known in Greek myth as Zeus, king of the gods, has been perceived for centuries as the ‘Great Benefic’, and many astrologers assume that this planet will always herald good fortune, opportunities for betterment, and material and emotion...

Jupiter: ‘Great Benefic’ or the Joker in the Pack?

Jupiter, known in Greek myth as Zeus, king of the gods, has been perceived for centuries as the ‘Great Benefic’, and many astrologers assume that this planet will always herald good fortune, opportunities for betterment, and material and emotion...

Angels & Daimons, Signs & Wonders
Shawn Nygaard

“I sit and wait… does an Angel contemplate my Fate?” sings Robbie Williams in his song, “Angels.”

In our modern culture of billions and trillions of email messages, text messages, and instant messages transmitting back and forth across the world f...

The Sun and the Moon in the astrological chart
Darby Costello

The Sun and the Moon are the two great luminaries in our sky. The Sun keeps its shape and brightness and lights up our days, and the Moon waxes and wanes through the night sky in relation to the Sun. They are intimately related to eac...

The Astrology of Grief
Clare Martin

This webinar will focus on the universal, and yet intensely personal, experience of grief. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love.” (Rabbi Earl Grollman). We w...

Lost and Found: Working with the 12th house in the birth chart
Lynn Bell

Planets in the 12th house are often ‘cut off’ early in life, they may feel invisible to us, neglected or unrecognized. They can also be misinterpreted by others, leading to a sense of separateness or exclusion. At the same ...

Along the Edge of Self and Chaos: Venus, Mars, and the Birth of Eros
Jason Holley

The Greeks said variously that Eros was the child of Nyx (Night) and Chaos who then created the entire world; and also the child of Venus and Mars whose arrows could inflame any heart with love. Audre Lorde wrote t...

Rage Hard: Reclaiming Mars Energy
John Green

Will, drive, aggression, masculinity. These words often have negative connotations in our modern world. Mars is in crisis right now as we struggle with criminality, patriarchy and high rates of suicide. The warrior has been demoted to a safe fictional...

Astrology and Character Structure
Jason Holley

Character Structure refers to deep psychological patterns whose shape takes form intrapsychically and interpersonally, giving rise to the shape of our experience of reality: perception, emotion, thoughts, behaviour, relationship. Character seems mos...

Individuation: A time to decide
Darby Costello

Carl Jung spoke of the process of Individuation, and with Saturn in Aquarius returning to the square with Uranus in Taurus soon, it may be a good time to think about this. In The Symbolic Life (Vol 18) he said: “Individuation remains a pose so long ...

Aspect Patterns
Carole Taylor

Aspects indicate where planets have combined to form a distinct psychological pattern; they reflect Jung’s notion of the ‘complex’ as a knot of highly-charged but unconscious feelings and beliefs. Aspects show our predisposition towards certain patterns of behaviour...

Mercury and the Outer Planets – The Long & Winding Road (from Messages to Images)
Shawn Nygaard

Mercury gets around. From the heights of Mount Olympus to the depths of the Underworld – and everywhere in between – the messenger of the gods crosses and criss-crosses our minds, and weaves his way t...

Stepping Backwards Through the Sky: Understanding the Moon’s Nodes in the chart

Mommie Dearest – Mother issues and the moon in the chart
Martin Moritz

As a psychotherapist I often experience my client’s need to receive emotional nourishment from me. Not only do I find myself in the role of a father figure who encourages and provides stability. I also give motherly reassuran...

Generations and Cycles of History: What is your Generation About?
Darby Costello

The outer planets keep their patterns for several years at a time and many astrologers have come to see these patterns as describing generations. These planetary patterns give clues as to what a generation might be ...

Body and Psyche: The Archetypal Language of Planets and Symptoms
Lynn Bell

The body speaks to us in many ways, and when we listen with a “planetary” ear, a symptom will often lead to a particular place in the chart, and a specific theme of burning or restriction, of twists and breaks or out of c...

Check-up Time: Saturn Returns at age 29 and 59
Martin Moritz

Saturn returns are times of scrutiny and verification in our lives. The first time, at the end of our 20s, it signifies the ‘end of youth‘. From now on, we have to take responsibility for our life. Once we hit 30, time begins to feel d...

Astrology & Fairy Tales – Spinning Straw into Gold
Shawn Nygaard

Fairy tales have gained a reputation in modern times as being a step removed from so-called “reality,” largely due to the wish for a happy ending that never really seems to arrive in “real” life. As reflections of psychic reality, ...

The Dance of Distinctions: Archetypal Polarities in the Zodiac Part 4: Taurus-Scorpio & Gemini-Sagittarius
Safron Rossi

This is the concluding session of the four-part polarity series.

This series explores C.G. Jung’s idea of the tension of opposites and James Hillman’s idea of the union of sam...

Katabasis: Descending to the Underworld
John Green

Katabasis in myth describes the descent into the underworld. This ‘going down’ entails journeying into the depths of the earth or of oneself, leaving the upper world behind to wander in the dark. It is a time of solitude, doubt, fear, alienation...

Mercury and the Sun
Darby Costello

Mercury is the Messenger of the gods, and also the Trickster god, and in our charts it describes the part of us which gathers information for our ongoing lives – and our survival. Never being far from the Sun, it does this primarily for who we are aiming to be....

The 9th House and the Making of our Minds: Faith, False Prophets, Dark Gods, and Visionaries
Lynn Bell

In ancient astrology the 9th house was the House of God, it is meant to direct us to the highest good. Sometimes our fellow humans fervently believe things that seem incomprehensible, and we ar...

Melding the Aspects
John Green

A big part of learning astrology is getting to grips with the aspects. How do the deities in our charts (planets) interact with one another? There are many books and pieces of software who will give us a quick delineation of these but when a planet has many aspects...

The Psychology of Place: Local Space as Astrological Magic
Carole Taylor

This seminar explores the technique of Local Space as a type of transformative magic. It offers us both a global map and a local chart. Our Local Space map shows how we relate to the wider world, each planet line evoking th...

Singletons in the chart: Dealing with your inner black sheep
Martin Moritz

We often take those elements of which we have plenty for granted, even can get bored with them. Welcome to yawn city. If, on the other hand, an element is completely missing, we can become quite worried. What to do? Missi...

The Places of Planetary Descent: Re-Imagining the 6th, 7th, and 8th Houses
Jason Holley

Known to the ancients as the places of bad fortune, setting, and idleness, the 6th, 7th, and 8th house respectively are the areas in the sky where planets descend below the horizon. Unseen by the Ascendant to...

Malefic and Benefic, “Good and Bad” in Psychological Astrology
Lynn Bell

The astrological tradition gives us strong indications of good and bad placements in astrology. In the 20th century many of these distinctions were smoothed over, particularly in psychological astrology. And yet we can clea...

Encounters with Animals: Symbolic Process in the Astrological Consultation
Jason Holley

As astrologers, we recognize that seemingly unitary people are at the same time multiple: each of us brings a circle of animals – the literal meaning of ‘zodiac’ – everywhere we go. This includes the astrolog...

Siblings – whether we love them or hate them – they matter!
Faye Blake

The relationships formed with siblings can indicate how we relate to members of our own peer group. Much attention has been given to parent-child contacts, but sibling dynamics are equally important. Studying these factors ca...

Harmonics: The Sound of Astrology
Clare Martin

In this webinar we will focus on the ancient theory of harmonics, the universal relationship between mathematical ratios and musical resonance, of which astrology as a whole, and the astrological aspects in particular, are an expression.

The birth ...

2021: The Good of The Community vs. My Personal Good
Darby Costello

Saturn in Aquarius describes a strong moral sense of what is ‘right’ and ‘good’ for our community, whether others agree with us or not. Uranus in Taurus describes where we must awaken to our own values and our own ‘good’, whethe...

The Fifth House – Love and Other Many-Splendored Things
Shawn Nygaard

As the house in which Venus finds her joy, many of the significations of the Fifth House stay true to the goddess’ character: pleasure, fun, fertility, love. Yet, within the Fifth House also reside complex mysteries, suggested...

Psychologizing the Ancient Doctrine of Sect: Day, Night, and Twilight Consciousness
Jason Holley

One of the most exciting gifts of astrology is its insistence on our psychic multiplicity, its acknowledgment that within each of us teems a multitude of powers, planets, and stars all carrying diffe...

The Long Way Round: Using Secondary Progressions
John Green

Not everything happens fast in this world. Some things, like us gradually changing and shifting who we are, take time. In this webinar we take a look at the technique of secondary progressions and how they map out the shifting patterns ...

The Dance of Distinctions: Archetypal Polarities in the Zodiac Part 3: Cancer-Capricorn & Leo-Aquarius
Safron Rossi

The zodiac contain six natural polarities. These polarities depict archetypal configurations between two signs which symbolize two patterns of consciousness. Each sign contains its...

Looking for Air: Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius
Lynn Bell

Every 20 years the Jupiter Saturn conjunction renews the world. It marks the beginning and end of an epoch, a generational shift. And each of us is touched by it in some way, given a seed for the new cycle. At the end of 2020 with the con...

Mars & The Outer Planets — Fifty Shades of Red
Shawn Nygaard

In Hellenistic astrology, the planet Mars finds his Joy in the 6th House, the house of twilight, suggesting that, as the Sun sets and twilight time emerges – a time that blends shadow and light together to various degrees – Mars engage...

The Ascendant and its Ruler
Darby Costello

We all take for granted that the Ascendant says something quite profound about ourselves, but what is it? It describes our ‘persona’ or that which we present to others, particularly when we first meet them. It is also a liminal space – a border – betwee...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Chiron were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2020.

Chiron Part 1: Wisdom and the Beast

In myth Chiron was a Centaur: one of a tribe of hybrid beings, half horse and half human, who sprang fro...

Chiron Part 1: Wisdom and the Beast

In myth Chiron was a Centaur: one of a tribe of hybrid beings, half horse and half human, who sprang from the union of Kronus/Saturn in the shape of a stallion with the nymph Phillyra. Unique among his wild fellow Centaurs, Chiron learned the healing arts and ...

Chiron Part 2: On the Gallop

This second of a series of three seminars on the minor planet/comet Chiron will explore the astrological and psychological meaning of its transits to other natal planets, and through the significance of other planets transiting Chiron’s natal place. The Chiron cycle ...

Part Three – Chiron in the collective: Collective Wounds

The Chiron cycle through the zodiac reflects particular spheres in which the collective psyche suffers a sense of unfair wounding along with the potential for greater wisdom. Transiting Chiron’s conjunctions and oppositions with transiting...

A Celebration of Myth & Astrology for MISPA’s 5th Birthday.

MISPA celebrated its 5th birthday in 2020 with a day of online talks from their astrology tutors exploring some of their favourite myths and stories and how they relate to astrology.

1: Darby Costello - Hermes: Trickster / Guardian
The...

The Odyssey of Neptune Aspects and Transits: The Art of Being Lost at Sea on the Journey Home
Jason Holley

This webinar explores the experience of Neptune aspects and transits through the lens of Homer’s masterwork, The Odyssey, the tale of Odysseus’s 10-year-long journey home to Ithaca from Tro...

The Astrological Sun – The Radiant Self
Shawn Nygaard

Human life on earth relies on the sun, the centre of our solar system. This reliance is so strong that in astrology the sun represents life itself, a person’s vitality and creative force, the alive self. The Sun as a symbol and an image proli...

Venus – The fairest of them all?
John Green

Venus rules the signs of earthy Taurus and airy Libra but what are the differences between them? Is Taurus just the materialistic sensualist and Libra the harmonising aesthete? Exalted in Pisces, in fall in Virgo, detriment in Aries and Scorpio – but w...

The Astrology of Money
Carole Taylor

We all have a relationship to money, and the terminology around it is both colourful and revealing. ‘Currency’ describes its circulation as a current of energy; ‘credit’ reveals our hopes in respect of future monetary status. The 2nd is a house where we ‘acco...

Awakening to The Dance of Love – The Work of Love
Darby Costello

Good relationships are one of the keys to feeling life’s beauty. The astrological chart can tell us what we absorbed from our parents in infancy and early childhood in our manner of relating to ourselves and to others. Using our ch...

Working With Children’s Charts
Alex Trenoweth

As astrology becomes more and more popular, the need to discuss how to work ethically with the charts of children arises. Parents could greatly benefit from the insights astrology can provide but should we predict the future of children or attempt to...

The Craft of Chart Interpretation
Juliet Sharman-Burke

You have learned the astrological theory but now how to put it into practice? This seminar concentrates on the “how to” of chart reading. We start by looking at some basic counselling techniques which can be usefully applied in chart reading...

What Belongs to us: The Second House
Lynn Bell

What truly belongs to us? We often judge our self-worth by what we have or don’t have, an object a talent, a treasure. What are we worth to others? Planets in this house need to be part of an embodied experience. We will look at how different planet...

The Dance of Distinctions: Archetypal Polarities in the Zodiac Part 2: Pisces Virgo
Safron Rossi

The zodiac contain 6 natural polarities. These polarities depict archetypal configurations between two signs which symbolize two patterns of consciousness. Each sign contains its own energy as well a...

Applying the philosophy of the astrological quadrants in theory and practice
Alexander von Schlieffen

The origin of the theory of the astrological quadrants is based on Aristoteles’ writings on the four causes (causa materialis, causa efficiens, causa formalis and causa finalis). Once we underst...

Saturn in Aquarius – The Difference Between Us
Shawn Nygaard

When Saturn leaves Capricorn in March of 2020 and enters Aquarius, it moves into the second sign of its traditional rulership. Where Saturn in Capricorn maintains limits and seeks a disciplined approach to its accomplishments, managing...

Water: Giver of Life
Darby Costello

Water is perhaps the most mysterious of all the elements. It is in everything, and mostly invisible. And yet, it is so visible: in ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, oceans and seas; below us in the earth and above falling from the sky. It always heads for the sea...

Deep Mercury: Hermes and the Quickening of Destinies
Jason Holley

Descents, retrievals, crossings, encounters – the mythology of Mercury is profoundly psychological. Yet astrology often forgets Mercury’s depth, despite his mastery of what the ancients called Kairos: the ‘just right’ moment where...

Angels and Demons – The Astrology of Obsession
John Green

What signifies obsession in a chart? What tips an idea, a desire or impulse over into the dangerous realms of obsession? Today we’ll be exploring the nature of obsession, from obsessive–compulsive disorder, obsessive loves and desires to ...

The Dance of Distinctions: Archetypal Polarities in the Zodiac Part 1: Aries Libra
Safron Rossi

The zodiac contain 6 natural polarities. These polarities depict archetypal configurations between two signs which symbolize two patterns of consciousness. Each sign contains its own energy as well as...

Planets in Blue: The Uses of Melancholy
Lynn Bell

Every so often our experience of a planet goes ‘off,’ as if a light has been dimmed and we see life through a blue filter. Venus gets the blues when a relationship dies, the Moon when it loses its familiar comforts. These times take us inward int...

Saturn and the Outer Planets – Encountering Larger Realities
Shawn Nygaard

One of Saturn’s essential archetypal roles in our lives (and in our charts) is to set limits. Traditional astrology tells us that Saturn rules over prisons. When imposed on us from the outside world, limits can often feel...

Earth: Our Home
Darby Costello

Nearly 50 years ago we saw our home planet from space for the first time and this has powerfully influenced our collective perceptions about the Earth. In the last few years we have become aware that this Earth is more fragile and vulnerable that we ever imagined i...

This course aims to give you an overview of the divinatory and symbolic meanings of the whole tarot deck with a view to being able to use the cards to clarify situations and act appropriately

This five session course starts with a brief overview of the Tarot’s origins. We then examine the Mythic...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Uranus were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2019.

Part One
Uranus in the natal chart: Stranger in a Strange Land

This seminar, the first of three on Uranus, will explore the myths and psycho...

Part One – Uranus in the natal chart: Stranger in a Strange Land

This seminar, the first of three on Uranus, will explore the myths and psychology of this eccentric planet that, unlike any other body in our solar system, orbits horizontally on its axis. Although Uranus is sometimes equated with ...

Part Two – The transits and progressions of Uranus: Coping with Surprises

This second seminar on Uranus will explore our individual human experiences under the transits of Uranus to the natal chart, and the transits and progressed aspects of other planets to natal Uranus. Uranus is sometimes see...

Part Three – Uranus in the collective: the Cycles of Progress

This final seminar on Uranus will explore our concept of ‘Progress’, and the ways in which Uranian ideas develop and enact themselves in various ways in the course of the planet’s cycle of 84 years. Each Uranian generation group has i...

Astrology as an Archetypal Language
Shawn Nygaard

Archetypes are the lenses of our lives, the patterns of consciousness operating within the psyche both individually and collectively, personally and impersonally. Archetypes can often be understood in an instant, instinctively, as easily as knowi...

The Great Escape – Looking at everyday addictions using the horoscope
Faye Blake

We all have our bad habits. Do you ever see yourself… needing a couple of drinks to feel more at ease in a social situation? Looking constantly at your phone? Eating more chocolate than feels good? It is only human ...

Air: The Breath of Life
Darby Costello

Our life begins with our first inbreath of air, and it ends with our last outbreath. It is completely invisible and yet we cannot do without it for more than a few minutes, and live. We constantly register sights, sounds and smells as they travel through th...

The Word – The Astrology of Writers, Poets and Lyricists
John Green

We see the world through the filter of our chart, it infiltrates our speech, our worldview, and the very story of our life. In today’s webinar we will explore how we communicate our worldview, looking at the charts of writers, l...

Retrograde Planets
Carole Taylor

Ptolemy said that retrograde planets lack power, a reflection of the ancient idea that whatever moves contrary to normal motion in the sky is moving against the outer world’s usual laws of time and order. Yet, when a planet is retrograde, it is closest to the Ear...

Border Crossings – The 8th House
Lynn Bell

The 8th house describes the many border crossings of our lives, from sexual initiation, to the passage between life and death. As the entrance to the underworld in Hellenistic astrology, it plunges us into the unknown, and offers an initiation. Depressi...

Mothers and their Children
Lynn Bell

Our first caretaker, the one who gives us life (or her replacement), is often carried in our charts through the Moon and its aspects. But other planets, and the Midheaven can describe her, and other people can play her role. Whatever is constellated around th...

Pluto – To Hell and Back
Clare Martin

The myth of Hades, god of the underworld, is intimately connected with the myth of Demeter, Goddess of Nature, and the transformation of her daughter Persephone from innocent maiden (Kore) to Queen of the Underworld. The story of Demeter and Persephone was r...

Fire: The Heart of Knowing
Darby Costello
Fire is a dangerous and unpredictable element when uncontrolled and yet it is at the heart of our lives as human beings. Our ability to control fire has given us a freedom that has allowed us to settle in all parts of the world, and to explore the planet,...

Saturn and Jupiter: Senex & Puer
Shawn Nygaard

Jupiter in Sagittarius and Saturn in Capricorn together in the sky draw out the timeless, archetypal figures of the Eternal Youth (Puer) and the Old Man, or Father Time (Senex). The Puer carries sky-high visions and longings that keep Eternity close...

The Gatekeeper Archetype and the Angles
Safron Rossi

The four angles of the birth chart are profoundly sensitive points, as anyone who has had an outer planet transit over one knows. The angles symbolize how we meet the world and take in experience, acting as gateways of consciousness. Every gat...

Sorrow is Knowledge: Chiron in the Chart and by Transit
John Green

“But Grief should be the Instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
Lord Byron, Manfred

Why do we bother with Chir...

Fathers and their Children
Lynn Bell

This webinar looks at the archetype of the Father and how it is constellated in the birth chart. How does the father we had (or didn’t have) impact the structure of the psyche? Whether absent or present, biological or ‘adopted’, the role of father influences ...

The Astrology of Personality Theory
Clare Martin

In traditional and indigenous cultures, visions, dreams and other mysterious disturbances were understood mythically and imaginatively, as communications from the soul. In our culture they are more likely to be treated purely physiologically, as s...

Rulership
Darby Costello

Early on in our astrological education we all learn about rulership and exaltation, detriment and fall. We learn that having planets in the first two categories is really good, and having planets in the second two is not good. And yet, how is it that some of the finest w...

The 3rd House – Impressions from the Starry Night
Shawn Nygaard

Hellenistic astrology named the 3rd House “Goddess,” referring to that Great Goddess of the night sky, the Moon, whose Joy is in this house. Topics of the 3rd House include communication, early education, siblings, short journeys, a...

Transits: Finding the Story
Carole Taylor

Forecasting is one of astrology’s most challenging dimensions: to articulate the symbolism, to convey this in ways which are supportive and empowering, and at the same time to set this within the context of the client’s unique experience and their way of...

Jupiter: Never Enough
John Green

Jupiter is the greater benefic, or so we are told. This webinar looks into the role of Jupiter in our lives, what does it mean and how do we feel it? Is Jupiter the great god Zeus bringing us bounty and sage philosophy or does it have a darker side of excess and ...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Neptune were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2018. Duration: 7 hours 11 minutes

Part One: The Hill of Dreams: Neptune in the natal and composite charts.

This first of three seminars on Neptu...

Part One: The Hill of Dreams: Neptune in the natal and composite charts.

This first of three seminars on Neptune will focus on the meaning of the planet in the natal and composite charts, through exploring its many faces in myth, symbolic systems such as Tarot, alchemy, and Kabbalah, the history...

Part Two: After the Deluge: Neptune in transit to natal and progressed placements

This second of the three seminars on Neptune will focus on the movement of Neptune across the placements of the natal and progressed horoscopes. Neptune’s cycle of between 165 and 168 years is too long for any indi...

Part Three: The Tidal Flow: The Neptune cycle in the collective

The final seminar on Neptune will focus on its movements in the collective psyche, through an exploration of its cycle through history and all the spheres in which Neptune’s footprint can be discerned: music, fashion, film, politica...

Uranus in Taurus: Awakening Venus
Darby Costello

When Uranus went into Aries in 2010-11, we certainly experienced an awakening of Mars energy – individually and collectively. Those who could express it became extremely active, in all sorts of positive – and negative – ways. Those who could not e...

The Astrological Ages and Shifts in Human Consciousness
Helen Sewell

Some astrologers believe we are living on the cusp between the Ages of Pisces and Aquarius, a potentially illuminating subject which is not always given the consideration it deserves. Carl Jung recognised the importance of the ...

Planetary Hijack: Seized from Within
Lynn Bell

Strength in a chart can turn to discomfort if one planet grows too dominant, seizing the psyche. A sensitive Moon can morph into an emotional Diva, a penetrating Mercury may leave little room for feeling; Mars can dominates as an abusive boss or par...

The Chart in a Nutshell
John Green

One of the questions always asked when teaching astrology is ‘Where do I start in a chart?’ It’s an important question and one which has many answers. So how do we quickly get to the essence of the main themes and narratives of a chart? In this webinar we explo...

Signs of the Times
Clare Martin

Charles Harvey wrote that “the deeper significance and purpose of our own lives can only really be understood when seen in the context of the major cycles of which our lives are a particular expression.” (Astrological Journal, March/April 1982)

In this webinar we...

Astrology, Psyche, and Imagination
Shawn Nygaard

Following the path initiated by Jung, yet paving his own way, depth psychologist James Hillman devoted his life’s work to returning soul to psychology. In his Pulitzer-nominated book “Re-Visioning Psychology,” Hillman lays out his rigorously well-...

Pluto and his Mother-in-Law Ceres
Faye Blake

Ceres, who had been a planet until 1850, and was then categorized as an asteroid, became a dwarf planet in 2006, which put her on a par with Pluto. Ceres (Demeter) is the sister of Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, and as such was important in the Greek hie...

The Great Work – The Person not the Chart
John Green

The Great Work or Magnum Opus is an alchemical term for the process of creating the philosopher’s stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in both magical and psychological systems. How do we use our chart as a ...

Elements, Modalities and the Tarot
Juliet Sharman-Burke

We talk a lot about the elements but not necessarily as much about the modalities.

In this webinar, Juliet looks at the Cardinal Fixed and Mutable signs as they are reflected in the King Queen and Knight of the Tarot Court Cards. While the...

It’s Your Fault: Projection and Idealization in the Birth Chart
Lynn Bell

It can be all too easy to see what we don’t like in other people. How does that dislike or dissatisfaction show up in the birth chart? Oppositions are one way, energy is projected outside the self. This is also true of cer...

Astrology, the Soul and the Water Houses
Clare Martin

In this webinar Clare explores the water houses as realms of the soul. It was Jung’s lifelong task to rescue the soul from the obscurity and neglect into which it had fallen in our culture, and his Red Book demonstrates that the influence of ...

Planets in Capricorn – What is a Mer-goat?
Shawn Nygaard

Capricorn, often considered the most “realistic” and disciplined of signs—ruled by Saturn—is, curiously, symbolized by one of the most peculiar symbols in the entire zodiac: the mythic, imaginary mer-goat, sea-goat, or goat-fish.

Pluto is...

Astrology and Images of the Masculine
Clare Martin

This webinar will consider four major aspects of the masculine, equally relevant in the horoscopes of men and women. In their book King Warrior Magician Lover, Jungian analysts Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette argue that mature masculinity is g...

The Sun in Psychological Astrology
Helen Sewell

The Sun sign is the first thing everyone learns in astrology and is indeed the most important principle in the chart. Yet, when giving readings, astrologers often brush over the Sun and focus on more complex aspects, perhaps to avoid associations w...

Saturn in Capricorn: A first look at the coming transit
Darby Costello

On the 21st of December, Saturn will go into Capricorn. It will be there until the 18th of December 2020, with the exception of a few months at either end. In early 2020 it will conjoin Pluto in Capricorn. As always with stro...

Obsession, Possession, Control and Freedom: When relationships go wrong, How do we make them right?
Lynn Bell

Aspects between personal planets and the transpersonals, whether in the birth chart or by transit, often create havoc with relationship. Every relationship encodes a task, and it may not...

You are not Normal
John Green

You are not normal! Ever had that said to you? How do we actually define what is normal in regards to the mental and emotional states of human beings? It seems daily we are asked on social media questions like ‘Was your ex a narcissist? A psychopath?’ The haphazard ...

The 6th House: With Twilight as My Guide
Shawn Nygaard

In traditional Hellenistic astrology, the 6th House carries a rather ominous label: Bad Fortune. What exactly does this mean, and what psychological insight can be gained by recognizing this quality of the 6th House? Through the symbolism of...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Pluto were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2016. Duration: 6 hours 53 minutes

Part 1: This part in our intensive exploration of Pluto focuses on the meaning of the so-called ‘planetoid’, begi...

Part 1: This part in our intensive exploration of Pluto focuses on the meaning of the so-called ‘planetoid’, beginning with mythic portrayals of the underworld deities and ancient philosophical conceptions of what happens to the soul after death. It looks at the relationship between Pluto and the...

Part 2: The second webinar explores Pluto in motion: its transits through the houses of the natal and progressed chart, and the aspects it forms with natal and progressed planets as it moves through the zodiac. It also examines other transiting and progressed planets forming aspects to natal Plut...

Part 3: The third part explores Pluto’s cycle in historical contexts as a reflection of particular movements in the collective psyche that express themselves through the psychological dynamics behind world events. it looks at the symbolism of Pluto’s transit through the zodiacal signs in recent t...

This series of three in-depth webinars on the planetary symbol of Saturn were given by world renowned astrologer Liz Greene for MISPA and the CPA in 2015. Duration: 7 hours 9 minutes

Part 1 – There have been many approaches to and interpretations of Saturn over the centuries, from older represen...

Part 1 – There have been many approaches to and interpretations of Saturn over the centuries, from older representations as a powerful yet malevolent Gnostic archon, through later Neoplatonic and Hermetic understandings of the planet as the matrix of divinity and the gateway to the soul, to more ...

Part 2 – The second seminar on Saturn explores the meaning of the planet in motion. Liz Greene examines Saturn’s 29.5-year cycle, its expressions through its transits to other planets and their transits to Saturn’s natal place, and in Saturn’s movements in the progressed chart. She also considers...

Part 3 – In the third seminar Liz Greene explores the planet in relationships and in the various human expressions of love, hate, envy, admiration, and mutual transformation. She examines Saturn’s meaning in the psychology of the synastry between two charts, as well as its expressions in the comp...

This course takes an in-depth look at approaching synastry in psychological astrology. How can we use synastry to examine the processes involved when we are a relationship with others? What does it show us about our chart and how can we understand the relationships we have better? The course focu...