Asteria
Teaching
Workshops and short courses
Our online workshops and Our online workshops and short courses offer focused, detailed and high-quality teaching over a wide range of subjects. They give a distilled and comprehensive picture of the subject, so that you can then apply the ideas to your own chart and/or use them in your own astrological work. ort courses offer focused, detailed and high-quality teaching over a wide range of subjects. They give a distilled and comprehensive picture of the subject, so that you can then apply the ideas to your own chart and/or use them in your own astrological work.
In each class, there will be time set aside for interactive discussion, so that you can ask questions, apply the ideas to charts, and develop your understanding of the material.
They are suitable for different stages of study. The focus will be on deepening into the symbolism, to extend and flex your skills, encourage deep engagement and develop fluency in chart work.
Classes are held on Saturdays, 3-5pm UK time, online via Zoom.
Please use the form at the bottom of this page to register for any workshop or short course.
We will then send you details of how to pay. Please use the form to book for the free workshop too.
The first hour of each class is an in-depth presentation by the tutor. This portion will be recorded and you will have access to the recording for 30 days.
The second hour is an opportunity for 15 minutes’ work or discussion in small breakout groups, followed by 45 minutes whole group work and discussion on the topic.
Alongside this, the following will be sent to you after the workshop:
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A handout containing an outline of the topic and a summary of important key points.
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A suggested reading list.
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One or two self-study exercises.
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A PDF of the slides.
The main presentation (approximately one hour) will be recorded and will later be added to our library of available recordings to purchase whenever you want, along with the handout, reading list, self-study exercises, and PDF of the slides.
Workshops (one session): Live attendance £40. Recording only: £30.
Short courses (two sessions): Live attendance £80. Recording only: £60
Every term we offer a free workshop which anyone is welcome to attend. This gives you a chance to meet us and see how we work, but it is also our way of offering something back to the community and a way to bring people together to enjoy and discuss astrology.
Free Workshop Series: On the Cusp of a New Age
Pluto in Aquarius
Kim Farley & Carole Taylor
19 October 2024
In this free workshop series, we will explore the meaning of the three outer planets as they ingress into new signs over the coming year: Pluto into Aquarius, Neptune into Aries, and Uranus into Gemini. Across three lectures, we will look at the meaning of each ingress in turn, using examples from history as well as suggesting possibilities for how it might play out over the coming time. As part of this, we will look at outer planet placements across different generations and how as individuals we might respond to these shifts.
This first workshop will look at Pluto in Aquarius. Pluto has been making its ingress into Aquarius since March 2023 and enters fully into the new sign on November 19th. It will remain in Aquarius until 2043. Its last sojourn in this sign was 1778-1798, a time of intense social and political change that pivoted around issues of power in relation to democracy and the growth of modern science and technology. What does our current ingress have in store and how can we best respond to it in our own lives?
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Spring term: Neptune in Aries
Summer term: Uranus in Gemini
Short Course
26 October & 9 November 2024
Chart Skills: Working with Rulership
Kim Farley (26 October) & Carole Taylor (9 November)
Our chart work can benefit greatly from applying the subtlety and depth that rulership represents. It offers an essential key to openly exploring the potential held in the natal chart, as well as enhancing our forecasting, revealing as it does the connections between different areas of life as well as different qualities within us.
Kim will begin with theory and follow with illustrative examples. Carole will then continue deepening into rulership, particularly in the context of forecasting.
Workshop Series: Working with Aspects
This is a series of workshops exploring the deeper meanings of aspects and how to interpret them in practice in charts, using plenty of chart examples to illustrate. These workshops can be booked individually, as a full series, or in any combination.
They are suitable for all levels of study because they focus on extending our vocabulary and deepening into the meaning of aspects in the context of the individual's life - their character, history, desires, challenges and aspirations. How do we bring aspects to life in the delineation of a chart - our own or those of friends, family or clients?
16 November 2024
Working with Aspects: Conjunctions and Quincunxes
Carole Taylor
Planets in conjunction are a potent force in any chart, combining their energies into a unified force in which the individual planets may struggle to assert their presence. Conjunctions may be felt most keenly when the personal planets and angles are involved, but conjunctions between the outer planets also have a significant role to play in shaping who we are and what motivates us, albeit in the broader context of collective and transpersonal themes. On the other hand, planets in quincunx are on very different trajectories and often blindly pull against each other, reflecting character traits, themes and experiences which require our conscious attention in order to resolve a sense of incompatibility.
What unites conjunctions and quincunxes is perhaps our difficulty in fully recognising their force and potency in shaping our character and drives. This workshop will explore deeply into these two aspects and the challenge of coming to see that part of ourselves more clearly.
23 November 2024
Working with Aspects: Squares and Oppositions
7 December 2024
Working with Aspects: Semi-squares and Sesquiquadrates
Kim Farley
Rather than viewing them negatively as inherently problematic, ‘hard aspects’ – squares, oppositions, semi-square and sesquiquadrates – can be welcomed as generating some of the strongest raw material of birth chart dynamics. They offer us powerful incentives and encouragement to unfold and grow, helping us to directly engage with our process and become who we might be.
In these two workshops, Kim will explore the potency and usefulness of the four different kinds of hard aspect. As with all of our workshops, there will be opportunities to discuss your own chart, both in small breakout groups and in open group.
14 December 2024
Working with Aspects: Trines and Sextiles
Carole Taylor
The so-called ‘soft aspects’ tend to recede into the background when we interpret charts, as if the things that come easily to us, or which give us joy and pleasure, are somehow less important in shaping our character and calling than the harder-edged aspects. Yet they are unmistakably present, pointing to wellsprings of natural talent and creative flow. Where our hard aspects push us continually towards achievement, our soft aspects are fundamental to healing and wellbeing, having the power to uplift, inspire, and replenish the soul. At the same time, we may also take these things for granted, our attention diverted by what seems more pressing for our survival. Yet our trines and sextiles can express themes or expectations which we have imbibed from an early age without questioning and which can therefore form deep-seated responses that can both support and hinder our progress.
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