Faculty News

The Faculty is sad to announce that Jo Stratton died recently after a short illness. She had many friends among the students and tutors at Summer School which she had attended regularly since 2012. Jo’s smiling face and cheerful enthusiasm became one the delights of our annual stay in Exeter College. We will miss her […]

Spring 2016 The Summer Solstice is the time when the exam results of the Spring Exam Season are issued, so it is my pleasure to announce the names of the successful students! The students work hard on their exams during the whole year but submit their papers for marking at the exam seasons which are

The FAS was very sorry to hear the news that the great Sun Sign astrologer Jonathan Cainer had died at the age of 58. Jonathan was a former student with the FAS and remained a friend. As a Sun Sign astrologer he followed in the footsteps of Alan Leo (1860-1917), who popularised the art of

We have added an additional seminar to the new Planet Series of Day Seminars which are proving to be very popular. The Sun with Sue Farebrother will run on Sunday 24 July.   These seminars are open to everyone and it has been wonderful to meet so many non-students in the three events we have

26th October-2nd November 2016 Bayad, Ubud, Bali We are delighted to be working once again with Heaven and Earth Workshops, run by Faculty Diploma holder Evelyn Roberts, and presenting this course with Faculty tutor Carole Taylor and Brian Clark of Astro*Synthesis. Our focus on the course will be relationships of all kinds – how we

Clare Martin spoke beautifully about the Signs and Seasons at Faculty Day in March. Her presentation was videoed and is available in six parts on the website – click here.    

We will be holding three webinars over the next term – two are aimed at Foundation level students and the other at Diploma Level 1 students. If you are a Distance Learning student and unable to attend classes in London or our Summer School in Oxford, this is a great opportunity to interact in real

The Winter Solstice arrived early in the morning of the 22nd of December and Saturn, its lord, god of the harvest, symbolizes the Faculty’s traditional yearly period when the exam results are issued. We have two Exam Seasons at the Faculty at the two Equinoxes with the results made public on the respective Solstices. The

We are delighted to announce that Cat Cox is our new Faculty President. Cat is a very experienced astrologer, tutor and Council member; she has run her own astrological practice since gaining her Diploma in 1996 and has taught in Classes, at Summer School and by Distance Learning for nine years. Cat has also studied

Laura has made an immense contribution to the Faculty since she arrived on the Faculty Council in 2007, serving as President from 2012-2015 and before that as Vice President from 2009-2012. She has steered the Faculty through a period of development both philosophically and in the range of our teaching, leading to the Faculty being