Faculty News

It is with great sadness that we report the death of the astrologer Christina Rose, on 11th February 2014.    Christina first began to study astrology in 1968, gaining her Diploma from the Faculty in 1974, and was a Faculty tutor for a number of years. From the mid-1970s onwards she pioneered the use of […]

The Winter Solstice has arrived and its lord Saturn, god of the harvest, tells us that this is the time of the yearly announcements in relation to the exams! We have two Exam Seasons at the Faculty, one on the Spring Equinox and the second one on the Autumn Equinox, and the results are issued

We held the first of our new webinars on 7 December and it proved very popular.  Covering the Module 1 topic of Planets in Signs in Houses, it was a chance to recap the basic vocabulary of astrological interpretation in a real-time ‘live’ setting – and it was wonderful to meet Distance Learning students from

To find out more about the Faculty and what it has to offer, you are invited to join us for an online Open Session on Saturday 18th January 2014.  The session will take place at 3pm (GMT/Universal Time) and will last for an hour.  It will be hosted by our Director of Studies, Carole Taylor,

This coming spring the optional Diploma half module – The Astrology of the Family – will run live in the London classes programme. It will take place on two consecutive days on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd February 2014. We will be working with our new course material which has been developed by Brian Clark and Glennys Lawton and which explores this fascinating

We will be holding four online seminars for Foundation Course students in the upcoming academic year.  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 time with a Faculty tutor and fellow Foundation Course students. 

We are delighted to announce the Faculty will be in Bali in December 2014, running a course in collaboration with Evelyn Roberts of Heaven and Earth Workshops; Evelyn is a former Faculty student, having studied for her Diploma alongside our very own Director of Studies, and past President, Carole Taylor. The course is entitled Grounding

At our Summer School 2013 gala dinner, we were delighted to award two honorary diplomas. The Faculty rarely makes such awards; the only two of the last twenty years have been to Rob Hand and Bernard Eccles. Two exceptional candidates however were identified by the Faculty Council and the awards made at this year’s Summer

A Sun-Jupiter conjunction seems an excellent moment to issue the results of yet another very successful exam season! A total of 20 exams were marked this spring: 16 Certificate level, 4 Diploma level, and I’m delighted to announce that we have one new Faculty Diploma holder, 13 new Certificate holders, one candidate who has successfully

Our current Head Tutor, Paolo Cortucci, will be leaving us at the end of June to start a new life in his native Italy. Paolo has been a member of the Faculty Council since 2007, and Head Tutor since 2009. He has done a brilliant job managing the Tutor Team and the organisation of the