Professor Peter Roberts, D.F.Astrol.S
We sadly report the death of Professor Peter Roberts, on 25th March 2014. Professor Peter Roberts was a Faculty Diploma Holder and Professor of systems science at City University, London. Carole Taylor, Director of Studies has written an article about Professor Roberts and his work within the astrological community which you can read in Writing […]
Faculty Day 2014
Faculty Day 2014 was a great success. It was a beautiful day, there was a wonderful atmosphere and spring was in the air! It was a delightful day of celebration. A big thank you to everyone who presented and helped. A full report, photographs and downloadable presentations are now available on the Faculty Day page.
Polar Vortex by Holly Rogerson
Standing in my driveway, ice chipper in hand, surrounded by chunks of ice and a smooth sheet of yet-unchipped frigidity, I pause to wonder – about Sedna’s tangled hair. When she gets upset, she rages powerfully, sends storms sweeping across her territory, she cracks ice, making frightening loud bangs and leaving holes in the ground, […]
Debating on the Ruler of Astrology: An Unorothodox Perspective by Sonia Giudici
“The truth is that stars are nothing more than giant, inanimate, orbs of rock and gas floating in the vacuum of space. They don’t influence your life any more than the pile of rocks in your front garden dictate your life. The stars do not care about you, or your job, or your finances, or […]
The Sun is your CEO – The Moon your Customer Relations by Vanessa Couto
When you are starting a business, or you already have an established one, defining what is your brand is something that may be on your mind. Where is your YOU in your business? If you are an entrepreneur that’s even more true, because your business is your brainchild, carrying forth your ‘Astro DNA’. As I […]
Online Seminars Programme 2014-2015
We have another programme of online seminars available on Saturdays from the autumn term. These are open to both Faculty and non-Faculty students. For distance learning students in particular, this is a chance to connect in real time with a Faculty tutor and with a group of fellow students in an online classroom. All you […]
Christina Rose, D.F.Astrol.S.
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 Transiting Oriental Planet by Alison Price
“Oh, it’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with you” – Lou Reid Introduction Over time many aspects of astrology have piqued my interest. In the early years the house systems kept me busy for months and at one time antiscia became an obsession. During the past few years I have turned […]
A Little Contemplation on Astrology by Irene Maandi
It is a too early to say that I am able to grasp the idea of astrology or that I am ready to formulate any specific definition concerning astrology, as this Universal Art involves so wide realms and so many different layers that it would evidently take a number of lifetimes to feel at home […]
Autumn 2013 Exam Results
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 […]
Surf’s Up! Astrology, Fate and Free Will by Clair Bentley
Empowerment. With my traditional chart ruler, Mars, involved in all sorts of astrological shenanigans right through this year, including a major Neptune transit, significant progressions and assorted return activity, I seem to have become keenly sensitised to the concept and to encounter it wherever I turn. I notice it has become a modern watchword for […]
Nu-metal and Astrology by Hiroko Oshida
Nu-metal is one of the genres in the metal music scene. It emerged in the mid 90s and conquered the scene until the very early 2000s. As its name “nu” indicates, nu-metal is admitted as a new style of metal which evolved from the old-school. Nu-metal keeps aggressive and loud sounds as the old-school, but […]
New! Online Seminar Update
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 […]
Online Open Session
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, […]
The Astrology of the Family – New Live Class!
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 […]
A Practical Guide Line to Bringing the Spiritual in to Your Reading by Daliah Roth
Let’s start off with this fundamental question: What makes us truly happy? “Happy” may not even be what we are looking for, and be totally over-rated for that matter. How about content then? I am not talking about those exceptional moments on that wedding day, birth of a child or having won, inherited or awarded […]
Extract from the Astrology of the Family part Module: An Astrological Overview of the Family
If we were to observe the soul in the family by honouring its stories and by not running away from its shadow, then we might not feel so inescapably determined by family influences. Strongly influenced by developmental psychology, we assume we are ineluctably who we are because of the family in which we grew up. […]
Extract from The Astrology of the Family part Module: An Overview of the Family Through Time
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable[i] – T.S. Eliot From an outer perspective time is experienced in a linear fashion, moving from the present into the future, having come from the past […]
New! Online Seminars
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. […]
Begin Your Diploma in Bali!
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 […]
Seamus Heaney by Julia Savage
When I was asked to write an article for the Writing Corner I wondered what I would write as I did not feel particularly inspired to write about any particular person at that time. Then on Friday 30th August I was shocked and saddened to hear of Seamus Heaney’s death. I felt intrigued by this man […]
The Virtues of Debility by Martin Lipson
The table of dignities and debilities is a technique which allows astrologers to assess the strength or performance of planets in signs. It has been around for a very long time. Its origins even predate Claudius Ptolemy (90 AD – 168 AD) but the version of the table he proposed in his landmark text Tetrabiblos […]