The Faculty Awards Two Honorary Diplomas!
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 […]
The Artifice of Duality: Venus in Gemini by Anne Stuecker
I’ve started wearing a lot of dresses and skirts lately, which is new for me. My own body-image has not always allowed me to wear clothes that attract attention and make me look particularly feminine (Venus). I wear dresses and skirts that are, above all, comfortable. Today I wore my most comfortable dress, a stretchy […]
The Sign of Cancer and Biological Karma by Ana Paula Pestana
THE SIGN OF CANCER AND BIOLOGICAL KARMA Undoubtedly we all have the Sign of Cancer in our natal chart; we all have a Moon and an IC. Regardless of being more or less a “Cancer type of person” we all have a family history, a past background, a mother image, a set of memories indexed […]
Water Grand Trine: A Chance to Heal by Lorna Blake
Grand Trine in Water Signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces: An Opportunity for Healing – June/July 2013 During the last few years we have experienced turmoil and unrest with many unexpected and deep changes taking place in society and within our personal lives, courtesy of the on-going Uranus – Pluto Square providing a backdrop for unexpected […]
Spring 2013 Exam Season Results
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 […]
Oscar, Astrology and Vocation
Whenever I think about astrology and vocation my mind always goes to Oscar. He was a young Swedish man in his mid-twenties whom I met a few years ago in Stockholm and with whom, as it often happens when travelling, we shared a brief conversation and a coffee while sitting in adjacent tables in the […]
Pope Francis 1st
7th Century Churches on Skellig Michael in County Kerry, Ireland. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― St. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi When I first heard that there was to be a new Pope, I admit, it […]
Astrology for the Masses – Hitting Fertile Ground
Over the years of studying astrology one key theme for me has been how to take astrology’s mass popular appeal to the next level, so that it becomes more meaningful and thought provoking to a wider audience. The Faculty and other astrological groups provide the education for those already seriously interested in the subject to […]
Change of Head Tutor
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 […]
London Classes 2013-2014
The programme of classes for 2013-2014 is now available on the Classes page, as is the enrolment form for booking. The classes start in October 2013, and commence with modules 1 (Planets, Signs and Houses), 4 (Transits & Solar Returns) and 7 (Midpoints, Harmonics and Synastry). Modules 2, 5, and 8 will run in the Spring […]
The Faculty Awards a Fellowship!
At Faculty Day 2013, which took place on 23rd March, we were delighted to award former President Carole Taylor a Fellowship of the Faculty, in recognition of her exceptional service and dedication to the Faculty over many years. The Fellowship represents lifelong membership of the Faculty and is rarely awarded. Other Fellowship holders include Clare Martin and […]
Who’s Knocking At The Door?
When we talk about transits to the Ascendant, we usually think of the conjunction as being the most powerful. And indeed it is, for it generally heralds a process of rebirth, anything from a radical change in our appearance to a complete revision of how we see the world, and therefore act in it. Planets […]
Surrender and Liminality in Crossing Boundaries – Mercury and Saturn as Travel Companions
Traveling is a great way to experience Mercury’s field of action, especially when it is retrograde. I just returned from a long trip to Brazil. My entire journey happened during Mercury’s retrograde phase and what a lesson that was in RE-learning, RE-viewing, RE-imagining, and RE-connecting. After many hours of flying and waiting at various airports, […]
You Can Choose Your Friends…
The recent addition of a new optional half-module – The Astrology of the Family – to the Faculty’s course material has prompted me to look once again at my own family’s charts. One of the most important moments for me as a student of astrology was when I realised that no matter how familiar I […]
2012-2013 Summer Term
The Summer term of our London classes will start in April with modules 3, 6 and 9. Module 3 includes workshops on Chart Imbalances, Calculations and Whole Chart Interpretation. During Module 6 tutors will work on Chart Interpretation (including Forecasting) at intermediate level whereas Module 9 will focus on Advanced Interpretation and Astro-Consultancy. Distance learning students may attend […]
Autumn 2012 Exam Season Results
This Autumn Exam Season was a really successful one for a good number of students. A total of 25 exams were marked: 13 at Certificate level and 12 at Diploma level. I’m delighted to announce that we have 10 new Certificate holders, one of whom obtained the Lindsay Radermacher Award, and 5 new Diploma holders. […]
Changes To The Faculty’s Management Team
Faculty Presidency We would like to announce that Carole Taylor will not be taking up a second term of office as the Faculty’s President. After eleven years at the very top of the Faculty, Carole now needs greater room in her life to exercise her many talents in other areas, particularly her forthcoming studies in […]
Spirituality and Illusory Reality: Neptune in the City of Angels by Anne Stuecker
Ever since I first learned that Neptune symbolizes both glamour and spirituality, I’ve been trying to reconcile these two concepts as one archetype. My perspective has been shaped by a background that includes the practice of religions espousing a doctrine of asceticism, whereby glamour is seen as something “worldly” or “unspiritual”. One of the problems […]
The Anti-Pluto by Amy Elliot
I have been fascinated by Orcus since the time of its discovery in 2004. The plutinos as a group appear to be of increasing interest, but Orcus immediately captures the astrological imagination thanks to one specific fact: its orbital period is virtually identical to that of Pluto, and it is always constrained to be at […]
Saturn – The Icing On The Cake by Leslee Griffiths
Having a broad awareness of Astrology since my twenties I have spent the last thirty odd years (and they have been very odd at times!) being totally fed up that I have a Moon-Saturn opposition combining with Neptune conjunct Venus to form what I always considered to be a ‘nasty little T-Square’, the bane of […]
Skywatch by Tim Metcalfe
We live in a galaxy which is around one hundred thousand light years across and is slowly rotating. The stars in its spiral arms orbit around the galactic centre about once every several hundred million years. You could say that our solar system at around thirty thousand light years from the galactic centre in the […]
A Snapshot of the Current Outer Planets Transits by Rod Chang
Uranus square Pluto is probably the most popular topic at this moment in the astrology community. Since 2010 these two planets have started to form the waxing square in their synod cycle and we are all wondering what is going to happen. Not long ago, more than 40,000 people walked the streets in a protest […]