Centre for Psychological Astrology Summer Webinars

CPA/MISPA Summer 2024 Webinars Here's a reminder that our summer webinars start on 12th May 2024 - take a look at the full details and book now at https://cpalondon.com/book/webinars/ Our webinars are real-time, online seminars in psychological astrology. You are able to interact with the tutor and other students as the session happens via a chat box. Experience a CPA/MISPA seminar live from anywhere in the world through your computer browser or app. If you can't make it live you can still book and receive four weeks access to the recording of the event afterwards.

Darby Costello Progressions and Transits: Navigating Clues Sunday 12th May 2024 - 15.30-18.00 BST

Over time we all become acquainted with transits over our chart and at some point we start using one or another form of progressions too. We shall look at secondary progressions here, and explore how to weave transits and these progressions together, when helping ourselves and others navigate our inner and outer lives.

Shawn Nygaard The Moon and the Outer Planets - The Many Moods of the Modern Moon Sunday 2nd June 2024 - 15.30-18.00 BST

Significations of the Moon across astrology bring together an interesting assortment of images. As the grand and revered Queen of the velvety night sky, overseeing our sleeping and dreaming, she is associated with “the unconscious.” Her monthly phases from waxing toward full brightness and then waning back to darkness draw out the psyche’s many moods. The Moon’s nourishing qualities connect her with the archetypal and literal Mother, who give birth to little bodies and the Moon’s association with the whole of the physical body.   This webinar looks at what happens when this vital and intimate figure of the Moon connects with the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, planets aligned with the profound shift in the collective from traditional times into the modern era. We will look to natal charts and transits to the natal chart to see what happens when the Moon hooks into the restlessness and rebelliousness of Uranus (“the Awakener”), the often-overwhelming sea-world currents of Neptune (“the Loosener”), and the deeper and darker underworld regions of Pluto (and his “riches”). How do these dynamics relate to the above-mentioned qualities of the Moon, from psyche to body? The webinar includes numerous chart examples.

Jason Holley Relocation Charts: Place and Psyche Sunday 9th June 2024 - 14.30-17.00 BST (Note earlier start time than usual)

Soul loves particularity, and often particular places. Most of us have experienced that different locations seem to call forward different dimensions of ourselves. An astrological way of saying that different creatures in our own Circle of Animals (‘zodiac’) find habitat in different places.    As with so much astrology, relocation is often framed as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ places, or through dismembered fragments of the local sky such as ‘my Jupiter line’ and so on. But a more soul-oriented, psychological, and fuller exploration of the local sky also invites us to more interesting and complex stories waiting to be discovered and told.     In this talk we will contemplate the images of one method of relocation astrology, that of the ‘relocation chart’ which shows us what the sky over a particular place looked like at the moment of our birth. We will explore how Psyche and Place are in ongoing dialogue with one another and co-create one another. Attending to this relationship can enrich and dimensionalize our experience of ourselves and other people’s experience of us.  It can also help us into a deeper and or meaningful relationship to particular Places we live and visit, weaving us into more reciprocal and conscious relationship with land all those who live in and on it.

Plus don't forget Liz Greene's webinars on Mars taking place in May and June. You can order recording access tickets for parts Two and Three, and you can still order the recording of Part One if you missed it!

See all the full details and book at: https://cpalondon.com/book/webinars/. Previous webinars are available to view on demand here: https://www.mercuryinternetschool.com/video/.

Vampire and Paranormal Museum

According to Atlas Obscura, there is a fascinating Vampire and Paranormal Museum in Pennsylvania:

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Tucked away in the same building as an antiques store in a small Pennsylvania town lies a shockingly large collection of antique vampire-killing sets.

Covering the walls are the standard tools of the vampire hunter: the stake, the crucifix, the holy water bottle. But the stakes are far more than pointy, wooden sticks. Believed to date back centuries, all the weapons have been beautifully decorated with a variety of religious and allegorical carvings. They are spectacular objets d’art from every corner of the world, including several personal collections from actors who played Dracula in films. One wooden “traveling vampire hunter kit,” from around 1870 was owned by actor Carlos Villarias, who portrayed the famous count in a Spanish language Dracula.

 

Edmondo Crimi, the owner of the museum, was an antiques dealer who traveled the world collecting these weird and wonderful objects for the past half century. Whether or not any of these weapons has killed a vampire of course remains unsubstantiated, but the mere existence of these historic pieces of craftsmanship speaks to the enduring power of vampire folklore.  

But it isn’t all vampire-related artifacts. There are also antique Ouija boards, statues of the archangel Michael, and a chair used for exorcisms in 19th-century Germany. If it’s odd, supernatural, and beautiful, they probably have one at this gem of a museum.

Know Before You Go

Admission is $15 and the museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

The Walker Hotel Offers Astrology Inspired Events

Bravo to the Walker Hotel in New York City. They have a very interesting event offer based on astrology. 

Centre for Psychological Astrology Webinars are Back

I just received this announcement from the Centre for Psychological Astrology, based in London.They just announced that their webinars are back so no matter where you live, you can participate:

CPA/MISPA Autumn 2023 Webinars
Our Autumn 2023 webinars start on 29th October - take a look at the full details and book now at https://cpalondon.com/book/webinars/.
Our webinars are real-time, online seminars in psychological astrology. You are able to interact with the tutor and other students as the session happens via a chat box. Experience a CPA/MISPA seminar live from anywhere in the world through your computer browser or app. If you can't make it live you can still book and receive four weeks access to the recording of the event afterwards.

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Safron Rossi
Soul Making and the Sky Within: James Hillman and the Archetypal Psyche
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 - 15.30-18.00 GMT

James Hillman’s writings provide an invaluable foundation for understanding the bridge between psychology and astrology. His theoretical frame and mythopoetic perspective grounds us in the archetypal psyche, offering rich roots for our astrological art. In this webinar we will explore the fertile possibilities by introducing the four movements--personifying, psychologizing, pathologizing, dehumanizing--of Hillman’s groundbreaking opus Re-Visioning Psychology (1974) and their significance to an archetypal and psychological astrology. In this webinar we will wed ideas to experience and engage in contemplative writing exercises so to explore these soul movements in our charts and lives. 
(Parts of this talk were presented at UAC 2018 entitled “Planetary Interiority: Hillman and the Archetypal Psyche.”)

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Shawn Nygaard
Another Look at Chiron & the Archetypal Wound
Sunday 5th Nov 2022 - 15.30-18.00 GMT

Late in his life, Carl Jung noted that, “The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?”
From the vantage point of this question and the backdrop of the infinite, this webinar looks at the mythology and astrology of the centaur Chiron – the Wounded Healer – with fresh eyes. Chiron’s placement in our charts by sign, by house, and by aspect with other planets reveals a specific kind of wounding felt on deeply personal and individual levels. Yet, as a mythic figure, Chiron represents something archetypal in nature. His story is an archetypal story. His wound is an archetypal wound. What is the nature of this archetypal wound?
The first part of this webinar looks at the mythology of Chiron, from his role as a teacher of the Heroes and his famous wounding, to his quest to heal and his final resting place among the stars – all from an archetypal perspective. The second part uses chart examples to explore Chiron’s wound further, and to speculate on why Jung placed such importance on our relationship with the infinite.

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Darby Costello
When there are two sign rulers: What to do?
Sunday 12th Nov 2023 - 15.30-18.00 GMT

Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces are each dual-ruled signs. How do we describe the energy of planets in these signs to our clients and ourselves? We shall explore how to help ourselves and others to navigate the worlds reflected by these signs, considering the very different dimensions each sign must attend.

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John Green
Pluto in Aquarius – Utopia or Dystopia?
Sunday 3rd Dec 2023 - 15.30-16.45 GMT

Much has been written recently regarding the time Pluto will spend in Aquarius some profoundly positive, some very negative. In this talk John looks into the black mirror at the very nature of Pluto and the sign Aquarius to try and unpick what we can realistically expect of its time there.

One hour talk followed by short Q&A session.

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See all the full details and book at: https://cpalondon.com/book/webinars/.

Previous webinars are available to view on demand here: https://www.mercuryinternetschool.com/video/.

Colors For the Day You Were Born

I have heard that in Thailand, the day of your birth has a very specific color. To improve your luck through the year, you should wear your "birth color" on your birthday every year. The King was born on a Monday and the entire country, as a sign of respect and love, will be wearing yellow shirts on his birthday.

Here are the days and their colors for handy reference:

Sunday - Red

Monday - Yellow

Tuesday - Pink

Wednesday - Green

Thursday - Orange

Friday - Blue

Saturday - Purple