Lynn Bell

Dreaming New Life: Working with Saturn and Neptune

Monday 25th January
9:30am to 4:00pm
Aphrodite Room

When great changes come into our lives it is often because a part of our psyche has become overgrown. It has taken up all our attention and energy, while other aspects of self are languishing As much as we might love what we have and wish to keep it, it may be time to let something else emerge. Without a shift of resources there can be a general impoverishment. As Saturn in fiery Sagittarius squares Neptune, it may weaken structures which have grown outworn. It can also bring the energy for incarnating dreams, for bringing the impossible into being. Neptune is a planet of oceanic consciousness of creative imagination. Often its energy lies outside the grasp of the conscious mind, but comes to us in dreams or via our creative voice. We may be asked to let go of something so that the world can light up again. We will explore the houses and aspects activated by these two powerful planets.

Ben Dykes

Prediction using Distributions through the Bounds/Terms

Monday 25th January
9:30am to 4:00pm
Persephone Room

Many predictive techniques focus on identifying events on particular days or weeks. But many older methods used “time lords,” planets or places in the chart which identify periods of over a year or more, in which longer trends take place. In this workshop, Ben Dykes will teach an ancient and powerful time-lord technique, called “distributions” (similar to primary directions). Every sign is traditionally divided into five unequal parts called “bounds” or “terms” or “limits,” each ruled by a single planet. As we direct the Ascendant around the chart and to the aspects of other planets, it will pass through the bounds and pick up the meanings of the aspecting planets for certain numbers of years. During these periods, the nature and natal condition of the distributor will describe the main themes of life. In this way, we are dividing the life up into chapters, much like a biography, with each planet describing the themes of that chapter. If there is time, we will see similar applications of this technique in solar revolution charts.

Mark Jones

The Astrology of Self-Actualisation

Monday 25th January
9:30am to 4:00pm
Athena Room

This workshop will explore a vision of astrology that began in the ancient world and was brought into a modern technical form by Dane Rudhyar, simultaneously with the maturation of depth psychology, in the middle of the Twentieth Century. This vision is that astrology can speak to us directly the story of soul, or true self.

This workshop will explore how astrology, as a language of soul, can reveal the intentions of the true self. How the birth chart is a direct expression of the multi-dimensional Self and how understanding it from this vantage point can offer us a living transformational tool that can help us achieve our deepest possible self-expression.

This workshop will explore both technical and metaphysical issues in which the Outer Planets will be seen as expressions of the deep self, with the inner planets and nodes of the Moon as symbolic of the evolution of the personal self with Jupiter and Saturn as the bridge between the personal and transpersonal self.

This understanding, both technically simple, but meaning rich, can serve as a foundation for the ability to explore the natal chart as the blueprint for evolution, as the map of soul, of every individual. The workshop will include many examples from Mark’s considerable client base.