Chairman Julian Venables has great pleasure in announcing the Brighton Astrology Circle 2022 Spring term programme of Wednesday evening talks via Zoom.
5 January: Who Are You?
A Virtual Talk with Ana Isabel
How do we go about answering this question? In Astrology we know that discovering who we are is our life’s mission. We know that the Sun represents identity. In this talk Ana Isabel looks at how Venus and the 5th house help the Sun find self-expression through creativity and play, aiding us on our journey of self discovery.
Ana Isabel – Astrologer, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Past Life Regressionist. Ana is an Astrologer, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Past Life Regressionist, Teacher and Broadcaster. Ana combines Hypnotherapy and Astrology to help unblock repressed aspects of the personality as well as working on the links between the Birth Chart, Karma and Pre-birth experiences. She has worked with the Queen’s Doctor at his clinic in Belgravia and has two podcasts on Astrology and another on Spirituality.
Website: www.lifeastrologer.com
19 January: Ideas and Composite Charts
A Virtual Talk with Fernanda Paiva
Relationships are one of the greatest mysteries of all, why do we feel attracted to a certain person and repulsed by someone else? Why do some connections tend to activate different parts of ourselves, sometimes to the point where we feel like an entirely different person depending on who we are spending time with? In this talk we will be exploring potential answers to some of these questions through looking at the composite charts (also known as the ‘midpoint chart’), an astrological technique that became popular in the USA and UK in the 70’s.
Fernanda Paiva is a teacher and practicing astrologer with a BA. in History and she acquired her astrology certificate with distinction at the London School of Astrology. She has been published by Flare UK, IAM Infinity magazine, the AA Journal and at the astrodienst website, and she is currently working on her thesis for the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales. Fernanda is originally from Brazil but has been living in the UK for the past 13 years.
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Website: www.fernandapaiva.co
2 February: Past Life Patterns in the Birth Chart
A Virtual Talk with Phoebe
In this talk Phoebe will introduce her take on karmic astrology based on her experiences as a past-life regression therapist. It repeats the subject of our successful in-person workshop held in Hove last November for a wider audience. Phoebe writes: “In 1986, while working as an astrologer in Germany, I was curious about the newly introduced past-life therapy and booked a session for myself. What I experienced immediately illustrated the meaning of my South Node in the 8th house in Aries, which I’d never understood. I was so impressed I signed up to train as a past life therapist, and afterwards for many years combined regression therapy with natal astrology in my work. This gave me wide experience of correlations between patterns in the natal charts of my clients and the past life experiences they recounted during their regression sessions.
I’ll be illustrating this with chart examples matched with extracts from the regression protocols of their owners, and will also attempt the experiment on Zoom of putting you, the audience, into a light trance so you can experience possible past life events to illuminate the karmic symbolism in your birth charts!”
Phoebe Wyss is a Hove astrologer with 40 years experience in giving consultations, courses and workshops and is an experienced public speaker. She also trained to be a past-life therapist back in the 1980s in Germany, and for many years combined regression work with natal astrology in her practice. She’s published an astrological board game, two books on the astrological archetypes and her latest book – Inside the Cosmic Mind: Archetypal Astrology and the New Cosmology – was published in 2014.
16 February: The Outer Planets and the New Paradigm
A Virtual Talk with Nick Oakley-Smith
With Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus, we are seeing a breaking down of the material side of life and our identification with it. At the same time Neptune is dissolving the structures of our current thinking. What might be emerging from this changing context? Gender, Covid, the Environment, Virtual reality, there are many ingredients in the soup. What insights does astrology bring and what might happen when the planets make a trine and 2 sextiles in fire and air in 2025?
Nick Oakley-Smith has been a practising astrologer and student of the I-Ching for over 35 years. He pretends to be a leadership coach in international businesses whilst introducing business leaders globally to both astrology and the I-Ching. He has talked regularly at local UK astrology groups, the AA conference and the Dutch AA conference.
2 March: Retrograde Planets: the Intricate Dance
A Virtual Talk with Patricia Godden
Much inner work is done while a planet is retrograde. During a retrograde period, deeper levels of that planet’s energies rise from the subconscious to manifest in conscious awareness. As the different stages of the retrograde phase each play a role in this process, understanding it helps in the interpretation of natal horoscopes. Recognising the different stages of retrogradation in progressions and transits can help a person make the most of these cycles. Mandalas are used to illustrate the variation in retrograde periods throughout the orbit of each planet.
Patricia Godden BSc PhD dipWESA FAPAI is a professional astrologer who gained a diploma from the White Eagle School of Astrology (WESA) in 2007. She is tutor on the WESA Beginner’s Course as well as having her own introductory course, which is available via her website. She has a particular interest in spiritual astrology and the purpose of the soul. This led to an in-depth study of draconic astrology. Patricia has written two books: Housing Your Planets: everyday interpretations and spiritual perspectives and Astrology, Crystals and Spirituality.
Website: www.patriciagodden.com
16 March: The Art of Astrological Relationship Counseling: Six Vignettes
A Virtual Talk with Greg Bogart
Astrology is a beacon in the relational sphere, shedding light on patterns of relating, the phases and seasons of relationships. Knowledge of my own astrological profile and consideration of the natal traits and current challenges of spouses, friends, and family members aids us in creating more emotionally fulfilling and more committed relationships with others. In this presentation we’ll look at examples of how astrological work can aid an individual’s or a couple’s understanding of relational experiences and patterns of behaviour. We learn how relationships have been damaged; we envision ways they might be repaired. Rather than emphasizing synastry (chart comparison) and composite charts, this presentation focuses delineating the individual charts and the challenges and tasks each person is facing as a means to heal and harmonize relationships. We’ll discuss the power astrology has to transform consciousness and behaviour in the relational sphere, enhancing our lives in the home and workplace.
Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT, has practiced astrology professionally since 1981 and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who utilizes astrology in his work as a psychotherapist. He is also a lecturer in psychology at Sonoma State University. He is the author of Astrology’s Higher Octaves; Astrology and Spiritual Awakening; Planets in Therapy: Predictive Technique and the Art of Counseling; and Astrology and Meditation: The Fearless Contemplation of Change. His other books include In the Company of Sages; Dreamwork and Self-Healing; and Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression. Visit his website at www.dawnmountain.com, or email Greg at gbogart7@sbcglobal.net.
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Saturday 19 March: Day with John Wadsworth
Announcing our first face-to-face meeting of 2022 at the Cornerstone Community Centre, Hove, on Saturday 19th March, 10am – 4pm.
Radical Change, Iconoclasm & Technocracy:
Navigating the Shadow Side of Uranus & the Transition into Aquarius
We tend to idealise Uranian and Aquarian values such as independence, radicalism, progress, and liberation from traditional structures of thinking, but Uranus’s shock factor can also cause dissociation, leaving us vulnerable to technocratic forms of governance and ideological tyranny. We are in an unstable, liminal period, both culturally and spiritually, as we shift into the Aquarian era, and our hearts and minds are vulnerable to grand, sweeping narratives of a radically different future for humanity. In this workshop, John will identity the aspects of Aquarian/Uranian idealism and its shadow aspect, setting that in its historical context. He will then invite us to explore what has shifted in the collective through the planetary alignments of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius and the Saturn square to Uranus in Taurus. And together we will look ahead to the outer planet movements over the next few years, and speculate on how things might shift or develop accordingly. The day will also feature a piece of astrological theatre to explore the theme in a more vivid, experiential way.
John Wadsworth has been a practising astrology for almost 30 years. He is the founder of the Kairos School of Astrology, and its primary teacher. He takes an archetypal approach to astrology, drawing on psychological, traditional and evolutionary methods of approaching a chart. He is known in the field for his experiential, embodied approach to astrological education, with an emphasis on healing and transformation through direct experience of planetary and zodiacal archetypes. He is also a great champion of ethical standards in astrological practice, and build this into all the courses he teaches. He set up the Kairos school in 2008 in Glastonbury, UK, and began running a two-year training in in 2011, which he turned online in 2020, where it now runs as diploma programme, accredited by the Association of Professional Astrologers (APAI). He is the founder of The Alchemical Journey, a zodiacal mystery school based around The Glastonbury Zodiac, and he is the author of ‘Your Zodiac Soul’, a profound rendering of the zodiac wheel as a twelve-stage journey of initiation, or as he calls it, twelve gateways to wholeness.
6 April: Jupiter Conjuncts Neptune – Before, Now and After
A Virtual Talk with Roy Gillett
Just six days before the only conjunction this time round, Roy will briefly review the astrology of events leading to the emotional intensity of recent months. Then focus a sharing on the present, to prepare understanding of the new personal and societal experiences likely as Jupiter enters Aries, and then the other outer-planets change sign in the years immediately ahead.
Roy Gillett, President of The Astrological Association, full-time astrologer and writer since 1976, advises on astrology software, speaks at many international conferences and studies Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1978, Roy has published mundane forecasts, with a compassionate emphasis. He has edited English translations of André Barbault books and written The Secret Language of Astrology, Astrology and Compassion the Convenient Truth, Economy Ecology and Kindness, Reversing the Race to Global Destruction and Working with the Planets Clearer Understanding Better Decisions [2021] – an enhanced compilation, with commentary and historical references, from his 2002-2021 bi-monthly Astrological Journal column. See sample pages at http://crucialastrotools.co.uk