Learn to see the underlying patterns behind Mercury’s three retrogrades each year and to harness their transformative power. Mercury spends more time in one element each year than all the other three combined! This means that each of us was born with an unconscious preference for communicating vi...

The Jupiter-Saturn synodic cycle has long been known to time the rise and fall of empires. But what’s the impact of the great chronicators on our, alas, much shorter lives? This talk examines how the two social planets bring about the cycles of maturation: Saturn through restructuring of one’s fr...

If you like to see a good lie, then it pays to study the antics of Mercury, who as Hermes could speak and create mischief from the moment he was born, and as a baby famously stole Apollo’s herd of cattle and lied about it. We’ve been pretty much doing the same thing ever since. On any given day, ...

In this lecture, Pat discusses the charts of well-known people in terms of how Venus and Jupiter have brought them riches and/or fame. From 2012.

Thomas Gazis discusses various approaches to and interpretations of the ascendant. From 2014.

Michele Finey talks about the cycles of Venus and Mars, and their interactions with one another. From 2013.

We often isolate individual transits to predict upcoming events. However, we can shift a client's perspective by focusing on the repetitive nature of transits. Observing past events when a natal planet was previously aspected empowers people to connect events over time into a meaningful narrative...

Venus has been the goddess and the planet of love for thousands of years in our Western world. She has been imagined and related to in different ways in different times and places in our history. How do we as astrologers today define and describe Venus to ourselves and others, and does our unders...

This lecture takes a historical look at the housing and financing industry through the Saturn-Uranus cycle. Julene looks at savings and loan crises, falling housing prices, and oil crises (because oil plays a role in driving the economy and ties in more than once). She examines the legislature th...

A slightly tongue-in-cheek investigation of horror, the macabre, and the dark side as revealed in the horoscopes of writers dominated by the archetype of Scorpio-Pluto. Of special interest are novelists and screenwriters who have bequeathed to us our favorite terrors: dark lords, demons, monsters...

Why are some people’s Saturn returns so difficult, while others emerge comparably victorious? Common wisdom says effort, but there’s actually a remarkable astrological tool to help distinguish between these. Sect, the difference between day and night charts, shows us how, as well as the shades of...

Most of us know our Sun signs, but few of us know what that really means. Instead of describing simple personality traits, your Sun sign describes the journey you are making through life, and is linked to a sense of purpose. Find out why your Sun sign is so important and how understanding its dee...

The charts of the sighting of the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, were times of massive metamorphosis in the global experience. Each sighting birthed a new consciousness AND established a new motif/theme of people’s potential, activity, major changes in options in lifestyle and world-vi...

In this lecture, Kari Noren-Hoshal examines the various transits and cycles of Venus over a 500-year period and their relationship to the rise of women in power and politics around the world.

The focus of Kari Noren-Hoshal’s work is evolutionary astrology. She is most closely aligned with the wo...

Most modern astrologers are aware of the positive attributes of Saturn — discipline, structure, order, etc. — but are unaware that in both the ancient world and the Renaissance Saturn has another set of positive qualities as a transcendental planet. From our point of view it would be the first of...

Uranus has earned the right to be called the weirdest planet of them all. But what is the real story behind this rebellious planet that shatters spatial boundaries, reverses our understanding of time, and strikes like lightning? We’ll explore Uranus natally, by transit, and in synastry. Join Rick...

When clients, friends and public figures "speak their charts," we astrologers collect gems that inform our practice and help us expand and fine-tune our astrological vocabulary. In this talk, Frank presents a series of birth charts, entertaining real-life observations, and quotations that get to ...

The 8th house is one of the traditional gateways to the underworld, a cold wind comes through the cracks, we feel the presence of other beings, other energies, other realms. We may be obsessed or possessed, dependent or dominant, for this house is about the way we respond to what other people bri...

This lecture is not just a look at the 6th house. It is a journey though all 12 houses and how they influence our health. Where do eating habits come from? How do we see inherited traits and illnesses? What does each house represent when it comes to our health, and how can we work with this in ou...

Join Adam as we discover the little-known celestial factors which link modern astrology to the very origins of our astrological tradition He'll then apply them to reveal the "living sky" meanings of the thirteen phases of Mars. Each Phase answers the question, "What is my natal Mars in service to...

The archetype of the “Divine Hermaphrodite” has its roots in Plato. By tracing its history from Plato’s Symposium to Karl Heinrich Ulrich’s coining of the term “Uranian” in the 1860s to describe male and female homosexuals, this lecture demonstrates how a social trend that existed independently o...

Cathy discusses the transformative power of Pluto through a look at its meaning in one’s horoscope, and through Plutonic themes in family patterns and transits over personal planets. Pluto symbolizes an extremely concentrated power to destroy, give birth, empower, and transform. This talk examine...

In this lecture, Laveta explores the mechanics of retrograde planets and their symbolism in the natal chart.

Laveta Piemme is a long-time astrologer and spiritual worker who is currently an instructor at the International Academy of Astrology.

In this lecture Christina takes us under the covers into the world of love, beauty and romance (let's not forget finance) to see what happens when "The Goddess of Love looks back": 40 days and 40 nights may seem a lot, but don't worry -- you won't turn into a pillar of salt! Christina investigate...