The Oxford Summer School Online August 20th–22nd 2021

The OxfordSummer School OnlineAugust 20th–22nd 2021

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Weekend Course: Astromapping – the Power of PlaceTrack 1: Building a Vision for the New WorldTrack 2: Navigating Time – the Way Forward

Guest & Faculty TutorsNicholas Campion • Frances Clynes • Simão Cortês

Darby Costello • Cat Cox • Elizabeth Hathway • Alejo LópezChris Mitchell • Matjaž Regovec • Melanie Reinhart

Glòria Roca • Carole Taylor • Dragana Van de moortel-Ilić

Crossing theThreshold

Astrology inAction Track 2:Navigating Time – theWay Forward

Astrology inAction Track 1:Building aVision for the NewWorld

Weekend Course:Astromapping – the Power of Place

Welcome& IntroductionOneWeekend Course,TwoAstrology inAction tracks

Two Sunday afternoonworkshopsMeditation Session withMelanie Reinhart, An evening talk on Saturday

Plus, an online JCR – open for socializing during the daytime –and an online Undercroft Bar in the evening!

What will the Years Bring?Chris Mitchell Quarrell Room online

Real &Unreal: DeepeningNarratives throughAstrologySimão Cortês Rector’s Drawing Room online

Session 1 Alejo López & Glòria RocaSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

Cat Cox & Dragana Van demoortel-IlićSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

In 1345, a team of astrologers was summoned by the Pope tomake predictions for the years ahead, as there was a conjunctionof Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn that year. That conjunction wassubsequently blamed for the Black Death, which wiped out halfof Europe three years later. One of those astrologers, the Jewishpolymath Levi benGerson, left a detailed account of his techniques,which we will explore in this session to get a glimpse of howmedieval astrologers worked.

This session will explore the use of astrological charts whenlooking at fictional material such as literature, films, and TVshows. We will look at diverse charts and explore relevantsymbolism that brings together the fictional material and theindividual. Most importantly, we will focus on Jung’s notion ofhealing through the telling of myths and see in which waysastrology can gain new dimensions when used to think aboutworks of art. Horary, natal and event charts will be used.


Alejo López and Glòria RocaIt has been said that astrologyis the art ofmeasuring timeand its cycles, and ofinterpreting the celestial code.But, following the secondhermetic principle ofcorrespondence “as above, sobelow”, the journey of thecelestial bodies occurs inspace and has a physicalelement. It is intimately relatedto the Earth thus linking

astrologywith geography. Andwe, earthlings aswe are, notonly live our lives thorough the passage of time, but also throughour bodies, which have a spatial, physical dimension. Theastromapping techniques are ways of understanding howastrology can help us deepen our relationship with our physicalspace,andperhapsmaximiseourpotential throughthisawareness.

TheWeekend Course, Astromapping – the Power of Place, haslimited enrolment. This will run as an online class wherestudents are visible to one another. Sessions will not berecorded. Check that your time zonemakes it reasonable foryou to attend. By enrolling here, you are committing to allsessions in this weekend course.

18.00 – 19.15

Friday 20th August The Oxford Summer School Online 2021

Track 1: Building a Vision forthe New WorldIn this track we will learn how to listento the voice of our inner child, follow ourdreams and understand the ‘non-human’other. A vision for the New World can bematerialized only if we step over thethreshold into the world of the imaginal,

heal our hearts, follow our bliss and fight for what gives us joy.

The two tracks of Astrology in Action will be recorded.Recordings will be made available to Astrology in Actiondelegates for 30 days following Summer School. Sessions willrun as webinars where attendees do not see one another butcan submit questions to the speaker via online chat. Pleasenote that the timings are subject to change.

17.00 – 17.15

Astrology in Action

17.15 - 18.00 19.15 - 20.30Undercroft Bar online

Track 2: Navigating Time –the Way ForwardAfter the global trauma of 2020 wecan use the ancient wisdom ofastrology to navigate our lives in tunewith the messages of the transitingouter planets. In this track we willtake a deeper look not only at thetransformative effect of transits on a personal level, butalso at a post-pandemic astrology, societies, and nations.


Astrology inAction Track 1: Building aVision for the NewWorld


The Saturn Uranus Square: Navigating FreedomCat Cox Quarrell Room online

To Everything There is a Season: Navigating ChangeCarole Taylor Quarrell Room online

Healing the Heart: the Cycle of VenusMelanie Reinhart Rector’s Drawing Room online


As we begin to emerge from theunprecedented calamity and collectivetrauma of the pandemic, Saturn andUranus square eachother three times this

year. Calls for freedomnowcompetewith voicesof controland restraint. Lookingat theSaturn-Uranus cyclewewillconsider themeaningof thesearchetypal forces togetherwith this stageof the cycle andexploreways tohold andnavigate this polarised tensionbothwithin ourselves andcollectively. Wewill also reflect on the celestial aidwhichmightalsobeavailable tousat this timethroughthehealingofChiron in aspect toSaturn, andJupiter enteringPisces.

JosephCampbell’s philosophyof life issummarised in the familiar phrase: ‘followyour bliss’. In an interview, Campbellstated: ‘If youdo followyour bliss, youputyourself ona kindof track that hasbeen

there all thewhilewaiting for you, and the life youought tobe living is theone youare living.’ As ablueprint for ourindividual life, thebirth chart allowsus to see, symbolically,but clearly, thepath that hasbeenwaiting for us.Wewillexplore the ideaof findingand followingwhat givesus joyand thebarrierswemight need tonegotiate in theprocess.

The Saturn Return: Ever Deeper into the BoneElizabeth Hathway Quarrell Room online

Mars and Venus: TheWarrior and the PeacemakerDarby Costello Rector’s Drawing Room online


Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces: Love as a MiracleDragana Van demoortel-Ilić Quarrell Room online

The Archetype of the ChildMatjaž Regovec Rector’s Drawing Room online


In 2021 and 2022, for the first timesince 1856, Jupiter and Neptune willbe in Pisces, the sign they both rule.Like a rocket, planetary transits can

launch our dreams and desires, but first we have toalign with our spiritual calling, letting feelings of joy,appreciation, enthusiasm and inspiration unfold. In thissession we will see what happened in history duringperiods when these two planets previously met inPisces. Using current transits as a navigation tool,practical ideas will be shared on how to escape ourlimitedmindset and let love create miracles in our lives.

The dynamics of the child can berecognised not only in terms of ourpsychic, inner life (dreams, activeimagination), but also in thephenomena of dependency and

feelings of inadequacy in relation to our environment.We will look at both the archetypal (puella or pueraeternus) and the developmental dimensions of thechild, and their astrological coordinates or significators.Understanding these can be helpful both in healing ourwounds and unlocking our potentials.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus saidthat change is life’s only constant.Transits of the outer planets transformus, often in radical ways, in the contextof the ever-moving cycles of the planets.

We are shown by the transits and progressions thatmark the flow of life whether it is a ‘time to plant’ or a‘time to pluck up that which is planted’. Each of us hasbeen a witness to, and participant in, the profoundupheaval and uncertainty of the past 18months. Howwe can use our birth charts as compass and guide, tocreate a newworld for ourselves?

Many of us carry the imprint ofpast relationships which stillcause pain in the present. Thecycle of Venus opens us to theinner depths of relationships, bothwith ourselves and others. A

releasingprocess is energisedas insight and compassionare awakened. Astronomically, the exquisite timing andprecise geometry of this cycle also offer an almanac ortemplate of the underworld journey of Inanna, theancient Sumerian goddess, whose story we will explore.

The length of time Saturn requires to pass through theentire zodiac and return to the position it held in the skyat the time of birth is approximately 29.5 years. Theastrological term for this event is the Saturn return.Amidst the growing interest in, and understanding of,the importance that ritual plays in our lives, the Saturnreturn has emerged as an important rite of passage,marking key transitional periods for us all. Based on herdissertation, an auto-ethnography enquiry into Saturn,Liz presents the Saturn return as a form of modern-dayenchantment, whichmarks significant transitionalmoments in astrologers’ lives.

Mars and Venus are in contrast to eachother in one’s nature, and both arenecessary to living a fulfilled life. Weneed our warrior to defend and protectus and fire us into action with courageand daring. We need our peacemaker tofind us places of grace and kindness

with which to heal the harsher experiences of life. Weshall look at Mars and Venus in various positions andaspects and explore what it means to work with thesepowerful dimensions.

Finding Your BlissCarole Taylor Rector’s Drawing Room online


19.30 – 20.30 Evening Talk: Cosmic Serpents – the Power of theMyth Lindsay Gladstone Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre onlineIn world cultures, through the commonality of human experience, the serpent is both revered and reviled. The dual way in whichserpents are seen in myth as malevolent creatures, yet with the ability to avert evil is explored through imagery and symbolism.We will consider their power through the lens of the cosmic serpents of the starry skies.

Saturday 21st August The Oxford Summer School Online 2021

17.45 -19.30 20.30 - 21.30

13.00-14.30 LUNCHBREAK

JCR Chat Room open10.45 -11.30 15.45 -16.30

9.30 – 10.45 11.30 – 12.45 14.30 – 15.45 16.30 – 17.45

Undercroft Bar online


Astrology inAction Track 1: Building aVision for the NewWorld

Weekend Course:Astromapping – the Power of Place SundayWorkshops andMeditation

Post-Pandemic Astrology: Back to the Real World?Frances Clynes Quarrell Room online

The Astrology of the CollectiveNicholas Campion Quarrell Room online

Children of the Night SkySimão Cortês Rector’s Drawing Room online


During the pandemic of 2020-21, astrology groups thatcould not meet in person began tomeet online. Localgroups, committees and councils, conferences andevents very quickly moved to cyberspace. Local groupscould host audiences from all over the world andattendees had a huge range of events to choose from.As we appear to near the end of the pandemic, we hopethat meetings and events will soon be able to take placeagain in the offline world. But will they? What do therecent move of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction into Airand the 2026 Air trine between Uranus and Plutosuggest? What will post-pandemic astrology look like?

Astrology originated with the beliefthat divinities speak to humanitythrough celestial patterns, and thenmovedon to the classical theory thatthe entire cosmos exists as a singleharmonious and intelligentorganism. And nowwe have Jung’s

theory of the collective unconscious. This session willexamine what wemean by communication with a 'non-humanother', and the implications for fate and freewill.Wewill also introduce the latest concepts fromanthropology.

Gathering Farewell SpeechCat Cox & Dragana Van demoortel-IlićSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

According to the ancienttheory of the body politic,societies and nations are asingle entity, like bodies,functioning as a harmoniouswhole. We will look at howastrology devises techniquesto explore these ideas,

primarily national charts and planetary cycles. We willalso consider the nature of symbolism in the astrologyof the collective: are symbols images which stand in forsomething else, or are they alive?

Astrology and dreams are bothsymbolic experiences which areborn from our relationship with thenight. In this session we willexplore the relationship betweendream and astrological symbolism.

Themost important step in interpretation, both ofastrology and dreams, is to understand what the symboldemands of us, in what direction it wants us to go. It isthis turn of the soul that I will be discussing, and itsimportance for the creation of a newworld.

Omens, Auguries, Models andMeaningsNicholas Campion Rector’s Drawing Room online


MeditationSession,followedbyspace forpersonal sharingMelanieReinhart Quarrell Roomonline

16.15 -18.00

13.00-14.00 LUNCHBREAK

JCR Chat Room open10.45 -11.30

9.30 – 10.45 11.30 – 12.45

16.00 – 16.15

14.00 – 15.30

Undercroft Bar online

Sunday 22nd August The Oxford Summer School Online 2021

ProfectionsChrisMitchellSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

Today, we are used to using progressions andtransits in predictive astrology, but in medievaltimes one go-to method for predictions was thefascinating technique of profections. Thetechnique is simple but effective, and isHellenistic in origin – although it was widely usedin medieval astrology. This workshop willdemonstrate how to use the technique of bothannual and monthly profections, and show howthey can be used effectively together with solarreturns. We will have time to explore thistechnique in practice using some of your owncharts and solar returns.

Creating anAstrological ShrineElizabeth HathwayRector’s Drawing Roomonline

How can astrology be used within a domesticsetting to bring a little magic into our daily lives?How does a space become sacred and how can weuse sacred space to deepen our understanding ofthe natal chart and significant transits to it? In thisworkshop the concept of sacred space will beconsidered, and the creation of personal domesticshrines will play a central role. A ‘do-it-yourself’approach to making astrological talismans –based on our own tradition – supports the makingof personal objects that contain power and carrysignificance for us.

Limited enrolment. The workshops and meditation will run as online groups wherestudents are visible to one another. These groups will not be recorded.

Check that your time zone makes it reasonable for you to attend.

Dr NICHOLASCAMPION HonDFAstrolS isProgrammeDirector of thedistance-learning

MA in Cultural Astronomy andAstrology at the University ofWales Trinity Saint David. He isalso Associate Professor inCosmology and Culture, PrincipalLecturer in the Centre ofHumanitiesand the Social Sciences, andDirector of the Sophia Centre forthe Study of Cosmology in Culture.He wroteMundane Astrology,which is the definitive book onmodernmundane astrology (withMichael Baigent and CharlesHarvey), followed by The Book ofWorld Horoscopes, the essentialcollection of historical data. He isa world authority on the history ofastrology and is the author of thetwo-volume History of WesternAstrology (London: Bloomsbury,2008-09) and Astrology andCosmology in the World’s Religions(New York: New York UniversityPress, 2012).

Dr FRANCESCLYNES DFAstrolSis the Vice President,IT and OnlineLearning Managerand a Distance

Learning tutor for the Faculty ofAstrological Studies. She has beena practising astrologer since 1987and has lectured in Ireland, the UKand the USA. Frances is also atutor on the MA in CulturalAstronomy and Astrology in theSophia Centre at the University ofWales Trinity Saint David.

SIMÃO CORTÊSstudied astrology inthe Portugueseschool of astrology,CEIA. He completedanMA in Myth,

Cosmology and the Sacred atCanterbury Christ ChurchUniversity, with a dissertation onthe pedagogy of astrology. As wellas being a tutor on the Canterburyprogramme, he is a teacher atCEIA. His main interests are thereligious dimensions of astrologyand the relationship betweennarrative and astrology. He is alsointerested in Neoplatonism,divinatory traditions andembodied symbolism.

DARBY COSTELLOHon DFAstrolS hasbeen an astrologerfor more than halfher life and isengaged in many

areas of the astrological community.She began teaching at the Centrefor Psychological Astrology in1988 and she now lectures andteaches internationally. She haswritten several books on astrology.Darby received anMA inCulturalAstronomyandAstrology fromBathSpa University in 2006, whichinspired her passion forunderstanding historical cycles. In2013 she received the CharlesHarvey Award for ExceptionalService toAstrology.Herconsultationpractice continues to be at theheart of her working life as anastrologer.

CAT COX DFAstrolSbegan studyingastrology in 1984and was awardedthe Faculty Diplomain 1996 and anMA

inCultural AstronomyandAstrology

from Bath Spa University in 2007.Cat is the President and HeadTutor of the Faculty and hastaught with the school since 2006.Her interests in healing, Jungianand transpersonal psychology,goddess spirituality and theWestern mysteries inform herapproach to astrology, includinghowwe work psychologically,experientially and ritually withsymbols andmyth. She practisesin London, loves teaching and overtime has come to view her workwith charts as a spiritual practice.

ELIZABETHHATHWAYDFAstrolS holds anMA in CulturalAstronomy andAstrology, is a

Qualified Horary Craftswomanhaving studied with John Frawley,and is an independent researcherwith a special interest in rituals,sacred space, shamanism, magicand transformation. She regularlypublishes articles onmundaneastrology, a subject she ispassionate about, both online andin English and Dutch astrologyjournals. She has lectured in theUK, the Netherlands, Belgium andIndia. Born in theWelsh valleys,Liz is a consulting astrologer, acreator of rituals and a trendwatcher who currently lives andworks in Amsterdam.

ALEJO LÓPEZDFAstrolSwas bornin Argentina andmoved to Europe atthe age of 23. Hegraduated from the

Performing Arts Conservatory inBuenos Aires and also holds adegree in psychology. He hasstudiedmyths and observed otherspiritual practices such as

shamanism and Kabbalah and isparticularly interested in exploringtechniques that could help usdevelop a dialogue with the Divine.He believes that once you learnastrology, you can never be aloneas the planets will always speakand guide you. His astrologicalpractice is in Spain but he travelsfrequently to other parts of Europe(and sometimes the USA andArgentina) for lectures, workshopsor consultancy work. He lovessharing his passion for astrologywith others.

Dr CHRISMITCHELLhas a PhD from theUniversity ofLeicester on theintroduction ofastrology into

England in the twelfth century viaLatin translations of Arabic andHebrew astrological texts from theIslamic world. He teaches on theMA Cultural Astronomy andAstrology course at the Universityof Wales Trinity Saint David andholds a Diploma in MedievalAstrology from Astrologos. He hasbeen promoting and teachingastrology for 20 years, is on theboard of the AstrologicalAssociation, and has givenmanytalks in Europe and the USA.

DrMATJAŽREGOVECDFAstrolS (MargaretHone Award) holdsa doctorate in thepsychology ofpersonality, is a

qualified Jungian analyst and alsohas the CPA Diploma. In 1993 hefounded the Institute ofPsychological Astrology andPsychoanalysis Ljubljana, Slovenia.After 25 years, the Institute hasdeveloped its ownmethod ofpersonal development – the IPAL

Method – a synthesis of thetechniques of analytical psychology,active imagination, psychologicalastrology and dream analysis.

MELANIEREINHARTDFAstrolS is apatronof theFacultyofAstrologicalStudies, andaprize-winningDiploma-

holder. Astrologyhasbeencentral toMelanie’s life since1959, and shehas been a professional astrologersince 1975, offering consultations,writing and teaching in the UK andabroad. She is also known for heroriginal research on new celestialobjects. Books include: ‘Chiron andthe Healing Journey’, ‘Saturn, Chironand the Centaurs’, and ‘Incarnation’.Melanie has a special interest incontemplative experience both as ahealing process and also as alearningmodality.

GLÒRIA ROCADFAstrolS startedto formally studyastrology in 1991with the Faculty ofAstrological Studies

and has also studied esotericastrology with Alan Oken andHermetic Symbology at the Centred’Estudis de Symbology inBarcelona. She obtained theFaculty’s Diploma in 2002 andsince then hasworked as a teacher,consultant astrologer and Facultytutor. She was Head of Exams atthe Faculty from 2005 to 2018. In2012 she founded an astrologicalschool, Aula Astrològica deCatalunya, in Barcelona, which shestill runs. Her research interestsare in natal and forecastingtechniques in astrology and inastromapping techniques andtheir applications.

CAROLE TAYLORFFAstrolS is aformer FacultyPresident, Directorof Studies andOnline Classes

Manager. She has been a tutor atthe Faculty since 2001, contributingextensively to the course material.She runs an astrological practiceand has co-tutored workshops forHeaven & Earth Workshops in Baliand Goa. SheholdsanMA(withDistinction) in Myth, Cosmologyand the Sacred from CanterburyChrist Church University and is atutor on the Sophia Centre MAprogramme in Cultural Astronomyand Astrology at the University ofWales Trinity Saint David.

DRAGANA VAN DEMOORTEL-ILIĆDFAstrolS has beenworking as aprofessionalastrologer since

1990. She offers personalconsultations and astrologicalcoaching to companies andprofessionals. Her passion lies inobserving celestial elements ofByzantine frescoes and thediscourse of medieval Christiansymbology with heaven. Draganais a Faculty Distance Learning andOnline tutor, the Summer SchoolProgramme Coordinator and aCouncil member. She has anMA inCultural Astronomy and Astrologyfrom the University of WalesTrinity Saint David and is currentlyundertaking a DPhil in history atOxford University.

Our World-Class Tutor Team Some of the world’s best-known andmost respected astrologers teach at the Faculty’s Summer School each year and 2021 is no exception

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9.30 - 10.45Weekend Course Session 2Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Carole Taylor Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Cat Cox Quarrell Room online

9.30 - 10.45Weekend Course Session 6Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Nicholas Campion Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Frances Clynes Quarrell Room online

11.30 - 12.45Weekend Course Session 3Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Melanie Reinhart Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Carole Taylor Quarrell Room online

11.30 - 12.45Weekend Course Session 7Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Simão Cortês Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Nicholas Campion Quarrell Room online

14.30 - 15.45Weekend Course Session 4Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Darby Costello Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Elizabeth Hathway Quarrell Room online

16.30 - 17.45Weekend Course Session 5Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Matjaž Regovec Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Dragana Van de moortel-Ilić Quarrell Room online

19.30 - 20.30Evening TalkLindsay GladstoneSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

16.00 - 16.15Gathering Farewell SpeechCat Cox & Dragana Van de moortel-IlićSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

Founded in London in 1948 the Faculty has aninternational reputation for excellence in astrologicaleducation. Our courses are open to all, whether youwish to take a Foundation Course, gain a professionalDiploma, or simply attend a module or part-module tobrush up your skills in a particular area of astrology.

Summer School Registrar: Lindsay [email protected] School Programme Coordinator:Dragana Van de moortel-Ilić[email protected]

17.00 - 17.15Welcome & IntroductionCat Cox & Dragana Van de moortel-IlićSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online

18.00 - 19.15Weekend Course Session 1Alejo & Glòria Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre online1 Simão Cortês Rector’s Drawing Room online2 Chris Mitchell Quarrell Room online

14.00 - 15.30 A Choice of Workshops (£20 each):1 Profections Chris MitchellSaskatchewan Lecture Theatre online2 Creating an Astrological ShrineElizabeth Hathway Rector’s Drawing Room online3 Meditation with Melanie Reinhart (free)Quarrell Room online

Friday 20th August Saturday 21st August Sunday 22nd August

17.45 - 19.30 Undercroft Bar online open for social chat 16.15 - 18.00 Undercroft Bar online open for social chat

20.30 - 21.30 Undercroft Bar online open for social chat19.15 - 20.30 Undercroft Bar online open for social chat

17.15 - 18.00 Drinks Reception Undercroft Bar online

13.00 - 14.30 LUNCHBREAK 13.00 - 14.00 LUNCHBREAK

15.45 - 16.30 JCR Chat Room open

10.45 - 11.30 JCR Chat Room open10.45 - 11.30 JCR Chat Room open

The Oxford Summer School OnlineAugust 20th– 22nd 2021Weekend Course: Astromapping – the Power of PlaceAstrology in Action: Track 1: Building a Vision for the New WorldAstrology in Action: Track 2: Navigating Time – the Way ForwardRaising the Standard of Astrology since 1948

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The Oxford Summer School Online August 20th–22nd 2021

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