Schedule
Please Note – Schedule is subject to change
Thursday, May 26, 2022
1:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Pre-Conference Workshop - $115/$145 (this is an add-on, not included with conference registration)
Workshop Description:
Relationships between planets are at the core of astrology. The planets’ contentions, alliances, partnerships, and attacks upon one another are the central drama described by every chart. At the heart of each of these stories is a pair of planets, their signature dynamics played out in a mythic cycle. This workshop is a return to those fundamental relationships. Using Hellenistic texts on planetary pairs, two-planet Lot formulae, Vedic dwigraha yogas, and theories of planetary friendship and enmity, we will spend the day exploring the 36 fundamental combinations of the 7 visible planets and the Head and Tail of the Dragon.
Friday, May 27, 2022
9:00 am – noon | Pre-Conference Workshop - $80/$110 (this is an add-on, not included with conference registration)
Workshop Description:
Within successive thirty-year cycles, everyone, at a different age, passes through a 3 ½ year progressed Balsamic dark moon lunation phase. On an ordinary level, this can be a time of loss of identity, relationships, and clear direction. However, when viewed through the lens of night vision, these liminal intervals are rich with spiritual and metaphysical insights, psychological soul work, creative potential, and regenerative healing. Identify and reframe your balsamic dark nights of the soul.
Workshop Description:
“Branding” is a frequent challenge faced by sole proprietors attempting to attract ideal clients. By delving deep into the needs of the Ascendant as styled by the public-facing prowess of the Midheaven, we can begin to paint a self-presentation portrait that allows for accurate & aligned showing up. Based on a proprietary approach to “astroaesthetics,” this workshop will lead participants through a re-contextualization and re-purposing of the Ascendant, Midheaven, and their planetary rulers. We’ll work to better acknowledge the importance of self-presentation as self-preservation and how deliberately-decided aesthetic language participates in personal success.
Workshop Description:
Audre Lorde wrote that the erotic is “the measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings”. In Greco-Roman cosmology, all our planetary pantheon were grandchildren of Eros, of Love, Desire, Life Force. Eros was also companion to Psyche/Soul. This workshop will offer ways to experience the erotic through connecting with astrological symbolism. We explore Venus and Mars, sometimes called parents of Eros, but also other planets and configurations as they express and mediate this powerful energy, to deepen our relationship with many facets of the erotic: love, pleasure, desire, sexuality, and aliveness/livingness.
This workshop will include discussion of sexuality; graphic imagery will be avoided, however descriptions of sexual experiences may occur. The workshop is also an LGBTQIA+ affirming and visible space; please bring a spirit of mutual respect and delight!
Workshop Description:
Naturopathy has a system of healing referred to as ‘Nature’s 7 Doctors’ – they are the seven principles in order to create health and wellbeing in our lives. By combining these 7 principles with the 7 traditional planets, Kira will take you on a journey through your natal chart. You’ll understand the symbolism and impact each of these planets can have on your health and how you can use them to create balance and wellness in your life.
12:45 - 1:15 pm - Opening Ceremony
1:15 - 2:15 pm
Lecture Description:
Astrological patterns that have shaped life since early 2020 are changing and new themes begin to emerge. As Jupiter and the nodes settle into new signs, we’re each invited into a deeper relationship with themes we haven’t explored in a while. Explore how topics like pleasure and pain, connection and separation, the present and the past as well as the desire for individual action and the pursuit of personal goals might become more important. We’ll consider the tone and feel of the cycles that will guide us into 2023.
Additional lectures:
Saturday / 2:30 pm – Shadows, Suffering, Spirituality and Service: Working with the 12th House
Monday / 10:00 am – Trials and Triumphs: Exploring the True Expression of Planets in Detriment and Fall
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Lecture Description:
Despite its ubiquitous nature, leveraging dispositorship (ruling the degree occupied by a planet or point) as a technique has a steep adoption curve, perhaps because so little has been dedicated to its study in the West. Contained within the idea of dispositorship we find acknowledgement of humanity’s wrestling with profound spiritual principles: the contrast between restoration and deprivation, theories on the soul’s interaction with the material, how energy and ideas are transferred from one being to another, etc. Let’s explore. (Traditional) (all)
Additional Lecture:
Saturday / 7:30 pm – Mysticism, Reason and Dogmatics
Lecture Description:
A doctor who can accurately diagnose but possesses no medicine is a frustrating oracle. In astrology, this step from diagnosis to prescription brings us to the art and science of remediation. There are many modalities of remediation, yet the most universal and kind is Planetary Charity. By recognizing the suffering we are destined to encounter and engaging with it in a conscious, helpful, way, we relieve our own difficulties. This lecture teaches the perspective and technical intricacies of this method. (Traditional, Hellenistic) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Thursday / 1:00 pm – 36 Dramas: Essential Planetary Relationships (workshop)
Sunday / 2:30 pm – Planetary Decades
Lecture Description:
When the Lunar Nodes collide with Dodecatomoria, a wild concoction of Spirit Contact and Fate arise. What could that possibly mean? Clarissa will present her dedicated research into this preternatural, astrological phenomenon that sheds a new light on the concepts of destiny and our connection to ‘The Other Side’. (Vibrational Astrology) (intermediate)
Lecture Description:
When a planet squares the nodal axis, it describes a pattern like a karmic merry-go-round – where the soul has cycled between the south and north node throughout a number of life times. In essence, the north node is part of the past life stories, and the soul is here to find balance and to resolve the karmic imbalance. We’ll explore this interesting pattern through chart examples of different planets square the nodes. (Modern/EA) (beginner/intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Saturday / 4:15 pm – Polarity Points
Lecture Description:
Learn an easy method for answering the age-old question: How will we get along? The synodic phases of Mars and Venus (i.e., their individual relationships to the Sun in a chart), reveal a blindingly simple, and startlingly complex picture of how an individual relates to the world and others. Putting this phase pattern together with another person’s chart will give you a fast way to describe their relationship, regardless of signs! This lecture is a must-add to your synastry toolkit. (Modern) (beginner/intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 9:00 am – When Eclipses Get Personal
4:15 - 5:30 pm
Lecture Description:
Understanding and utilizing multiple astrological techniques is key to a personal and professional practice; communicating that understanding, making it relevant to our lives and the lives of our clients, is another skill entirely. Often the missing piece between the two is our ability to find the right questions to open the consultation space in a generative way. The complexities of planetary cycles give us opportunity to witness how stories weave together, and give us a place to begin. (Contemporary Fusion) (intermediate/advanced)
Lecture Description:
Numerology is a divinatory practice, rooted in sacred geometry and higher patterns, connecting it to the planets and their astrological symbolism. This class will explore some basics of Chaldean Numerology, and how they connect with astrology. We will explore how to apply these numbers in your life, whether exploring your life path or a particular cycle. This is a practical class that will encourage you to incorporate numerology towards the enrichment of your astrological practice. (beginner)
Additional Lecture:
Saturday / 2:30 pm – Tarot For Astrologers – The Major Arcana
Sunday / 9:00 am – Astrology as an Act of Resistance
Lecture Description:
Additional Lecture:
How long does it take to read a chart? Although many astrologers require an hour or so, what about 10-15 minute readings at psychic fairs? What do you do when someone asks you to take a “quick” look at their chart? Can you deal with it? Where do you start? What do you say? Learn easy techniques so you can pick up a horoscope and read it immediately, without any preparation. Bring your birth data to this fast-moving class. (Modern) (Intermediate)
Sunday / 2:30 pm – How Planetary Archetypes Change Through Time
Lecture Description:
Fertility astrology works. The teacher is now the proud astrological progenitor of several healthy babies! Judith demonstrates two methods: her own techniques, crafted through experience; plus the work of Czechosovakian Dr. Eugen Jonas: (psychiatrist, gynecologists, astrologer), who ran the Astra Clinic in Nitra, Czechoslovakia (using methods explicated in this talk). Jonas’ methods were 80% successful in conception, and gender selection. If we have time, we’ll discuss ‘How to evaluate couple fertility chemistry’, plus sperm donor and surrogate selection! (Modern, Traditional) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 4:15 pm – 12 Zodiac Signs, 36 Herbs
Monday / 10:00 am – Elective Timing for Important Life Events (workshop)
Lecture Description:
Advancing every planet & point in a chart one degree for each year of life can be a powerful predictive technique for anticipating and understanding key trends in your life. In this 75-minute lecture, Reynolds will unpack and disclose the various ways that you can unlock the nuances of this powerful technique, whether you’re using astrology software or certain free apps available on the web. He will also give a sample of how to use midpoints & the 90-degree dial. (Modern, Uranian) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 7:30 pm – Now That We’re Together Again, Now What?
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Lecture Description:
Our collective images, our guiding myths, are in a process of metamorphosis. The combination of Jupiter and Neptune in Pisces brings the possibility of strange mutations, hybrid creations and unexpected grace. How can we receive the blessings of this transit without succumbing to phantasmagoria and illusion?
Additional Lectures:
Saturday / 2:30 pm – Embracing the Opposites
Monday workshop / 10:00 am – What Is Your Mars Doing in Our Relationship?
Saturday, May 28, 2022
9:00 - 10:00 am
Lecture Description:
We are a herd of impossibly independent cats, loosely bound by the stardust of the cosmos. Potentially we have a greater public presence and more power than at any time in history. What is the role of the astrologer at this vortex of a crossroads? We hold the map in our hands. Can we connect as community and elevate our art to be a force for positive change—or will the uncontrollable array of content ruin any credibility we create?
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 2:30 pm – Relationship Evolution: Progressed Composites & Synastry
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Lecture Description:
Learn to use the guidelines of traditional astrology to interpret the various topics of eighth house, synthesizing the influences of none, one, or several planets in the house as well as the role of the ruler of the house. (Traditional) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 10:15 am – Seventh House Relationships: It’s Never Simple
Lecture Description:
As the Greater Benefic & Greater Malefic, Jupiter and Saturn are planets with literal and figurative gravitas. In the aftermath of the initiation of the Age of Air, attending to the dynamics between these two heavy-hitters in individual natal charts can assist us in discerning how we can “think globally, act locally.” All of us carry both vision & constructive potency; by building a bridge between Jupiter & Saturn, we build a bridge to the future. (Contemporary Fusion) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Friday Workshop 9:00 am – Work Your Angles: Cultivating (Mid)Heavenly Presence
Lecture Description:
Jupiter and Neptune are associated with truth, belief, religion, philosophy, politics, conspiracies, propaganda, and related themes. Their conjunction brings a new statement of intent and cycle of development regarding these themes. This lecture will analyze the Jupiter/Neptune Conjunction of 2009, the phase relationships and aspects between them over their thirteen year cycle, and the important events that occurred at those critical moments in the cycle to create a conflict between knowing and believing. (Mundane) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday, May 28th 4:15 pm – Post-Pluto Return America and the Possible Third Existential Crisis
Lecture Description:
To queer astrology is to remember that astrology describes the vastness of human experience rather than reducing it, empowering us to reclaim our authentic expression. This lecture will provide an inquiry into Saturnian and Uranian approaches to astrology with an emphasis on stripping away binaries and assumptions to promote more inclusive, powerful and relevant interpretations. It will include experiential exercises to help build an understanding of how the archetypes live within each of us as unique expressions of the infinite. (Modern) (all)
Lecture Description:
This practicum gives a introduction to traditional planetary talismans. Participants will create a Venus talisman for love, friendship, arts, etc. and participate in a group ritual consecration of the talisman. A blank talisman image will be provided and participants should bring colored pens, pencils, etc, to color in the talisman image. Participants whose natal Venus is in Scorpio, Aries or Virgo or combust or retrograde without essential dignity may wish to simply invoke Venus without creating a talisman. (Medieval, Renaissance) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 10:15 am – Celestial Devotion: The Spiritual Practice of Astrological Magic
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Lecture Description:
The chaos of the last few years has left us shattered, and in panic mode as we rode the waves of uncertainly and change. As we find our way through this ‘new normal’ it is time to realign ourselves with our inner rhythms and cycles. As Jupiter shifts from Pisces to Aries, it is time to take control, find our courage to act regarding our health. Using the moon as our guide, explore ways to ground and find a place of wellness within our own physical and spiritual bodies.
2:30 – 3:45 pm
Lecture Description:
This “lecture” is an embodied experience and a discussion around the importance of bringing Astrology from the celestial sphere and into our terrestrial forms. In this lecture we will discuss each zodiac sign and enter into an experience to enhance the way we care for ourselves through an Astrological lens. This lecture is created with people in mind who desire pause from excessive mental utilization during bouts of digesting information during conferences as well. Come curious and playful! (Contemporary Fusion) (all)
Lecture Description:
Love and Hate, war and misunderstanding can be found in the difficult aspects in our charts. While external blockages and difficulties come from outside, we are asked to use our awareness to hold conflict and contradiction. Oppositions can describe struggle, splitting and separation, but they also pull us into passion, Of all the aspects they have the greatest potential for consciousness. (Modern, Psychological) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 7:30 pm – Chimeras, Visions and Miracles
Monday workshop / 10:00 am – What Is Your Mars Doing in Our Relationship?
Lecture Description:
This lively class will explore some notable moments in Tarot history, and its moments of interweaving with astrology symbolism. We will go through each of the cards of the Major Arcana, from both the Thoth Deck and The Rider-Waite Deck, exploring their astrological and planetary correlations, with specific insights into the archetype they represent. This is a practical class that will encourage you to incorporate Tarot towards the enrichment of your astrological practice.
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 4:15 pm – Numerology For Astrologers
Sunday / 9 am – Astrology as an Act of Resistance
Lecture Description:
The hard aspects (conjunction, square and opposition) from transits from the outer planets are often the most difficult and trying times in a person’s life. The outer planets are called transpersonal because they are beyond the reach of the ego, thus individuals are experiencing things outside of their control. However, the outer planets are agents of our evolution in consciousness. We will explore these powerful transits both in their disruptive manifestations as well as their evolutionary potential. (Modern) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Sunday / 10:15 am – The Progressed Moon: Your Evolving Emotional Intelligence
Lecture Description:
Explore how your 12th house is expressed through your chart. To truly understand the topics of the 12th house in your chart and life, it’s helpful to incorporate the ruling planet of the 12th house into your interpretations. Explore the 12th house ruler in your chart and discover how the essence of the topics and meaning of your 12th house can influence other areas of life like money, family, finances, relationships and more. (Traditional, Hellenistic) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 1:00 pm – Dancing between Pleasure and Pain: Jupiter and the Nodes
Monday workshop / 10:00 am – Trials and Triumphs: Exploring the True Expression of Planets in Detriment and Fall
4:15 - 5:30 pm
Lecture Description:
The Sun has the most obvious role in setting the rhythms of our lives and cohering our planet’s journey through the cosmos. The solar gods Helios and Apollo were also associated with an arrow that did not miss its mark, and a reliable daily journey of circular motion. They were also consulted for answers: Helios saw everything that happened on Earth, and Apollo was the god of prophecy. How can we experience the knowing and centering of the Sun? (Modern, Psychological) (All)
Additional Lectures:
Friday workshop / 9:00 am – Dancing between Pleasure and Pain: Jupiter and the Nodes
Sunday / 4:15 pm – Jupiter in Pisces and Aries: Different Worlds and Different Humans
Lecture Description:
Diversifying your revenue streams in your astrology practice is critical to long term success and sustainability. Join me for a discussion that will not only convince you of the relevance to diversify your revenue, but also give you phenomenal ideas of how to use your astrology to find your streams: where to start, or even where to expand your reach.
Additional Lectures:
Sunday/ 10:15 AM – Preparing for a Consultation: Meeting Clients Through Their Progressed Lunar Phase
Lecture Description:
Join Laura and learn this elegant and simple method of using the Polarity Points in your natal chart interpretation. This method, of using the opposite sign from the natal planet, helps us understand the inherent balance the individual and the soul is seeking.
Additional Lectures
Friday / 2:30 pm – Planets Square the Nodes
Lecture Description:
Venus and Jupiter are traditionally known as benefic planets in medical astrology, bringing soothing, good fortune and health. But with our modern lifestyle, do these planets also trigger health issues via their indulgent and lax natures? Today we’ll discover the health issues Venus and Jupiter are linked to, and how to understand and remedy them. Come play with your benefic planets – see what they are trying to express and learn how best to keep them in check. (Medical) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Friday workshop / 9:00 am – Nature’s 7 Healers and the Zodiac
Sunday / 4:15 pm – Houses of Health, Places of Problems: Understanding the 6th, 8th and 12th Houses in Medical Astrology
Lecture Description:
Deepen your knowledge of the asteroid Vesta. This lecture focuses on the cultural contexts and histories of vestal virginity and sheds fresh light on the meanings of natal and transiting Vesta. We will explore concepts of focus and boundaries, selfishness and sovereignty, as well as sterility and hyper-fecundity. Walk away with a new way of understanding and applying Vesta in your chart, and in your consults and horoscopes. (Modern) (beginner)
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 2:30 pm – More than Just a Phase: What Mars and Venus Tell Us about Relating
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Lecture Description:
Saturn and Jupiter recently conjoined in Aquarius, heralding a shift into two centuries of recurring conjunctions in air signs. Uranus and Pluto will make their air sign ingresses within the decade. We’re entering into an age of an increased reliance on rationalism, science, and technology mirroring human cognition. Unyielding in its dogmatics, scientism seeks to further destabilize the role of mysticism for the individual and collective. As astrologers, we are uniquely positioned to respond within ourselves, our relationships, our communities.
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 2:30 pm – Keys to a Kingdom: Dispositorship Demystified
Sunday, May 29, 2022
5:00 - 5:30 am
Lecture Description: Christopher Warnock will lead a free Sunrise Sun Invocation and Meditation beginning around 5:10 am. The invocation and meditation will last approximately 20 minutes. Participants will join with Chris in invoking the archangel of the Sun and then be part of a Solar meditation and light visualization for energy, cleansing and healing as well as activating internal Solar energy and absorbing celestial Solar power. Meet in the lobby at 5:00 am.
9:00 - 10:00 am
Lecture Description:
Astrology is, at its root, intimately tied to the development and evolution of human understanding. It is a living tool. Our orientation to the sky, in varying historical and cultural contexts, have represented how we understand ourselves as human beings, our power, and our potential. This keynote will explore the defiant self-actualization and divine love that astrology represents, and how that may be the answer towards a world of greater equality, and recognition of our universal humanity.
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 4:15 pm – Numerology For Astrologers
Saturday / 2:30 pm – Tarot For Astrologers – The Major Arcana
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Lecture Description:
Seventh house relationships are never a single-issue matter. Learn a simple and subtle technique, grounded in traditional astrology, to discover what other topics inevitably get stirred up and must be negotiated when relating to a significant other. (Modern, Traditional) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Friday workshop / 9:00 am – The Progressed Balsamic Moon Phase
Saturday / 10:15 am – Interpreting the Eighth House
Lecture Description:
When preparing for an astrological consultation A vast amount of information can be considered to deliver a sound consultation to the client, but what if there is an easier way to get right to the heart of where your client is currently at from the inside out? This talk is an exploration of meeting the client through the natal and progressed lunar phase we allow the client to receive information that prepares them to work smarter not harder.
Lecture Description:
The secondary progressed Moon is one of the most important timing indicators in a person’s life, revealing one’s current emotional needs for fulfillment. It shows where (by house) and how (by sign) a person needs to adapt to life’s ever-changing circumstances in its 27-year cycle. It spends approximately 2 ½ years in each sign and house and will explore a person’s evolving emotional needs as it moves through each. (Modern) (beginner/all)
Additional Lectures:
Saturday / 2:30 pm – Surviving Outer Planet Transits
Lecture Description:
In this lecture, Christopher Warnock of Renaissance Astrology describes his personal spiritual evolution and devotional practice of astrological magic, explaining the difference between being a celestial priest and astrological magician. Chris will be explaining his Daily Planetary Practice of daily devotional prayer and how traditional astrology can be used as part of a spiritual path. (Medieval/Renaissance) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Saturday / 10:15 am – Traditional Astrology Practicum: Venus Talisman
Lecture Description:
I see us in a time of vast acceleration of growth. Change so in your face that it is difficult to integrate. Change so strong it can traumatize. What is no longer relevant gets sheared away. Change that may feel forced on me. Some are excited. Others are fearful, choosing denial, attempting to stop the waves of change in any way possible. Perhaps we find both of these voices within us. The “me” I’ve known for so long seems to be drifting away. What is going on? Who am I now? Where am I now? How will I survive this? Will I survive this? A significant shift for me has been the gradual realization that all of this, with its pain and inconvenience, is all for my benefit. Life really is On My Side. Somehow, in the long run, it all works out. I am changed because of the experiences I would never have consciously chosen. I don’t have to like any of this. It’s OK to hate it, if that is how I feel. I’m unlikely to feel it while I’m in the fray, but somehow, over time, I may actually find spontaneous gratitude appearing. Gratitude for what I have become as a direct result of the changes I survived.
1:00 pm
Panel Description:
This panel is dedicated to discussing the merits and demerits of extant ideas and practices in astrology that could be read as harmful or discriminatory, from qualifications of gender assigned to planets and signs, classical descriptions of houses, like the 6th house for slavery, or the evolutionary astrology idea that certain numbers of the population are more evolved than others.
2:30 – 3:45 pm
Lecture Description:
Planetary Decades, also called Decennials, is a simple, clear, and useful Hellenistic timing technique. Though described by Hephaestio of Thebes, Vettius Valens, and Firmicus Maternus, it has yet to receive the attention it deserves. Partaking of the timing logic of Zodiac Releasing, and giving results similar to Firdaria and Vimshottari Dasha, it is simple to calculate, and is the perfect system to show when an aspect between planets will deliver on its full natal promise. (Hellenistic) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Thursday workshop / 1:00 pm – 36 Dramas: Essential Planetary Relationships
Friday / 2:30 pm – Planetary Charity
Lecture Description:
As the human condition evolves, so do the meanings of the planets. Each outer planet was considered negative when first discovered. When new planets are discovered, the archetypes of traditional planets change. Saturn stopped breaking rules when Uranus became the modern ruler of Aquarius. Jupiter surrendered its Piscean qualities when Neptune entered the scene. Mars became more warrior and less lover when Scorpio was given to Pluto. How do these and other factors change our perceptions of the planets? (Modern) (Intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 4:15 pm – Speed Reading Natal Charts
Lecture Description:
This talk will introduce participants to the use of minor asteroids in natal astrology, focusing on developing delineations with clients and inspiring ritual practices. Morris will share their ongoing work with asteroids named for deities venerated in the Orphic Hymns, weaving this modern astrological technique into traditional practices of ritual devotion. Engaging with the minor asteroids in this way can bring more nuance and detail to chart delineations and also provide a pathway into practice-based relationships with the mythical archetypes. (Modern) (beginner/intermediate)
Lecture Description:
Each house rules body parts, organs and potential ailments, but certain houses have traditionally been areas for greater concern. The 6th house is known as the house of illness and is of major influence in our overall constitution. The 8th and 12th houses also contain many hurdles when it comes to ailments. In this lecture, Kira will explore the issues of these houses and how they may be expressed through the physical, mental, and emotional health. (Medical) (all)
Additional Lectures:
Friday workshop / 9:00 am – Nature’s 7 Healers and the Zodiac
Saturday / 4:15 pm – Balancing the Benefics in Medical Astrology
Lecture Description:
Although natal charts reflect our core nature, over time we embody the secondary progressed chart as an overlay to the natal. This applies to relationship composites and synastry too, providing powerful medicine for couples consultations. Natal charts provide the fundamental blueprint; progressed charts depict emerging themes, strengths, and weaknesses. Using Evolutionary Astrology, we’ll explore transition and growth periods in progressed charts that may not show up in natal analysis. (E.A., Modern) (intermediate)
Additional Lectures:
Saturday / 9:00 am – The Next Dimension: Astrology’s Role in an Enlightened Collapsing Society
4:15 – 5:30 pm
Lecture Description:
Medical Astrology correlates each zodiac sign with specific organs, and bodily functions. Each sign also possesses specific qualities: (hot, dry, cold, moist, relaxed, tense, stimulated, sleepy, spasmodic, etc.) Learn these correlations and three herbs per sign, best suited for counteracting each sign’s excesses and deficiencies. Example: did you know that Leo was the hottest sign and what herbs counteract Leo’s traditionally resultant “hot” health problems? This class is quite useful to astrologers, and health practitioners alike. Excellent for all levels. (Medical/Traditional) (beginner/all)
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 4:15 pm – Fertility Astrology
Monday workshop / 10:00 am – Elective Timing for Important Life Events
Lecture Description:
Gary will present the astrology of the U.S. after the Pluto return, emphasizing Pluto in Aquarius and the Uranus Return in Gemini. The lecture will begin with the astro-history of the two previous existential crises, the Civil War and World War II, and the similarities in the coming transits over the next four to seven years to those historical events. Beyond the astro-history, the discussion will center on whether a third existential crisis for the U.S. is on the horizon.
Additional Lectures:
Saturday / 4:15 am – The Jupiter/Neptune Cycle and the Deconstruction of Truth, 2009-2022
Lecture Description:
Who are you in your birth chart? Where and how do you show up in your life? What perspective are you seeing life from? How might one’s various identities show up in a birth chart? In this lecture we’ll explore the ways in which essential dignity (or lack thereof), house placement, sect, and other characterizations of planet’s condition can reflect one’s lived experience in their body & in the societies and cultures in which they belong. (Traditional) (beginner/intermediate)
Lecture Description:
At the root of any action lie the seeds of the past. In electional astrology, any chart we choose for our beginning is always connected with “root” charts, including nativities, other inceptions, and mundane events. These roots ground the elected action within evolving personal stories as well as collective concerns. This talk examines radical elections, demonstrating specific techniques for rooting our charts, situating this practice within the tradition, and contemplating how our astrology may grow when we take roots seriously.
Lecture Description:
Greek myths of Pisces and Aries both include beautiful instances of rescue of humans by animals. The Pisces story unfolds amid apocalypse; the Aries story explores finding one’s place in the world. Jupiter’s transit seems an opportunity to imagine what Jayna Brown calls “postapocalyptic ecologies” and different ways of being human animals within them. Jupiter’s world-making perspective inflected through these signs may help us restore and re-story our relationship with the other-than-human world.
Additional Lectures
Friday workshop / 9 am – Astrology and the Experience of the Erotic: Love, Pleasure, and Sexuality
Sunday / 4:15 pm – The Sun and Intrapsychic Coherence
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Lecture Description:
With this NORWAC as one of the astrology community’s first live conference in two years, we can reflect on what we’ve learned in these years when we’ve not physically met. What were some of the strengths and weaknesses of meeting virtually? What does meeting live again mean for our community and our world? Reynolds will highlight and detail how our previous ways have been irrevocably changed and how we must better prepare for this post-pandemic present and possibly crisis-ridden future.
Additional Lectures:
Friday / 4:15 pm – Unleashing the Power of Solar Arc Directions
Sunday / 1:00 pm – Panel Discussion
8:30 - 9:00 pm - NORWAC Closing Ceremony
Monday, May 30, 2022
10:00 am – 4:00 pm - Post-Conference Workshops - $115/$145 (this is an add-on, not included with conference registration)
Workshop Description:
Mars doesn’t rule relationship, but it has a powerful role to play on many levels, first in desire then in winning the beloved. Mars challenges, encourages and exhorts, but can also dominate and inflict wounds. A strong Mars tests boundaries and demands a vigorous response from the person on the receiving end, We will explore how Mars works in personal relationships. Mars is always there and yet we are not always aware of what we are doing with it.
Workshop Description:
Learn precision elections that work! Most astrologers encounter clients needing precise, best times for that party, house sale, or that hesitant visit to mother. The first half of this workshop is devoted to business openings, job starts, lawsuits, house listings, and school exams. If time allows, we will include flights and marriages. Our second half focuses on medical elections: elective surgery dates, inoculations, and other elective medical concerns. Judith shares her trade secrets honed from decades of successful elections. “There is a time to every purpose under heaven”. Its amazing to design an ‘election’, then watch the miracle!
Workshop Description:
Let’s explore the space between a planets technical condition and the ways it can show up in your life. A planet in detriment or fall may not operate according to its usual standards, but it will offer something unique for you to explore, express and experience. You’ll re-vision these planets and come to appreciate the nuances and multi-layered expression they can have in a chart and life. Discover the subtle ways a planet in detriment or fall can show up, and expand your astro-vocabulary so that you can interpret and describe these planets in meaningful ways.
BEGINNER: minimal to no experience or knowledge of topic; lecture will be taught from a very basic perspective.
INTERMEDIATE: moderate working knowledge and experience; audience should know most terminology, and is looking to improve their skills.
ADVANCED: audience will be looking to advance and deepen their knowledge, or looking for advanced tips & tricks.