To supplement your online learning, we now offer Online Workshops from time to time. These are typically three 2-hour sessions with limited enrolment, open to Faculty students with appropriate experience. Some workshops are one-day only. Prior to booking, please read the Conditions of Enrolment.
Please note that workshops are not recorded. It is expected that you will attend and participate in ‘real time’.
JANUARY 2024
Diploma Level 2
Midpoints and Harmonics
with Alejo López
Four Thursdays
6.30–8.30pm GMT
11th January
18th January
25th January
1st February
8 hours participation
£205
This workshop is geared especially to Module 7 students following the Astrology of Relationship pathway and who wish to supplement their learning with a study of these advanced techniques.
The midpoint between two planets is a sensitive point, which resonates at eight points around the chart. When a planet or angle occupies a midpoint, its expression is coloured by the combined energies. Harmonics are concerned with the qualitative nature of number, particularly in relation to the minor aspects of quintile, septile and novile, and their associated harmonic charts. These two advanced techniques will open up a whole new dimension of chart interpretation.
Diploma Level 2
Electional Astrology – the art of aligning our plans with the heavens
with Cat Cox
Three Tuesdays
6.30–8.30pm GMT
16th January
23rd January
30th January
6 hours participation
£155
When we elect a chart we recognise that we are working in a different way with astrology to interpreting a chart. Rather than engaging with symbols and patterns to access meaning we are sifting through moments of time evaluating the strength and position of the planets in the heavens to choose a moment of inception. In this workshop we will consider what it may mean to choose a time, look at the fundamental principles which underpin all electional work and establish a set of clear guidelines for working with the more complex elections for our individual purposes. We will practice some key principles in the workshop, work through a practical example and include some individual work. Bring your ephemeris – 21st C or for 2024.
This is a Diploma Level 2 workshop. You should be competent at interpreting a natal chart and working with forecasting. You should also be familiar with using an ephemeris.
Foundation Level
Natal Chart Interpretation
with Lisa Stockley
Two Saturdays
11am–1pm, and 2–4pm GMT
13th January
20th January
8 hours participation
£180
We welcome students who have completed Faculty Modules 1, 2 and 3 as well as students who have learned chart interpretation with another school or programme and want to experience the Faculty method.
Here is your chance to engage in the process of interpreting a natal chart, from start to finish, in a supportive workshop setting. We’ll discuss each step along the way, beginning with our initial reactions to the chart to the time when we put it all together to articulate the chart’s main themes. It’s a great way to practise the Faculty’s systematic approach to interpretation.
All participants are expected to be able to interpret:
- Distribution of planets by polarity, elements and modes
- Chart shaping and imbalances, if any
- Planets in their signs and houses
- The four angles of the chart
- The Sun-Moon relationship
- The Nodal Axis
- Planets as rulers of angles and houses
- Aspects and aspect patterns
Diploma Level 1
Forecasting
with Toby Aldren
One Saturday
4–6pm, and 7–9pm GMT
13th January
4 hours participation
£100
Note the time! Allows for Saturday evening participation for students in the UK and continental Europe, and Saturday daytime for students in North and South America.
This workshop is for students who have completed Faculty coursework up to Module 5.
Prior to the workshop, you will be given access to the natal chart and forecasting materials for our ‘client’. You’ll be expected to be familiar with the natal chart and be able to contribute to a discussion of the themes we see in it. We will then assess the forecasting data for the most important factors – using transits, the Solar Return chart, progressions, and Solar Arc directions. Together we will use our findings to extract and describe the main forecasting themes for the year in question.
As time is of the essence in this one-day workshop, this will a quick trek through the forecasting process. Part of this experience, then, will be to get better at quickly selecting and incorporating the highest priority items.
FEBRUARY 2024
Foundation Level
Natal Chart Interpretation
with Alejo López
Three Thursdays
6.30–8.30pm GMT
8th February
15th February
22nd February
6 hours participation
£135
This workshop is open to students who have completed Faculty Modules 1, 2 and 3.
Here is your chance to engage in the process of interpreting a natal chart, from start to finish, in a supportive workshop setting. We’ll discuss each step along the way, beginning with our initial reactions to the chart to the time when we put it all together to articulate the chart’s main themes. It’s a great way to practise the Faculty’s systematic approach to interpretation.
Email online@astrology.org.uk with any queries.