Although my first year astrology course in Glastonbury has officially started, it is not too late to join. There are still two places remaining (as of today), which gives you the opportunity to join the year-long course on the second workshop (9th / 10th June 2012) for a slightly reduced overall fee of £1060. This fee will include an extra day’s tuition to catch up what you missed in the first workshop. This will be held the day before, on Friday 8th June. If you would like to take up this offer, please contact me on 07869 133759. Click here for more details about the course.
Venus in Gemini
Venus begins her extended four month passage through the sign of Gemini today. Venus normally spends no more that three weeks in a sign, but because she is approaching her retrograde phase, which begins in mid-May, she is due to hang out in the light and breezy atmosphere of the Gemini Twins for some time.
Venus is a social butterfly when she’s in Gemini. She’s flirtatious, playful, capricious. She has a light touch and doesn’t like to pinned down in love, prefers to keep her options open and keep her suiters guessing. She reaches her point of maximum elongation from the Sun now, and soon she’ll be heading back (turning retrograde on 15th May) to conjunct the Sun on 5th / 6th June at the Venus transit.
If you are born in Gemini or have your Moon or personal planets in this sign, then this could be a sociable period for you, you might feel yourself a little more attractive than usual as Venus casts her magnetic allure across your birth chart. If you are born with Sun, Moon or personal planets between 14 and 16 degrees of Gemini, then the beginning of June could be a particularly significant period for you in the area of love and relationships, as Venus makes her transit of the Sun at 15 degrees of the sign.
Watch this video to find out more about the Venus transit…
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Latest Video: The Venus Transit of 2012
I’ve just posted this video on astronomical and astrological significance of the Venus transit that occurs this year on 5th / 6th June. I also talk about the exquisite symmetry of Venus as it draws out hearts, a rose and a pentagram in its eight-year synodic cycle of conjunctions with the Sun.
I will be giving talks on the Venus transit on:
- Monday 2nd April in Bath at The Penthouse, Waterfront House, 211 Lower Bristol Rd, Bath BA2 3DQ
- Thursday 24th May at Glastonbury Town Hall.
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The Venus Transit – June 5th / 6th 2012
On June 5th and 6th this year, a remarkable astronomical event will occur, that nobody alive today will ever have the chance to witness again in their lifetime. The planet Venus will pass directly across the face of the Sun for a period of about nine hours and this will be visible to the naked eye. (proper precautions must be taken when viewing the Sun, and it should never be looked at directly – rather it should be reflected onto a piece of paper and viewed that way – the transit will only be visible in the UK just before sunset and just after sunrise). The so-called Venus transit occurred eight years ago in June 2004, but will not happen again for another 121 years. Sun-Venus conjunctions occur frequently – there are exactly ten conjunctions every eight years – and five of these occur with Venus between the earth and the Sun, with Venus always in retrograde motion. However, because Venus does not precisely follow the ecliptic path that the Sun follows through the zodiacal constellations, these conjunctions ordinarily occur with Venus either slightly above or slightly below the Sun. It is only when Venus is exactly on the ecliptic at the time of the conjunction that the so-called “Venus Transit” occurs.
The Venus Transit of 2004
The eight year cycle of Venus orbits around the Sun as they relate to our perspective from earth is extraordinary. In one eight year period Venus makes ten conjunctions with the Sun. Five of these are “superior” conjunctions when she is on the opposite side of the Sun from the earth and moving very fast in direct motion through the zodiac (from the earth perspective). And five of them are “inferior” conjunctions where she is between Earth and Sun, at her closest approach to the earth, appearing to move slowly backwards, or retrograde, through the zodiac. What is remarkable is that when lines are drawn between those ten conjunction points, two perfect pentagrams are formed. And if we trace the path of Venus over that eight year period, the path describes a perfect five-petalled rose. The rose and the pentagram are Venus’s traditional symbols and, while it is only now that modern computers can show the effects of this astronomical mandala, the ancients clearly had a way of knowing about it also, though how they did, we can only speculate!
Venus Double Pentagram from "Venus: The Path of Beauty", by Nick Kollerstrom
It is because Venus returns to more-or-less exactly the place that she was in the zodiac at the end of this eight year cycle, that we end up having two Venus transits eight years apart; in effect a Venus transit period, which will not now repeat until the year 2133. And how significant that we should get to witness this phenomenon in 2012, the year that has become so associated with ancient prophecy and destiny. The ancients considered that when Venus was in conjunction with the Sun, she was in the underworld, not being visible in the sky during the period of her retrogradation (which lasts for a number of weeks), and it was here that the goddess of beauty and love (and by association the Venusian archetype within each of us) meets her dark aspect and is initiated in secret into the transformative power of death, regeneration and renewal. It is only at the time of a Venus transit that we briefly get a glimpse of the dark secret of Venus’ initiation.
I personally feel that it is really important that we honour this transit in June, that we celebrate Venus over this period and her gifts of balance, proportion, beauty, harmony and love. What an opportunity we have here to participate with this astronomical wonder. We are holding an event here at St Anne’s in Glastonbury to celebrate the transit and I will be giving a series of lectures over the coming months about Venus, the astrological significance of the Venus transit, and how we can participate in its mysterious unfolding. I will posting more articles on this website too.
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Egyptian Mysteries & the Keys to 2012
Happy New Year Everyone! Here we are finally in 2012 – so much talk, so much speculation, so much anticipation, and now here we are, it’s upon us – we’re going to find out what it’s all about for ourselves and, more than that, realise our own part in unfolding cosmic drama that is 2012!
I’m just returned from a month in Luxor, Egypt – my second visit there this year – revisiting particular temples and tombs and diving deeper into the mysteries and tapping into some of the magic that I intuitively feel has so much relevance for us now as we transition through these extraordinary times of material and spiritual transformation.
From an astrological and alchemical point of view, I am becoming increasingly fascinated by the twelve hours of the Imduat (the “Book of What is in the Duat”) described on the walls of certain tombs in the Valley of the Kings. This journey into the Duat (loosely translated as the Land of the Dead or Underworld), the landscape of which is portrayed symbolically in the painted vignettes, is one would that would have been undertaken while the pharoah / initiate was still alive, and is a journey of death, regeneration and ascension.
5th Hour of the Imduat (from the tomb of Tuthmoses III, Valley of the Kings)
The Imduat and the associated New Kingdom Book of the Caverns and Book of the Gates (which draw from the earlier pyramid texts) reveal the integration of lunar and solar energies, through the regeneration of Osiris and the illumination of Re-Atum. The strip-registers are complex and subtle in their symbolism, yet the more I engage with them the more I am seeing zodiacal and alchemical signatures in each hour of the journey from dusk to dawn. The correspondences are by no means obvious, but I am convinced that the twelve stages of the alchemical process, the twelve signs of the zodiacal journey and the twelve hours of the Imduat are connected. I intend to post more on this in the coming months.
The temples too hold profound keys, I believe, for our transformation and I feel the wisdom and spiritual power contained within them is being activated. Karnak and Luxor temples, linked by the avenue of sphinxes, describe a journey that forever links the ram-headed god Amun-Re at Karnak to Man in his divine proportions, as is so exquisitely described in subtle symbolism of Luxor Temple. The Hathor Temple of Dendera holds a particular fascination for me, partly because of the profoundly healing and transforming nature of Hathor who carries the seed of rebirth, so apposite for our times – and also because of the extraordinary astrological ceilings there. And while the famous Dendera Zodiac (the only circular zodiac in ancient Egypt) is merely a disappointing replica, the recently renovated Nut astrological ceilings in the main hypostle hall are quite marvellous. And it was the deep connection that I made to this particular that has prompted me to make the following film, where I talk about the astrology of 2012 in the context of the Hathor energy that I believe can hold a key to humanity’s transformation at this time.
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Advanced Astrology Course in Glastonbury
Astrology Course Year 2 (Advanced)
Venue: St Anne’s, Chilkwell St, Glastonbury BA6 8DE
Dates: 14th April 2012 – 31st March 2013
In this second year advanced astrology course we will look in depth at the questions that clients typically come with to a consultation, questions about vocation, relationships, money, health, family issues and spiritual calling. Each of the seven weekends is focussed on how to recognise astrological signatures in a birth chart pertaining to each of these areas. As in year one, the learning process is experiential, and as in the nature of an advanced course, it will also be more research and project based with students given the opportunity to present their findings to the group. The weekends are organised as follows:
Workshop 1: 14/15 April 2012: The Astrology of Vocation
Workshop 2: 16/17 June: The Astrology of Relationships
Workshop 3: 18/19 Aug: The Astrology of Money & Resources
Workshop 4: 6/7 Oct: The Astrology of Family Dynamics
Workshop 5: 1/2 Dec: Astrology & Health
Workshop 6: 2/3 Feb 2013: Astrology & Karma
Workshop 7: 30/31 Mar: Astrological Counselling & Healing / Transforming Astrological Signatures
Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of the basics of astrology – able to interpret to a chart to some extent – with an understanding of the meaning of planets, signs, houses, aspects, planetary rulerships, nodes, transits and progressions.
As with year one, the course also includes participation on twelve 90-minute conference calls (one per month) and ongoing mentoring and email support throughout the year.
Price for the year: £1140 (which includes all materials)
Early Bird Discount: £1060 (if booked before end of January 2012 with a £240 deposit – balance must be received prior to the start of the course to qualify)
Timings
10am – 7pm on Saturdays
10am – 5pm on Sundays
The workshops are non-residential, though we can offer B&B for up to six people at St Anne’s, and there are plenty of very reasonable B&B options in Glastonbury for those of you travelling from distance.
There are a maximum of 16 places available on the course.
Payment
By Cheque payable to: “Kairos Education Ltd”, and sent to:
John Wadsworth, St Anne’s, Chilkwell St, Glastonbury BA6 8DE
If you’d prefer to pay by bank transfer, then please contact me and I’ll send you the details.
Fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Payment by installments is negotiable, but does not apply to early bird rates.
The price of the course includes all resources, classes and conference calls and full ongoing email support throughout the year.
Total Workshop Contact Hours: 106
Conference Call Hours: 18 (conference call dates to finalised by end of February)
Email Support: Via an online group forum – and personal email support provided as required.
Also included in the price of the course:
* Comprehensive Handouts & Worksheets
* Ongoing email support with practice chart work
* Final assessment & certification
For more details, you can contact me on 01458 831771 (please note I am away in Egypt for the whole of December 2011).
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One Year Astrology Course in Glastonbury: Starts 7th April 2012
This comprehensive one-year astrology programme, held over seven weekends in Glastonbury, will bring astrological symbolism alive in a way that is richly meaningful and relevant for your life, whilst facilitating a journey of profound self-understanding.
Whether you are new to astrology, or have some experience of it already, the course will deepen your knowledge and enable you to read a birth chart effectively and coherently. The experiential teaching approach that I employ is a great leveller and we approach each area of study in depth and with a focus on enriching one’s own self-understanding. It will encourage your imagination to engage with symbolism in such a way that the transformational possibility of any astrological signature may be revealed. You will be able to embody everything you learn in a way that will commit it powerfully to memory and, for the duration of the course, you will work primarily with your own birth chart, and with those of people close to you in your life.
Click Here To Find Out What This Year’s Participants Are Saying…
The course runs over seven weekends in Glastonbury, one every two months. Starting in April 2012. The course also includes participation on twelve 90-minute conference calls (one per month) and ongoing mentoring and email support throughout the year.
Dates of the Workshops
Workshop 1: Sat 7th / Sun 8th April 2012
~ The Zodiac, The Four Elements & The Three Crosses
Workshop 2: Sat 9th / Sun 10th June 2012
~ Planets & Sign Rulerships
Workshop 3: Sat 11th / Sun 12th August 2012
~ The Twelve Houses & The Four Angles (AC,DC,MC,IC)
Workshop 4: Sat 13th / Sun 14th October 2012
~ The Major Aspects & Aspect Patterns. Working with the Ephemeris.
Workshop 5: Sat 8th / Sun 9th December 2012
~ Eclipses & the Nodes. Introduction to Transits
Workshop 6: Sat 9th / Sun 10th February 2013
~ Working with Transits & Secondary Progressions
Workshop 7: Sat 6th / Sun 7th April 2013
~ Chart Synthesis: Putting it All Together
Timings
10am – 7pm on Saturdays
10am – 5pm on Sundays
The workshops are non-residential (plenty of very reasonable B&B options in Glastonbury for those of you travelling from distance).
There are a maximum of 16 places available on the course.
Price
£1140 for the year
£240 deposit secures a place.
Payment
By Cheque payable to: “Kairos Education Ltd”, and sent to:
John Wadsworth, St Anne’s, Chilkwell St, Glastonbury BA6 8DE
If you’d prefer to pay by bank transfer, then please contact me and I’ll send you the details.
Fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Payment by installments is negotiable, but does not apply to early rates.
The price of the course includes all resources, classes and conference calls and full ongoing email support throughout the year.
Total Workshop Contact Hours: 106
Conference Call Hours: 18 (conference call dates to finalised by end of February)
Email Support: Via an online group forum – and personal email support provided as required.
Also included in the price of the course:
* Comprehensive Handouts & Worksheets
* Ongoing email support with practice chart work
* Final assessment & certification
I will be available as a resource throughout the year to keep you motivated and help you at each stage of the course. I am confident that by the end of the year, providing that you apply yourself and commit to the learning process, you should be in a strong position to be able to read charts effectively and begin practicing as an astrologer, should you wish to.
The course is inclusive of different levels of astrological knowledge and is designed to accommodate beginners as well as those who have studied it to some degree already. Please be assured that even if you are familiar with astrological concepts, this course will allow you to journey much deeper with the symbolism and enable you to make lively, creative associations. At each stage, we will be drawing out rich veins of meaning that will allow you tap your natural astrological intuition, taking us way beyond the limitations of “cookbook-style” astrology.
To participate, you must be able to do at least six out of the seven weekends.. If you are relatively new to astrology, then it is very important that you are able to do the first weekend in March. I should stress that even if you have studied astrology before, you will still derive great value from the first weekend, which deals with the basic building blocks of astrology in a very dynamic way.
For more details and to reserve a place please call 01458 831771 or fill in the contact form.
Testimonials from Some of This Year’s Participants
“This course so far has been amazing and much more than I thought it could be! I’m loving it! I attempted to study astrology in the past but gave it up thinking it was too complicated. However studying astrology with John is very interesting, exciting, fun and alive! This astrology course is a journey of self-discovery, promoting awareness on different levels.” (S.W., Sherborne)
“This course is an amazing journey into and around the signs, the planets, the houses and life itself. Many of us on the course have dabbled with astrology for years and never quite got it. Now we are living it daily.” (V.C., North Lincolnshire)
“I have been studying with John for six months on his experiential course and can now understand charts in a way that no books could teach me.” (M.T., North Lincolnshire)
“I’ve found this course great, we step into the astrology at a very deep level and it does stick with you even without you realising it.” (J.H., Birmingham)
“Learning from a direct experience is key for a deep understanding and that is exactly what happens in this astrology course. It allows us to connect to a knowing that would not be found in books, giving us a perspective easy to grasp since we are the centre of it. Once the experience is integrated there is no way to forget and from there reading a chart becomes alive, revealing stories. It is so much fun and so insightful to learn this way. Thanks John, you have such an accessible and brilliant way to teach, your class is an amazing journey of discovery with so many “ah ha” moments!” (G., Glastonbury)
“Think of a natal chart – then live it. John has the most exquisite and elegant manner of enabling us students to be our own learning, embodying the expression of each planet and walking the relationships around ourselves and each other. A precise yet fluid manner which impacts forever time and change, associating images and sound so that we breathe what we are experiencing. This is a grand opportunity and a rich tapestry and I am often without words in its description.” (J.B., Guernsey)
“After looking at astrology for most of my life, going to workshops and being part of groups etc, I was really surprised at what I have learnt and the way I am learning on our weekends. The astrology I thought I knew, now has many more dimensions. Your course is so enjoyable and not at all what I was expecting and not really a course, more a “journey of discovery”.” (M.C., Liverpool)
For more details and to reserve a place please call 01458 831771 or fill in the contact form.
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Astrolocality Interview with Martin Davis
I’m very excited to welcome astrologer Martin Davis to the South-West on 22nd / 23rd October for his Astro-Locality Workshop in Bath. Martin is a leading world authority in the field of astro*carto*graphy, local space astrology and geodetics, and his great contribution has been to demonstrate how it is possible to integrate these systems of astrological geomancy. He’s a wonderfully innovative astrologer and a great character, as you will discover if you listen to this very rich and lucid interview that I conducted with him earlier today:
Interview with Martin Davis
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Full Moon Musings
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We’re waxing to full moon tonight (the exact timing being at 7.41am tomorrow morning) and people all over the planet are celebrating the “fulfillment” of the monthly (moon-thly) cycle. Full moons are times when energy culminates and where potentials are revealed, potentials that are seeded at new moon come to fruition at the full moon, having grown and developed in the two weeks prior. This particular full moon in Capricorn comes on the back of one of the most significant solar eclipse new moons in living memory two weeks ago – and so is significantly potentised and charged with the fulfillment of that energy.
This fortnight has seen such dramatic developments in the UK in terms of the phone hacking scandals and the overnight collapse of Britain’s best selling newspaper and the subsequent demise of its its corporate owners, News International. All this on the back of a solar eclipse in Cancer, the sign that governs the people and these dramatic developments have been fuelled by a popular uprising. This has been so perfectly described by the Grand Cross alignment that accompanied the solar eclipse, which itself was aligned to the UK chart with its stellium of planets in the early degrees of Capricorn.
I said at the turn of the year that 2011 would be marked by revolution and people taking to the streets and clawing back power from corporate and political oppressors. Soon after that we saw the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other middle-eastern countries, but I believe that these are still only the tip of the iceberg. There are revolutions to come in the western democracies too, as we are already seeing in Spain. The Uranus-Pluto square as it unfolds over the next few years represents the activating of the seed of cultural revolution that was sown in the mid 1960s and 2011-13 represent the pivotal time for this social and spiritual activism. I believe that over this period we will hit a tipping point and we are already seeing the beginnings of this. Things that we did not think possible will unfold before our almost disbelieving eyes and these things will become closer and closer to home. Not the end of the world, but the end of a worldview that has come to define the modern era.
This full moon may not carry the same astrological charge as the solar eclipse that preceded it, but within this transitional period of condensed and highly accelerated change, it embodies an energy of awareness raising, that brings more truths to light and reveals more of the dark shadows that lurk in the corridors of power. Rupert Murdoch’s fall from grace can be seen through the transit of Pluto across his ascendant and the line-up of the solar eclipse to his moon’s ruler Jupiter, and this full moon alignment to his chart ruler, Saturn. The astrological signature makes him a prize scapegoat for the corporate corruption and abuse of power that he so exemplifies, but the revolution has only just begun and mightier men than he will fall yet.
In our own personal lives, this full moon brings our own shadows to the surface, and reflects a need for all of us to be revealed in both our light and dark aspects. This is not a time to hide our love and light either – it needs to find expression, for our own sake and for the sake of the world. Finding out what is true for us, deep within, connecting to the exquisite possibility of who we are and who we are to become – and trusting that truth so deeply that nothing and no-one can stand in the way of it. This is the most exhilarating time to be alive – we stand on the cusp of revelation and each one of us can play our part simply by being completely true to ourselves, and trusting the transformational power and love in our hearts, and allowing our thoughts, words and actions to be a full expression of that love that bears us all.
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The Astrology of Relationships
I have just posted this new video on the astrology of relationships. Workshop details below:
Workshop Date: Sat 16th / Sun 17th June 2012
Venue: The Camino, 1 King St , Glastonbury BA6
Timings: Sat: 10am – 7pm; Sun: 10am – 5pm
Price: £150
Click here for Booking Details
During this workshop we will explore the whole area of love and relationships, addressing some of the most common questions that people want to ask an astrologer: