Astrology Classes
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I teach a small selection of courses each year. Class sizes are limited to 10-12 people to ensure we can work with the charts of individual students.
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What’s Up for the Year 2025?
January 11, 12, 18, 19 2025
An astrological preview
My annual review of the major directions for the coming year brings the energies of the collective into the personal horoscopes of those in class.
What the hell is happening in 2025?
We’ll look at:
The underworld – Pluto – has crossed the border into Aquarius, changing zodiac signs for the first time since 2008; moving from Earth into Air
The ocean – Neptune – life-giving, tidal, titanic, prepares to embrace Saturn, and they both prepare to step into Aries, moving from Water to Fire
The revolutionary – Uranus – continues to rattle Earth, but prepares to move from Earth into Air.
The creative force – Jupiter – prepares to leave Gemini for Cancer, from Air into Water.
Venus gets turned on; Mars takes a stand; and Mercury carries the tunes, all moving forward and backward, retrograding.
The Moon – the constant Moon – illuminates dark Moons and Full Moons and Eclipses.
The Sun ends its 11-year cycle of Coronal Mass Ejections!
Available dates:
In-Person with Carol Ferris and Gayle MacDonald:
Saturday, January 11 from 10 am to noon
Saturday, January 11 from 2 pm to 4 pm
Sunda,y January 12 from 10 am to noon
Sunda,y January 12 from 2 pm to 4 pm
$50 includes individual horoscope
On Zoom with Carol Ferris:
Saturday, January 18 from 10 am to noon
Saturday, January 18 from 2 pm to 4 pm
Sunday, January 19 from 10 to noon
Sunda,y January 19 from 2 pm to 4 pm
Classes are limited to 12 people each.
$50 includes individual horoscope
The Astrology of 2025 via the Solstices and Equinoxes
Date: March 20 - Dec 18
A follow-up to the introduction of the year.
Traditionally, the cardinal points of the year, the Solstices and the Equinoxes, were used to look at a country’s forward motion.
We will focus on the USA’s national horoscope, though charts for Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine, as well as various world leaders, may be included in the discussion.
Classes are taught on Thursday evenings from 7 - 9 PM.
Taught via Zoom
Spring Equinox: Thursday, March 20
Summer Solstice: Thursday, June 19
Autumnal Equinox: Thursday, September 18
Winter Solstice: Thursday, December 18
Recordings available
Classes are limited to 12 individuals
Four classes package
$200/person.
Dates and registration details will be released in Early January.
The Astrology of 2025 via The Cross Quarters aka Cultural Currents
Feb 1, May 3, Aug 2, Nov 1
9am - 11 am (Thursdays)
A companion course to Astrology of 2025 via the Solstices & Equinoxes.
So much astrology today concentrates on personal identity and personal growth: the search for the “authentic” self. While astrology is a language uniquely suited to illuminating identity and direction, life is more complex than only our own nature. We’re creatures of lineage, connection, culture, and movements of time much bigger than our own personal stories.
In a series of four classes through 2025, astrologer Carol Ferris muses on what’s bigger than we are and life beyond personal identity. Taught on the cross quarters of the year (and a companion series to the Solstice/Equinox series), each class will illuminate a different emergent theme in contemporary life
Themes for exploration:
Ya Filthy Animal
the zodiacs eastern and western are composed mostly of animals; why do we persist in negating our roots in the animal kingdom, and what are the consequences personally, culturally, and environmentally?
Imbolc: Saturday, February 1
Dangerous Women
Can women enter combat alongside men? Do women need protection? What makes a woman dangerous, and to whom, including to herself? What can the horoscopes of women like Dorothy Day, Grace Lee, Lee Miller, and Rosa Parks show us about emerging paradigms for the Lunar and Venusian aspects of our nature, irrespective of gender or sexual preference?
Beltane: Saturday, May 3
Wait ‘til Daddy Gets Home
Recent social studies suggest that those raised in an environment of corporal punishment have difficulty with empathy. What is the role of Saturn and Mars in a personal, and a national horoscope, that would lead to a failure of curiosity or consideration of someone else’s choices?
With guest Sarah Peyton, Author of Your Resonant Self
Lammas (or Lughnasa): Saturday August 2
Creativity and Fertility
Birth rates are declining and populations grappling with population decline around the world. What happens to creativity when personal and cultural desires for certainty overtake imagination and spontaneity? We’ll look at Pluto through the zodiac signs of recent generations as a possible answer to the death and rebirth of the creative.
Samhain: Saturday November 1
Classes are taught close to the quarters of the year.
Taught via Zoom
Recordings available
Classes are limited to 12 individuals.
Four-class package.
$200/person.
Introduction to Astrology
February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2025
9am - 11 am (Thursdays)
An introductory astrology class with Carol Ferris.
As the horoscope is a study of symbols, we will concentrate on learning the symbols of the chart — planets, signs, houses, and aspects — by making our own pictures of them. Grounded in both traditional and modern understanding of the astrological language, each student will make their horoscope their own through visual methods.
The word “horoscope” tells us what “it” is. Literally: horo = hour; scope = map: it’s a map of the hour. It’s sky-high perspective of Earth as if Earth were at the center of our solar system, with the planets in their orbits arrayed in vast dynamic space all around it.
A horoscope is a real hour, a real geography, a real sky: a literal map.
So how do we get from the literal map of a giant field to our own nature in it?
We get to it by image. I find astrology is a symbolic, not a literal, language. It reflects our ancient library of astute observation of psyche’s natures and forces, and how they move – not just in humans, but in dogs, rivers, and clouds. How can we understand our own nature by entering the pictures in the map?
In this four-session class, we will work with our own horoscopes. We’ll greet the planets, nature’s cast of characters. We’ll image-ine how these characters work through their place in the zodiac signs. We’ll see where they are moving, house by house, setting by setting, in our deeply private and expressly public lives, and in our souls. And we’ll see how the complex interactions move us in relationship to our world.
No experience is necessary.
Four classes; 2 hours each.
Thursday 9 - 11 AM PT
February 6, 13, 20, 27
Taught via Zoom
Recordings available
Classes are limited to 12 individuals.
$500/person.
The Sky’s Body
First Friday of Every Month
9 to 10:30 am PST
In this year-long class, we will explore two narratives, Western Astrology and Classical Chinese Medicine, and apply them to our own stories.
We’ll move from the burgeoning energy of early February (Pisces) – the Lung of the year, where Nature takes a deep breath and begins to carburate both the heavenly system and our individual bodies – through the rich contemplation of high summer and our Hearts (Cancer) – to the digestive discrimination of the Small Intestine and Bladder of later summer (Leo and Virgo)– to final storage in deep winter (Sagittarius and Capricorn).
We will work with individual and collective horoscopes, reading materials, maps, and guest interviews with both Western astrologers and Chinese medical practitioners.
This course is designed for maximum depth and is limited to 10 ppl per year.
Schedule:
First Friday of every month; starting
Feb 7, 2025
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM PT
$1200 / one year
Payment is available as one lump sum or in monthly installments.
