Syllabus and Core Courses
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(Gustav Klimt)
The programme is arranged in six Module topic areas. These are six lenses through which we can explore into the richness of the horoscope and its symbolism. Each Module has one Core Course at its heart, with the final Module comprising a Creative Project. These five Core Courses, plus the Creative Project, are compulsory if you wish to complete the Honours Programme.
The rest of the programme is made up of Elective Courses (ususally shorter), a selection of which will be offered each year. Most of the Elective Courses also fall naturally into one of the Module topic areas, thus offering additional opportunities to explore into that topic if you wish to.
The five Core Courses typically comprise eight live discussion sessions over eight consecutive weeks and attract 40 credits each. The Creative Project also attracts 40 credits.
Each Core Course also comes with written and pre-recorded material accessed via our online course platform, along with suggestions for reflective study and suggested reading and resources.
All live sessions are held on Zoom and are recorded. You will have access to these recordings, plus the course materials in our online platform, for the duration of the two-year programme plus three months after the date on which you finish the final course that gains you the 360 credits.
(If more than one year has elapsed since your last course enrolment, we reserve the right to cease access to the recordings and course materials. However, these will be reinstated if you take up the programme again by enrolling on another course).
Course fees:
£425 per Core Course
Want to find out more? Register via the Contact page here for our online
Open Session on 20 February 2026
Year 1
Cohort Assembly
Anyone who enrols on the programme is invited to gather with us for an
Introductions and Orientation session for all participants and tutors.
We will meet at the following time:
Tuesday 21 April
10pm UTC
3pm Pacific Daylight (PDT)
4pm Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
11pm UK Time (BST)
Please note this is Wednesday 22 April, 8am Melbourne time (AEST)
Every horoscope invites us to inhabit a symbolic world. Symbols evoke psychic activity, resonances that cannot be characterized through thoughts or rational explanations. Symbolic ways of imagination access layers of the soul and fuel interior imagery, offering meaning to our exterior reality. Astrological symbols not only lead us into the world, but deeply into Self. Module 1 explores the symbolic processes at the heart of astrology.
Core Course: Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination
Tutors: Brian Clark, Jason Holley, Safron Rossi & Carole Taylor
28 April-23 June 2026
Course material available 1 April
The programme begins with our foundation course, Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination. If we develop the faculty of symbolic imagination, we encounter the symbols of the horoscope as a living presence, allowing them a fuller range of expression and meaning. In this way, we come to view the chart as the landscape of the inner world, the story of the soul.
We will explore this fundamental idea from four perspectives: mythic sensibility & symbolic thinking; astrology as divinatory dialogue; astrology as a cosmology for soul; and engaging with symbolism in astrology. These perspectives interweave, inviting us into dialogue with the archetypal world (particularly our own) and encouraging a participatory mode that acknowledges technique as being in service to the symbol, the symbol as a threshold into psyche, and the chart as sacred space.
Sessions 1 & 2 with Brian Clark:
11pm UTC, Tuesday 28 April & 5 May
Equivalent to:
9am Melbourne (AEST)
Wednesday 29 April & Wednesday 6 May 2026
Sessions 3-8 with Carole, Jason and Safron:
5pm UTC
10am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
11am Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
6pm UK time (BST)
Tuesday 12 May & 19 May (Carole)
Note: there is a break of one week between sessions 4 & 5
Tuesday 2 & 9 June (Jason)
Tuesday 16 & 23 June (Safron)
Images of the starry heavens continuously inspire mythic animations of the human story. Myths, as archetypal tales, shape the way we imagine astrological symbols and patterns. Considering astrological images as archetypal templates follows the tradition of ancients who identified their divinities through heavenly myths. Astrology’s own nativity was conceived by myth and imagination, calling us to return to the mythic images that underpin all the signatures of a horoscope
Core Course: The Mythic Foundations of Astrology: Muses from the Mythic World
Tutors: Brian Clark, Jason Holley, Safron Rossi & Carole Taylor
8 September-3 November 2026
In this course, we immerse ourselves in the archetypal world of myth, the ‘psychology of the ancient world’ in Hillman’s words. We will take a four-fold approach, exploring myths evoked by the planets, the zodiac signs, the houses of the horoscope, and the dynamic interplay of the astrological aspects. Through the timeless lens of myth, the birth chart reflects the essence of character and of purpose, encodes the deeper meanings that underly events, and situates us in the larger worlds of family and collective. We will work with myths and archetypal narratives to deepen our connection to the birth chart, as you uncover your own personal myths.
Sessions 1 & 2 with Brian Clark:
Tuesday 8 & 15 September 2026
11pm UTC
Equivalent to:
9am Melbourne (AEST)
Wednesday 9 & 16 September 2026
Sessions 3-6 with Jason & Safron:
Tuesday 22 & 29 September (Jason)
Note: there is a break of one week between sessions 4 and 5
Tuesday 13 & 20 October (Safron)
5pm UTC
10am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
11am Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
6pm UK time (BST)
Sessions 7 & 8 with Carole:
Tuesday 27 October & 3 November (Carole)
5pm UTC/UK time (GMT)
10am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
11am Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
Dreams, reveries, and visions are instinctive, symbolic communications from the unconscious. Often spontaneous, they reconnect us to our psychic life, reminding us of other worlds and ways of being. They engage us in unconscious ways, which serve as guideposts on our journey of individuation. Astrological imagining, musing and contemplating evokes reverie, which in turn assists our psychological wellbeing. This module places dream, reverie and vision at the heart of astrological work.
Core Course: The Inner Cosmos
Tutors: Jason Holley & Safron Rossi
January-March 2027*
This core course explores the birth chart as a container for psyche’s images, expressed through dreams, visionary states, and the revelatory workings of the imagination.*
*More information about the course, including the live session dates, will be posted here soon.
Year 2
Two central dimensions of horoscopy are time and place, as every horoscope is constructed on these two foundation stones. Each horoscope ensouls time, animated by the spirit and nature of each moment. This celestial moment is then embodied, differentiated from the undefined space that surrounds it, brought to Earth, and animated at a specific location. Astrological time and place shape the soul’s incarnate journey. In this module we delve into the soul of astrological time and the power of place.
Core Course: Place and Time
Tutors: Brian Clark & Carole Taylor
April-June 2027*
In this course, we will first encounter the spirits and the deities, the psychology and the poetics of place. We will explore the mysteries and ambiguities of mythic, psychic and astrological places through myth, symbol, archetype, technique, dream, memory and the unconscious. We will revisit the lived places, the fantasy places, and the soul places of our lives. Ensouled places are historied, many-layered and storied and have presence and spirit. Our intention is to encourage and inspire ways to enrich and ensoul our sense of place.
Each planetary cycle too, no matter its length, renews itself in the dawn of a new cycle. There is a past and a future in each moment of every celestial orbit. But how do we engage with these mysteries in the present? We will endeavour to amplify ways of participating and honouring astrological cycles and timing techniques, exploring the mysteries and ambiguities of astrological time, traveling through time with planetary transitions, progressions, cycles, passages and returns.
*The exact dates for this course will be posted here soon.
Our first guides who showed us an astrological vista are fondly remembered as gatekeepers to the mysteries and magic of the tradition. As an ancient ritual, astrology was recognized as music of the spheres, a song of the soul, an oral tradition and an apprenticeship with valued elders. Astrology has a legacy of remarkable teachers and guides who have shared their in-depth insights into the art. To recognize our astrological ancestry acknowledges the wisdom of our tradition, commemorating others who have journeyed on the astrological path and discovered its magic and mystique for themselves. This module honours our ancestors.
Core Course: Ancestral Voices
Tutors: Brian Clark, Jason Holley, Safron Rossi & Carole Taylor
September-December 2027*
An initiation into the work of leading voices in the astrological world, and in the interwoven fields of astrology, psychology, divination and myth.*
*More information about the course, including the live session dates, will be posted here soon.
Astrology is a creative artform as it invites us to use our imagination to value-add to our lives, to be mindful of our true selves. It engages us in a deeper relationship with our complexes, our ‘problems’, our spirituality, our authenticity. The creative process is often described as like awakening from a dream, seeing a vision or being inspired by a muse or spirit. This module is our opportunity to embody and ensoul our creative relationship with the art of astrology.
The Creative Project: Engaging with the Artistry of Astrology
The Creative Project is a chance for you to explore what you have learned on the programme, and what has touched you most, through an extended piece of personal creative work. You are free to choose the content and the medium for your project as it suits you – a few possible ideas are a written essay, poetry, a short story, a piece of art or sculpture, a textile piece, a design for an astrological garden, a musical work, or a reflective write-up based on your personal journal.
You do not need any special skills to engage in the Creative Project. We are not looking for artistic or literary talent, but for you to engage personally with the ideas encountered on the programme. We take ‘creativity’ to mean the creation of something which has deep meaning to the person who has produced it. In our particular context, this reflects your personal relationship to astrology and the alchemy of your learning process.
You can enrol on the project any time after you have completed Ancestral Voices (the core course for Module 5). Once enrolled on it, you have 6 months to complete and submit the project to your Guide Tutor.
You will work mostly on your own, but we will provide ideas and supporting resources to help you choose, research, develop and complete your project. You will also have a small number of online meetings with your Guide Tutor through the process. The course page in the online course material platform will additionally include a forum for you to share ideas and share your progress with other students, if you wish to.
Please note that you can only enrol on the Creative Project if you have completed the five Core Courses. Ideally you will also have completed the Elective Courses necessary to gain the required credits.