•  Put awareness of psyche at the core of astrological work.

•  Encourage a subjective/participatory mode in the interpretation of charts, to complement and enrich beyond the usual objective/descriptive mode. 

•  Foster an appreciation of the chart as temenos and imaginal landscape.

•  Allow myths and other archetypal/folkloric narratives and stories to organically inform the interpretation of charts.

•  Encourage you to identify and explore your own guiding myths.

•  Provide an intersection between practice and philosophy, encouraging thoughtful, informed, self-aware astrology.

•  Explore the work of well-known guides in the field: writers and practitioners who can help us deepen into symbolic, psychological and mythopoetic ways of engaging.

•  Deepen self-knowledge.

•  Working with symbols as living presence. Learning to be receptive and go where the symbol leads. Developing awareness of synchronicities and metalogues.

•  Exercising symbolic imagination in respect of any astrological concept or technique, ancient or modern.

•  Developing a ‘narrative’ approach to chart interpretation. Working with astrology as a form of ‘narrative medicine’ centred on personal story, rather than explanatory or didactic modes.

•  Going beyond needing to know ‘what something means’ (astrologer as expert) and allowing the symbols themselves to speak and lead (astrologer as Hermetic companion or guide).

•  For anyone working (or wanting to work) with clients, developing confidence in using astrology professionally from these perspectives.

•  Developing a deeper understanding of the astrologer’s role/presence in the client-astrologer relationship. Appreciating one’s own subjective involvement in the showing and outworking of the symbol.