Ιn this time of Neptune and Saturn in Aries, how can we honor the innate intelligence of the sign, its radical immediacy and innocence?  Especially when we might find ourselves in a place of existential anxiety around knowing what we like, what we want, what we’re ‘going after’ and how to possibly ‘get there’?

In this workshop, we’ll engage in a playful and prayerful conversation with richly dyed wool, an ideal medium of bright bold color for Aries energy to communicate, allowing our experience of this material to ease ourselves out from the grip of the conceptual mind and be romanced into more sensuous ways of knowing.  There will be prompts to facilitate solo and collaborative play, needle-felting and movements inspired by the emergent imagery. In this way, we’ll resource the Aries place in our natal charts/lives with a synesthetic library that’s co-created by the felt-sense, the rainbow and our celestial kin guiding the wool (and our consciousness) to shift through different shapes.  

We’ll explore how color can go beyond the visual senses, and how textures can go beyond the tactile senses, evoking a holographic “listening” within us that gives way to a fresh and wonder-full journey into the Night Sky and one’s birth chart.  And you’ll leave the workshop with at least one piece of art that carries enough dimensionality to serve as a focal point of astrological contemplation for months and years to come.

 No prior experience with wool is needed; in the Aries spirit, every time is the first time.

The Imum Coeli as the deepest part of the chart is the darkest part of the forest. But not all forests are equally lit. Some are dappled brightest in the icy depths of winter. Some are so dense, even on a sunny day, the dark-loving fungi thrive. Your IC's ecology might not be a forest at all. It might be scorched sand dunes with burrowed snakes, arctic tundra with foxes hunting the quiestest prey, a cozy suburb with stray dandelions and territorial squirrels, the unknown reaches of an ocean trench, mystery abounding.

Come gather with Pallas and a small crew of other seekers to get to know your IC ecosystem through offerings of guided imaginal exploration, quiet writing prompts, and more lively sharing. Grounded in connection with our wisest ancestors and the lands of our home(s), we'll explore ways of being with our IC that are ecological and relational, embodied and storied, understanding anew the tether which roots us no matter where—or who—we are.

There is something inside that is speaking; see if you can hear it. 

What do Jungian complex theory, parts work/therapy, and astrology have in common? Multiplicity. If you’ve ever argued with yourself, you know what we mean. In this workshop, we’re exploring and embracing our multiplicity. 

The work of a mature, stable ego adulthood is to develop a conversation with Self. Self meaning the whole of oneself, not just conscious but unconscious. Tending to the emissaries of the unconscious (parts) is a way of studying the ordering principle of life. The ordering principle of life is always operating, and we catch glimpses of its action in synchronicities (movement of planets and activities on earth), of dreams, sensations, parts, urges, ecstatic dance, fairy tales, myth, the expressions of children…anyplace we are unedited.

In this workshop, you’ll learn experiential ways of interacting with the unconscious that you can use to deepen your personal practice and your client work. The birth chart is a doorway to a more intimate connection with the unconscious, and combined with art, active imagination, ritual, and inquiry, it really comes to life. Whenever we engage ethically with our internal world voices, movements, values, and sensations, we enter into a process that brings us not to perfection but wholeness. It brings us to a fuller experience of what it is to be not just a good human but a full human, THIS human. To be MORE ourselves and more at home in ourselves every day.

Many consulting astrologers are familiar with the experience of client sessions and natal chart readings opening portals to subtle realms where information flows from spiritual, ancestral and/or unknown sources. We may have our formulas, techniques and ideas about where to start a reading, how to follow threads, schematics of planetary influence and importance etc., but there is often a strange ‘something else’ present in relational space with clients that transcends any mental logic of formulaic calculations we otherwise employ. 

This session explores these otherwise ways of knowing and the liminal spaces of energetic interrelationship, channeling and mediumship through engaging practices that consciously connect our mental logic, intuitive/psychic organs and felt sense in connection with others, in this realm and beyond. Through zodiacal body system-mapping, glandular activation, prayer, invocation and conscious communion with astral dimensions, we’ll encounter each other’s charts as vehicles for multisensory information that “speak” through the oracles of our bodyminds.

This session aims explicitly to expand the divinatory toolkits of consulting astrologers, but it is open to anyone with a basic foundation in astrological symbolism and some amount of practice delineating planets, signs, houses and aspects. Please come prepared to share your natal chart, with a printed or digital image.

This workshop is an opportunity to experience a deeper embodiment of the polarity of Hestia and Hermes (Vesta and Mercury) to allow curiosity, spontaneity, and alchemical magic within our everyday lives. We will explore these gods in body, art, personal story and creative play.

 We will feel into the anatomy and physiology of our mineral, plant, and animal “bodies” in order to feel the Hestia - Hermes forces of stillness and motion. We will root ourselves in the Hestian natures of the pelvic bowl and the heart, contrasted against the Hermetic nature of the nervous system and digestion. Through visualization, sensation, and movement, we will strengthen our ability to welcome all strangers to our hearths. 

In addition to defining the Hestian container, we will become friends with Mercury, and familiar with the ways he may guide us into new territories and help us integrate those experiences. As with the birth of Dionysus, we will explore how Mercury can help us bring something new and vital into areas of our life that resist transgression. 

Through divinatory practices including body movement, shapeshifting, word-play and practices that evoke the nature of Mercury, we will place ourselves in doorways - both literal and metaphoric - and allow ourselves to be surprised by what can emerge when we interrupt our linear way of thinking and create a safe space for the trickster God to express himself.