Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination: Online Course

Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination: Online Course

Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination: Online Course

Centre for the Study of Astrology, Myth & Symbol

With Brian Clark, Carole Taylor, Safron Rossi & Jason Holley

June 3 - 24, 2025

Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination is the signature course of the Centre for the Study of Astrology, Myth & Symbol enshrining our approach to astrology. It is taught by four of the core contributors to the CAMS project. Each of these tutors is an experienced individual voice in contemporary astrology and each offers their unique perspective – yet together we are united in the ground of our approach, placing central importance on the faculty of symbolic imagination and on the inspiration of the archetypes as a living presence. 

Together, these perspectives create a prism through which to understand the complex and often elusive and mysterious subject of astrology. The emphasis in this course is on astrology as an invitation into dialogue with the archetypal world, as participants in an ensouled cosmos.

All four tutors are practising astrologers and the course flows out of our many decades of client work and teaching. The aim is to provide you with ideas and tools to enrich your understanding and practice.

Astrology abounds with techniques, but these can sometimes serve to build technical knowledge at the expense of a deeper and more meaningful view. The work of CAMS is to invite astrologers into 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.  

Course outline and details

  1. Astrology, Symbol and Imagination with Brian Clark

  2. The Living Symbol – Astrology, Dialogue and Divination with Carole Taylor

  3. Astrology as Cosmology for Soul with Safron Rossi

  4. Engaging with Symbolism in Astrology with Jason Holley

The course is arranged in four sections, with two pre-recorded videos and one live discussion session in each section. Click here for full course details, live session dates, and to register.

The Kore Archetype: Psychological Reflections in Myth, Art and Poetry

In Person Seminar as part of two-day retreat with Glen Slater, PhD

Montville, Queensland, AUS, Life Artistry Center

What returns a sense of soul to the world? Amidst the psycho-social fragmentation of the digital age, how can we care for our ecology of mind?

In a peaceful natural setting fostering community and reflection, this seminar-retreat weekend will engage these questions. We will explore perspectives and ideas from depth psychology, philosophy, mythology, and the arts and humanities to revitalize the connections between our inner and outer lives in a rapidly fragmenting world.

The Kore Archetype: Psychological Reflections in Myth, Art and Poetry

The Kore, Greek for Virgin, is a mysterious figure. Youthful and elusive, she personifies that archetypal quality of consciousness that is best described as one-in-herself. This archetype is embodied by the great Virgin goddesses of the Greek Olympian pantheon—Persephone, Artemis, Hestia and Athena.

In C.G. Jung’s essay The Psychological Aspects of the Kore (1951), he makes the astonishing statement that the Kore is an image of the inner Divinity for women, and has a power that is equivalent to that of the Mother. These two rarely discussed ideas have significance for women’s psychology, and have direct bearing upon the development of feminine consciousness in both women and men. Who is this figure that is accorded such psychological power and significance?

Drawing from Safron Rossi’s book The Kore Goddess: A Mythology and Psychology (2021), in this seminar we explore the pattern of the Kore through art, myth, and poetry in order to discern how and where the Kore appears in life and plays a critical role in individuation.

You will come to understand the significance of the Kore in Jung’s psychology of archetypes, and be able to identify the qualities of the Kore archetype through ancient art, Greek myth and poetry. We shall locate and reflect upon how the Kore archetype appears in life today.

This retreat is an offering by The Life Artistry Center, visit their website for more information and to register.

Sacred Songs in Contemporary Times: An astrological reading of the Homeric Hymns: Online Course

Sacred Songs in Contemporary Times: An astrological reading of the Homeric Hymns: Online Course

Sacred Songs in Contemporary Times:

An astrological reading of the Homeric Hymns

A CAMS course with Carole Taylor, Brian Clark, Jason Holley and Safron Rossi

Let’s step back in time to when the ancients honoured their gods and goddesses through song and poetry; when epics, hymns and plays told tales of their birth and ancestry, portrayed their character, and illustrated their adventures. In this class, we return to ancient hands who compiled the extant 33 devotions that praised the Olympians and other immortals, known as The Homeric Hymns.

Timing and authorship of the hymns are uncertain. They were composed in the Homeric style by a variety of poets, mainly in the 7th and 6th Centuries BCE;  some hymns are later, like the Hymn to Ares, which may be as late as the Hellenistic period. These inspired the mythic narratives of later poets, playwrights and authors - and for contemporary astrologers who find a depth of meaning through mythic images.

In our classes we will focus on four of the thirty-three Homeric Hymns. The mythic lineages and stories of these deities are vital to our astrological tradition. The Hymns to Aphrodite, Apollo, Demeter and Hermes are the longest of the hymns and these will be our main focus. All four deities are archetypal presences that inhabit each horoscope; therefore, widening our mythological gaze ensouls our planetary pantheon.

Our engagement with the ancient hymns will focus and reflect on how these mythic images amplify a deeper appreciation of their presence in our lives. Carole, Brian, Jason and Safron will be your guides into the sacred sanctuary of each deity.

Join us for a 4 - Week Online Course, with or without live sessions

Classes: The program includes eight pre-recorded video classes and two interactive sessions with each tutor. The pre-recorded video classes will be available for all who register for the course. You can also choose to participate in eight online classes which will be reflective, interactive and explorative, mythologically and astrologically.

The interactive classes will be limited to 18 participants.

Click here to visit the CAMS website for full course details and options. If you have questions about the course, please contact CAMS.