Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination
Online Course
Tutors: Brian Clark, Carole Taylor, Safron Rossi & Jason Holley
Hesiod and the Muse
(Gustave Moreau)
Live Attendance
Four 90-minute live sessions held between 3-24 June, 2025
Self-Study
Booking closes on 1 September
Live Attendance and Self-Study
Course materials will be available until 30 September
Astrology and the Symbolic Imagination is our signature course, 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.
To develop a deeper relationship to the symbols and patterns of the birth chart.
To enrich your understanding of your own chart and your work with clients, through developing a more symbolic and archetypal point of view.
To engage with the magical, mythical and divinatory dimensions of astrological work.
To use techniques with greater awareness and develop astrological wisdom.
Anyone interested in the approach taken by the Centre, or thinking of following one of our other courses, is encouraged to take this signature course.
The course is arranged in four sections, with two pre-recorded videos and one live Discussion & Reflection session in each section.
Each pre-recorded lecture is approximately 50 minutes in length. Alongside these are suggestions for additional reading and exercises for reflection and self-study. Access to the lecture recordings and other materials will be available from 1 May until 30 September 2025.
The Discussion & Reflection sessions are held live on Zoom. Each is 90 minutes in length and will be recorded for anyone who cannot attend live.
You will retain access to the video lectures and the Discussion & Reflection recordings for a period of 3 months from the end of the course.
You can book either with or without the live sessions. If you book for the live sessions: These are held on Zoom. Each is 90 minutes long and will be recorded, with access to the recordings until 30 September 2025.
Pruszkowski: Falling star
Course outline
1. Astrology, Symbol and Imagination Brian Clark
Recorded Lecture 1: Astrology and the Mythic Imagination
In this class we will explore a return to mythic sensitivity, symbolic thinking and imagination in our astrological study and practice:
Astrology and Nature
Astrology and the Sacred Stories of the Soul
An Astrological Mythos
Recorded Lecture 2: Reading the Horoscope in a Sacred Context
This class explores ways to engage the client’s world with the symbols of the horoscope, as if the chart were a sacred text:
Listening, Witnessing, Questioning, Participating: creating the space.
From Type to Archetype
From Sign to Symbol
Astrology as Poetry
The Dream of One’s Life
2. The Living Symbol – Astrology, Dialogue and Divination Carole Taylor
Recorded Lecture 1: Symbol, Myth and Imagination
This lecture explores the symbolic mode in the hermetic tradition and symbols as our connection to the living archetypes:
Objective/scientific and subjective/imaginal modes in the history of astrology.
Astrology as imaginal cosmology: a ‘myth’ of a cosmos that invites our participation.
Symbols as connection between revealed and concealed worlds.
Experiencing the symbol: the hermeneutic of the Four Senses.
Recorded Lecture 2: Participating with Symbols in Astrological Practice
Here we will look at symbols at work in the birth chart, as well as astrology as a divinatory art:
Symbol in action in chart work and consultancy.
Speaking in the moment – the divinatory dimension in astrology.
The role of the astrologer in the manifestation of the symbol.
3. Astrology as Cosmology for Soul. Safron Rossi
Recorded Lecture 1: Cosmologies in Myth
Joseph Campbell and the four functions of myth. The cosmological and the psychological.
Cosmologies—what do they serve? What archetypal (universal) need have these stories fulfilled?
Recorded Lecture 2: Astrology as a Cosmology for Soul – Gafurius’ Music of the Spheres
Astrology as soul making — the restoration and cultivation of the imagination through myth and metaphor.
Gafurius – the Muses and the planets, the songs of the soul.
Conclusion — the fruits of an archetypal, mythic, psychological approach to astrology, what it offers to the time in which we live and our need for a new cosmology.
4. Engaging with Symbolism in Astrology. Jason Holley
Recorded Lecture 1: The Symbol in the Sensuous: Reweaving Body and Soul, Instinct and Imagination
This class explores how we can re-embed our practice of astrology into the mythic and imaginal experience of living symbolism that gave birth to it.
Dreaming Earth and Reflecting Sky
The Dismembering and Re-membering of Myth in Astrology
Astrology as Ritual and Sacred Play
Hermes/Hestia: Safe Encounters with the Gods
Astrologers as Custodians of Star and Story
Recorded Lecture 2: The Symbol in the Relationship: Meeting Mystery Together
This class explores how we can consciously and collaboratively engage with symbolism in astrological consultation.
The Interpersonal Field in Astrological Terms: Day, Night, Twilight
When the Symbol Slips In: Description, Enactment, Invocation
The Astrologer’s Use of Self and Subjectivity
Penelope/Odysseus: Methods of Symbolic Perception and Engagement
The Oracle as Querent and the Querent as Oracle
Enrol on this course
The course is still available to book as a self-study option: £165.
Booking closes 1 September 2025.
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