Astrology, Myths and Fairy Tales:
Finding Our Personal Stories
Residential Workshop
May 16-23, 2025, Shrewsbury, UK
Tutors: Carole Taylor & Clare Martin
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"The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?"~C.G.Jung
Myths, legends and fairy stories lend meaning and significance to our lives. Throughout history, their timeless narrative patterns have provided individuals, and even whole cultures, with orientation, guidance and ways of navigating human experience. This week is devoted to the significance of the imaginal worlds – both individual and collective - within which we live. Myths speak the language of the soul and are food for the soul, connecting us to our deepest selves and to the truth of our inner experience.
Birth charts are life stories and every planet has an essential myth at its core, revealing the hidden narratives at work in our lives. In a chart reading, it makes all the difference if our experiences are placed within an imaginative or poetic framework. Using astrology’s rich symbolic language, we come to recognise the archetypal human patterns, or dilemmas, which live through us. When seen through the lens of myths and fairy stories, our lives can be transformed as we develop insight and the courage to live more authentically. Transits and progressions add dynamism, energy and depth, connecting us to the truth of our inner experience and providing guidance to help us navigate meaningfully through times of transition.
Over seven days, Carole and Clare will guide you through the rich landscape of myths, legends and fairy stories. We will begin with creation myths, stories of life, death and rebirth, light and shadow, and the importance of family and ancestral influences. We will discuss the patterns constellated in our adult relationships through Venus and Mars, with their themes of love, competition, jealousy, fidelity and betrayal. Themes of the scapegoat and outsider will be included, as well as the heroic journey to the heart of the self which is symbolised by the Sun. Each presentation will be followed by a practical session working on the charts of participants, to discover the archetypal narrative patterns which reside in the chart of each individual in the group.
The workshop is suitable for astrologers at all stages of study and practice, but you should have basic knowledge of astrological symbolism and how to read a birth chart.
Course Schedule
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(subject to updates)
Friday - May 16
Arrival: Check in after 1:00 pm
Stroll around Shrewsbury, or rest
5-6.15pm: Welcome and Introduction:
Identifying the Myths and Fairy Tales in our Own Lives: CLARE & CAROLE
Dinner together locally (optional and not included in the course fees)
Saturday - May 17
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 - 10:45 am: The Loss of Soul and the Healing Power of Storytelling: CLARE
10:45 - 11:15 am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Creation Myths: CAROLE
12:30 pm: Lunch Break & Rest
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Stories of Life, Death and Rebirth: CLARE
Short Refreshment Break
5 - 6:15 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
Sunday - May 18
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 - 10:45 am: Dynasties and Families: CAROLE
10:45 - 11:15 am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
12:30 pm: Lunch Break & Rest
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Ancestral Inheritance: CAROLE
Short Refreshment Break
5 - 6:15 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
Monday - May 19
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 -10:45 am: Outsiders and Scapegoats: CAROLE
10:45 - 11:15 am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 am -12:30 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
12:30 pm: Lunch Break & Rest
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Childhood: Innocence and Predation: CLARE
Short Refreshment Break
5 - 6:15 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
Tuesday - May 20
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9.30 - 10:45 am: Incarnation and the Cross of Matter: CLARE
10:45 - 11:15 am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
HALF DAY – time for rest and relaxation
Wednesday - May 21
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 -10:45 pm: Individuation: Venus and the Four Elements: CLARE
10:45 - 11:15 am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
12:30 pm: Lunch Break & Rest
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Individuation: Mars and the Four Elements: CLARE
Short Refreshment Break
5 - 6:15 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
Thursday - May 22
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 - 10:45 am: Direction & Destiny: Solar Myths and Heroes: CAROLE
10:45 - 11:15 am: Tea/Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
12:30 pm: Lunch Break & Rest
3:30 -4:45 pm: Rites of Passage: CAROLE
Short Refreshment Break
5 - 6:15 pm: Storytelling and Personal Chart Work
7:00 pm: Dinner together locally (optional and not included in the course fees)
Friday - May 23
7:30 - 8:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 - 11.00 am: Closing Session: CAROLE & CLARE
Check-out by Noon
(extra nights can be booked, subject availability) to​
REPLICATING
Astrology, Alchemy and the Journey of the Soul
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The Gods of Place: Inhabiting the Horoscope
Four-week online course, available with or without live sessions
Live sessions take place on 6, 13, 20 & 27 July 2025
Tutor: Brian Clark
The Hours - Edward Burne-Jones
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The Course
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In this series of classes we encounter the divinities of Time who oversee its mysteries - we will engage the Horae, the Season Keepers; Chronos, the Timekeeper; Occasio, the goddess of Occasion; Kairos, Psyche’s time; Ouroboros, Eternal time; Oneiros, the time of the Dream, and a host of other mythic time lords. Our journey will also visit some philosophers, physicists and poets, all who have explored its mysteries and synchronies. We will also reflect on Synchronicity, Emotion and Memory, drawing on these images to amplify how the qualitative, emotional and symbolic nature of time infuses our practice.
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In this, four-part series, weexplore the mysteries and ambiguities of astrological time through myth, symbol, archetype, technique, cycle, ageing and the unconscious. We will travel through time with planetary transitions, progressions, cycles, passages and returns.
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Course format
Each class consists of a pre-recorded lecture of about 75 minutes, followed by a 60-minute live on-line discussion session held on Zoom. A reading list and suggestions for self-study will also be included with the course. The course is limited to 25 participants.
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Each pre-recorded lecture will be made available one week in advance of the live discussion session. The live sessions will be recorded and the recordings will be available for you to rewatch in your own time. If you know you will miss a session, you are welcome to send in your questions ahead of it and then listen to the recording afterwards.
You will retain access to all the recordings for 3 months from the end of the course.
Fee options
The course is available to book with or without the four live sessions.
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With Live Sessions: £175 - early bird (before March 1, 2025)
£195 - after March 1, 2025
Booking closes April 11, 2025
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Without Live Sessions (course material only): £105 - early bird (before March 1, 2025)
£125 - after March 1, 2025
Booking closes July 1, 2025
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The Hours - Edward Burne-Jones
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The Course
​
In this series of classes we encounter the divinities of Time who oversee its mysteries - we will engage the Horae, the Season Keepers; Chronos, the Timekeeper; Occasio, the goddess of Occasion; Kairos, Psyche’s time; Ouroboros, Eternal time; Oneiros, the time of the Dream, and a host of other mythic time lords. Our journey will also visit some philosophers, physicists and poets, all who have explored its mysteries and synchronies. We will also reflect on Synchronicity, Emotion and Memory, drawing on these images to amplify how the qualitative, emotional and symbolic nature of time infuses our practice.
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In this, four-part series, weexplore the mysteries and ambiguities of astrological time through myth, symbol, archetype, technique, cycle, ageing and the unconscious. We will travel through time with planetary transitions, progressions, cycles, passages and returns.
​
Course format
Each class consists of a pre-recorded lecture of about 75 minutes, followed by a 60-minute live on-line discussion session held on Zoom. A reading list and suggestions for self-study will also be included with the course. The course is limited to 25 participants.
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Each pre-recorded lecture will be made available one week in advance of the live discussion session. The live sessions will be recorded and the recordings will be available for you to rewatch in your own time. If you know you will miss a session, you are welcome to send in your questions ahead of it and then listen to the recording afterwards.
You will retain access to all the recordings for 3 months from the end of the course.
Fee options
The course is available to book with or without the four live sessions.
​
With Live Sessions: £175 - early bird (before March 1, 2025)
£195 - after March 1, 2025
Booking closes April 11, 2025
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Without Live Sessions (course material only): £105 - early bird (before March 1, 2025)
£125 - after March 1, 2025
Booking closes July 1, 2025
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The Horae - Edward Poynter
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Time is the womb of souls - Dane Rudhyar
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Live Discussion Sessions
Live session size limited to 25 people
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Downloadable Course PDF + International Time Conversions
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Thelive sessions take place on Sundays at the times listed below.You can find your equivalent local time using a time zone converter, such as here.
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If you are unsure of the conversion to your local time, please contact us.
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Class 1
Time and the Soul: Symbols and Synchronies
An exploration into the enigma of time and how our acceptance of its ambiguities and mysteries deepens our engagement with the soul.
Video class released: April 6 (75 min)
Live session - April 13 (60 min)
Australia: 7 - 8:00 pm AEST
UK: 10 - 11:00 am BST
Europe: 12 midday CET
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Class 2
The Primordial Era: Time and the Fates
Embedded in astrological time are recurrences and psychic continuity through generations – we will consider how the past infuses the present and future.
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Video class released: April 13 (75 min)
Live session - April 20 (60 min)
Australia: 7 - 8:00 pm, AEST
UK: 10 - 11:00 am BST
Europe: 12 midday CET
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Class 3
Temporal Times: Living with the Time Lords
Can seeing with the astrological eye ensoul time, evoke a more meaningful present? Let’s discover the qualities of quantifying time.
Video class released: April 20 (75 min)
Live session - April 27 (60 min)
Australia: 7 - 8:00 pm, AEST
UK: 10 - 11:00 am BST
Europe: 12 midday CET
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Class 4
Kairos: The Opportunities of Time
In this class we will amplify the ways eternal time pierces the temporal world focusing on astrological timing including nodes and knots of time, returns and transition.
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Video class released: April 27 (75 min)
Live session - May 4 (60 min)
Australia: 7 - 8:00 pm, AEST
UK: 10 - 11:00 am BST
Europe: 12 midday CET
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