First Sunday of the month

3.00 pm – 4-15 pm

Fee: £10 per session, £7 unwaged) 

(pay-as-you-go monthly)

Each month an astrologer will present and discuss a chapter or extract from Geoffrey Cornelius’ book, The Moment of Astrology. Published in 1994, Rob Hand thought it to be “one of the most important astrological books of our time”. Historian Patrick Curry recognised it as “an extraordinary book … within the astrological tradition it is the most important since the great flowering of European astrology more than three hundred years ago.”

Throughout the text, Geoffrey asks the question “What is the moment of astrology?” When astrology comes to life for its practitioners, when it works, they are obliged to confront anew the problems of time, objectivity and the interpretation of symbol. The Company of Astrologers welcomes experienced astrologers and astrological historians to lead discussion on these themes.

SCHEDULE

12 Jan    Astrology as a Gift of the Soul (Ch.16)   Maggie Hyde

2 Feb     The Question of Horary (Ch.6) & Appendix 3   Pat Blackett

2 Mar    An Anti-Astrology Signature (Ch.2)   Kirk Little

6 Apr    Some Genius or Spirit (Ch.9)   Patrick Curry & Jodey Collorick

4 May   Science and the Symbol 1: Humpty-Dumpty (Ch.3)   Garry Phillipson

1 Jun     The Fourfold Symbol II: Water into Wine (Ch.15)   Jan Seward

              No meetings July and August

7 Sep     The Fourfold Symbol l:  Divination and Allegory (Ch.14)   Jane Farrer

5 Oct    Case Study: Stella (Appendix 7)   Simao Cortes 
Plus Mark Flaherty (Ch. tbc)      

2 Nov   Appearances: The Symbol in Context (Ch.11)   Graeme Tobyn 

7 Dec    Katarche: The Line of Descent from Augury (Ch.7) Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum   

Geoffrey Cornelius (1945-2024) was a founding member of the Company of Astrologers and a past president of the Astrological Lodge of London. He helped develop MA programmes in divination at both the University of Kent and Christ Church University, Canterbury. His major work, The Moment of Astrology, seeks to establish astrology as a form of divination.

TO BOOK:  £10 per month (£7 unwaged), online at coa.org.uk after 1 January 2025.