"Every gardener needs to understand the seasons. If you are to plant the seeds of self-respect and compassion and watch over them from germination to fruition, you will need ways to understand the weather, the climate, the soil itself; you will need a way to understand the over-arching principles that might keep the ecosystem as a whole in balance. If you are to be the gardener of your own being, you need access to the wisdom of all those who have tended their own soil. Astrology is precisely this: an almanac for the inner garden; an invitation to situate our ecology in a cosmology. If you want to be in tune with the cycles of nature in a psychological, spiritual, emotional, somatic and imaginal sense, archetypal astrology is the gold standard."

“After all, if it were possible to allow my damaging cycles of compulsive behaviour to simply evaporate into the ether, wouldn’t it be worth a try? I had already proven to myself that implacable pain could, in fact be placated, and that my uncontrollable thoughts could, in fact, be controlled. And, while some of the Buddhist doctrine by which the technique is contextualised seemed a little simplistic and even contrived (to my mind), there is a certain compelling logic to it all.”

“I noticed that the retreat, the centre, the stubborn teacher and all the rules of the organisation were triggering something in me that seemed to want to be addressed. I realised that in those pivotal phases of my youth I had decided, without fully realising it, that no rule based structures were worth participating in, and no figures of authority were worthy of trust. This helped me to make sense of the way I had been deceived by the school system and the adult world at large, but since then, a whole complex had been allowed to form around these beliefs, and the part of me that it related to just didn’t have any way of reacting to the rules and structures of Vipassana except to recoil, in open rebellion, and seethe with contempt. The only strategy I had to hand was total rejection of the idea that any structured authority could be valid, benevolent, or worthy of my compliance.”

Reflections on my motivations for practicing astrology, and the philosophical, psychological and spiritual underpinnings of my approach.

All the basic information you need about the foundations and practice of archetypal astrology.