FACILITATORS
Aerin FogelAerin Fogel is a Toronto/Tkaronto-based astrologer, core pattern, and tarot reader, practicing since 2011. She strives to work from an integrated, trauma-informed perspective, honouring the unique lived experience of all individuals, and approaching astrology and spiritual practice as a relational ecosystem. Her astrological perspective bridges traditional, Hellenistic, modern, mythic, and psychological frameworks, and she specializes in mythic and family astrology through an intergenerational lens. Aerin has spoken for Kepler College, San Francisco Astrological Society, Canadian Astrology Conference, ConVocation, and Astrology Toronto, with several appearances on The Astrology Podcast and blogs for The Mountain Astrologer. She has upcoming talks with OPA, ISAR, and a piece in the CAELi Review. Aerin was also the occult consultant on The Craft: Legacy, and plays in her band Queen Of Swords.
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Mythic Houses is an exploration of diurnal (or primary) motion through a mythic lens. Together we will journey through the houses in the same progression that the luminaries and planets do each day as they rise, culminate, set, and fall. We will use story as a template to deepen our understanding of each house and how the planets move through the houses, particularly as we feel where we're coming from, where we're going, and how we relate to the heart of the story. Participants will discover meaning from each house through this diurnal journey using discussion, meditation, ritual, movement, and music, and build their own unique understandings through insights from the journey. We will develop a felt sense of diurnal motion, as well as a deeper understanding of each individual house, the sects, angularity, and planetary joys.
Gray CrawfordGray is a professional natal, horary, and electional astrologer. Gray brings a relational approach to astrology using techniques drawn from ancient and modern sources, synthesizing influences from Hellenistic, magical, mythic-archetypal, and psychological astrology. Gray has taught at UAC, NORWAC, and ISAR astrology conferences, various astrology associations around the USA, and is a member of the faculty at Kepler College. Gray’s astrological writing has been published on Astrology.com, in WellBeing Astrology, and by Ignota Press. Gray can be contacted on his site graycrawford.net where he also writes astrology articles and offers astrological education.
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Astrology is an art of divination. Although knowledge of technique is necessary for astrologers to deliver guidance in consideration of stars and symbolism, there can be a mysterious way in how divination leads us to insights that go beyond technique. Genie and Gray’s workshop will delve into the divinatory nature of astrology, including how divination involves relating with intermediary spirits who whisper secrets of the cosmos. The act of divination necessitates opening to the otherworld, and since the otherworld is teeming with spirits of all sorts of motivations, we want to enter the imaginal realm of divination protected.
After Gray and Genie discuss how divination has involved communion with daimons across cultures and time, they will guide participants in creating a collage image of a guardian daimon who will be your protector in divination. This guardian daimon could be an ancestor, a spirit you already work with, or the daimon of a planet or star. Creating a fierce protective form of your guardian of divination will serve as an offering that will give your protective daimon more agency.
Each participant will receive a skeleton key we will consecrate to unlock and lock the door to the otherworld. We will then journey together with our daimon and key to unlock the doorway to the imaginal realm in an oracular exploration. Due to Venus and the South Node of the Moon being near the degree of stars located in the Great Bear constellation, Genie and Gray will also discuss the rich history of circumpolar stars functioning as guardian protectors.
Nicole Feola
Nicole is an astrologer based in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California, the ancestral and current lands of the Nisenan, home to the Yuba River, Deer Creek, manzanita, madrone, oak, pine, cedar, mountain lions, bears, red-tailed hawks, river otters and many others. Practicing experiential astrology and contemplative ways of engaging with myth has been a way for her to honor, feed and deepen into relationship with this place, with her Filipino ancestors as well as her own personal history as a biologist, muralist, math and art teacher and caregiver. Nicole has been working as a consulting astrologer since 2017, and is trained in Internal Family Systems and Conscious Parenting. She is currently participating in the Living Astrologies Practitioner Training Program with the Hermes-Hestia Center.
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Exploring, experiencing and creating with wool that is fully saturated with color will help enliven our connection to Neptune in Aries as we dream together under the current sky. Playing with the tools and materials that we might find in the place of Aries, we’ll both shape and watch emerge the weaves, twists, tensions, bunches, blendings, wisps, curls, knots, frays and contours associated with the different places and people of the current moment, and the ways they might be meeting and relating. Amidst this collaborative needle-felting and weaving process, there will be opportunities for us to step into the living, colorful field of this sky and allow our bodies to respond and participate in the conversation.