Dinner and Drinks with Cassandra Tyndall: Aversion

Join AYA for an online conversation with Cassandra Tyndall about the concept of aversion in ancient astrology, and how it can illuminate today’s work with horoscopes.

In Hellenistic astrology, luminaries and planets cast ‘rays of light’, which enabled them to see certain houses and the planets occupying them. Sight was a crucial metaphor for the ancient understanding of the sextile, square, trine and opposition. But some houses could not be seen. What happens when the Lord of a house cannot see the sign it rules? Aversion illuminates the blind spots in a birth chart. Join us for a dialogue about how metaphors of vision and aversion can reveal connections between the house topics in the birth chart. Add this valuable tool to your delineation kit!

Click here to join the Zoom meeting on February 7: https://zoom.us/j/871157438

Join us online on Thursday, February 7th at

4pm – Hawaii – Hawaii Standard Time
6pm– Los Angeles – Pacific Standard Time
7pm – Denver – Mountain Standard Time
8pm – Chicago – Central Standard time
9pm – New York / Toronto – Eastern Standard Time
10pm – Halifax / Charlottetown – Atlantic Standard Time
10:30pm – Newfoundland – Newfoundland Standard Time

and….

Friday, February 8th

Midnight – Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo – Brazil Summer Time
2am – London / Greenwich Mean Time
3am – Paris / Berlin / Rome / Barcelona – Central European Time
4am – South Africa – South Africa Standard Time
5am – Moscow – Moscow Standard Time
7:30am – India – India Standard Time
10am – China – China Standard Time
11am – Japan – Japan Standard Time
11am – Korea – Korea Standard Time

1pm – Sydney / Melbourne – Australian Eastern Daylight Time
3pm – Auckland – New Zealand Daylight Time

Dinner and Drinks with Adam Sommer: The Lunar Nodes & Eclipses

MEETING LINK: https://zoom.us/j/296794930

Dinner and Drinks with Kenneth Miller: Pluto’s Weird History

Join AYA for our special discussion with Kenneth Miller on Saturday, December 15, about how astrologers debated and initially disagreed about Pluto’s meaning after its discovery on February 18, 1930.

This session is envisioned as a special reading group. We’re asking everyone to read Kenneth Miller’s article “Pluto’s Weird History: Dumb luck? Dumb note? Dumbell?” in the the 2nd Volume of The Ascendant, the Official Journal of the Association for Young Astrologers. This article introduces readers to the fierce debate among astrologers about how to incorporate this new discovery into astrological practice, and how to assign its significance and meaning.

AYA Reads Agrippa: Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Join AYA in an online reading group to discuss planetary magic as taught by Cornelius Agrippa, famed western occultist and author of Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Across three Saturdays we’ll look at several chapters in Three Books of Occult Philosophy that teach the fundamentals of planetary magic. These chapters will cover the basic requirements for completing a planetary ritual and beginning a personal relationship with each planetary spirit.

The reading group conversations will be free and open to the entire astrological community. Below you will find the dates for each reading group, the recommended translation, and the chapters we’re planning to discuss.

Reading Group Meeting Dates

Saturday, October 6th 1pm – 3pm EST
Saturday October 27th 1pm – 3pm EST
Saturday, November 10th 1pm – 3pm EST

First Reading Session – Saturday, October 6th 1pm – 3pm

The first reading will cover:

• Timing for planetary rituals
• Images associated with the planets

Chapters:

• On timing:
  • Chap. xxix. Of the Observation of Celestials, necessary in every Magical Work.
  • Chap. xxx. When Planets are of most powerful influence.
• On images:
  • Chap. xxxviii. Of the Images of Saturn.
  • Chap. xxxix. Of the Images of Jupiter
  • Chap. xl. Of the Images of Mars.
  • Chap. xli. Of the Images of the Sun.
  • Chap. xlii. Of the Images of Venus.
  • Chap. xliii. Of the Images of Mercury.
  • Chap. xliv. Of the Images of the Moon.

Second Reading Session – Saturday October 27th 1pm – 3pm

The second reading will cover:

• Materials associated with each planet (example: copper for Venus)
• What each planet can be petitioned for (example: Sun for eminence, Mars for bravery)

Chapters:

• On materials and what a planet can be petitioned for:
  • Book I – Chapter xxiii. How we shall know what Stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.
  • Book I – Chapter xxiv. What things are Lunary, or under the power of the Moon.
  • Book I – Chapter xxv. What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturne.
  • Book I – Chapter xxvi. What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.
  • Book I – Chapter xxvii. What things are under the power of Mars, and are called Martial.
  • Book I – Chapter xxviii. What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall.
  • Book I – Chapter xxix. What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called Mercuriall.

Third Reading Session – Saturday, November 10th 1pm – 3pm

The third reading will cover:

• Names of planetary spirits
• Numbers associated with planets
• Fumigations used for each planet
• Colors of the planets
• The power of mind over matter

Chapters:

• On numbers:
  • Book II, Chapter XXI – What numbers are consecrated to the Gods, and which are ascribed, and to what Elements
• On names of planetary spirits:
  • Book II, Chap. XXII. Of the tables of the Planets, their vertues, forms, and what Divine names, Intelligencies, and Spirits are set over them.
  • Book III – Chapter xxiv. Of the names of Spirits, and their various imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heaven, and the Elements.
• On incense, or fumes
  • Book I – Chap. xliv. The Composition of some fumes appropriated to the Planets.
• On colors of the planets
  • Book I – Chapter xlix. Of Light, Colours, Candles, and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses, and Elements severall colours are ascribed.
• On mind and intention in magical work
  • Chapter lxviii. How our mind can change, and bind inferiour things to that which it desires.