March 2025 Open Board Meeting

Join us on Sunday, March 30th, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Time (ET) for our quarterly open board meeting! This board meeting is open to members of the Association for Young Astrologers and gives us a chance to show you our processes. Attendees will get insider knowledge on some of our recent votes and an opportunity to see us soft launch some new board members.

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2024 Open Call for Board Members

The Association for Young Astrologers is excited to announce that the call for board members is once again open! If you’ve been wanting to get more involved in the astrological community, now’s your chance to join AYA’s wonderful team of folks.

Our priority is to fill the roles of Vice Chair and Webmaster. Below you’ll find a brief summary of these roles, but be sure to click through to the full listings for a more detailed breakdown of expectations.

Vice Chair

The Vice Chair will work closely with the Chair and other board members to ensure the continuous operation of the organization and the completion of projects. Additionally, the Vice Chair will act as an AYA representative for outfacing endeavors (when necessary).

Our ideal Vice Chair is someone who has…

Strong leadership skills
Values that align with AYA’s mission of education and resource-sharing
Passion for mentoring and/or providing opportunities to young and emerging astrologers
Passion for community-building

Full listing for Vice Chair: https://youngastrologers.org/open-call-for-vice-chair/?preview=true

Webmaster

The Webmaster is someone who is familiar with various site hosting platforms- especially WordPress- and can offer guidance as the organization potentially considers migrating to a new hosting site. The Webmaster will also assist AYA members in troubleshooting issues that arise with their accounts and/or website access.

Our ideal Webmaster is someone who has

Knowledge and experience in web design and UX
Prioritizes the intersections of design, UX, and accessibility
Experience with branding for nonprofits is a plus
Creative approaches to problem-solving
Excitement to contribute to various projects outside of web management

Full listing for Webmaster: https://youngastrologers.org/open-call-for-webmaster/

Other Board Roles

While our priority is to fill the above roles, we know there are so many skilled and passionate young astrologers out there! Calls for other board positions will be announced in the near future, so we invite you to stay tuned and see if you may be a better fit for a different role.

Open Call for Webmaster

The Association for Young Astrologers (AYA) is seeking a savvy someone to step into the role of Webmaster. Our Webmaster will be a voting member on the board and will work closely with other board members to ensure maintenance of AYA’s website.

Our ideal Webmaster is someone who has

Knowledge and experience in web design and UX
Prioritizes the intersections of design, UX, and accessibility
Experience with branding for nonprofits is a plus
Creative approaches to problem-solving
Excitement to contribute to various projects outside of web management

If you have these qualities and are looking for a way to be more involved in the astrological community, AYA’s Webmaster position might be for you! To apply, send your resume and a cover letter to youngastrologers@gmail.com with the subject line “2024 Webmaster Application.” The call for this position will remain open until the role is filled.

Duties

Maintenance of the AYA website
Managing content on website (lecture archive, blog, etc.)
Collaborating with Social Media Manager to ensure cohesion across platforms
Troubleshooting website issues with AYA members
Guiding voice in AYA’s consideration of changing hosting site
Voluntary involvement with other projects

Requirements for Webmaster

2 year commitment to serve in Webmaster role
Capacity to spend a maximum of 5-7 hours per week towards AYA duties
Availability every other Monday evening at 7pm Eastern to attend board meetings

Desired Qualities

Technical knowledge of WordPress and other hosting sites
Familiarity with SEO best practices
Highly collaborative
Effective communicator
Familiarity with the astrological community
Familiarity with Google Suite and Asana
Can communicate about capacity and ask for help when needed

Benefits

Professional Development
Networking opportunities- building relationships with others

Open Call for Vice Chair

The Association for Young Astrologers (AYA) is seeking someone with a collaborative spirit and a strong foundation in management to step into the role of Vice Chair. As AYA continues to prioritize a lateral division of power and labor within the organization, we envision the Vice Chair position as highly collaborative in its leadership responsibilities

Our ideal Vice Chair is someone who has

Strong leadership skills
Values that align with AYA’s mission of education and resource-sharing
Passion for mentoring and/or providing opportunities to young and emerging astrologers
Passion for community-building

If you have these qualities and are looking for a way to be more involved in the astrological community, AYA’s Vice Chair position might be for you! To apply, send your resume and a cover letter to youngastrologers@gmail.com with the subject line “2024 Vice Chair Application.” The call for this position will remain open until the role is filled.

Duties

Operations Management
Co-facilitating board meetings
Tracking AYA’s inbox for important messages
Project Management
Team Management

*All the above duties are shared by at least one other board member and will be completed in collaboration.

Requirements for Vice Chair

2 year commitment to serve in Vice Chair role
Capacity to spend 5-10 hours per week towards AYA duties
Availability every other Monday evening at 7pm Eastern to attend board meetings

Desired Qualities

Previous experience in leadership positions
Familiarity with the astrological community
Highly collaborative
Highly organized
Project management skills
Effective communicator
Familiarity with Google Suite and Asana
Can communicate about capacity and ask for help when needed
Passionate about astrology and has ideas for future AYA projects

Benefits

Professional Development
Networking Opportunities- building relationships with others

AYA’s 2023 Year in Review

As 2023 comes to an end, we’ve been reflecting on the exciting developments and accomplishments the Association for Young Astrologers has experienced this year. Join us in celebrating AYA’s 2023 highlights!

Board of Directors

This year, we’ve welcomed two new board members onto the team. Additionally, two existing board members embraced new positions. The lineup of our current board is as follows:

Janay Anthony, Chair
Anna DunLany, Treasurer
Dee, Secretary
Mo Olufemi, Education Coordinator
Melissa Marklin, Social Media Manager

AYA has intentions to continue expanding the board and present more opportunities for community involvement in 2024, so keep a look out for calls in the upcoming year.

Bylaws Update

Perhaps our biggest undertaking as an organization was updating our bylaws. We revised our bylaws to align them with our other governing documents, as well as to reflect current practices around remote work and the use of gender-neutral language. Throughout this process, AYA’s board recommitted to the organization’s original mission statement: to bridge the gap between generations in the field of astrology and promote astrological knowledge through an array of programming.

AYA at NORWAC

We were so excited to attend NORWAC this year! It was a joy to reconnect with the community, and see so many of you face-to-face. Did you have the chance to stop at our table and say hi? We also had the pleasure of bringing along our very first cohort of AYA fellows to participate in the conference virtually. In one of our first commitments to center education at AYA, we developed an Astrology Conference Fellowship program that provided two full and three partial conference registration stipends to five outstanding AYA members.

A special shout out to our very own Mo Olufemi for giving an incredible NORWAC lecture on Using the Davison Chart for Intentional Relationships.

Seminar Under the Stars

We had a spectacular lineup of speakers join us for our Seminar Under the Stars series. Here’s a breakdown of the brilliant minds we had the privilege of learning from this year:

Samuel F. Reynolds, The Astrology of Policing
Mychal A. Bryan, Audience with the Author
Solar Simone, Bravery & Boundaries: How the Malefics Shape & Influence Us
Eric Lusby, History of the Lots

We want to highlight Mychal A. Bryan who was our first guest in what we hope to be a recurring series under the Seminar Under the Stars umbrella: Audience with the Author. Mychal joined us to discuss his recently published work, Mastering Traditional Astrology: A Depth of Beginning in the Celestial Art, and AYA gifted a signed copy of the book to three lucky AYA members.

Additionally, December will bring us a special edition of Seminar Under the Stars where the AYA board will discuss the major transits of 2024. Register here if you’d like to join the conversation!

What a Year!

Overall, we’re very proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish as an organization this year. All of the highlights above are only the beginning, and we have exciting projects in the woodwork coming up in 2024, so stay tuned!

AYA Bylaws Update

On March 1st 2023, the AYA Board of Directors voted to approve a revision to our bylaws.

The update is mostly much-needed housekeeping; we are now more clearly aligned with our other governing documents such as our Articles of Incorporation and the state statutes, and we’ve updated and clarified the language to reflect today’s practices around gender and remote work.

Most excitingly though, we’ve created new opportunities for the Board and those who care about AYA to more actively participate in governance and organizing.

Bylaw Update Highlights:

Instead of President and Vice-President, we’ve returned to the original Incorporation language of Chair and Vice-Chair.
We’ve adjusted the committee process so the Board can create committees as-needed, including committees that can include more non-Directors, such as a Board nomination committee and advisory committees.

The Board has already voted to create an Advisory Committee, hoping to bring in more community members of diverse generations and astrological traditions to advise on and support initiatives of the Board, as Demetra George supported and believed in AYA’s mission when first founded.

AYA’s principal mission continues to be to provide outreach and support to young people discovering astrology, and secondly, in support of that, to promote a deeper understanding and knowledge of astrology through lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences, study groups, research and information distribution, and any and all other appropriate means.

Through the bylaw process, we’ve reaffirmed AYA’s identity as a small Board-governed 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created for educational and charitable purposes, accountable to the public good and supported by our members, a legion of small donors who believe in AYA’s mission and benefit from our programs and community.

AYA’s current programming remains in line with our mission: monthly Seminar Under the Stars, monthly newsletter with opportunities for emerging astrologers, our Discord server, and forthcoming fellowship program.

If you’d like to register your interest in being on the Board or Advisory Committee prior to our official call, please contact youngastrologers@gmail.com