An Online Experiential Astrology Course through
Hermes-Hestia
Center for Living Astrologies
Creatively perceive and participate in the deeper stories that shape our lives and entwine our liberation.
Living the Signs of the Zodiac
with the Hermes-Hestia Center
11 SMALL GROUP SESSIONS | Beginning February 9th /10th 2027
Tuesdays at 5 - 7:15 pm Pacific with Nicole Feola
Wednesdays at 9 - 11:15 am Pacific with Amanda Simon
‘Living the Signs of the Zodiac’ is an online experiential astrology course series on the Elements. Each course takes participants on in-depth, multi-sensory explorations of the myths and stories associated with signs of the Zodiac of a particular Element: Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
In a small group setting (no more than 12 in each section), we engage the stories and images as they have been seen and shared across time, restoring a multidimensional and holographic experience of each sign beyond ‘keywords’ and traits. We enter and participate in the stories directly through movement, art-making, dream, image, personal horoscope, and with the zodiac animals themselves.
Through direct lived experience you will come to understand the signs more multidimensionally: the range of stories, feelings, sensations, desires, dreams, action urges, and relational orientations they carry; and also, be a part of a re-dreaming and re-weaving of the myths and stories we so need in contemporary times.
Asteroid Goddesses
Tutelary Deities
The asteroid goddesses are our tutelary deities – teachers who accompany us on our educational journey through the Element, where ‘education’ reflects the Latin root of the word educare: “to bring forth that which is within.”
Their teaching does not come in the form of here is what to do, and what not to do; their guidance and education comes as a dynamic, responsive scaffolding that unfurls below, above, before and behind us, cradling and in-forming the gestation, birthing and development of fresh imagery and embodied re-tellings of primordial patterns.
As we travel through the signs, the asteroid goddesses and their mythic roots draw us deeper into layers of time, body and place – offering nourishment, care and attention to what feels wounded by or recovering from one-sided tellings of the stories that shape our lives. The goddesses remind us of the variegated landscape of myth, its myriad nooks and crannies where we might encounter and dwell with the irreducible unknowns and mystery, remembering how to be re-sourced by spaces of liminality that help us see life through the periods of darkness and transition.
Pallas Athene
In Air, our guide is Pallas Athene. The asteroid goddesses are our tutelary deities – “Teachers’ who accompany us on our educational journey through the Element, where ‘education’ reflects the Latin root of the word educare, “to bring forth that which is within.”
Rather than single points of illumination and guidance, asteroid goddesses may be felt more as a dynamic, responsive, mythic scaffolding that unfurls below, above, before and behind us, cradling and in-forming the gestation, birthing and development of fresh imagery and embodied re-tellings of primordial patterns.
“What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not available to think with.”
-Donna Haraway
These astrology groups are an invitation to directly experience a kind of thinking-with each other as well as thinking-with the mythic figures, planets, astrological aspects, elements, stones, plants, animals and many allies who join us. We are not talking about the astrology to each other; we’re cultivating a space of mutual reverie, associative alacrity that potentiates what Donna Haraway might call ‘tentacular thinking’. Similar to a cat’s cradle, we hold out to one another patterns and permutations of thoughts that we too have also been handed — be it from another living human or ancestor, oak grove or rocky seashore, cool breeze or tempest.
As David Abram writes:
“mind is not at all a human possession but rather a property of the breathing Earth—
a property in which we, along with the other animals and plants, all participate. The apparent “interiority” that we ascribe to the mind would then have less to do with the notion that there is a separate consciousness located inside me, and another, entirely separate and distinct consciousness that resides inside you, and more to do with a sense that you and I are both situated within it—a recognition that we are corporeally immersed in an awareness that is not ours but is rather the Earth’s.”
Aquarius
In this webinar Jason Holley looks at myths that reveal underlying dynamics of the Aquarius archetype as part of his series on the 12 signs, myth and psyche.
The Greek dream of Aquarius tells of Zeus abducting the beautiful Trojan youth Ganymede, eventually designating him as immortal cup-bearer to the gods. The story and many of its overlooked details offer remarkable insight into how the psyche creatively and protectively splits off youthful and creative dimensions of itself – resulting on the one hand in psychic dissociation, fragmentation, and trauma; yet on the other hand in profoundly creative and unusual possibilities of self-expression and vision that channel the gods into our world.
Through creative arrangements and re-arrangements of the ancient constellation myths and the life stories of modern individuals, we will develop a nuanced understanding of Aquarian signatures, including mythological resonances with both its ancient and modern rulers, as well as the frequent association of Aquarius with astrology itself.
Gemini
In this webinar Jason Holley looks at myths that reveal underlying dynamics of the Aquarius archetype as part of his series on the 12 signs, myth and psyche.
The Greek dream of Aquarius tells of Zeus abducting the beautiful Trojan youth Ganymede, eventually designating him as immortal cup-bearer to the gods. The story and many of its overlooked details offer remarkable insight into how the psyche creatively and protectively splits off youthful and creative dimensions of itself – resulting on the one hand in psychic dissociation, fragmentation, and trauma; yet on the other hand in profoundly creative and unusual possibilities of self-expression and vision that channel the gods into our world.
Through creative arrangements and re-arrangements of the ancient constellation myths and the life stories of modern individuals, we will develop a nuanced understanding of Aquarian signatures, including mythological resonances with both its ancient and modern rulers, as well as the frequent association of Aquarius with astrology itself.
Libra
In this webinar Jason Holley looks at myths that reveal underlying dynamics of the Aquarius archetype as part of his series on the 12 signs, myth and psyche.
The Greek dream of Aquarius tells of Zeus abducting the beautiful Trojan youth Ganymede, eventually designating him as immortal cup-bearer to the gods. The story and many of its overlooked details offer remarkable insight into how the psyche creatively and protectively splits off youthful and creative dimensions of itself – resulting on the one hand in psychic dissociation, fragmentation, and trauma; yet on the other hand in profoundly creative and unusual possibilities of self-expression and vision that channel the gods into our world.
Through creative arrangements and re-arrangements of the ancient constellation myths and the life stories of modern individuals, we will develop a nuanced understanding of Aquarian signatures, including mythological resonances with both its ancient and modern rulers, as well as the frequent association of Aquarius with astrology itself.
“Neither dogma, nor ethics, nor rule-of-law can speak precisely to the unique depths of the individual person. Only myth, in its sweeping ability to constellate an array of contradictory meanings, has the power to awaken, within the private and particular moment, an immediate sense of what matters most”
Early Bird Registration for Living the Signs of the Zodiac: AIR
Early Bird Registration | $595
Available through January 20.
Regular price: $645