Experiential Astrology - as practice and process

We’d love you to subscribe to our seven email series to learn more about experiential astrology — its value and methodologies; how it cultivates relational consciousness with celestial & terrestrial beings; and tends the interweave between our living sky and dreaming earth. 

Series co-written by Nicole Feola & Amanda Simon, core facilitators of the Hermes-Hestia Center’s Elements Courses: Living the Signs of the Zodiac.

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with Living the Signs of the Zodiac

Living the Signs of the Zodiac is a multi-dimensional, multi-modal immersive journey through each of the four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Course registration is currently open for EARTH.

Two class options are available, beginning:

September 15th with Nicole Feola (Tuesday section: 5-7:15 PM Pacific) — or —

September 16th with Amanda Simon (Wednesday section 9-11:15 AM Pacific).

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Living Astrologies Practitioners

Nicole Feola

Core Facilitator of the Tuesday group of Living the Signs

Nicole is a Living Astrologies Practitioner, an artist-maker and parent of two young humans. Each of these journeys draw her ever more deeply into the question of how to tend a benevolent field of consciousness that’s able to receive a child and foster their incarnation —whether this ’child’ is an actual human child or a creative idea, a dream within that wants to be lived out. Nicole approaches living astrologies as the multiplicity of practices that give permission, resource and a relational container to our many creative instincts, so that these creatures might be felt in the depths of their own essential nature while also re-membered into wider life cycles, rhythms and wholes. 

Nicole’s work in living astrologies is also moved by a clarity of desire sparked by her time as a competitive athlete. As a shy and sensitive kid, the opportunity to claim her space and voice on the soccer field was like an infusion of lifeblood into her system. Nicole longs for and is devoted to tending a diversity of such ‘fields of play’ that can support the appearance, movement and even leadership of animals who otherwise may remain hidden in our internal ecosystem, so that we can steep in the unique qualities of Self that they bring, and learn how to expand our containers to better acknowledge and care for them.

Nicole facilitates the Hermes-Hestia Center’s Elements course series: ‘Living the Signs of the Zodiac’. She also builds experiential containers that weave together biology, astrology and myth to foster a relational education with the zodiac animals themselves. As an offshoot of her workshop on Neptune in Aries at the first Living Astrologies Conference in Santa Fe, Nicole offers 1:1 ‘color portal’ sessions that support a sensuous, synaesthetic and aesthetic engagement with the living sky of one’s horoscope.

In addition to the 18-month HHC Living Astrologies Experiential Practitioner Program and ten years of consulting astrology, her practice is fed by working as a math and art teacher at a Quaker high school; painting murals, beading and making stained glass; managing a commercial kitchen and tending goats; parenting; training in Internal Family Systems and Craniosacral Therapy and a decade of daily partnership with flower essences. These various experiences have developed in her a deeper listening and availability for how the astrological symbols are speaking.

Amanda Simon

Core Facilitator of the Wednesday group of Living the Signs

Amanda is an artist and consulting astrologer with a particular passion for the art of astrological listening, recognising astrological attunement as a continuous conversation between humanity and the sacred - an ongoing reciprocal unfurling with mystery through attending to our living sky. Amanda has contributed a chapter to “Sideways from Saturn” (2026) a book dedicated to the Centaurs of the sky; her chapter focused on Okyrhoe, Chiron’s prophetic daughter. She is currently working on an article for the Mountain Astrologer's special edition dedicated to Chiron. 

Alongside writing she has a devoted teaching practice supporting people grow relationship with the depth and beauty of the Astrological art through various channels, such as a monthly newsletter and astrology practice group called "Primal Astrology" currently in its second year,  alongside a more involved teaching faculty that mentors astrological foundations and beyond, a busy 1:1 reading practice that supports in long terms and short term ways . She also hosts a weekly instagram live called  “Friday forecast”. 

Amanda has worked alongside She’s Lost Control (a portal pioneering expansive experiences in the heart of london) for 6 years and helped develop and teach SLC's astrology foundations course. Her various channels of astrological work supports participants connect with their intricate, multidimensional celestial  depth, which in turn helps them meet life’s circumstances with resilience and grace. Amanda has several other diverse collaborative partnerships underway and has worked alongside landscape gardeners weaving the celestial with the terrestrial in outdoor spaces, has been a guest speaker for Angharat Wynne; ‘Feather, Fire, Stone and Bone’ and has completed a three year apprenticeship in ‘Contemporary Animism' with Animate Earth, which helped grow confidence in the felt living practice of tending the web of animacy pulsing through worlds within and without. She has journeyed with Josh Schrei of the Emerald and is an alumni of his year long Mythic body course (2021), has trained in dream tending with Topo Ka and Pacifica University and continues to develop her relational, soul-centered astrological practice with Brian Clark and is a primary facilitator for the elements classes within Jason Holley's Hermes Hestia centre.  

Amanda has facilitated several other group processes in collaboration with diverse practitioners. In 2025 she worked with Justine Huxley, co-founder of the Kincentric Leadership programme. Together they facilitated “Kinship with stars” a day long embodied, experiential, process to support growing animate, astrological awareness beyond the astrological community. In October 2025 she offered an experiential workshop as part of the first Living Astrologies Conference and is an alumni of  Jason Holley’s 18-month practitioner programme. As of September 2026 she will begin a training in sexological bodywork which focuses on relational intimacy - the astrological way for her is about growing relational intimacy with worlds seen and unseen , human and more than human.  For more information about Amanda and her work, you can find her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/Anandita7astrology her website is currently being rebuilt and will be live in late September.