— A new class series with Olivia Pepper this Spring —
The Artist’s Way is a beloved and renowned 12-week course focused on cultivating creativity through spirituality and inner work. For three decades, it has provided a structure for creatives the world over to unblock themselves.
Astrology (or as Olivia and I call it, Star Poetry) can do much of the same thing. Beyond charting the rhythms and unfolding of a person’s destiny, ancient forms of astrology understood themselves to map an individual’s relationship to their daimon or muse - the integrated source of their multifaceted creative spark.
This spring, we’ll be bringing these two traditions together. The Artist’s Way is often suggested to be undertaken as a part of a group - it can be a demanding and challenging path, and doing this work within community can be incredibly supportive. We see Star Poetry being a further support in helping folks understand the contours and rhythms of their creative self. Likewise, this will be a course to experientially learn about astrology - but no prior experience with either the Artist’s Way or Astrology is necessary. Although this course is structured with complete novices in mind, we also trust that more advanced astrologers or veterans of the Artist’s Way will unlock new approaches to each tradition.
We’ll meet for twelve Wednesdays, honoring Mercury, who facilitates communication, creative thinking, and is a sort of patron of our work. In these sessions, we’ll discuss the tasks and ideas of each chapter of the Artist’s Way, mapping them to astrological principles and forecasting the week ahead. We expect this will help deepen our experience of the transformational process of the course, help us work with the major planetary dynamics that will be coloring our experience, and fuel our experiments in creative living. These sessions will also create a container in which to undertake and deepen some of the tasks of the course.
This will all take place along some profoundly powerful astrology, with an opportunity for substantial mythopoetic growth. The course will start on a New Moon, the day after the spring equinox and the beginning of the astrological year, and will unfold alongside Jupiter’s journey through to the final decan of Aries - a time for expansive, healthy risk-taking, and a strengthening of our sense of individuality. As we finish the course, Jupiter will move into Taurus, which can inspire us to stabilize our efforts into a richer experience for the following year.
We are offering this course on a sliding scale - between $180 and $540, which averages out to $15-45 per class. Please pay what feels accessible, equitable, and good for you. Alongside our weekly meetings, we will also have a Google Classroom to share supplemental materials, converse about different topics and experiences encountered through the course, and connect. We’ll have periodic office hours after class for questions about astrology, and will do our best to be responsive to the Google Classroom as well.
We hope you’ll join us!
Signup at starpoetry.net