Upcoming Events
Eve Dembowski: Fortuna - A Treasure in Plain Sight
The Lot of Fortune (AKA Fortuna) is a treasure, hiding in our charts. She is a powerful and often over looked player in our chart. Understanding how to work with Fortuna, offers us an entirely new way of approaching the chart, which provides practical information and guidance regarding real live matters including health and wealth.
For centuries, starting around the 2nd century BCE, Fortuna was considered to be one of the most important points in a natal chart; being on par with the Sun, Moon and Ascendant. Today this mysterious point is rarely used and poorly understood. Exploring the history and philosophical reasoning on which it is based, we come to understand how and why it was used.
In this presentation I will expand on Fortuna’s meaning and her importance as the Moon’s ASC. I will demonstrate how to find her in your chart and explore the ways to work with it in order to reveal the vast repository of insights that she has to offer.
Alex Trenoweth - Awakening the Monster: Uranus at 9°Gemini
What happens when the great awakener enters one of the zodiac’s most volatile and intellectually charged degrees? In Awakening the Monster, Alex Trenoweth explores the symbolism of Uranus entering 9° of Gemini—a degree long associated with power, disruption, revelation, and collective awakening.
Blending astrology, history, mythology, media, and current events, Alex examines what this transit may unleash in education, technology, communication, politics, and the human psyche.
Provocative, timely, and unapologetically bold—this is astrology with its sleeves rolled up.
Glorija Lawrence: The Neptune Factor - Murder, Mystery and Mayhem
Neptune is often spoken of as the planet of higher spirituality and higher love, yet history reveals another face. When darkness descends, it is Neptune that rules the shadow world of tricksters, manipulation, chaos and delusion. Through the lens of Cosmobiology and the 90 degree chart, this lecture explores how the Neptune factor operates when the veil thins, and how we keep our footing when illusion becomes collective reality.
Cosmobiology is a form of astrology that transforms the 360 degree chart into a 90 degree chart using the cardinal, fixed and mutable qualities. Once you learn this simple technique, prediction becomes much easier to delineate.
This lecture covers a series of events that occurred during the crossover of the mutable and cardinal Neptune cycles from 1984 until today. So the question is: does history repeat?
Lisa Jones: All Day Workshop - The Realms of the Asteroid Goddesses
I’d love for you to join me in a workshop close to my heart, where we’ll journey together into the realms of the asteroid goddesses— Lets step back in time and visit the sacred temples of Vesta, Pallas, Ceres, Hygeia, and Hera.
Whether you’re a practising astrologer or simply curious, let’s gather, connect, and explore the gifts and guidance these mythic figures bring. I can’t wait to welcome you and share this transformative journey together!
Lunch is included in this workshop.
Mercedes Stewart: When the Sun Stands Still - The Winter Solstice, Health, Vitality and Honouring the Season
At the darkest point of the year, the body turns inward. This talk explores the Winter Solstice through the lens of Medical Astrology, revealing how this moment of stillness supports deep healing and renewal.
Topics include assessing the houses of illness and vitality, the role of Saturn in the natal and transit chart, and how to anticipate periods of strength or vulnerability. Includes chart examples and practical application, and the wisdom and application of Classical Chinese Medicine to assist the body through this time of maximum stillness.
Accompanied by a Special Winter Solstice Afternoon Tea
Kerry Galea: Half Day Workshop: Astro Games
Astro Games is a fun and interactive way of exploring and learning additional information within charts and has the potential to awaken your own power of interpretation and intuitive recognition of the interplay within every astrology chart. Astro Games is the simplest learning and teaching tool from the art of Experiential Astrology.
During the workshop we will be working together in groups and some team playing is involved. No personal charts are used, and the session will not be recorded. Please bring your sense of fun, your involvement, your smiles, and be prepared to explore astrology through play, experience and interaction.
In-person only, this event will not be recorded.
Marc Laurenson - ‘The Doorway in’: Using the South Node as an entry point to the Natal Chart
The Natal Chart can make more sense and fall beautifully into place when you open a reading through the South Node of the Moon. This point acts as the soul’s entryway, revealing where we’ve come from, what’s familiar, and the emotional patterns we’ve carried forward.
When we start here, the rest of the chart begins to align. The planets, aspects, and houses all find context and meaning through the South Node’s story. It becomes the thread that justifies why everything in the chart is exactly where it needs to be, showing how the past is guiding the soul’s next steps toward evolution.
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Marc is the creator and principal teacher at the popular Sydney Astrology School since 2007, going online internationally in 2017.
He is an AAT (accredited Astrology teacher) with the Federation of Australian Astrologers.
Marc has a thriving consultation business Marc Laurenson Astrology with a ‘wait list’ for readings.
He describes his Astrology style as Evolutionary with a psychological bent with a goal of empowering people and guiding them toward more fulfilling lives.
Marc is a popular speaker on the circuit including the ISAR Conference, FAA Conferences, OPA, London School of Astrology, Astrology Hub Breaking down the Borders online Conferences and Synchronicity University.
He has also written for many publications including Wellbeing Astrology and the FAA Journal.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SydneyAstrologySchool
Olga Morales - Solar Arc Life Diagram: Timing the Activation of Your Natal Promise
We all know that the natal chart shows our potential, the blueprint of a life. But when does that potential actually activate? A natal chart contains aspects between planets, describing themes, tensions, talents and karmic patterns. Yet those aspects do not all unfold at once. They lie dormant until triggered.
In this lecture, Olga Morales will explore the Solar Arc method, a precise timing technique based on the Sun’s symbolic movement of approximately one degree per year. By advancing every planet in the chart by the same arc, we can identify the specific years when natal aspects are activated and life events unfold.
Location:
154 Liardet Street, Port Melbourne VIC
Getting there:
For further information, visit Getting Around Port Phillip.
Limited street parking with time restrictions + Coles parking (up to 4 hours)
Entry via Laylor Street
Please ensure you abide by the parking signage.
Facilities:
A spacious hall, full AV setup, and a cosy lounge for post-chart debriefs.
Wheelchair accessible
Meet the Astrologers
Stephanie Johnson
Vesna Drusko
Brian Clark
Olga Morales
Eve Dembowski
Julian Venables
Ben Dalton
Dijana Dawe
Marc Laurenson
Kerry Galea
Michele Finey
Lisa Jones
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