Saturn and the Kore Goddess

Saturn and the Kore Goddess

Saturn and the Kore Goddess

Online Seminar at MISPA

We all know the outer face of Saturn which we encounter through limitation, restriction, frustration, delays and discipline. The gold is in the inner meaning of our Saturn experiences which is self-knowledge, authenticity and maturity. While we are familiar with Saturn personified as the Devouring Father and Wise Old Man in myth and legend, there is another little known archetypal figure who shines a light the golden inner core of Saturn and the potential in our work with this principle—the Kore-Virgin.

This archetype is personified by the most revered Virgin goddesses of the classical Greek world including Persephone, Artemis, Athena and Hestia. One-in-herself, the Kore helps us see how Saturn symbolizes a deep integrity grounded in our essential nature and character.

Drawing on Safron Rossi’s book The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology, the seminar will explore the astrological meaning of Saturn alongside the Kore archetype, its mythology and core psychological themes, as well as Saturn natal placements.

This event is hosted by MISPA, register here.

Frida Kahlo: A Portrait of Destruction as the Cause for Becoming

Frida Kahlo: A Portrait of Destruction as the Cause for Becoming

Frida Kahlo: A Portrait of Destruction as the Cause for Becoming

Online Webinar at Astrology University

The Frida Kahlo we know, who looks out at us from her extraordinary and unsettling paintings with a mesmerizing gaze, was born on the verge of death. Her life was shaped by losses and undoings that were at the same time the very sources of her creative genius as an artist. From a depth psychological perspective this pattern can be described as “destruction as the cause for coming into being” (Sabina Spielrein).

Astrologically, this is the terrain of Neptune and Pluto which symbolize those transformative forces of the psyche. Like Kahlo, our lives too are shaped by Neptunian and Plutonian losses and undoings. Their presence in our lives, as described by our birth chart and by transit, herald deep and profound changes which seem to demand relinquishment of who and what defines us so that a deeper sense of being may be born.

Drawing on the mythic figures of Coyolxauqhui, the Mayan Moon goddess and the Greek Persephone and Hades, archetypal psychology and Kahlo’s chart, we will explore and consider what Neptune and Pluto may be offering us in terms of that facet of soul that comes into being through destruction. 

Online seminar hosted by Astrology University, register here.