2024-25 Season
We are pleased to announce that we will be running our 2023-24 event at the Tranzac Club, located at 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, Ontario. The location is barrier free/accessible with non-gendered washrooms, just steps from Spadina Subway Station and not far from Bathurst Subway Station. Events will be hybrid with the option to join in person or remotely via Zoom with a few exceptions.
Palm Reading and Astrology with Barbara Rodrigoe
This presentation will give the basics of palm reading while connecting these to the same concepts in astrology.
You may also want to bring a paper copy of a photograph of your own palms, left and right, as you will be working with these throughout the day. There will also be exercises where you can work with a partner to practice reading the palms.
Winter Social
We hope you can join us to celebrate, meet some of our new board members, chat about astrology and make some new friends too!
The event will be catered! Vegetarian, vegan, dairy free and gluten free options will be available. Please email us if you have any dietary concerns.
International Astrology Day - Free Mini Readings
To commemorate International Astrology Day, members of Astrology Toronto will be offering free 10 minute mini readings to the public. Explore your destiny and life’s path. This event is free for both members and non-members to attend.
The Power of Phases with Robin Armstrong
The eight phases of the moon, the eight phases of the zodiac and the eight phases of the houses will be explained while linking them to the eight trigrams of the I Ching. New layers of understanding come alive from this viewpoint.
The Comprehensive Medical Zodiac with Judith Hill
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Annual General Meeting & Social
This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person or join online via Zoom.
The AGM is always such a high point, celebrating our esteemed speakers and accomplishments throughout the year. It’s a great time to connect with old friends and meet new people.
Vocational Astrology with Faye Blake
Recognizing your calling, talents, and communications skills. Discovering how to profile yourself for best results.
Faye’s approach to vocational work is to engage the client in the process and help them discover: Who am I? What am I capable of? What do I want?
Huber Method with Faye Blake
The horoscope can be seen as a clock. This idea was developed in the 60′s by Bruno Huber, a Swiss astrologer who created the technique of Age Progression and the Age Point which, in his view, highlights psychological development.
Awakening with Pluto- Evolutionary Astrology For A New Era with Iris Gildea
As Pluto moves into Aquarius, it gives us an opportunity to awaken to new approaches of how we interpret and work with Pluto in Evolutionary Astrology. This workshop will reframe Pluto in terms of how it's traditionally positioned, especially narratives that tend to pigeonhole people and their charts into 'doomed' or 'negative' experiences. Applying a trauma informed lens of Pluto, we can come into a fresh & reclaimed co-creative relationship with the great transformer.
Annual General Meeting & Social
The AGM is always such a high point, celebrating our esteemed speakers and accomplishments throughout the year. It’s a great time to connect with old friends and meet new people.
We will be welcoming new members to the board and honouring some who are stepping down as well as sharing a preview of our 2024-25 speaker line up.
May Weekend Intensive with Adam & Ashley Elenbaas
Our weekend intensives are small, intimate events. We generally have 30-40 participants so there will be many opportunities for connecting with fellow participants and with Adam and Ashley. This year we will be offering a hybrid event with opportunities to join in person or online . The event will take place at the Tranzac Club (Main Hall), located at 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7.
Is Astrology Divination? And Why it Matters - with Hal White
For years the famed British astrologer Geoffrey Cornelius promoted the idea that astrology is divination and considered the ramifications of that perspective for natal, horary, and rectified charts, among others. The opposite approach, the scientific one which is almost as ancient, holds that planets are causes. So are your life changes based on causes--what the planets made you do or influenced you to do--or are they non-causal?
International Astrology Day - Free Mini Readings
To commemorate International Astrology Day, members of Astrology Toronto will be offering free 10 minute mini readings to the public. Explore your destiny and life’s path. This event is free for both members and non-members to attend.
Mini Reading Tutorial with Julie Simmons
In this workshop we will explore what it takes to have the confidence to read charts for utter strangers with no preparation and not much time. We will investigate the mechanics as well as the qualities and quandaries of doing such a thing. There is nothing that can sharpen your intuition as quickly as this kind of experience. If you are curious, insecure, skeptical or would like to share your own experience please join us. This is a companion event to International Astrology Day in March.
Integrating Astrology into a Holistic Psychotherapy Practice with Jennifer Fukushima
Since the turn of the 20th Century, astrologers have increasingly incorporated psychological concepts, theory and language into their work. Although there is a very rich documented history of psychological astrology, it is much less common that psychotherapists use astrology in their work in a public and visible manner.
Winter Celebration
We hope you can join us to celebrate, meet some of our new board members, chat about astrology and make some new friends too! The event will be catered! Vegetarian, vegan, dairy free and gluten free options will be available.
Elemental Lament, a Wholistic Grief Care Framework with Laur Kelly
Please note, this event will run online only. Elemental Lament is a wholistic grief care framework that centers the way astrology can be used as spiritual care in hard times. In this workshop, we will have discussions about how the wisdom of the signs and planets can guide us in our responses to our own grief and that of our clients and communities.
Exploring Ancestral Themes with Astrology with the Divine Wellness Collective
What happens when you combine ancestral healing work with astrology? Join us for an introduction to basic concepts of using Astrology to begin to identify and heal your ancestral family themes.
Chiron: Heart Warrior & Inner Alchemist with Hugh Smiley
A new vision required of this evolutionary period in global humanity is that of Unity. Shaman-Teacher Chiron helps us know our several parts (sometimes hurt or broken), then get them communicating & integrating for the mending process towards that unity.
2023-24 Season Updates
We are pleased to announce that we will be running our 2023-24 event at the Tranzac Club, located at 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, Ontario. The location is barrier free/accessible with non-gendered washrooms, just steps from Spadina Subway Station and not far from Bathurst Subway Station. Events will be hybrid with the option to join in person or remotely via Zoom with a few exceptions.
Annual General Meeting
Join us for our Annual General Meeting, Saturday June 24th, 1:00-4:00pm. The AGM is always such a high point, celebrating our esteemed speakers and accomplishments throughout the year. It’s a great time to connect with old friends and meet new people.
Jason Holley
Due to the experiential nature of this event, it will be run in person only, in Toronto, Ontario.
Friday, June 2 2023, 7-9pm EDT Psychologizing the Ancient Doctrine of Sect: Day, Night, and Twilight Consciousness
Saturday, June 3, 2023, 10am-5pm EDT Encountering the Planets of Night - Exploring Moon, Venus, and Mars through Action, Image, and Story
Sunday, June 4, 2023, 10am-5pm EDT Engaging the Planets of Day - Exploring Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn through Action, Image, and Story
Conception: Where Fertility Meets Astrological Timing - Tamara Sophia
This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person or join online via Zoom. In this workshop, we will examine the natal promise of fertility. Then we will explore the timing around when conception happens. We will discuss the research done by Dr Jonas on the “Fertility Angle” and to better understand it, review the cycles of the transiting Moon to the Sun.
An afternoon with Neptune: Will the real Neptune please stand up? with Priscilla Costello
This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person or join online via Zoom. Does it only signify confusion, delusion, and illusion OR does it encompass the highest that human beings are capable of: compassion, unselfish love, inspired creativity? How can we handle Neptune's gifts: special sensitivities, heightened intuition, and psychic and spiritual gifts?
International Astrology Day
This event will be in person only.
To commemorate International Astrology Day, members of Astrology Toronto will be offering free 10 minute mini readings to the public. Explore your destiny and life’s path. This event is free for both members and non-members to attend.
Astrology Mini Reading Tutorial with Jennifer Fukushima
This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person or join online via Zoom. In preparation for International Astrology Day, professional astrologer and psychotherapist in training, Jennifer Fukushima will lead a tutorial on how to conduct a 10 minute mini-reading. Through her work for a popular astrology app, Fukushima has perfected her technique for cold readings . . .
Time Stacked Aspects with Crystal Eves
This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person or join online via Zoom. In this workshop we’ll be looking at basic aspects and the changing way that they activate over time as planets transit the zodiac. This will help inform our understanding of the aspects as a dynamic process rather than a static feature of the chart and will bring awareness to this inherent time feature of all aspects.
Understanding and Cultivating Relationship with Rahu & Ketu with Billy J. Choi-Gekas
This is a hybrid event with options to attend in person or join online via Zoom.
In this workshop, Billy will offer a dismantling of common misconceptions of Rahu (lunar north node) & Ketu (lunar south node) that have created harm, rather than offer wisdom and discernment in relation to karma.
Winter Celebration
We will be gathering at The 519 on Church Street in Toronto, Ontario. The board will be providing food, snacks and refreshments. This will be a social so we won’t be doing a presentation.
Meaningful Matter: Pairing Astronomy with Astrology with Mel Priestley
Mars is red and signifies bloodshed and violence; Saturn is the last planet visible to the naked eye and signifies boundaries. The astronomical qualities of the planets match up with their astrological meanings in many ways – some obvious, some surprising. In this presentation, we’ll find out why astronomy and astrology really aren’t so very different.
10 Mistakes Astrologers Make When Selecting Launch Dates with Milada Sakic
Join us on Oct 15th (1-4pm via Zoom) to learn best practices in selecting launch dates in life and business for more ease and success and with least hassle!
This lecture comes after 12 years of teaching Horary & Electional Astrology and mentoring many professionals in integrating best horary practices in their astrology work and 20+ years of practice and testing what works well.
Chiron the Wounded Healer with Norma Lachance
In this interactive session, Norma will discuss the mythology and astrology of Chiron. Participants are encouraged to send in their birth details to astrologydva@gmail.com as the seminar will be an intimate look at Chiron in your own chart. Cycles, signs and house placements will be covered as well as the potentials effects of transiting Chiron.
Summer Social Picnic Potluck
Members past and present are welcome. Bring a friend, bring a blanket or a folding chair. This will be a potluck event so feel free to bring a snack or homemade treat. We look forward to catching up after such a long pause!
AGM
Join us for our Annual General Meeting, Saturday June 25th, 2:30-5:30pm. The AGM is always such a high point, celebrating our esteemed speakers and accomplishments throughout the year. It’s a great time to connect with old friends and meet new people. We will be welcoming new members to the board and honouring some who are stepping down as well as sharing a preview of our 2022-23 speaker line up.
Sam Reynolds presents Emplacing Old & New Astrology into Contemporary Practice
Emplacing Old & New Astrology into Contemporary Practice. Friday: 21st Century Challenges of Relevancy and Relatability in Astrology, Saturday: Classical and Modern Approaches to Synastry in Practice, Sunday: Using Astrology to Thrive Through Life
Triplicity Lords and How to Use Them with Mo
Do you ever wonder why some fallen or exiled placements seem to be beneficial in some ways? Have you noticed that some placements that are not in domicile or exaltation seem to be performing strangely well? The answer to these questions lies in the other forms of essential dignity! While most of the focus later in the Western Astrological traditions has centered on looking at placements in their domicile, exaltation, fall, and detriment; there 3 other tiers of essential dignity that can add nuance to the expression of a planet and the consequences it has for the topics it rules.