An Introduction to

Cosmos and Psyche

What You'll Learn in this Course

In this course we’ll explore one of the most important astrology texts of our times: Cosmos and Psyche. This book is a richly layered demonstration of planetary aspect theory at work. Drawing on years of research, Richard Tarnas reveals the connection between planetary cycles and archetypal experience on Earth.

This book is often considered difficult to approach, both in its volume, but also in its depth and thoroughness. Your instructors will help make this book more accessible to read and appreciate while uncovering its rich and inspiring message.

We won’t have time to read the entire book in this four-week course, so we will focus on the Saturn-Pluto chapters to examine some of the resonant themes of our current times. Then Safron Rossi will guide us through the first three sections, in which we see the value of astrology as an antidote to destructive existential and mechanistic thinking in addition to learning how to see and engage with the living archetypal world.

cosmos and psyche

Logistics

  • Week 1: The Archetypal Telescope and Planetary Archetypes
  • Week 2: In Search of a Deeper Order
  • Week 3: Myths, Muses and Cosmos
  • Week 4: Saturn-Pluto Cycles of Crisis and Contraction
The course includes a unique and powerful exploration of the Saturn-Pluto cycle.
 
The original lessons were recorded during the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of 2020. You’ll get access to recordings of rich conversations that provide a window into that cycle while it was unfolding. This provides students with powerful insight into this cycle and how collective transits are experienced. 
 

Required text: Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas
Instructors: Dr. Safron Rossi and Tony Howard

$295 (audit) / $350 (diploma-track*)

Next Live Dates: March 28 through April 14, 2024

Live Q&A Sessions: March 31 at 11:30am, April 7 at 3pm, April 14 at 11:30am, April 21 at 11am (all times Pacific time)

Course includes: 8+ hours of instruction, four live Q&A sessions, discussion area, weekly reading assignments and homework. Video, audio, and handouts are available to view and/or download.

*The diploma-track option includes feedback on your homework and an exam review by teaching assistants and instructors. Audit students receive the same study materials and videos but do not receive personal feedback on their work.

Level: Best for those who have had at least a basic introduction to the planets in astrology. Perfect for students looking for support in reading and working with this text, as well as those pursuing our four-year training program diploma. You do not have to be enrolled in the program to take this course. 

Your Instructors

Safron Rossi

Dr. Safron Rossi

Senior INSTRUCTOR

Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is Associate Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program, teaching courses on mythology, archetypal symbolism, and research. Safron is editor of Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), and co-editor with Keiron Le Grice of Jung on Astrology (2017).
Her research areas are Greek mythology, archetypal psychology, and astrological symbolism and practice. She is passionate about writing and publishes articles in Jungian, Archetypal, and astrological journals and lectures across the US and internationally in Europe, Brazil and Australia.
 
Safron is also consulting astrologer and loves engaging with clients to explore their charts.
Tony Howard

Tony Howard

SENIOR INSTRUCTOR

Tony Howard is the founder of Astrology University. 

Tony’s writing has been features in The Mountain Astrologer magazine in addition to the Flare anthologies: Astrology, the Next Generation and The Book of Music Horoscopes.

Tony is passionate about sharing an astrology that empowers people to consciously co-create life as an engaged participant. Through his website TheAstrologyCoach.com he coaches both clients and astrology students to find inspiration, creative solutions and fresh insights using the cosmos as a guide.

Rave Reviews

"Just the right amount of depth and exploration. Saffron and Tony are excellent. Together they bring the academic depth of the material down to earth."
– Angela B.
“Kudos to Tony and Saffron for this excellent and thought-provoking course about a complex and magnificent book that is vital to every astrologer’s understanding of the breadth, depth, power, and brilliance of both astrology and the Universe that contains it. Utterly fascinating!”
– Karen W.
“Tony, your lectures have been stellar. It's clear that you're rigorously thinking through the order in which we need to hear the information to facilitate our actually taking it in. Moreover, you're also resisting the temptation to make the meanings formulaic, and thus overly reductive. I think it's quite remarkable that after a mere three lessons, I'm starting to grok how to think astrologically.”
– Susan Shannon
DANE RUDHYAR

“To live one’s life in terms of the revelatory message symbolically implied in one’s birth chart is to live a life in terms of the sacred character of existence.

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