STA - School of Traditional Astrology

Preserving the transmission of astrology as a line of continuation between past, present and future practitioners. Find us on Instagram: @STAastrology.

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

Serious about studying horary? The STA Practitioner Level Horary Course returns in October 2025 – a 20-week, tutor-supported programme with live classes and a focus on practical skill.
Check out full details:
https://t.co/7QU4pe6wlp

#HoraryAstrology

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

@wadecaves The STA has over two hundred 100% 5-star independent reviews on Trustpilot, many of which give detailed insight for anyone who is wondering about what it feels like to take an STA course - https://t.co/xIpxnnFFSG

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

Upcoming deliveries of our specialist courses, online and in-person.

» Horary online, Mar 2025
» Horary LIVE in NYC with Wade Caves (@wadecaves), Apr 2025
» Horary LIVE in Melbourne with Eve Dembowski, Jun 2025
» Astronomy online, Oct 2025

🔗 Details: https://t.co/yWDUHmBuZY

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

@wadecaves These are not ‘pay-your-money’ then work through-the-material-yourself courses, but courses where every tutor cares about imparting as much useful theoretical knowledge and practical insight as possible.

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

Congratulations, Denise!

[Deborah Houlding @DeborahHoulding]

I am so proud of the way this course has developed and spread. It was always a labour of love for me & I know all STA tutors feel exactly the same. It is a privilege & a joy to be able to help good astrologers gain a footing in something that can do so much good in wise hands.

[AyEm 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 @AyEm]

The BEST course for learning Horary (and further understanding traditional astrology). Highly recommend!!! *****

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

Our next qualifying horary astrology course begins October 2024. See course details here: https://t.co/kulH5rimPS.

[Victor Olliver @VictorOlliver]

My Practitioners Level Horary Astrology Course certificate from the School of Traditional Astrology. Next, its frame. @STAastrology

[Victor Olliver @VictorOlliver]

I have completed and passed the practitioners' level course in horary at the STA School of Traditional Astrology. 5 stars via @Trustpilot https://t.co/HnzlR1ROOP @STAastrology

[Deborah Houlding @DeborahHoulding]

Beautiful artefact from the time when astronomers understood the zodiac's value for aiding identification and calculation of planet & star positions.
"Unequal [seasonal/planetary] hours [defining Placidus house cusp] are also numbered from I to VI to XI"
https://t.co/xHhmyXNIso

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

Registration now open for an in-person delivery of the Practitioners Level Horary Astrology Course. Get qualified in horary this summer, live in New York City!

Offered over two consecutive weekends in August, with some online supplements.

Course details: https://t.co/Mek7FQCU0V

[Victor Olliver @VictorOlliver]

Wade Caves joins the Brighton Astrology Circle on 15 May to discuss horary. @wadecaves. A Zoom event. Book your place for access. Wade is a superb teacher and among other things is attached to the School of Traditional Astrology. @STAastrology
https://t.co/08N0C6z71M

[Victor Olliver @VictorOlliver]

My editor's letter in the March/April issue of The Astrological Journal....

The eternal student learns to be a judge (at last)

At a time of life when I should be on a cruise ship idling away my third age, I have gone back to school. I am rediscovering brain cells I thought long since expired. I enrolled on a practitioner’s level horary course and started it a few weeks ago. One effect of this has been to refamiliarise myself with the reasons I was drawn into astrology in the first place. The sense of the esoteric blended with essential mystery and demanding rigour. And I mean rigour.

I was once a law student. I told one of my horary tutors, Deborah Houlding, that the horary course is giving me déjà vu. I feel like a law student again. Reading and practising law requires paying very close attention to wording – what precisely is being articulated in a statute or legal precedent? The forensic-like approach of horary may be likened to the workings of the justice system – indeed, Deb reminded me sometime back that astrology has a judicial nature: the astrologer is asked to form a judgement on a question after consideration of many factors in a horoscope. This can only happen if value is attached to planets and other matters, just as a judge and jury will weigh the evidence in a court case to see whether a burden of proof is met.

A clairvoyante once told me back in my late teens that I would one day be a judge. I assumed then that she meant the bewigged pass-the-port type. Could she have meant a horary judge?

Learning a classical or traditional technique from the William Lilly source does not mean that I have turned my back on modern approaches. I already apply old rules such as essential dignity in my draconic practice. Students may very well go onto apply Lilly’s rules – which derive from old and ancient sources – to contemporary innovations, but I am persuaded that horary itself as presented requires abiding to the given instructions in the process of finding the right answer.

As I scroll through this latest issue of Journal, I am struck by the sheer variety and versatility of astrology, representative of different traditions and techniques. The late great Erin Sullivan is remembered by many other senior astrologers, such as Ray Merriman and Nick Campion. And as a tribute we are rerunning an extract from her wonderful book on astrocartography, or Astro*Carto*Graphy as she preferred. Erin was an electric charismatic with a profound sense of integrity, and she is missed by her many friends and colleagues.

Please welcome Alison Boulton to our pages. She has written a great piece on Mercury as ‘psychopomp’, a word new to me when I first read her essay. It means a guide of souls. Alison explores Mercury’s active role in notable death charts by transit and secondary progression, the hermaphroditic messenger of all the other gods acting as escort to whatever next life. It is an intriguing observation and I hope she develops this theme into a book.

Also, please welcome another newcomer to this magazine, Rosanne Finn, introduced to us by her publisher Jenn Zahrt. Rosanne offers a new perspective on Pluto and what happens in history when it is out-of-bounds, as it will be between 2025 and 2035 (to the south) for the last time for the next few thousands of years.

Never give up on learning!

[Wade Caves 🌒 Astrologer @wadecaves]

So excited to be doing something LIVE again! :)

[STA - School of Traditional Astrology @STAastrology]

Registration now open for an in-person delivery of the Practitioners Level Horary Astrology Course. Get qualified in horary this summer, live in New York City!

Offered over two consecutive weekends in August, with some online supplements.

Course details: https://t.co/Mek7FQCU0V

[Skyscript.co.uk @Skyscript]

https://t.co/rgSqCjwAyb

The Skyscript page on Pisces is a feast: in-depth dive into its symbolism; tabulated significations; famous example charts; original artwork & the whole thing available as a PDF too.
Written & compiled by @DeborahHoulding

#Pisces
#Astrology
#zodiac

[Wade Caves 🌒 Astrologer @wadecaves]

In 1983, Olivia Barclay judged a horary to determine where a Russian spy satellite in free-fall would make contact.

Today, I published an article exploring Olivia's methodology and applied her logic to a chart about ERS-2's natural descent toward earth: https://t.co/ydLZX3xk4q.

[Wade Caves 🌒 Astrologer @wadecaves]

We're back, with 4 new countries and a program that's bound to entice.

The World Astrology Summit runs 30 & 31 March – to see the full program, visit the conference page: https://t.co/WzkCy97yq7.

$95 general admission for 18 talks from world-class astrologers on mundane themes.