Astrological Research Methods

with Becca Tarnas | she/her

Astrology has been maligned in recent centuries as an unverifiable pseudoscience, a paragon of superstition. Yet astrology once held an honored position in high culture, a role that anyone initiated into the astrological tradition is aware should be reinstated. A way to reestablish astrology’s credibility to a wider audience is for astrologers to develop rigorous methods of research, in order to systematically approach the study of astrological correlations. This workshop will explore techniques and methods for approaching such research, laying forth some foundational structures that can help deepen one’s astrological practice and study, and present convincing cases for astrological validity.

Level: All Levels

Prerecorded and available for instant download

1hr 22 min | includes audio and video

Becca Tarnas, PhD, is a scholar, artist, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies, with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien. Her research interests include depth psychology, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. She teaches in the Jungian Psychology and Archetypal Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.