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Experiential Reading Group: Ovid’s Metamorphoses


Wednesdays 9am-11am Pacific - starts April 8, 2026

9-Session Online Experiential Astrology Course

$585 / person - by February 15, 2026

$625 / person - after February 15, 2026

Maximum 14 participants

This experiential reading course is an in-depth exploration of Metamorphoses, the remarkable Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, composed around 8 CE, that chronicles the history of the world from creation to the time of the writing, unified by the central theme of transformation. It weaves together Greek and Roman legends, featuring famous stories like Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, and the fall of Troy, exploring themes of love, cruelty, and the ever-changing nature of existence.

In a small group setting of no more than 14 students, we will engage figures ranging from a wide range of gods and mortals, such as Apollo and Daphne, Perseus and Andromeda, and the story of Aeneas. We enter and participate in the stories directly through action methods including writing, dreamwork, art-making, movement, embodiment; and we study them through their associated astrological symbols — signs, planets, houses, asteroids — in our own horoscopes. You will come to understand these symbols and the range of stories, feelings, sensations, desires, dreams, action urges, and relational orientations they carry; and also, be a part of a re-dreaming and re-weaving of the myths and stories we so need in contemporary times. As well, you will develop skills in working with symbolism and myth, and the arts of divination, healing, magic, and initiation that this story depicts.

This course will meet 9 times weekly for 2-hour sessions. Between class each week, we will all read a portion of the epic as well as 2-3 hours of supplemental reading or video material, including original material from Jason and Chris as well as articles and video from the archetypal. Jungian, classics, and astrological traditions. In class, we will explore the story experientially through action methods including writing, movement, dreamwork, art-making, astrodrama; as well as through conversation, discussion, and imaginative contemplation of horoscopes, transits, and progressions.

What Is Experiential Astrology? Description and Participant Sharing

How to Enroll: if you would like to participate, please use the links below next to the group meeting time that you prefer.  These take you to a time zone selection page; once you enter your time zone, all the dates of the class are listed.  When you confirm the dates, you are taken to a page including the Participation Agreements.  Please take your time to read and make sure these feel good to you.  Then you can proceed to payment.  

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Wednesdays 9am-11am Pacific - starts April 8, 2026

Questions? Email Steven Sprung at hermeshestiacenter@gmail.com