A 4-Hour Experiential Online Workshop

Register Here with the Astrology Collective (based in Perth, Australia)

Mars lies poised within us like the reflexes in our bodies: ever ready for action. In this experiential workshop, we will seek to connect with Mars in a way that is both embedded in layers of myth, astronomy, and horoscopy; and embodied in layers of instinct, emotion, and sensation.

We will begin with an exploration of Mars stories told in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, offering us many different lenses, whose evolution over time also tells us much about the different ways Mars enters and exits our lives and the changes we experience.  We will especially examine Mars undergoing initiation, where impulse and desire are tempered into purposeful power.

The stories of Nergal, Ares, and Mars speak to crucial questions of Soul in our time, such as experiences of separation, trials, re-incorporation, sickness, violence.  They offer meaningful distinctions and ways of working creatively with impulse and instinct, anger and rage, protection and defense, power and will.

Once embedded in the stories, we will then explore Mars in ways very natural to this creature: with our bodies in action — using movement, instinct, sensation, and emotion.  Through techniques developed for the online setting, we will relate with the living field of the symbol in our own and in one another’s charts.  In this experiential approach to the symbol, we dream the dreams of the ancients onward, experiencing in a first-person way the meaning of Mars placements, aspects, and transits.

Come to the workshop with an openness to the possibilities of Mars, and a willingness to move and be moved.  Depart with a richer, more multidimensional, and more instinctual understanding of this remarkable symbol of the Guardian of Night in your own life and in the lives of others.

Register Here with the Astrology Collective