Darby Costello was born in America and studied astrology in Boston in the 1960s. From there she went to Africa, where she worked with tribal healers and diviners. Now she lives in London where she teaches and writes books for the Centre for Psychological Astrology, founded by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas in 1984. Her first book was The Astrological Moon.
Darby is a visiting tutor for the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London and teaches and lectures throughout Europe and occassionally other parts of the world. In 2006 she taught in Bali and in 2008 in America. In 2009 she will be teaching in Bali again!
Darby has recently been awarded a Master's Degree in 'Cultural Astronomy and Astrology' by Bath Spa University. This has given her a greater taste for history and a deeper love of writing. However, her first love in astrology is doing charts and her worldwide clientele is the ground out of which her astrological inspiration is nourished.
PLUTO IN CAPRICORN - UAC LECTURE
For those of you who bought the CD of my Pluto lecture at UAC in Denver, here are the images that I promised you.
The Dark Lord and his Melancholy Minister
This talk focused on Pluto's placement in the natal chart during its time
in Capricorn and its relationship to transiting Saturn. During the fourteen
years of Pluto in Capricorn, Saturn will transit one half of our charts. We
looked closely at this dynamic so to navigate with attention and care the
deep work signified by Saturn as it transits each house, realigning us with
our work in ourselves and the world.
You can listen to the CD and click here to follow the story by moving from image to image. I hope you enjoy it.
For those of you who want to buy the CD, here is the link to the UAC shop. There were some wonderful lectures given at this UAC and they are offered on this website: Browse through them and choose those that excite your imagination!
ARTICLES
Carter Memorial Lecture given
at the Astrological Association annual conference in York
29th August, 2003
Heaven Obscured; Confusion in the People; Navigating
the Tides of Change
Astrologers everywhere are living in a heightened state
of awareness this year because Uranus is changing signs. Even more interesting,
it is entering into mutual reception with Neptune. We are all looking for
clues in history, watching the news, and observing each other and ourselves
for signs of the new conditions we might expect. For an astrologer the pleasure
of this leads to the work of translating what we discover into every chart
we do; bringing the patterns of the outer planets with their sweeping, collective
stories right into the heart of personal lives. We are the navigators, reading
the winds and tides for those who call on our skill and art...
more...
Desire
and the Stars
In the 1970s I was living in Southern Africa and practising astrology in Johannesburg.
The people who called to consult me came with their desires and questions,
which I attempted to answer through the medium of their astrological charts,
as every astrologer has done since the beginning of time. However, again and
again I felt another longing beneath the desires they were voicing when they
came to consult me. I found myself listening, as if with an inner ear, while
I tried to divine exactly what these deeper longings and desires might be...
more...
Remembering
Eros
A Ficinian Response to Love in the Nineties: a Dialogue between an Astrologer
and a Student in a cafe in the rain.
[extract] ...So, what [Diotima] is saying is that when I fall in love, it
is eternal beauty that I am seeking, even if I don't know it. And then, because
I don't know it, I become disillusioned when the person turns out not to behave
beautifully at all - and to be honest, when I see myself behave in a most
unbeautiful fashion, the disillusionment gets worse. I had not seen that the
person I fell in love with was carrying the spark of something divine. In
order to remain in the state I've achieved through falling in love, I must
maintain "right conduct" and must nurture the good in myself and in the other...
more...
Born
in the Sixties
During the late 1980s students who had been born in the mid-sixties began
arriving at the CPA. I had been looking forward to meeting this group with
their potent Uranus-Pluto conjunction with Neptune in Scorpio. This configuration
had begun to intrigue me since I was now beginning to come across it in the
charts of people who came to consult me. They were either in the middle of
their Saturn return or approaching it and although over the years I had seen
thousands of people through their Saturn returns and remembered my own with
its tensions and crystalisations, this generation was expressing a very different
order of tensions and developments. There was another reason this group intrigued
me; they were born in the sixties, and those were the years when my generation
was young, and having a most extraordinary time... more...
Recovering
the Garden of Venus
In
the early sixth century a bishop from Padua wrote a poem for a bride and groom.
In this poem, Cupid went to see his beautiful mother, Venus, in her lush garden,
complaining that their 'old empire' had been lost, and now 'cold virginity'
possessed the world. 'Arise! Shake off your sleep!' he tells her. But she
replies that she will not leave her garden yet; 'We shall be all the stronger
for our rest. Let the nations learn that a goddess grows in power when no
one thinks of her. In our world today it is not 'cold virginity' that has
driven Venus into her hidden garden, but our ongoing anxiety and our terrible
over-stretched busy-ness....
more...
BOOKS
Astrology
Darby Costello & Lindsey Rademacher
Dorling Kindersley, 1996.
No longer available As New, but can be purchased 'Used - Like New' from
AmazonUK or AmazonUSA
(Type 'Darby Costello' into Search box.)
The Astrological
Moon
CPA Press,
1996
Reprinted in paperback, CPA Press,
2003
Water
& Fire
Part One: Water, The Womb, Death, and the
Dream.
Part Two: Fire and the Imagination; The Heart of our Story.
CPA Press, 1998
Earth
& Air
Part One: Earth, the Ground of Life.
Part Two: Air, the Breath of Life.
CPA Press, 1999.
The Mars
Quartet
Four Seminars on the Astrology of the
Red Planet
Lynn Bell, Darby Costello, Liz Green & Melanie Reinhart
CPA Press, 2001
Interview with Darby in MERCUR magazine, November 2002
Interview with Darby in THE MOUNTAIN ASTROLOGER, April 2004
FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
1.
In Conversation with Mercury
21 June,
2008
This seminar will be
given as part of
The Astrology Student Conference
21 - 22 June 2008
10:30 - 5:30 in London
The
London School of Astrology
Venue
Friends House
173 Euston Road (opposite Euston station and bus terminal)
London
See www.londonschoolofastrology.co.uk for details
2.
You and Your Time Tribe : 'My' Life in 'Our' World
22 June 2008 10:00am - 5:00pm
The Centre for Psychological Astrology
Regents College, Inner Circle, Regents Park, London NW1
Nearest tube: Baker Street
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold their positions in relation to each other for months, even years at a time. They form patterns that become generational signatures, describing the images and thoughts prevailing in society at the time. When we become adults we act out of those birth images and thoughts more than we know.
In this seminar we shall explore
the assumptions and expectations of different generations / configurations-
for example contrasting the people born in the mid 1960s (with Uranus Pluto
in Virgo sextile Neptune in Scorpio) group to those born in the early 1970s
(with Pluto and Uranus in Libra and Neptune in Sagittarius). We shall also
look at the outer planet configurations in the last few years, to see what
the present children are absorbing about the world to bring into their own
future.
Bring your charts on transparencies if you are willing to share your experiences.
The Centre for Psychological
Astrology
BCM Box 1815
London WC1N 3XX, England
Telephone/Fax: +44-(0)20-8749 2330
Administrator: Juliet Sharman-Burke
CPAlondon@dsl.pipex.com
Please note: all one-day seminars
are on Sundays between 10am and 5pm. There are two coffee breaks and a lunch
break. You are welcome to bring charts (preferably on acetate for use with
an OHP) for discussion to all seminars.
Fees for One-Day Seminars are £50.00
To book for this seminar, for a list of other CPA seminars, and full
directions: Click
Here
for information about the CPA, go to: www.cpalondon.com
3.
The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture
3rd Postgraduate Research Conference
Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 July 2008
Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Wales
Lampeter
Venue
Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution
16-19 Queen Square
Bath BA1 2HN
Speakers will include (subject
to alteration)
• BERNADETTE BRADY (Bath Spa University & University of Wales, Lampeter)
• LIZ GREENE (Bristol University & University of Wales, Lampeter)
• ROB HAND (Catholic University of Virginia & Kepler College
• PETER KEBELL (Bristol University)
• DARRELYN GUNZBURG (Bristol University)
• CRYSTAL ADDEY (Bristol
University)
• IAN DAVIS (Bath Spa University)
• CHRIS MITCHELL (Bath Spa University)
• JENNIFER FLEMING (Bath Spa University)
• DARBY COSTELLO (Bath Spa University)
• MARY WEHUNT (Bath Spa University)
• JAMES FRAZIER (Bath Spa University)
• MAURICE MCCANN (Bath Spa University)
£25 to attend one day / £35
to attend both days (includes vegetarian buffet lunch and refreshments) ADVANCE
BOOKING IS REQUIRED. Please send this form together
with payment to:
Dr Nick Campion (Sophia Conference)
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Wales
Lampeter, Ceredigion
Wales SA48 7ED
UK
or email enquiries to n.campion@lamp.ac.uk
Looking forward to 2009
4.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Recurring Planetary Themes
Darby Costello with Michael Lutin
Astrology in Bali
May 6 - 15th, 2009
For details see www.heavenandearthworkshops.com
For other Heaven and Earth workshops click on pic
