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!

www.uacastrology.com/shop/shopping.cgi

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. Navigating the Tides of Change
20-22 March 2009

A two day seminar at Trill Farm

This workshop is for those who are interested in observing our current times from the viewpoint of planetary cycles. During these two days we will observe the astrological patterns for 2009 and consider how we may each use the information to the very best of our potential.

The venue for this workshop is a 300 acre working farm on the Dorset/Devon border, close to the sea and 2 miles from Axminster. Accommodation is in the recently renovated old stable block which has been retro-fitted to the highest ecological standards. The place is wondrously beautiful, and everything that can be organic, is organic!

Trill Farm
Musbury
Devon, EX13 8 TU

2. THE FIRST AND SEVENTH HOUSES: ME AND YOU OR I AND THOU

14 June 2009 10:00am - 5:00pm

Whenever we engage with another person as an equal and opposite Other, we are moving from our Ascendant to our Descendant, and from our first house to our seventh. Navigating such relationships is a large part of our work as psychological astrologers. To understanding the dynamic between these two fields, we need to understand the nature of their rulers and inhabitants, as well as the planets that progress and transit through these opposing houses. The work of this seminar will be to bring to light the recurring difficulties we face and the way these difficulties are resolved, when we engage in any sort of ‘partnership’ no matter how brief or lasting.

The Centre for Psychological Astrology
Regents College, Inner Circle, Regents Park, London NW1
Nearest tube: Baker Street

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

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

Astrology in Bali: May 6 - 15th, 2009

Why are we here? What are we doing? All of us are born into the world with centuries of lives woven into our beings. As living seeds grow in fertile wombs, our ancestors meet and mix the genetic material that becomes our own. We are born and take our first breath and our birthchart is a picture of that moment. It is also a picture of the power and potential of our lives - and the struggles and limitations within which we will forge those lives.

Is there some mysterious purpose for our landing in one particular family? Whether we chose it or not, one fact remains: The horoscope describes with uncanny accuracy our early life on Earth and the situations, circumstances and events which form our vision of reality, including the gifts we are given and the damage that is done. How much can we change and how much must we accept? That is the purpose of this workshop.

May 6 - 15th, 2009

For details see www.heavenandearthworkshops.com

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