August 23 from 5 - 6:30 pm PT | ONLINE FREE OPEN TO ALL EVENT
As Above, So Below
An astrological and archetypal exploration of The Great Turning
With Lydia Violet and Verana Faye
Every era asks something of the people who live within it.
Ours asks for extraordinary courage, discernment, and enduring love. As old systems unravel and new ones struggle to be born, each of us is invited into a profound question: What is mine to do? How do we stay rooted in beauty while responding honestly to the suffering of our world?
We are living through a time of profound upheaval. Authoritarianism is tightening its grip in many places. War and genocide shatter our hearts while their relentless scale threatens to numb us. Climate disruption and mass extinction continue to reshape the living world.
In times like these, we need wisdom from every direction.
For thousands of years, people have looked to the living sky, not to escape the world, but to understand it more deeply.
Astrology and the living sky give us, (and have always given us) ensouled fodder for how to understand, make meaning, and move forward through these times. Join us as we turn toward the Earth and the archetypal, listening for the wisdom they have always offered in times of great uncertainty. They remind us that we are not navigating this moment alone, but within a living cosmos that has held humanity through every age. The sky, the universe, and the stars have always been our companions.
Beneath every age of upheaval, the stars have continued their ancient conversation, patiently reminding us that we are participants in a much larger story.
For this first gathering, we'll focus on two of the defining astrological signatures of our time:
the Saturn-Neptune conjunction unfolding across 2025 and 2026, and the Uranus-Pluto trine shaping the years 2025-2028.
Saturn and Neptune ask us to reckon with uncertainty, grief, illusion, endings, and the longing for meaning. They invite us into the lifelong movement between doubt and faith, between disillusionment and deeper truth.
At the same time, Uranus and Pluto awaken the evolutionary pulse of this era. Together they speak of profound transformation, courageous imagination, and the revolutionary possibilities that emerge when old structures can no longer contain new life.
Taken together, these transits offer a remarkable invitation:
To root ourselves deeply enough that we can meet disruption with devotion, and to answer revolution not only with resistance, but with soul.
Bring your questions about the cosmos, the Earth, this extraordinary historical moment, or your own life. Come to wonder, to wrestle, to listen, and to imagine. We will laugh, grieve, contemplate, and weave meaning together as we seek our place within this great turning.
About Your Space Holders
Lydia Violet
Lydia is an Iranian-Armenian-American Joanna Macy scholar, musician, artist, and creator of The School for the Great Turning. She also studied archetypal astrology under Dr. Rick Tarnas in graduate school and finds great empowerment and perspective in the lens of archetypal cosmology.
Verana Faye
Verana is an Ashkenazi Jewish, birth and full-spectrum doula, educator, artist, and professional archetypal astrologer, sitting with her clients at all life thresholds, inviting courage, creativity, and care to lead the way through the mystery.
Lydia Violet
Lydia is an Iranian-Armenian-American Joanna Macy scholar, musician, artist, and creator of The School for the Great Turning. She also studied archetypal astrology under Dr. Rick Tarnas in graduate school and finds great empowerment and perspective in the lens of archetypal cosmology.
Verana Faye
Verana is an Ashkenazi Jewish, birth and full-spectrum doula, educator, artist, and professional archetypal astrologer, sitting with her clients at all life thresholds, inviting courage, creativity, and care to lead the way through the mystery.