Since astrology by nature is a complex cosmology, many people become overwhelmed early on in their understanding and abandon the study of this ancient world view.

Patterns of Fate was born out of desire to teach astrology in a way that anyone who wanted to learn would be able to. We started with premise that astrology lives in each of us, in our sensations, our felt experience, how we express ourselves and how we make sense of the outside world.

We wanted to teach using all of these faculties, basically bringing astrology home to our own experiences.

At first we worked in living rooms and spaces in cities in the US where people wanted us to teach. We used the charts of the participants as our textbook and all the forms of experiential learning- movement, music, art, writing, play acting- to ground the intellectual denseness of astrology.

We found that the retreat model worked the best. Learning intensively in EXPERIENTIAL WAYS WHILE LIVING IN COMMUNITY seems to facilitate integration and understanding. Hope Springs Institute in Ohio where we have worked since 1995 provides an excellent learning environment , a large teaching room for movement and expression, a smaller sacred space for dream work and moon study, wonderful food, nurturing staff and land the held us and the work.

Currently we now have three models under the umbrella of Patterns of Fate

• Patterns of Fate 5 day Retreat
  for intensive astrological study at Hope Springs In Ohio.

• Leadership, Astroogy and the Moon
  3 long weekends in at Kennedy Learning Center at Kieve in Maine over 9 months for women usingd astrology and moon phase work to inform and embolden their leadership style.

• Patterns in Pairs/ Pairs in Patterns
  Dates to be announced. We envision it as working with partners of whatever nature in a long weekend format to understand how astrology helps to give language to the complex field of relationships.