Astrologer and Star Love Podcast Host, Daniel Beck, and the Founder of the Centre for Myth Cosmology and the Sacred, Angela Voss

This podcast was recorded on January 27, 2021 at 8:00 Central Time.

On this episode of the Star Love Podcast, I’m excited to welcome academcian and diviner extraordinaire, Angela Voss. Angela had a singular career as a classical musician who felt deeply moved to excavate and import the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of Renaissance music back into performance practice. We discuss Angela’s move into academia where she and Geoffrey Cornelius pioneered the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred at Canterbury Christ University. She then founded the independent Centre for Myth Cosmology and the Sacred to reach a wider global audience. Emphasizing the divinatory and magical nature of astrology, Angela’s work asks us to reimagine an enchanted universe where we can find the lines of good fortune. Join us and be thrilled by the sounds of Monteverdi and open yourself to a type of divination that is mysterious, uplifting, and ecstatic.

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Time Stamps for Time Keepers

0-Introduction

8:00-Angela’s Introduction to Astrology

10:47-Angela’s Musical Background Involving Philosophy and Spirituality

22:30-Renaissance Healing Music

31:43-Angela’s Monteverdi “Awakening”

42:32-Monteverdi’s Success at age 41

44:07-Angela’s Personal Astrological Connection with Monteverdi

48:35-Angela’s Work at Canterbury Christ Church University

52:09-The Hermeneutic Cross

57:40-Closing

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Moment of Astrology

By Cornelius, Geoffrey

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The cover of Moment of Astrology features an image of Father Time, Orpheus, and a rising sun, emphasizing a ritualistic framework for astrology. The image was created by an anonymous 16th-century Venetian artist and comes from a small furniture panel in the style of Giorgione.

On episode 10 of the Star Love Podcast we welcome astrologer Geoffrey Cornelius. I’ve long been an admirer of Geoffrey’s work that has personally helped me in my astrological journey. The arguments, concepts, and stories put forth in his book Moment of Astrology: Origins in Divination have profound implications not only for astrology but science, the humanities, and how each of us lives in modernity. To support the production of the Star Love Podcast, leave a tip in the Leave a Tip, Make a Wish page. Please rate us on apple podcasts, and if you’d like to sponsor a future podcast, email james@innermakeup.net.

This episode was recorded July 23, 2020 at 9 AM Central Time.

Time Stamps for Time Keepers

0-21:29 Introduction, Geoffrey’s background, his plans for the future, some of the basic concepts arising from Geoffrey’s work, and the implications of accepting those ideas

21:30-30:23 Astrologer William Lilly’s work, Geoffrey’s take on how astrologers interpret Lilly, and living in a disenchanted yet scientifically enlightened age

30:24-43:15 The meaning behind the cover of Geoffrey’s book Moment of Astrology and what it points to regarding a divinatory, ritualistic conception of astrology

43:16-53:50 The Oracle at Delphi and how and why people sought the oracle

53:51-1:03:10 Implication of Ptolemy’s redefinition of astrology as a natural science

1:03:11-1:24:59 Skeptical arguments against astrology from Christianity, Renaissance Humanists, and Contemporary Humanists

1:25:00-1:30:55 The interaction between modern science and astrology

1:30:56-1:44:39 Fate, destiny, negotiating with destiny, and fun anecdotes

1:44:40-1:47:35 Psychoanalysis, psychology, and astrology

1:47:36-end Sun sign astrology and astrology in the wider society

Notes, Links, and Book Recommendations

Link to Geoffrey’s Website Astrodivination.com

Link to Company of Astrologers, the group Geoffrey and his colleagues founded in 1983.

Link to the speech Geoffrey delivered to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Lilly.

Make sure to pick up Geoffrey’s book The Starlore Handbook. I use this one quite a bit, and it’s beautifully straightforward with regard to the mythology behind the constellations and fixed stars.

Throughout the podcast the concept of time comes up. Authors who articulate different philosophies of time include Urusla K. Le Guin in her book The Dispossed, Thomas Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, and Philip K. Dick in Time Out of Joint. Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow specifically references astrology, divination, psi phenomena, the Kabbalah, and tarot. Purchase the books in the embedded links.

For a great work of classic literature that deals with themes of fate, free will, character, and imagination, all concepts explored with examples in this podcast, pick up Thomas Hardy’s classic The Mayor of Casterbridge. There are many quotes from this book throughout the podcast.

The theme of enchantment vs. disenchantment comes up throughout the podcast. Salman Rushdie elucidates this beautifully through his great work of children’s literature, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Purchase this book to get in touch with the idea that imagination is critical to life.

For an intriguing look into spirituality, faith, atheism, astrology, and skepticism, pick up famous journalist and socialite Sally Quinn’s memoir Finding Magic. There are a couple of fun stories about Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens!