Book Group

Meets online: the second Monday of the month, 6:00 - 7:00 pm Eastern Time
Next meeting: June 9th, 2025, Chapters 5 - 7 will be discussed

All Boston Chapter members are welcome! Join at any time. It is OK if you can’t commit to every meeting.

Current Book: The Astrology of Family Dynamics by Erin Sullivan

Meeting dates and Chapters to read:

February 10th - Introduction and Chapter 1 - The Individual and the Collective

March 10th - Chapters 2 - The Nuclear Family as a System and Chapter 3 - Family Patterns and Family Trees

April 14th - Chapter 4, The Sun and Moon in Families

May 12th - Chapters 5 ended up being the focus of the meeting

June 9th - Chapter 5 (brief review) and chapters 6 - 7

July 14th - TBD

August 11th - TBD

Session Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81888705203

Host: Leyza Toste, NCGR Boston Membership Director
To learn more email Leyza at
ncgrboston@gmail.com.

Additional resources:

Erin Sullivan left the earthly plane in December 2023 and no longer has an active website. However, some of her recorded material is available on YouTube and she has articles on astro.com.

Erin references the use of Bernadette Brady’s JigSaw software in her work. JigSaw is divided into three sections, family patterns, rectification, and research. Each section is composed of a distinct and different set of tools created for examining the astrological relationships between people and life. NCGR members enjoy a 15% discount on this software. To obtain the discount code, login to your NCGR account for the Affiliate Discounts List.

Chapter 2, page 36, references Arthur Miller’s play, Broken Glass, that “dramatizes the fact that we cannot view anything in our environment without a context of some sort. The context in which an individual develops is the family, and the development of the family is in the context of the culture…”.

Prior Reads & Related Resources

Queer Cosmos - The Astrology of Queer Identities & Relationships, by Colin Bedell


Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine by Demetra George and Douglas Bloch

Additional Resources:

Demetra’s Asteroid Resource Guide - includes related blog posts, talks on asteroids, information about Demetra’s Asteroid Goddess report, resources for asteroid calculations, and a free video Asteroids: Windows into Fate and Destiny

Asteroid Goddesses Personal Report $25. This personalized astrology report is generated using your birth data and based on Demetra George's ground-breaking best-seller Asteroid Goddesses. You'll gain valuable insight into the role of four of the major asteroids in your chart, along with expanded delineations and concepts not found elsewhere.

Demetra’s related class recordings.

The Astrology Podcast - The Asteroids in Astrology with Demetra George

The Asteroid Ephemeris 1900 to 2050

Asteroid Goddess ‘cheat sheets’ created by Kiera Thompson (primary source is Demetra George’s Asteroid Goddesses book)


Astrology as a Therapeutic Art: Healing Human Relationships by Greg Bogart and a related Astrology University course.


Postcolonial Astrology: Reading The Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat

 
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