Enquiring into Astrology
With Steve Mackey and Janice Stewart
This is a historic page which was used by people who enrolled in first semester 2021 in the course Enquiring into Astrology at the University of the Third Age group in Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia. This course finished on 7 June, 2021.
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Invitations to discussions on each topic will be emailed to the group for 10am on the Mondays shown.
Please be sure to watch the relevant videos and MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION before each session.
You may need to skip ads on the raw Internet videos.
All the best, Steve
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Enquiring into Astrology is an attempt to come to terms with Richard Tarnas’s turn to astrology in Cosmos and Psyche after his first major book titled The Passion of the Western Mind. The Passion is an excellent conventional history of ideas which we studied in 2019 and 2020.
SEMESTER ONE 2021
Dates Topics
Feb 15 Contemporary astrology and horoscopes, (Janice)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FOR FEB 15 (You may need to click Libra's scales) Notes
March 1 Technical features of astrology, (Janice)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FOR MARCH 1 Notes
March 15 Ptolemy, history's famous astrologer/astronomer, (Steve)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FOR MARCH 15 Notes Graphic 1 Video 2 Video 3 Planets in astrology History of astrology
April 12 Elizabethan, Shakespearean and 17th Century Astrology, (Steve)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FORAPRIL 12 Notes Video 1 Video 2 Romans
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Reversion back to face to face sessions
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April 19 Australian first nations’ sky culture, (Steve)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FOR APRIL 19 Before Galileo, Message Stick, ABC Video 2 Video 3 Notes
May 3 Carl Jung’s astrology and psychology, (Steve & Janice)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION (STEVE) MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION (JAN) Notes (Steve) Notes (Jan)
May 17 Richard Tarnas’s astrological vision, (Steve & Janice)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FOR MAY 17 Notes
Tarnas describes his own project More Tarnas Videos (my favourite is the penultimate one where he is introduced by his daughter Becca) - (2012-16-03)
June 7 Richard Tarnas’s planets and epochs, (Steve & Janice)
MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION FOR JUNE 7 Notes (Steve) Notes (Jan) The Planet Suite
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THE BELOW INFORMATION IS SUPERCEDED
ALL 2021 INFORMATION IS ABOVE
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SEMESTER ONE 2020
Page numbers refer to Richard Tarnas's The Passion of the Western Mind.
1. February 17 From Homer to the High Middle Ages (pages 1 to 209 [skim]) notes
2. March 2 Petrarch and Classical Humanism (pages 209 to 219) handout notes
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3. ZOOM April 27 The Renaissance (pages 220 to 232)
video 1 video 2 RENAISSANCE MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
4. ZOOM May 4 The Reformation (pages 233 to 247)
video 1 video 2 video 3 REFORMATION MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes video suggested by Ralph
5. ZOOM May 11 The Scientific Revolution (pages 248 to 271)
video SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
6. ZOOM May 18 The Philosophical Revolution (pages 272 to 281)
video 1 video 2 video 3 PHILOSOPHICAL REVOLUTION MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
7. ZOOM June 1 Foundations of the Modern World View (pages 282 to 323)
video 1 video 2 video 3 FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN WORLD VIEW MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
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SEMESTER TWO 2020 (Online)
1. ZOOM September 7 Images of the Human from Copernicus to Freud (pages 325 to 332)
video 1 video 2 video 3 IMAGES OF THE HUMAN FROM COPERNICUS TO FREUD MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
2. ZOOM September 21 The Modern Mind - Locke, Hume, Kant (pages 333 to 354)
video 1 video 2 video 3 (A) LOCKE AND HUME MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION (B) KANT MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
3. ZOOM October 5 The Crisis of Modern Science (pages 355 to 365)
video 1 video 2 video 3 CRISIS OF MODERN SCIENCE MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
4. ZOOM October 19 Romanticism and its fate (pages 366 to 394)
video 1 video 2 video 3 ROMANTICISM AND ITS FATE MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
5. November 2 The Postmodern Mind (pages 395 to 413)
video 1 video 2 THE POSTMODERN MIND MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
6. ZOOM November 16 Epilogue to Tarnas's Book (pages 415 to 445)
video 1 (only) EPILOGUE MAIN ONLINE PRESENTATION notes
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I am cooperating with two other U3A Port Fairy members to devise a possible 2021 course as follows:
ENQUIRING INTO ASTROLOGY:
The course would start with horoscopes then consider the wider age-old fascination with the stars including that of ancient Alexandrian astronomer/astrologer Claudius Ptolemy (100 - 170 CE.), psychologist Carl Jung and philosopher Richard Tarnas. It will consist of online recorded 45 minute video talks with slide demonstrations followed by 60 minute Zoom discussions for all class members a few days later. The Zoom discussions would take place on the first and third Monday of the month at 10am starting on the third Monday of February.
Books which we have been consulting for this course include: ...Steven Forrest's The Inner Sky...Tarnas’s Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view and his subsequent controversial book: Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. ...Carl Jung's Man and His Symbols and his The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious; ...Rossi & LeGrice's Jung on Astrology; Claudius Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
ON OCTOBER 7, 2020 I presented a paper relevant to this project to a combined audience of 28 from Swinburne University Complex Processes Research [philosophy] Group and the Port Fairy U3A Western Philosophy class via Zoom. The paper was titled Richard Tarnas's mysticism in the light of Schelling and corona virus, a dialectical discussion between Steve Mackey and Arran Gare. Here is the paper and here is an audio visual of my talk. You might also like to listen to Tarnas describing his own project I am continuing to seek views on this potential course.
Steve
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[ALL THE INFORMATION BELOW REFERS TO 2019. THE 2020 INFORMATION IS ABOVE]
SEMESTER ONE 2019
February 18 The Greek World View (pages 1 to 12) notes
March 4 Ideas and Gods (pages 13 to 18) notes
March 18 The Birth of Philosophy (pages 19 to 25) notes
April 1 The Greek Enlightenment (pages 25 to 31) notes
April 15 Socrates (pages 31 to 40) notes
May 6 The Universal Mind (pages 41 to 47) notes
May 20 The Planets (pages 48 to 54) notes
June 3 Aristotle I (pages 55 to 62) notes
June 17 Aristotle II (pages 62 to 68) notes
July 1 The Dual Legacy (pages 69 to 74) notes
SEMESTER TWO 2019
Aug 19 The Classical Era is transformed (pages 73 to 90) notes
Sept 2 Plato's Socrates versus Jesus (pages 91 to 119) notes Also hear BBC's In Our Time: Neoplatonism
Sept 16 Disputes in Christianity, St Augustine (pages 120 to 154) notes Also hear BBC's In Our Time: The Apocalypse
Oct 7 Holy Spirit, Holy Mother, Rome, Pope (pages 155 to 170) notes
Oct 21 Medieval reasoning, the Scholastics (pages 171 to 190) notes
Nov 4 Dante, Ockham, High Middle Ages (pages 191 to 208) notes Also hear BBC's In Our Time: William of Ockham universals and nominals