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Queering Synastry
Reading Relationships Beyond the Binary
A four-week workshop series with Rowan Oliver
Queer Synastry rejects the binary of “compatibility” in astrology.
In its place, Queer Synastry offers depth, grounding, and guidance for strong and healthy relationships of all kinds. Abandon limiting beliefs, stereotypes, and assumptions about astrological relationships and level up your skillset and your relational awareness in this revolutionary new workshop series
What’s inside
Module 1
Let’s Talk About Sect, Baby:
Planetary Relationships
Dive into the concept of Sect and how the planets behave in individual and synastry charts. What drives you, and what powers lurk below the clouded surface of your own experiences? You’ll learn how to identify individual and combined strengths and weaknesses, harness planetary energies, and build harmonious relationships between people and planets.
Module 2
Elements and Modality:
Overcoming Sign Stereotypes in Synastry
The signs are so much more than what they offer on the surface. By delving into the building blocks of what makes the signs unique, you’ll discover new ways of interacting with the signs and the planets that occupy them. Who are you at your core, shirking all expectations of how you’re supposed to move through the world? The signs hold the keys to understanding the motivations behind what drives our interactions with one another.
Module 3
Touching, Teasing, Tugging, Tension:
Aspects & Angles
In this module, we explore the aspect relationships between planets and the angles of the birth chart. What can you see, what can you touch, what can you identify with? The aspects unlock avenues to relational understanding and acceptance that transcends “easy” and “difficult” assumptions about the relationship between planets in both individual and synastry charts.
Module 4
Yours, Mine, Ours:
House Relationships in Synastry
Every house is a relationship house. This module covers how planetary placements within another's houses affect the lived experience of the individuals within a relationship. How do you show up in your own world, and how does that differ from the worlds of others that you engage with? Using a blend of traditional and contemporary significations of the houses, you’ll be empowered to embody your role in your own and your partners’ lives with intention and clarity.
Course Schedule
Queering Synastry is offered in two parts: a weekly lecture covering the core concepts of synastry chart interpretation, and office hours utilizing student and other example charts to put these techniques into practice.
Module 1: Planets
Lecture: Thursday, June 26 | 5pm PST
Office Hours: Sunday, June 29 | 3pm PST
Module 2: Signs
Lecture: Thursday, July 3 | 5pm PST
Office Hours: Sunday, July 6 | 3pm PST
Module 3: Aspects
Lecture: Thursday, July 10 | 5pm PST
Office Hours: Sunday, July 13 | 3pm PST
Module 4: Houses
Lecture: Thursday, July 17 | 5pm PST
Office Hours: Sunday, July 20 | 3pm PST
Lecture recordings will be made available after the live class. Office hours will not be recorded to preserve the confidentiality and privacy of those in the space.
Sliding Scale Pricing
Sliding Scale Pricing
Choose-your-own pricing and payment structure. The higher tiers help make this work possible and contribute to the financial stability of my queer, trans, disabled household; the lower tiers reflect that much of our community is experiencing severe financial insecurity in our current sociopolitical climate, and I strive to make my work as accessible as it can be. If you would like to participate in the workshop series, but are experiencing financial hardship and are unable to access any price point, please reach out using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Please choose the plan that best suits your material reality. No questions asked, no judgements made.
Queer synastry is for everyone.
Whether or not you identify as queer/LGBTQ+, queer synastry is for you. Queer synastry rejects cisheteronormativity and embraces diversity in the ways we all approach relationships to each other and the lands we live on. Whether you’re a practicing astrologer looking to level up their astro toolkit, or an astrology enthusiast who wants to approach their relationships with more intention and awareness, Queering Synastry is exactly what you’re looking for.
This course and its material are inclusive of people of all identities, backgrounds, genders, relationship styles, and sexualities. Queer synastry, and my astrology practice, are based on a foundation of consent and collaboration. I expect those who engage with this space and my work do so from a place of respect and openness to others and their identities. This space employs a zero-tolerance policy for racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and any and all other forms of oppression.