CPA London
The Centre for Psychological Astrology
The CPA was originally created by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas in 1983 to provide a unique workshop and professional training programme, designed to foster the cross-fertilisation of the fields of astrology and depth, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology.
Its main aims and objective are to provide students with a solid and broad base of knowledge both within the realm of traditional astrological symbolism and technique in the field of psychology, so that the astrological chart can be sensitively understood and interpreted in the light of modern psychological thought, and to encourage investigation and research into the links between astrology, psychological models and therapeutic techniques, thereby contributing to and advancing the already existing body of astrological and psychological knowledge.
From origins to the present
The Centre for Psychological Astrology began unofficially in 1980 as a sporadic series of classes and seminars offered by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas, covering all aspects of astrology from beginners’ courses to more advanced one-day seminars. In 1981 additional evening courses and seminars by other tutors were interspersed with those of Liz and Howard to increase the variety of material offered to students, and Juliet Sharman-Burke and Warren Kenton began contributing their expertise in Tarot and Kabbalah. It then seemed appropriate to take what was previously simply a random collection of astrology classes and put them under a single umbrella, so in 1982 the “prototype” of the CPA - the Centre for Transpersonal Astrology - was born.
In 1983 the name was changed to the Centre for Psychological Astrology, because a wide variety of psychological approaches was incorporated into the seminars, ranging from transpersonal psychology to the work of Jung, Freud, and Klein. The Diploma Course was eventually created, with additional tutors, including Darby Costello, Lynn Bell, and Melanie Reinhart, joining the staff. The Centre continued to develop and consolidate its programme despite the tragic death of Howard in 1992, when Charles Harvey became co-director with Liz Greene. Juliet Sharman-Burke took over the administration for the Centre in 1994 and continues to do so.
At the beginning of 2000, Charles Harvey sadly died, leaving Liz Greene as sole director. The original Diploma Course was eventually discontinued but was recreated in a new and innovative form by John Green through his own on-line school, MISPA, the Mercury Internet School of Psychological Astrology, with many of the CPA tutors now offering online seminars and supervision groups. In close partnership with MISPA, the CPA itself continues to offer beginners’ courses in psychological astrology taught by John Green, and a series of online seminars offered each year by Liz Greene, along with e-book versions of selected CPA publications available through the MISPA website.
