CPA London
Staff
Juliet Sharman-Burke
Juliet Sharman-Burke has been practising astrology
and tarot for over twenty years. She has been teaching and supervising
for the Centre for Psychological Astrology since its inception
in June 1983, and now runs the Centre’s administration.
She is also a qualified analytic psychotherapist with a private
practice
in London.
Juliet is the author of The Complete Book of Tarot, The Mythic Tarot Workbook, Understanding Tarot, Mastering the Tarot, Beginner’s Guide to the Tarot, and co-author of The Mythic Tarot and The Mythic Journey with Liz Greene.
She has also written The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Stars, a book for children, The Family Inheritance: Parental Images in the Horoscope (Vol. 3 of the CPA Press Seminar Series) and The Astrologer, the Counsellor and the Priest (Vol. 2 of the CPA Press Seminar Series) with Liz Greene.
Darby Costello
Darby Costello studied psychology, philosophy and theology in
America in the mid 1960s. After some travel she returned to the
US to study astrology in Boston, first with Francis Sarkoian and
Louis Acker and then with Isobel Hickey. In 1971 she went to South
Africa for a brief visit and stayed twelve years. During that time
she worked with the Museum of Man and Science, in Johannesburg,
recording the art and practices of the samgomas; the diviner/healers
of Southern Africa. Concurrently she began doing charts for people,
gradually developing a wide clientele over the years. In 1983 she
came to London. During the first few years she developed her practice
and began giving workshops and seminars to various groups, while
deepening her own knowledge of astrology's cultural history. In
1988 she joined the Centre for Psychological Astrology where she
has been teaching and supervising students ever since.
She is also a visiting tutor for the Faculty of Astrological Studies
and
teaches and lectures regularly throughout the UK and Europe. She
wrote her first book, Astrology, for Dorling Kindersley's "Pocket" series,
with Lindsay Radermacher. She then wrote three books of seminar
collections for the CPA Press: The Astrological Moon, Water and
Fire, and Earth and Air. She was one of the four contributors to
the The Mars Quartet, published in 2001.
Lynn Bell
Lynn Bell was already an astrologer when she wandered
from America's Midwest to a Parisian garret over 20 years ago. Her
work centers on a busy consultation practice, and an active round
of teaching and lecturing in France and the rest of Europe, the United
States and most recently, Australia and New Zealand.
She has been a regular teacher at the CPA since 1995, and her research on geneaology and astrology was published in a seminar book, Planetary Threads, with CPA Press in 1999. She is one of four co-authors, with Darby Costello, Liz Greene and Melanie Reinhart, of The Mars Quartet (CPA Press 2001).
Karen Hamaker-Zondag
Karen Hamaker-Zondag started her astrological practice
in 1975. She is a founding member of two schools in Holland: an astrological
school, Stichting Achernar, founded in 1980, and a school of Jungian
psychology, Stichting Orderir, founded 1987.
A leading astrologer in Holland she also lectures extensively throughout the world and first began lecturing for the CPA in 1997. In 1999 she was invited to teach at the first real and official Astrological University in the USA, Kepler College, and be a member of the staff. This University is entitled to educate students for a Liberal Arts Degree, and will develop a program for a Masters Degree.
She is the author of many astrological books including Foundations of Personality, Psychological Astrology, Horary Astrology, The Yod Figure and Unaspected Planets and The Twelfth House.
Clare Martin
Clare Martin was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and spent
her childhood in Zambia. She discovered the Faculty of Astrological
Studies in 1987 and has been a Faculty tutor for the last 12 years,
teaching both Certificate and Diploma students. Her particular interests
are psychological astrology and the history of astrology, specifically
its mystical, hermetic and alchemical roots. Currently President
of the Faculty, Clare is working with other Faculty members to establish
new courses and assessment criteria which will enable the Faculty
to play a central role in the return of astrological studies to British
universities. Clare has a Masters degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling
and works as an integrative psychotherapist and consultant astrologer
in London.
She began teaching the CPA’s Introduction to Psychological Astrology course in the mid 1990s, shortly to be published in book form by the CPA Press. Clare is also a supervisor at the CPA and a regular contributor to the CPA Seminars. As a Cancerian, Clare’s non astrological life revolves around her family, pets and three children, and she likes to escape to Cornwall whenever possible!
Dermod Moore
Dermod Moore was born in 1963 in Dublin. A former
actor and Speech & Drama teacher, he is a columnist, writer
and is well known on the Internet where he used to moderate the
Psychological
Astrology discussion group. He is a both a qualified Psychosynthesis
counsellor and a qualified psychotherapist.
Dermod moved to London in 1993 to study at the Centre for Psychological Astrology. He holds their Diploma, created and edited Apollon, the Journal of Psychological Astrology, from 1998-2001, and is now a supervisor and lecturer at the CPA.
For information about Dermod's services as an astrologer, please see his brochure at: www.dermod.moore.name
Alexander von Schlieffen
Alexander von Schlieffen was born in 1964. He
studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Since 1989 he
has shown work at various exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland
and
exhibited various
art projects in public spaces. The main focus of his artistic
work is on portraits.
He studied astrology in Cologne earning a Diploma from the astrological association of Germany (DAV). He lives and works as an astrologer and artist in Cologne and Berlin. Alexander teaches astrology at the DAV-schools in Berlin and Cologne, at the SFER in Salzburg, the Sarastro College in Vienna, Austria and lectures for the CPA.
John Green
John Green was born and lives in London. Previously
he has worked as a research scientist and as a web designer designing
sites such as this one for the CPA. He is a writer of both fiction
and non-fiction and has had work published in encyclopaedias, popular
magazines and in Apollon, the Journal of Psychological Astrology
which was published from 1998-2001.
He has been involved with astrology for over 20 years and studied here at the Centre for Psychological Astrology where he qualified with the Diploma. Currently, he works as an astrology consultant and he is running the CPA Beginners Course from September 2003.
For information about John's services as an astrologer, or to visit his psychological astrology message board go to: www.psychologicalastrology.com
Current Planets
28-Apr-2026, 16:33 UT/GMT
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| Sun | 8 | 24' 1" | 14n18 | ||
| Moon | 3 | 56' 8" | 3s39 | ||
| Mercury | 21 | 44'19" | 6n28 | ||
| Venus | 5 | 29'22" | 22n00 | ||
| Mars | 14 | 36' 5" | 4n55 | ||
| Jupiter | 18 | 35'53" | 22n32 | ||
| Saturn | 8 | 53' 3" | 1n32 | ||
| Uranus | 0 | 8'43" | 20n01 | ||
| Neptune | 3 | 11' 7" | 0n03 | ||
| Pluto | 5 | 29'42" | 22s48 | ||
| TrueNode | 7 | 17'50"r | 8s50 | ||
| Chiron | 27 | 21'42" | 10n51 | ||
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