Who should attend the Apprenticeship Program?

Bottom line, the door is open to anyone who is interested in combining modern depth psychology with ancient metaphysics. We use the language of reincarnation, but we focus on the right use of free will and imagination in the present tense. Today each one of us is creating tomorrow - and to do it right we need to sit down for an honest chat with the ghosts of yesterday.

That is the philosophy in a nutshell. If you are comfortable with that, welcome to the AP!

Many students in the Program have gone on to establish private astrological practices. While it is perfectly acceptable for someone to join the program purely for purposes of personal growth, the heart of the astrology helps people. Our ultimate aim is to maximize that benefit to the human community. Always, the focus of the AP is upon presenting the material in the counseling context.

What about qualifications for joining? They are fairly minimal. If you have a basic understanding of the meanings of signs, planets, houses and the core mechanisms of astrology, that is enough. You need only to “speak the language,” in other words. A good way of saying it is that a person is qualified if he or she has internalized a few of Steven Forrest’s books.

That said, many advanced astrologers, even professional ones, are members of the program. Steven’s style of Evolutionary Astrology is different enough from conventional forms of the art that it has attracted a wide range of practitioners. His approach is to go deeply into the primordial elements of astrology rather than to focus on obscure technical procedures.

This philosophy lends itself comfortably to having a wide range of experience levels represented in the groups. People sometimes ask how the AP is different from the other seminars Steven offers around the world.

 While the material and philosophy are the same, there are distinctions. Astrology is a wide-ranging field and its full power can only be reached integratively. Steven might teach about secondary progressions in Australia then about the phases of the Moon in Georgia - but only members of the AP learn how the two pieces of the puzzle fit together. Members of the AP family share their own stories too, which vastly enriches our visceral understanding of the way the symbols actually work and feel. In a nutshell, the AP simply goes a lot deeper.

Astrological hobbyists are quite welcome, but it is fundamentally a professional program.  Once a person has attended a single four day seminar, we consider them part of the family. They are then bound to confidentiality regarding any personal material revealed in the group. They also qualify for access to the vast backlog of recordings and transcriptions of all the previous meetings of the program, plus a collection of donated personal readings which Steven has done over the years. This represents a library of monumental proportions, and allows any student to catch up with the group.

If all this feels good to you, please feel welcome to join us. The work is rigorous, but the group is warm and open.