Dean’s Update, June 2025

Solstice blessings, everyone. I write to you just a few days past Jupiter’s entry into the sign Cancer. It is not an easy time in California where I live. Jupiter is making a square to Saturn and Neptune in early Aries. Unlawful abuse of military might and deceptive leadership. Tension and fire in the streets. But I don’t want to venture into an article about mundane astrology. Rather, let’s move in the direction of celebrating the high road of what Jupiter in Cancer brings. Steven will discuss the Saturn and Neptune conjunction on our solstice celebration call this week. I’ll focus upon Jupiter moving through Cancer here as I share reflections about our time in Greece.

I want to start by recognizing our tutor, colleague and good friend, Linda Walker, who is leaving the FCEA as staff in June. One of the first group of graduates from the FCEA, Linda has been a critical player at the school through her hard work and talent in overseeing many of our classes and assisting our tutors in instruction. She is also a phenomenal tutor and gifted evolutionary astrologer. Some of you know I am currently in my progressed Full Moon phase. The progressed lunation cycle is such an amazing guide throughout our lives, suggesting the questions we might ask ourselves and the steps we might take in a thirty-year long period (we teach about the progressed lunation cycle in FCEA 301: The Moon). When I first met Linda Walker, I was in the progressed first quarter Moon phase and, as Steven says in The Book of the Moon, “the rubber met the road” in the development of the FCEA. I couldn’t have made the school survive without Linda’s sharp eye for correction and constructive assistance. In essence, Linda helped fine-tune the operations of the school. A compassionate and caring soul, Linda was always there for our staff, our students and for other tutors when they needed her loving support and knowledge about the FCEA.

Linda will always be part of our FCEA family. We wish you all the best, Linda!

A few weeks ago, I returned to the “office” from our FCEA “Astrological Odyssey in Greece,” the workshop in Athens with Steven and then our Sacred Site Journey throughout many of the most spiritually-moving temples and sacred spaces of the Peloponnese peninsula. I am so thankful to have the love, talents and leadership on this trip of Steven and Lisa Jones, our FCEA tutor who, through her company, Aquarius Rising, offers outstanding astrology-themed workshops and travel opportunities. Truly my soul sister, Lisa made our journey into the kind of shared FCEA family gathering that I dreamed of. And I want to also thank our students and members on the journey too. Meeting each of you was such a blessing. Whether we were sharing insights into a sacred site like Mycenae, walking the streets of Athens or Nafplio, checking out Greek musicians in front of storefronts or eating souvlaki together at Olympia, magic of the love of family was there.

I’d like to share with you my most memorable moment, during our visit to Delphi, one of the most sacred sites in all of Greece. Prior to the trip, I spent weeks reading up on the history of the site and the famous oracle, a highly revered prophetess. She was a gifted woman who channeled the Divine (mostly Apollo, though Dionysus was also present at the site). She assisted both those in high places of power and authority and lesser folk, who at times, had more intimate and personal questions. There was something about the oracle I felt we needed to absorb as a group, we needed to feel and witness in our hearts. And there she was in full glory, her spirit, her soul. I gathered a small bottle of the sacred water, meditated among the stone blocks of the adyton, the “holy of holies” of the oracle of Delphi, and climbed the gradual path that led us through the ancient structures. It was the wind, the mountain air, that caught me off guard. “Let it move within you, let your healing intuition be a part of life’s journey. You have work to do, dear lady. Don’t lose sight of the sacred way”. I feel I was lucky to receive a special message that day from the oracle. And I was blessed to share it in my heart right there with those true family I love the most.

Weeks have gone by and now Jupiter is in Cancer. The planet conjuncts my north node in the 4^th house this summer. How can I listen to the oracle? How can I heal and nurture my soul? Of course, as FCEA students and community, you all know: look at my natal 3rd house Gemini Moon. But I feel it is really through loving you in Cancer style, dear community, to bond and commit to my FCEA clan.

In July, we will honor our new 2025 graduates. Our FCEA family is so blessed to have them as an integral part of our school. Look for more celebratory news about this group of talented evolutionary astrologers in the July newsletter. We are so proud of them!

Happy solstice to all.

Catie Cadge, PhD
June 2025