We’re Growing! Get to Know Our New Team Members
Dean’s Update, September 2025
We’re Growing! Get to Know Our New Team Members
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Dean’s Update
- We’re Growing! Get to Know Our New Team Members
Equinox blessings, FCEA community! We are at the start of our last semester prior to the new year. Enrollment is strong. We have been implementing new policies, fine-tuning registration, and embarking on developing new 400-level curriculum. We had a productive Virgo season!
I have some exciting news to share. We recruited several new staff members and work-study students, while also expanding our teacher pool with the help of some of our very talented tutors. We are so grateful for all of them and their commitment to the FCEA. Uranus moving retrograde in early Gemini in a trine to Pluto retrograde at one degree Aquarius is opening our hearts and minds to creative solutions and radical new ideas in making the FCEA a brilliant place to study Steven’s methods and evolutionary astrology.
Let me briefly introduce our new team members. First, I want to say “thanks” to three of our current tutors, Ryan Evans, Fern Vuchinich and Shirley Waram, who have agreed to don a new FCEA “hat” and join us as teachers. Keep your eyes open and you’ll see more of them on our Zoom orientation and course Q and A calls. Next, we are thrilled to expand our amazing group of tutors with four new talented evolutionary astrologers.
I’ll start with Penelope Love, who has been serving as a tutor since the start of 2025. Penelope is also expanding her FCEA role by being a teacher for us as well. Master-certified through our program, Penelope has been critical to the success of our school through her dedicated work as registrar (along with Paula Wansley) and Communications Coordinator. She has three decades of experience as a writer, editor and publisher, and she has taught writing through college courses. As a tutor and teacher, she brings her love and a caring heart as educator as well as her skills in evolutionary astrology. Thank you, Penelope, for all you do with the FCEA!
Sarah Beck joined our tutor team last January, so I know some students have already experienced Sarah’s gift for gentle, yet, helpful, comments and her loving support. Sarah recently graduated from the FCEA program and is a master-certified evolutionary astrologer. Sarah also has a strong educational background. She is a compassionate tutor with many years of experience teaching and training yoga instructors. We feel most fortunate to have Sarah serve our students with her many talents!
Vivien Jiang is our first tutor to hail from the continent of Asia. Another recent graduate of our program and a master-certified evolutionary astrologer, Vivien has worked in training management and has designed courses in KPI (Key Performance Indicators) coaching. As well as being a talented astrologer, she is also a conference translator. Her language and interpersonal skills will be so useful in the FCEA classroom. Welcome, Vivien! We are looking forward to working with you so much.
Our fourth new tutor is Ruby Glasspool, another very talented, master-certified evolutionary astrologer, who is also a recent graduate from the FCEA program. In addition, Ruby is a new FCEA teacher and she will be working as an instructional assistant with a primary focus upon the synastry courses and 300-level curriculum. Ruby loves to teach and leads very popular astrology circles in the UK where she lives. She brings a passion for education to the FCEA and many gifts in speaking and sharing our sacred craft. Ruby also has many talents in administrative tasks and organization that we are certain will be a great help to keeping the FCEA running smoothly.
