Dean’s Update, November 2024

Welcome to Sagittarius season, beloved FCEA community! Like the centaur shooting his arrow up into the sky, we reach for the stars with our hopes and aspirations for the new year ahead. FCEA classes are winding down for the holidays. Everyone has been doing such a great job this past year. We are excited to be hosting a Holiday celebration on Zoom, Thursday (in the USA), November 21st at 8 am Pacific time. Please join us as we celebrate our second graduating class. Steven will follow the graduation ceremony with a special presentation about Chiron and the Wounded Healer’s bizarrely long passage through Aries and its conjunction with Eris. This is a public call, so please invite your friends and family to share in our community gathering. Happy Holidays to all!

We are thrilled to announce our gifted and talented new class of graduates:  Congratulations to Andre Arellano, Sarah Beck, Suzanne Edminster, Tracy Feng, Qian Jiang, Cynthia Lenhart, Penelope Love, Clifford Passen, Silvana Perelli, Faelan Rose Shiva, Sally Sweetland, Davika Thomas, and Chang You. These hardworking evolutionary astrologers have been studying at the FCEA since spring of 2021, starting just months after our school opened for enrollment. Over the past three and a half years, they demonstrated to us their solid commitment to becoming the best practitioners they can be, working with the methods and wisdom of Steven Forrest. Highly skilled, this class of grads is ready to serve as loving, compassionate counselors. Please consider supporting their work! In the weeks ahead, you will find their biographies and professional statements on our website under “About” and “Our graduates.” Finally, we are grateful, too, for their constant support and the generous feedback they provided us throughout the years. We simply wouldn’t be the school we are today without them. Once again, congratulations to you all!

In late November, we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States. It is a yearly time of reflection for us as we give thanks in our hearts for our many blessings. It’s a great time for reconnecting with family and remembering we have so much to be grateful for in our lives. I want to share with you how honored I am to work with such an outstanding group of people at the FCEA. Our school depends upon the caring dedication and skills of our team: Penelope, Paula and Carlos, along with our work study student, Andre. It is because of this talented crew that our FCEA ship stays afloat day in and day out. What would the FCEA world be without them? I can’t imagine where we would be. Thank you, team, for all you do! Our sixteen tutors and teachers are phenomenal inside the classroom and out. Always so helpful and loving, they amaze me every day. They navigate our ship with creativity, joy and well-grounded knowledge. Thank you, Allison, Ryan, Joey, Karen, Aubrey, Patty, Lisa, Barb, Harry, Fern, Linda, Lidia, Sophie, Jackie, Erin, and Shirley. I love you all! 

In America, it is our custom to share a meal together on Thanksgiving with family and friends. But in the spirit of Pluto re-entering Aquarius this month, we reach out through words and in our virtual world as best we can. We may not have turkey to share, stuffing on the side or a real slice of that pumpkin pie. Yet we are a family, a family that shares a passion for evolutionary astrology. So, as I write to you under a Cancer Moon, I ask myself, in the fashion of our master teacher, Steven Forrest, just “who” are my family, my clan? Let me cherish you, my FCEA family. We live in difficult times, but let’s claim some Sagittarian hope, love for each other and pray for grace and peace in 2025. I give thanks for all our FCEA students, our members, our staff and, of course, for our beloved master teacher, Steven. Blessings, everyone!