Fate, Soul and Astrology - a journey from classical philosophy to todayWith Bernadette Brady

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This five-week course explores the chronological and thematic development of the idea of fate in Western thought. It parallels these ideas with the role and nature of fate in astrology, from the Hellenistic period to the present day.

The principal textbook for the course is Brady, Bernadette. The Shape of Fate: From Classical Philosophy to Astrological Practice. Lampeter, Wales: Sophia Centre Press, 2025.

Times: Thursday evenings 7 pm – 9 pm UK Time. 16 October – 13 November 2025

All students have access to the course Moodle page, where the lecture recordings and any other supporting material will be placed each week. Recordings are available to students for a month after the last lecture.


Bernadette Brady holds a PhD in Anthropology (2012) an MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology (2005), and an MA in Egyptology from Manchester University (2022). Since 2008, she has been a tutor in the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Her research interests include various forms of cultural astronomy, primarily Egyptian religious astronomy, sky mythology, and the cultural implications of star phases. In 2019, she served as the course director of the BBS Summer School in Luxor, focusing on Ancient Egyptian Astronomy. In her astrological capacity, she is a published author and co-director of Astro Logos Ltd. She was awarded the Charles Harvey Award for “exceptional service to astrology” in 2006. In 2008 she received the Regulus Award in ‘Theory and Understanding in Astrology’, UAC 2008 in Denver, USA. In 2024, she was awarded the Golden Jupiter Award from the German Astrological Association, DAV.

She teaches Sacred Skies as well as Sacred Geography at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and has co-edited Space, Place and Religious Landscapes, Living Mountains. London, NY, Oxford Bloomsbury. And Sacred Geography, Conversations with Place. Lampeter, Wales: Sophia Centre Press, 2024. Her forthcoming publication is The Shape of Fate: From Classical Philosophy to Astrological Practice. Lampeter, Wales: Sophia Centre Press, 2025.

Her personal website is: www.bernadettebrady.com

Students attending this short course will receive a certificate of attendance, please see the image (click to enlarge).