MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology

30/09/2026

How did Nicholas Culpeper bring astrology and herbal medicine together?

Join Dr Graeme Tobyn for Nicholas Culpeper’s Astrological Medicine, a five-week online course exploring the connections between the planets, the body and healing in seventeenth-century England.

Discover how Culpeper understood these relationships, from lunar symbolism to the use of horoscopes in historical medical practice.

Open to everyone, the course includes live teaching, opportunities for questions, and recordings so you can follow along if you cannot attend live.

5 November–3 December 2026
Thursdays, 4–6 pm UK time
Five sessions, live on Zoom

£150 for the full course
£120 for University of Wales Trinity Saint David students and graduates

Find out more by visiting the website, or book direct with the link below…

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nicholas-culpepers-astrological-medicine-tickets-2001242924459

22/07/2026

Hi everyone,
I am happy to announce the new Sophia Centre Press publication, Lz Hathway's 'Daughter of Saturn'. All details here:
https://sophiacentrepress.com/publication/daughter-of-saturn/

01/07/2024

I'm very pleased that the University just put out a fabulous press release about our conference As Above So Below on 13-14 July.

The University’s Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture is gathering for its twenty-first annual conference in the splendid surrounding of Lampeter’s Founders Library on 13th-14th July. Over the last two decades the Centre has established a high bar for the examination of cosmology,...

01/06/2024

With MA graduates Lynn Lyon, Margaride Manarte and Emily Robinson, who all presented at the twelfth conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena at the Ionian Academy in May. A great achievement.

18/05/2024

Jack Hunter at the Welsh Occult Conference.

20/02/2024

Last Chance To Book!

An Intro to Medieval Cosmology- Sophia Centre

17/02/2024

Hi everyone, a last reminder for Graeme Tobyn's Sophia Centre short course on Nicholas Culpeper's Astrological Medicine, beginning Wednesday 21 Feb. All details and registration:

An Intro to Medieval Cosmology- Sophia Centre