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Erin Sullivan has been a consultant astrologer, author and teacher since the late 1960’s.

Erin has lectured worldwide and led workshops and symposia on many aspects of human development using mythology, psychology and the rich language of astrology. Her sometimes radical and outspoken nature on issues of ethics, honesty, human rights, women’s rightful empowerment, ecology and the healing of and preservation of our planet, Gaia, has been a positive effect on most of her clients and friends.

She has been called “the astrologer's astrologer” and is one of the world's most eminent consulting, writing and lecturing astrologers. Her forty-something years of astrology study and practice, her Classical Studies background and training in archetypal analytic psychology, add a unique depth and breadth to her work.

Erin’s fresh, non-elitist approach to her vocation brings the profession of psychological and practical astrology into contemporary times, and to its rightful position – as something that one does for a living, as well as something others consider as a necessary adjunct to their life tools.

It is her unique view of the human condition that is outstanding. Her approach to astrology and the psyche is completely original. Her counseling is sensitive, deep, imminently practical and completely tailored to the individual or business client. She sees the outer world as an active mirror of the inner self, and the horoscope as an ideal reflection of both. This is her area of mastery - the personal, one-to-one consultation.

Erin is an activist thinker, and promotes ecology, improving the power of women in the world, human rights and individual freedom . . . her work is threaded through with this profound belief, it is secreted in with all her writing and lectures . . . that all people have the right to be who they truly are, and by improving our self even a small amount, we thereby improve the collective by that much.

Her astrological history is broad and varied. Just to mention a few distinctions, she received three awards from the Fraternity for Canadian Astrologers -- The Sun Award (1982) for her inspiring work in co-founding the BC Astrological Society in 1972 and creating The Ecliptic Journal; then, the Venus International Award (1984) for international networking; and the Mars Award (1986) for achievement.

She was a founding member of the Association for Astrological Networking (AFAN), and founder of the Media Watch program and equal-time media project in the 1980s, which continues to keep professional astrologers informed today. She has been nominated twice for the prestigious Regulus Award, once for Community Service at the United Astrology Congress in 1989 and again, for Theory and Practice at UAC 1998. She is a featured keynote speaker at many international conferences. See Appearances for her future lectures, workshops and conferences

In the past, at The Cold Mountain Institute, and then, P.D. Seminars at Haven-by-the-Sea on Gabriola Island, in British Columbia, she facilitated original retreat workshops for greater self awareness, such as The Gods Within and In Midlife, and was the resident astrologer for the New Horizons Programs in the 1980s for the Cold Mountain Institute (now Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, BC.). Now back in BC, she will continue with more of that work.

Erin has done a lot of media work in her life - radio, television, newspaper articles, magazines, numerous trade journal articles, video productions, et cetera. She created and produced her own three-tape set of astrology teaching CD’s (also available in video format), Astrology, Mythology and the Psyche, in 1984 - which are the only ones of their kind, and still available now - see the Books, Tapes, and CDs/Videos page to purchase this unique set.

Two groundbreaking productions in which she took active part and was featured on were: the CBC Man Alive! production which aired in October 1988 on Astrology - Ancient and Modern. She informed, helped with the research and appeared on the Discovery Channel program on astrology, Forbidden Knowledge, in 1997, filmed by Café Productions in London, and aired in North America, Australia and England.

Her company, formed in January 2002, Southwest Contemporary Astrology, publishes unique personalized reports by specialist authors as well as Peter Pan in Mid-life, a posthumous book by Astro*Carto*Graphy master, Jim Lewis, written before his death in 1995 - Erin edited the final manuscript in 2001.

Canadian born, she has explored much of the world, and lived in several cultures. Her travel and work have taken her to various countries teaching and lecturing on astrology, psychology and myth. In 1989 Erin moved from Victoria BC, to London, England where she expanded her practice, taught in Germany, Zurich and South Africa, tutored for the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London, and took on the position of Series Editor for Penguin Books’ prestigious “Arkana Contemporary Astrology Series”. The author of six books, three with Weiser Books, and two with CPA Press, and her most recent (2005) “The Astrology for Midlife and Aging”, published by Tarcher/Penguin New York.

Returning to North America in 1998 after a decade in the UK and teaching abroad, she lived in Arizona for three years, then in New Mexico for six, close to her two grown daughters and three grandchildren. She now has returned to her homeland, living in Victoria, BC.

Erin is an active member of The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC), and the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). Her six books are in their libraries in Toronto.

Erin maintains a full consulting practice – for her North American and global clientele, she uses Skype or telephone. All her consultations are recorded to either CD or Cassette tape for the client. Go to her "Services" page for a full description of areas of specialty and practice.