Simon Forman – Charlatan or Healer? – Sharon Knight
February 16 @ 19:00 – 21:00 GMT
19:00 Simon Forman – Charlatan or Healer?: Sharon Knight
Was Forman a quack exploiting credulity, or a serious, albeit unlicensed, medical innovator whose popularity threatened the authority of England’s medical establishment? Simon Forman has long had a rather tarnished reputation as an astrologer physician but was he as bad as he has been made out to be?
Sharon will considerSimon’s birth chart and a few of his life events. Then Sharon will delve into charts from the wonderful Casebook project covering various questions asked by his clients and consider how they differ (if at all) from those asked by our clients today. The sixty-six volumes of Forman and Richard Napier’s Casebooks can be accessed at www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk.
20:30 Chart Discussion
Sharon Knight
Sharon Knight has worked as a professional astrologer for over 30 years. She trained with the Faculty, gaining the Intermediate Diploma, before qualifying as a QHP with Olivia Barclay, and later studied medieval astrology with Rob Zoller as one of his first students. She gained her MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology in 2004 and is a Fellow and Chair of the Association of Professional Astrologers International. Sharon is currently a tutor and convenor of the QHP, and also teaches her own course in traditional natal astrology. She was awarded Astrologer of the Year in 2016 for her lecture on Sect and Triplicity. Sharon has spoken at AA Conferences and the Astrological Lodge of London, taught traditional methods in Taiwan, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, China, and across the UK, and has written for women’s magazines, newspapers, and astrological journals. She also held a regular slot on local radio for 11 years.
