This workshop offers an introduction to astrology through a simple yet powerful image: the Wheel. The zodiacal wheel, the wheel of fate, the social wheel, the wheel of astrological cycles, and, of course, the famous wheel of fortune. Through this image, we will explore the birth chart not as a tool for prediction or simplistic personal development, but as a symbolic map that helps us reflect on how we manifest ourselves in the world.
Astrology always poses a fundamental question: What defines us even before we have chosen our destiny? There are our bodies, the era, our family, our languages, our social class, and the collective history we are part of at the moment of our birth… All these visible and invisible legacies that, from our very first breath, shape our entire future.
Reading a birth chart, therefore, means learning to interpret the forces that shape us, forces that span the personal and the social, including political, familial, and cultural forces that transcend us.
The astrological wheel thus becomes the true stage of our shared lives, where each of its sectors reflects a scene from our individual existence. In this way, each planet represents a function, and each sign offers a way of acting, feeling, desiring, or presenting oneself within the workings of the world.
At the center of this exploration, we place the Sun, as the hub of our inner wheel.
In astrology, the Sun is not limited to the “astrological sign” we know from horoscopes. It represents a force of vitality, consciousness, radiance, and the embodiment of identity. It indicates the place where something within us seeks to take shape, to become visible, and to stand on its own. But this light never exists outside the world that gives it birth; it always manifests in a specific location on the astrological wheel—that is, in a house and in a sign.
This workshop will therefore explore the essential difference between the sun sign and the sun house.
Using the figure of La Roue de la Fortune, we will also reflect on the tension between our destiny and questions of freedom. What do we receive at birth? What do we repeat in spite of ourselves? What can we transform? Astrology will therefore not be approached as a supposed inevitability, but rather as a method of interpretation in relation to the forces we can learn to inhabit.
Designed for both adults and children, the workshop will alternate between instruction, discussion, concrete examples, and simplified initial readings. No prior knowledge is required. The goal is to leave with a clear, introductory understanding of the astrological wheel, the role of the Sun in a natal chart, and how its placement in a house can shed light on our individual and political realities.
In this theater of life, the goal is not to discover “who we are” once and for all, but to better understand where our individual light seeks to shine, what obstacles it encounters, and how it can become a more conscious, more grounded, and more embodied force within collective spaces.
