Come As You Are Conference

TALK ANNOUNCEMENT

I am excited to share that I will be participating in the Astrologers’ Coop inaugural conference, Come As You Are. Get your tickets here!

Taking place October 18-19, 2025, this conference will feature 20 speakers on a range of incredible topics.

I will be presenting a talk called, When You Say “That’s So Gay,” Do You Realize What You Say? on October 18 at 4PM eastern.

This talk will look at some of the chart signatures for queerness given to us by Hellenistic authors like Valens, Firmicus, and Dorotheus to talk about the uses and limitations of these signatures. Using chart examples we’ll examine charts that do and don’t conform to the queer signatures as assigned by Hellenistic authors in order to ask what is the purpose of looking for queerness in a natal chart. Together we’ll develop some expansive ways of thinking about queerness in astrology.

Tickets are now available for single day or the whole weekend. I hope to see you there!

Elly Higgins