In 2025, we celebrate 10 years of NORWAC as the standard-bearer for diversity in the astrology community! We need your support.
In the picture above, you’re looking at recipients from 2024 (upper left), 2023 (upper right), and 2016 (lower left)
NORWAC has quickly become one of the most diverse astrology conferences in the world, along lines of gender, sexual identity, class and race. Last year, we added a new dimension to diversity: a scholarship for seniors (60+ at their 2nd Saturn Return and onward). The conference transformed from a smallish regional conference in 2018 , eclipsing all of its previous records for attendance, to a conference that even surpasses conferences organized by international astrology organizations in size. And it has continued to do so. 2025's conference is A HYBRID conference, like last year's, and its 41st . You can sign up to attend in-person or virtually! Also, our previous Diversity Scholarship fellows have gone on to have very illustrious careers as astrologers: Mecca Woods, Colin Bedell, Janelle Belgrave, Chris Lam, Meghna Bhagat, Lindsey Turner, Daniel Norman, Taylor Shuler, and Cameron Allen to name a few.
Thanks to people willing to make it happen.
But there are plenty more to reach and NORWAC is ready to do more there.
If you’re interested in applying for one of the
THIRTEEN
In-Person scholarships and the FIFTEEN virtual
scholarships
we’re offering this year, read on.
If you would like to donate toward this catalyst of change in the astrology community, please
click
here!
The 41st
Northwest Astrology Conference in Seattle is happening on May 22-26, 2025!
If you’re interested in applying, here’s what you need to know:
NORWAC will provide THIRTEEN Full In-Person registrations (without meals or workshops) and FIFTEEN Full (virtual) (without workshops) registrations to astrology students who are under-represented at astrology conferences.
The IN-PERSON Diversity Scholarship recipients will be granted a conference registration along $400 to cover expenses for live attendance. This does not include meals or workshops. The $400 can only be collected in person while attending the conference.
VIRTUAL Diversity Scholarship recipients will be offered a full registration to the virtual conference. No monies are awarded for the online scholarship. This scholarship also does not include meals or workshops.
YOU CAN ONLY APPLY TO ONE OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS, EITHER IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL, BUT NOT BOTH.
Qualified applicants may be physically challenged, a member of a historically marginalized ethnic, gender or sexual minority, or over 60+, or an intersection of any of the above, within the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
Applicants must write a 300-500 word statement in the application form that details the following:
- Their brief personal history
- Their interest and level of astrological study
- Their existing impact in the astrology community, whether historically, presently, online or in-person.
- Their perceived impact by attending the conference
- Tick a box that states that you are in financial need on our application form
Deadline to submit the form is February 7, 2025.
We will notify applicants of their awards by late February or early March 2025
to attend the conference.
Scholarship Recipients are
~ Expected to participate in this conference at the best of their ability, including attending as many sessions as physically able and willing.
~ Required to write a short 250-500 word write up of what they got out of the NORWAC experience within 30 days of the conclusion of the conference, both in terms of positive or challenging experiences.
~ Agree to take a group photo with other scholarship recipients.
~ Encouraged to attend a Saturday morning breakfast with Samuel Reynolds and other scholarship recipients.
To apply, CLICK HERE
To donate, CLICK HERE
