Black Moon Lilith: The Astrological Portal of Refusal and Liminal Intelligence Advanced Training Certificate

Laurence Hillman, Vanja Bokun Popović
Start Date: 20/06/2026
End Date:15/08/2026
Scheduled course
Online

Overview

Black Moon Lilith is one of the most misunderstood points in astrology. Often reduced to sexuality, rebellion, or shadow projection, it is in fact a precise astronomical point—the lunar apogee—that marks a threshold within the natal chart. In this course, we will work specifically with the True (Osculating) Black Moon Lilith and explore it as a portal of refusal, exile, and sovereignty.

What happens when a person encounters a life arena where belonging requires self-betrayal? Where does autonomy cost something? Where do patterns of withdrawal, rupture, attraction, or destabilization repeat? Black Moon Lilith marks these thresholds. Rather than treating her as pathology or empowerment narrative, we will examine her as a liminal function—one that emerges when structures lose legitimacy and vigilance becomes necessary.

Through careful chart analysis, mythic context, somatic awareness, and clinical insight, participants will learn to interpret True Black Moon Lilith in natal charts with precision and depth. We will explore house placement as portal, sign as instinct-language, aspects as activation pattern, and lived biography as field of encounter.

This Advanced Training Certificate course consists of 8 pre-recorded lectures that students can watch at their convenience. The lectures prepare participants for weekly live interactive sessions with two experienced teachers in archetypal astrology and depth psychology. In this graduate-level course, students will encounter complexity, paradox, and differing perspectives while developing a structured and responsible method for working with Black Moon Lilith in professional and personal contexts. This course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credits.

 June 20, 27, (skip July 4); July 11, 18, 25; August 1, 8, 15, 2026

  • Wish to deepen your understanding of Black Moon Lilith beyond popular or simplified interpretations
  • Are interested in the intersection of astrology, depth psychology, and cultural transformation
  • Are a depth psychologist, therapist, coach, or consultant seeking to work responsibly with themes of exile, refusal, and autonomy
  • Are interested in the archetypal psychology of James Hillman
  • Are drawn to exploring liminal states without romanticizing them
  • Want to refine your capacity to interpret True Black Moon Lilith with clarity and discernment
  1. Analyze the Astronomical and Structural Basis of True Black Moon Lilith
    Develop clarity regarding True (Osculating) Black Moon Lilith as the lunar apogee and distinguish it from Mean Black Moon Lilith, asteroid Lilith, and mythic overlays. Understand its function as a structural point within the natal chart rather than a personality trait or psychological complex.
  2. Describe Black Moon Lilith as a Threshold Function in the Natal Chart
    Learn to interpret house, sign, and aspects of True BML as indicators of liminal terrain—life arenas in which vigilance, refusal, destabilization, or exile may arise under specific relational or structural conditions.
  3. Compare Projection, Attachment Dynamics, and Structural Refusal
    Develop the ability to discern when Lilith activation reflects trauma repetition, relational projection, or defensive withdrawal versus when it signals a necessary boundary or adaptive refusal under compromised conditions.
  1. Utilize Liminal Intelligence During Structural Dissolution
    Examine Black Moon Lilith within mythic and textual frameworks, including Isaiah 34, and explore collapse as measured reconfiguration rather than chaos. Cultivate the capacity to remain oriented during destabilization without prematurely resolving ambiguity.
  2. Apply Black Moon Lilith with Discernment in Professional Contexts
    Develop structured methods for interpreting and facilitating work with True BML in chart consultations, clinical settings, and educational environments, maintaining containment and resisting inflation, moralization, or simplification.
  3. Describe Behavioral and Somatic Indicators of Activation
    Learn to identify lived expressions such as withdrawal, rupture, vigilance, overcompensation, or destabilizing attraction, and to differentiate repetition from increased awareness.
  4. Demonstrate Process Awareness Rather Than Resolution Seeking
    Develop the capacity to work with Black Moon Lilith as an ongoing structural dynamic within the chart—one that may activate under certain conditions and recede under others—without imposing narratives of closure or final integration.
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