Christina Rose (1943 - 2014) was a tutor with the Faculty of Astrological Studies and a consultant astrologer with many personal and corporate clients. She was also a gifted sculptor who exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Her first book, Astrological Counselling was originally published in 1982 and quickly joined the required reading list for Faculty students. At the time it was a ground-breaking text in its use of astrology and counselling with clients. Christina strongly believed, and taught, that not only is the astrologer a translator of chart factors, but they are also required to deliver that translation in ways that are appropriate to the client, and in doing so are beckoned forward as counsellors. As such her work bears witness to the fertile area of cross-referral that was beginning to be cultivated at that time, between astrological, psychological and other practitioners who were all linked by one central purpose: that of human understanding. Her second book, Tapestry of Planetary Phases was published in 2011, and develops the initial work of Dane Rudhyar, extending the seed idea of the lunation cycle to other planetary pairs.