Course description:  Students will have the benefit of a two-session exposure to the methodology developed by veteran astrologer, Susie Cox. This is a simplistic but powerful, visual and linguistic approach to chart synthesis.

Topics include:

• Developing critical thinking skills through examining conflicting views and asking questions about varying subjects such as dignities, sect, the existence of good or bad planets, and house placements
• Characteristics of effective and ineffective astrologers
• Practice with multiple approaches to the delineation of the chart
• Learning to identify personal filters and those related to the natal chart
• Techniques for blending chart components such as the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant
• Identifying and using essential and accidental dignities to differentiate between expressions of planetary essence and strength in the natal chart
• Learning how to differentiate the quality of aspects through consideration of variations in planetary relationships by their nature and placement in the chart
• Learning how dispositors, time lords, planetary speed, and derivative houses can enhance chart interpretation

Course length: 10
weeks

Required Books:

• Geisler,
  Pat. 2013. Chocolate Sauce. NH: ACS Publications. ($12 at
  Amazon)

• Obert,
  Charles. 2015. Introduction to Traditional Natal Astrology: A
  Complete Working Guide for Modern Astrologers. Minneapolis, MN:
  Almuten Press. ($19.95 at http://studentofastrology.com/book/ or Amazon)
• Obert,
  Charles. 2020. The Classical Seven Planets. Minneapolis,
  MN: Almuten Press. ($14.95 at http://studentofastrology.com/book/ or
  Amazon)

 Pre-requisite: RN102
or equivalent

*Required for the Professional Diploma

Weekly topics:

1.   
Review of the
Basics

2.   
Importance of Good Data

3.   
Derivative Houses

4.   
Understanding and Using the Dignities

5.   
Profections

6.   
Vocational and Retrograde Review

7.   
Entering the Chart: ASC Rulers, and the
Nautical Paradigm

8.   
Considering Aversion

9.   
Student
Presentations & Vocational Clues/Fixed Stars

10. Student
Presentations, Transits, and The Via Combusta