Description

Instructor: Kate Petty

Day: Sunday, beginning August 3, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

Course Length: 5 weeks – all live sessions are recorded

Antiscia are reflections in the steps of the sun. Astrologers from antiquity to William Lilly regarded antiscia as unique aspects revealing a hidden harmony and connection between signs. However this aspect of astrology remains mysterious to many. Do astrologers under-utilize antiscia because our popular tools obscure them, or were they lost in some historic transition?

At the end of the course participants will understand:

• The long history of antiscia within astrology
• That antiscia function like other close aspects
• Other factors like essential dignity and reception show up with antiscia
• How antiscia are connected in the Thema Mundi, through the benefics
• Temperament and elemental symmetries deepen one’s understanding of the zodiac
• The ‘hidden’ connectedness of houses in a chart, through ascensional time
• How to think creatively about the 12 pairs, that they each tell a story
• Equal arc openings are at the heart of antiscia
• The importance of midpoints
• That the space between things matters
• Transits by antiscia are just as powerful
• How to use technology and software with more ease to find antiscia efficiently
• How to apply ancient timing techniques using antiscia – e.g., ascensional timing, directions, circumambulations, solar return, pro

Weekly Topics:

1. The Rhythm of Antiscia: the Earth and an Embodied Approach
   
2. Building Blocks: Balance, Temperament, and the Thema Mundi
   
3. Poetic Pairings: Seeing Signatures in the World
   
4. Patterns of Place: Expand your Practice with Ascensional Timing
   
5. Tying it All Together: Hellenistic Timing Techniques and Antiscia
   

Required Text & Resource:

TBA / provided by instructor

Preferable to have software that can turn on a Dial function (most purchased softwares have this option), but this is not required.

Prerequisites:

Basic understanding of planets, signs, houses, and aspects is required, and some understanding of essential dignity is preferred.

Cancellation and Refund Policy

View Kate’s bio here

Registration closes at 7:00am on Wednesday August 6th, 2025