Description

Instructors: Brandon Hansen & Geoff Gronlund

Day: Sunday, beginning January 12, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

Course Length: 10 weeks* – all live classes are recorded

*There will be a 2 week break on Feb 16 & 23  – classes resuming March 2

By the end of this course, students will:

• Be able to describe the sky of a chart they are interpreting poetically
• Feel confident that they recognize what they are looking at while stargazing
• Gain an internal sense of direction and spacial awareness for the ever shifting locations of the Luminaries and Planets
• Be able to speak confidently on scientific rationales behind their practices to skeptics and clients alike
• Have learned immense amounts of information but enjoyed that process

Weekly Topics:

1. The Sun (Primary & Secondary Motion, Sect, Angles/Houses, Equator/Tropics, Great Circles, Declination/Antiscia, 1°)
2. The Moon (Phases, Priapus/Lilith, Nodes, Eclipses, Saros Series, Signs/Mansions)
3. Planets (Synodic Cycles, Cazimi/Combustion, Proximity, Retrograde vs Direct Motion, Venus Star Point, Returns, Thema Mundi)
4. Fixed Stars & Constellations I (Taurus – Libra)
5. Fixed Stars & Constellations II (Scorpio – Aries, Precession of the Equinoxes)
6. Review of Cycles, and Sharing of Stargazing Experiences
7. Unseen Objects (Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper & Asteroid-Belts, Comets, Black Holes)
8. Important Astronomers in History (Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler & Brahe)
9. Integrating Astronomy into Astrology
10. Charts with other POV (Heliocentric, Lunarcentric, Martiancentric)

Required Books:

None, but will use Stargazing App (Sky Safari)

Prerequisites:

None

View Brandon’s bio here

View Geoff’s bio here

Cancellation and Refund Policy

Registration closes at 7:00am on Wednesday January 15th, 2025