Description
Instructors: Brandon Hansen & Geoff Gronlund
Day: Sunday, beginning January 18, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Course Length: 10 weeks* – all live classes are recorded
*There will be a two week break, skipping February 22—class resumes March 1.
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:
- The Sun (Primary & Secondary Motion, Sect, Angles/Houses, Equator/Tropics, Great Circles, Declination/Antiscia, 1°)
- The Moon (Phases, Priapus/Lilith, Nodes, Eclipses, Saros Series, Signs/Mansions)
- Planets (Synodic Cycles, Cazimi/Combustion, Proximity, Retrograde vs Direct Motion, Venus Star Point, Returns, Thema Mundi)
- Fixed Stars & Constellations I (Taurus – Libra)
- Fixed Stars & Constellations II (Scorpio – Aries, Precession of the Equinoxes)
- Review of Cycles, and Sharing of Stargazing Experiences
- Unseen Objects (Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper & Asteroid-Belts, Comets, Black Holes)
- Important Astronomers in History (Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler & Brahe)
- Integrating Astronomy into Astrology
- Charts with other POV (Heliocentric, Lunarcentric, Martiancentric)
Required Reading:
Brady, Bernadette. The Eagle and the Lark. Weiser Books, 2022.
It Actually Makes Sense! Astronomy of Srimad Bhagavatam, translated by Vic Dicara
Use of Stargazing App (Sky Safari)
Prerequisites:
This course requires High Beginner Astrological Knowledge.
Click here to check your astrological skill set
View Brandon’s bio here
View Geoff’s bio here
Cancellation and Refund Policy
Registration closes at 7:00am on Wednesday January 21st, 2026





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