Description

Instructors: Karen McCauley & Inga Thornell

Day: Sunday, beginning April 16, 2023

Time: 9:00-11:00 AM Pacific Time, plus Study Hall on Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:00 AM or 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time

Course Length: 10 weeks – all live classes are recorded

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
• Introduction to use of profection and transits in chart activation

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)

*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

View Karen’s bio here

View Inga’s bio here

Registration closes at 7:00am on Friday April 21st, 2023