In our first class, we will get our historical and magical bearings by taking a tour through the historical transmission of astrology, from its Babylonian birth to its contemporary expression.

This offers students perspective not only on the details of astrology, but shows the way this discipline is influenced by so many cultures over a vast period of time.

After our historical exploration, we’ll dive into an exploration of sympathetic magic, comparative mythology, and how this class opens the door to seeing the mythic landscapes of your natal chart.

Supplemental readings may include essays from Demetra George, Robert Graves, Karen Armstrong, and Elizabeth Sewell, Ovid’s Metamorphosis, two guided meditations for creative chart immersion.

In our second class, we’ll work to establish an understanding of each component of the chart.

• How do we understand what the planets do, and what does it mean when a planet is in a sign?

• What is a house, and how do we even understand how to look at our “circle” charts?

• What do aspects do, and how can we read them without immediately feeling overwhelmed?

• And most importantly, where do we start, when approaching the chart?
  

  Supplementary materials include a PDF workbook for identifying each piece of your natal chart and beginning to “see” its innate structure.
  

Our third class introduces the planets, exploring their mythic and archetypal expressions, as well as defining just how they function in the natal chart.

This class also walks you through the concept of planetary dignity and planetary typology.

We’ll learn about malefic and benefic planets, planets that are nocturnal and diurnal, the humoral correlations of the planets, and perhaps most importantly, which signs the planets prefer to reside in, to help you decode a planet’s relative strength in the chart.

Supplementary readings include excerpts from Richard Tarnas, Demetra George, Robert Graves Greek Myths, Helena Avelar & Louis Avelar, and my own planetary dignity workbook PDF.

*After this class, we will meet this weekend for our first Q/A practicum session. Dates to be voted on by students upon enrollment.

In our fourth class, we will explore the archetypal and mythic expressions of these planets, and explore their natal expression.

This particular group of planets functions a bit differently than the planets covered in Class 3, as they are farther, slower-moving “outer planets.”

We’ll explore their placement in our charts as a way of understanding our responses to collective power, and social dynamics of our generations.

We’ll learn how to read the outer planets in the chart as an expression of our relationship to the world around us, and how we can tap into generational questions as individuals.

Supplemental readings include excerpts from Robert Graves Greek Myths, Richard Tarnas, Avelar & Ribiero

Within the natal itself, there are twelve slices of “sky,” and each of them represents a particular theme, or set of topics, or “field of experience.”

This class will teach you the ideas that are expressed by each house, and show you just how to overlay planet, house, and sign.

This is where the chart starts to get really unique, where we begin to see details that are very personal to YOU.

Supplemental reading may include excerpts from Karen Hamaker-Zondag, Demetra George, and my own houses workbook PDF.

Our sixth class will bring in the concept of aspects, those wild looking lines in the center of your chart, and define them with clarity.

Aspects provide extra details about your planets and how they express their energy, how they are modulated by the rest of the planets in the chart.

When we read our aspects, we are able to see true glimpses of hyper-specific personal detail, and this is where chart reading can get really juicy.

As this is a last piece of the puzzle, we’ll spend time in this class looking at charts on the screen together, to provide lots of examples, and conversation, about how aspects work.

Supplemental reading may include excerpts from Karen Hamaker-Zondag, Avelar & Ribiero, Chris Brennan, and my own aspects workbook.

In our seventh class, we will expand our vision of the sky, and begin to consider what it means to experience an astrological transit.

For although your natal chart stands still for your entire life, you are always being impacted by the cosmos.

Every Full or New Moon lights you up in a unique way. Every eclipse, every time a planet changes signs—these are examples of planetary transits. By learning how to read transits, we learn how to understand how to orient ourselves to our personal cycles and storylines in this lifetime.

We’ll talk about what each planet in transit expresses itself as, and I’ll share insight on major astro rites of passage like the Saturn return, the Uranus opposition, the Pluto square, the Chiron return, and we’ll practice looking at charts together, too.

Supplemental materials include a transit diary for you to use and track your own planetary cycles!

Class eight expands us even further out into the cosmos, and introduces the methods I use to bring asteroids into our natal chart practice.

Asteroids are tiny pieces of space-rock, which float in an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

There are tens of thousands of them, and most are named after mythic figures.

By noticing which asteroids are important in our chart, we can tap into a sense of our inner “daimon,” our guiding archetypes, which brings even more richness and nuance to our understanding of astrology.

Supplemental readings may include Rollo May on the daimon, excerpts from Plato, and Demetra George.

*After this class, we will meet for our second live Q/A practicum session, date to be voted on by students upon enrollment.

Beyond the confines of the natal chart, we live beneath an ever changing, and ever-enchanted sky.

Class nine introduces us to astrological magic, which is the art of tying sky to action.

Astrological magic holds that if we carefully observe a set of criteria, we can tap into powerful cosmic moments, and manifest lovely things for ourselves.

This class introduces the basics of electional astrology (how to pick the “right” astrological moment to do something), and shows you how to make your own astrological rituals in a grounding, but empowering, way.

This is a door to a rabbit hole, a gateway to creative chart discovery. And here our journey together ends.

Supplementary materials may include a NORWAC presentation from Kaitlin Coppock, excerpts from Denning & Phillips, Picatrix, the Orphic Hymns, and my own guides to astrological ritual.