12 weeks, beginning Wednesday, October 1
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Gerrard-Coxwell area of Toronto
- Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Sun signs or Your Place In The Universe
- Required text: Practical Astrology, by Priscilla Costello
- Cost: $150 if registered by September 27; $175 at the door if space permits.
Classes are kept small to facilitate learning. Register early to guarantee your space. For further information, contact SOTA2007@rogers.com
This course will give you the skills necessary to understand and read key concepts in a birth chart. Extensive handouts will be provided. There will also be homework, mostly based on working on your own chart.
Course Outline
- Basic definition of terms. Introducing the Sun. Sun signs.
- Meet the Moon and Mercury. Mercury signs.
- Other planets and important horoscope points. Venus signs.
- Long and short ascension. The natural zodiac. Birth time and the Sun's house placement. Mars signs. The Sun in the houses.
- Jupiter and Saturn in the signs. Moon in the houses.
- Retrograde planets. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in the signs. Mercury in the houses. The Ascendant.
- A more in-depth look at the houses. Venus and Mars in the houses.
- Introduction to aspects. Jupiter and Saturn in the houses.
- Introduction to aspect combinations. Uranus and Neptune in the houses.
- Pluto in the houses. Conjunctions in depth with sample interpretations for solar, lunar, Mercury, and Venus conjunctions.
- Getting the big picture. Sextiles and trines in depth with sample interpretations for solar and lunar sextiles and trines.
- Squares and oppositions in depth with sample interpretations for solar squares and oppositions.
Coming in January, 2009
- Astrology 2: Aspect Theory
- This course will cover midpoints, major and minor aspects, and configurations in more depth. Contact me at SOTA2007@rogers.com to be put on the mailing list.
