This course provides students with astrological tools that can enhance their life by exploring their personal local landscape. While Astro*Carto*Graphy examines the interaction of the natal chart and planetary lines of influence across the globe, local space astrology brings the focus close to home.
Students will learn how to use and combine topographical maps, compass directions, and a local horizon chart in order to develop a living system within their immediate environment.
Students will also learn practical methods of using these local space techniques in their home or work in a manner similar to Feng Shui. Combining local space with the natal chart, transits, progressions, solar returns, and solar arcs can lead to innovative methods of enhancing or balancing one’s own local space to create a balanced and harmonious personal environment.
What is the basis of Local Space Astrology? As you move around your local horizon (with your feet grounded on the earth), different planets and aspects are highlighted. Local space techniques involve viewing and understanding natal directional planetary locations and indications using angularity, shifting aspect patterns in relationship to angles, and planetary altitude. (You will understand this sentence by the end of the course!)
- Teacher: Lori Barnes
- Teacher: Tamira McGillivray (She/Her)
Welcome to the Kepler College Orientation Classroom.
You will find reading lists here, and information about the course(s) you have enrolled in; as well as access to the Student Lounge, and the link to a free, optional, school-wide chart lab/discussion, held every Sunday at 5:00 PM Pacific Time.
You will be enrolled in the specific online classroom for your class 3 weeks in advance of the course start date.
This course is designed for practical application of Astromapping techniques. Students will learn how to select from both Astro_Carto_Graphy and Local Space options in order to answer common client questions.
In this class you will explore the history of remedials, including the use of magic. You will learn how to choose the right remedial for the job by creating a Living System through the use of: Colour / Stones / Objects / Prayer & Affirmations as well as creating actions that remediate troubled planets and work with the clients goals and problematic areas of life.
Week 1 A Short History of Remedials including Feng Shui-Bagua; Eastern Astrology; Vaastu; Western Magic. How Compass Astrology (AKA Local Space or Horizon astrology) works as a remedial measure.
Week 2 Types of Remedials – Colour / Stones / Objects, Prayer & Affirmations (Mantra), Action, Planetary Archetypes and their uses in remedial measures
Week 3 The Art of Remedials – Chart Work (How to Choose the Right Remedial for the Job), Creating a Living System - using goals based on the client's values, Inspecting the Chart, Creating a Remedials in the Natal Chart, Goal Setting, Problematic areas of Life
Week 4 The Art of Remedial - Chart Work (Short Term Remedial) Transits and Progressions and Remedial
Week 5 Putting it all Together (Project/Practicum)
Pre-requisite: Completion of AM202 AstroMapping II: The Astrology of Local Space- Teacher: Tamira McGillivray (She/Her)
What can we tell from an astrological chart about the soul and potential past lives? It's a really good question, and astrologers have been finding answers since ancient Greece. This course looks at the intersection of ideas about the soul and astrological interpretation from ancient to modern. Each week, students will have a chance to work with a different technique, applying it to their own charts and the charts of others.
This course presents an overview of reincarnation's role in astrological practice and students are strongly encouraged to actively participate in both the live sessions and in online discussion forums. Basic knowledge of astrology is required, for we’ll look at different astrological techniques that have been used to tease out information about the soul's incarnations.
Weekly topics include:
- Planets are divine (or at least they are people)!
The Western tradition: karma and metempsychosis
Meeting the characters
The ascent and descent of the soul
Talking to your planets - Daemons are Forever
Find your soul's guardian spirit - Techniques from our astrological ancestors
How to use the astrological chart to help a planet in need - Karma and astrology from the Indian perspective.
Indian astrology's approach to the lunar nodes
Using the entire chart to talk of soul, incarnation, and reincarnation. - The rebirth of reincarnation and astrology in the 1800s
The soul's ghostly rise - Spiritualism
Theosophy's multiple children consider reincarnation and the astrological chart:
The Wheel of the Zodiac and the Seven Rays - The Evolution of Evolutionary Astrology
Birth and rebirth in modern times
Pluto and the Nodes
Reclaiming the Past
Our emphasis: engage in meaningful conversation; enjoy deeper exploration; and give astrologers additional tools for meaningful interpretation.
- Teacher: Joseph Crane
- Teacher: Enid Newberg
The Moon has preoccupied humans for many thousands of years, likely since we came into being. During this course we will provide an overview of the cosmology of the period and analyse the Moon’s solar phase cycle, planetary nodes, aspects, and the lots, also known as parts, associated with her.
Using ancient primary sources, this course will introduce special considerations that are discussed by these authors and explore topics that were developed in this time period. Students will be equipped with both techniques and a conceptual framework for interpreting the Moon in both natal and electional charts.
This course is aimed at those with foundational astrological knowledge (beginner) and will include enough new information for more experienced students (intermediate) seeking to go deeper into the Hellenistic material.
Weekly Topics:
1. Cosmology
- Mythology of the Moon from Babylon, Egypt, and Greco-Roman periods
- Popular/influential philosophies and ideologies active during the period
2. Hellenistic Phases
- Synodic cycle; Lunar Phases–elevenfold cycle, including eightfold, fourfold, and threefold subcycles–via Valens and Rhetorius
- Ancient calendrics and time keeping
- Introduction to special designations: Sect, Luminary/Benefic/Malefic, Rejoicing (by sect and phase), Bonding, Pre-natal Lunation/Syzygy
3. Aspects and Electional Material
- Applying and Separating aspects from the Moon; Transferring light
- Special electional considerations and techniques related to the Moon via Dorotheus
- Nodes of the Moon; Bendings; Eclipses via Valens and Ptolemy
- Time keeping and cycles via Meton and Geminus
- Void of Course–various definitions, incl. Maternus
- The Lot of Fortune (and Spirit)
- Timing Techniques that utilize Lots with a special focus given to Valens as it relates to Zodiacal Releasing
After completing this course, students will be familiar with the various authors contributing to the body of Hellenistic astrology by reading and commenting on their works. Students will have a basic, broad understanding of cosmological and philosophical topics and themes that inform these authors and their works.
Students will be able to identify and interpret the Moon’s basic condition, phase, aspects, including several special considerations, in their chartwork. Students will be able to calculate and interpret the Lots related to the Moon and apply a symbolic layer of understanding to their chartwork. Students will be prepared to be introduced to timing techniques that involve the Lots.
Required Text:George, Demetra. Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice: Volume 1. Rubedo Press (April 20, 2022).
- Teacher: Larry Arrington
- Teacher: Chris Burick
The natal chart is a snapshot of the planets at the moment of birth. Transits occur when orbiting planets activate the natal chart. The art of prediction includes organizing, prioritizing, and communicating, which transits will result in changes in the inner and outer worlds. In this class, you will learn timing techniques, including annual profections, planetary retrogrades, lunations, and eclipses. Students will receive the tools to create a year forecast.
Weekly Topics:
- Week 1: Transit Fundamentals - Introduction to analyzing and organizing planetary transits. Instruction on prioritizing timing events with annual profections.
- Week 2: Retrograde Cycles - Learn how to use an ephemeris. Understanding the importance of shadows, stations, and planetary retrogrades.
- Week 3: Lunations, Eclipses, and the Lunar Nodes - Harness the predictive power of the solar-lunar relationship.
- Week 4: Cycles of Becoming – Understanding the synodic cycles and important age-related transits.
- Week 5: Mapping the Future - Creating a year-ahead forecast.
- Predictive Astrology by Bernadette Brady (any version, but 2022 is most recent and cheapest)
- The Art of Predictive Astrology: Forecasting Your Life Events by Carol Rushman
- The American Ephemeris 1950-2050 at Midnight by Neil F Michelsen
- Planets in Transit by Robert Hand
Pre-requisites:
Must have a working fundamental knowledge of Planets, Zodiac Signs, Houses, and Aspects.
- Teacher: Celeste Brooks
- Teaching Assistant: CaZ Ihara