In this course students will become acquainted with the nature of Mesoamerican astrology and its foundations in the cosmology and mythology of the several cultures that flourished in ancient Mexico and northern Central America. 

Astronomy is the study of the nature, motions and history of the Earth's cosmic environment. Astronomy is a highly developed science and encompasses many technical subjects. In this course, Kepler E400, the emphasis is on subject matter relevant to a general and non-technical understanding of astronomy. The course is a unique introduction to astronomy presented at the 12th grade or first year college level, and would benefit students of astrology or anyone seeking a practical overview of the subject.

This is a self-motivated course that requires the student to set aside time each week to study the material presented. Learning in this course depends on taking the time to go over the assigned readings, listening to the lectures, and doing the weekly assignments. The readings overlap with the lectures and provide additional information. The assignments are based primarily on the lectures which set the parameters of each week's topic. In addition to the lectures and assigned readings, assignments for the course include online forums, multiple choice questions, and a short report on a relevant topic.

Most chart interpretation is done on the ecliptic using standard aspects and sign and house positions. But there are other ways to get similar information from a chart that are based entirely on symmetry. Probably best known of the symmetrical techniques is declination, planet distance relative to the celestial equator. Other traditional techniques that employ symmetry include antisia and Arabic points. The Hamburg School, aka Uranian Astrology, and later Ebertin's Cosmobiology, place a major emphais on symmetry and nearly all interpretive work is based on it.

As art is the bridge between science and spirt, astrology is the bridge between astronomy and correspondences. The more we can understand the measurable quantity of the heavenly happenings, the more deeply we can express their immeasurable quality. Learn to see the chart in the living sky and bring more of the living sky mysteries into your astrology.

When we re-nature astrology by learning to see the chart in the living sky, we re-member the roots of the rules and the proofs of the astrological equations we use. This is not some dry science class, it is a journey designed to facilitate a deeper connection between the above and below. You will integrate the wisdom bits Gemini transmits through your small screen by engaging with a series of practices beneath the big screen of the living sky outside. All aboard for a magical mystery tour.

Prerequisites:

Students are expected to understand tenants of ground-level astrology like the zodiacal order, basic delineation of signs and houses, and the angles of the major aspects.

Required Texts:

The only real books you will need are written in the stars in your sky and the nature of your experience when you get outside. Download the free version of Stellarium planetarium software (stellarium.org), which you will use if clouds keep you from seeing the stars. Smart phone users should also download one of the many planetarium apps like Stellarium, Star Walk, Star Map, etc. and an astrology app like Astro Gold or Time Passages. 

Weekly Topics:

1. The Circle of Spirit 

Get to know the flow and the why? of the course design and expectations then head out to space station Earth for a quick revolution about the Light. Meet the unequal constellations of the ecliptic plane, contemplate the history and mystery of equal signs, and learn to appreciate the difficulties of tracking sidereal time. 

Course intro and logistic • Why learn the Sky? • Astronomy vs. Astrology • Your fieldwork journal • Weekly assessments • Stellarium and other tools • The Circle of Spirit • Earth's Annual Revolution • The Solar Year • The Ecliptic Plane • Zodiac Constellations • Stars are Celestial, Constellations are Terrestrial • The Sidereal Zodiac(s) • The Sidereal Year • Heliacal Risings and Settings of the Stars • Whispers of Precession

 

2. The Crescent of Soul

Just as Diana delivered Apollo's birth, the soul of the Moon delivers the spirit of the Sun into matter here on Earth. This week will greatly expand your lunar language. Learn to see aspects in the shape of Luna's smile. Learn about the many Moonths of silver time and how they synchronize to recalibrate calendars and generate shadow dragon families of eclipse series.

The Sidereal Month • Nakshatras / Lunar Mansions • Lunar Speed • The Synodic Month • Phases of the Moon • The Silver Year • The Metonic Cycle • "The Zodiac Band" • Celestial Longitude and Latitude • Lunar Nodes • The Draconic Month • The Draconic Year • Eclipse Limits • The 'Black Moon' • The Anomalistic Month • Lunar Speed Revisited • Saros Series of Eclipses

 

3. The Cross of Matter

How has the primary motion become so secondary to modern astrology? This week's spin is devoted to restoring order! You will learn to see the astronomy of astrological angles, quadrants, and houses in the sky with your naked eye and understand why the lines of the chart rudder from side to side. 

Primary and Secondary Motions • Earth's Daily Rotation • The Celestial Equator • Right Ascension and Declination • The Declan’s of Ancient Egypt • Horizon and Meridian • Zenith and Nadir • Azimuth and Altitude • The Astrological Angles • The Astrological Quadrants • The OIAX / "Rudder" • Prime Vertical and Vertex • Nonagesimal and Equal House • Quadrant Houses • Space-based division • Porphyry Houses • Time-based division • Placidus Houses • Sidereal Day vs. Solar Day • Planetary Hours vs. Civil Hours • Ascensional Times

 

4. The Tropical Zodiac

The principle claim rationalists (and many sidereal astrologers) stake in their efforts to prove tropical astrology fake is that signs and constellations do not align as they did in ancient times. This week you will learn to see why the tropical zodiac is certainly the most astronomically precise of the three zodiac cosmologies (constellational, sidereal, and tropical). You will find that, like so many other sacred systems of ancient wisdom traditions, the tropical zodiac is directionally aligned.

The Reason for the Seasons • Earth's Tilt and Tropics • Equinox and Solstice • The Seasonal Zodiac • North vs. South Hemisphere • The Directional Zodiac • The Declination Zodiac • The Solar Serpent • Gemini Glyph and Antiscia • The Meridian Calendar • Cancer Glyph and Antiscia • The Horizon Calendar • Virgo Glyph and Analemma • Libra Glyph and the Ankh • Sagittarius Glyph and the Tilt • Capricorn Glyph and the Climb • The Apex of the Sun's Way • The Aries Glyph and Ram Horns • The Pisces Glyph and Rudder

 

5. The Turning of the Ages

Now that we have been directionally aligned, we can trace the precessional circling of Gaia's spine through the heavens above to track the 26,000-year Great Year here on Earth. Though you will learn why the dawning date of the Aquarian Age is a rather arbitrary thing, you will also learn to see that we are alive during an epic time of sacred astronomy that was described in many ancient prophecies. Prepare your heart and mind for a deep dive into the mysteries of space and time! 

The Sun on the Cross • East-er and Pass Over • Why does Aries look like Pisces? • The time the Fish were tied • The Tertiary Motion • Axial Precession and Pole Stars • Precession of the Equinoxes • The Great Year • Dating the Thema Mundi • The Astrological Ages • The Age of Aquarius • Galactic Alignment • The Time is Now




This Medical Astrology course is intended for general informational and historic purposes only, and does not constitute medical diagnosis, opinion, fact, directives or advice. Individuals should always seek their physician’s approval before considering any ideas, hypotheses or ancient knowledge imparted by the teachers of MD100. Any application of the information set forth in this course is at the student's discretion and is his or her sole responsibility.  

Kepler College and the course teachers of MD100 are not responsible for student misuse or medical use (for self or others, including clients, family, and friends) of course material and information.



Required Books: Astrological Prediction: A Handbook of Techniques

Dec 15 2014- by Oner Doser and Benjamin N Dykes

It is also recommended that you gather a handful of charts that you wish to work on and apply the techniques in each week (these might be personal or famous with access to a large biography or willing to answer questions).

 Other Recommended books:

-Professional Significators in Traditional Astrology

Nov 16 2018 - by Oner Doser and Benjamin N Dykes

 -Financial Significators in Traditional Astrology

Nov 12 2018 -by Oner Doser and Benjamin N Dykes

 -Astrology of the Famed: Startling Insights into Their Lives (Llewellyn's New World Astrology Series) by Noel Tyl (1996-05-08)

 Pre-requisite: None

Course description:

Predicting the future is an intuitive need in human nature. The ability of astrologers to make predictions is one of the main reasons why astrology has stood the test of time. The skilled make more accurate predictions, and it is this skill that can lead to higher wisdom.

Predictive techniques like Secondary progressions, Solar Return Charts, Solar Arc progressions, and especially Transits are widely used by modern astrologers. Some of the predictive techniques of classical astrology are often the source of our modern practice and can be successfully blended with modern methodologies.

 Traditional predictive techniques help us to understand the patterns of fate. First, an individual's life is divided into main periods and then these periods are divided into small sub-periods. Thus we are able to both see the details and the general course of our life. The predictive techniques in Traditional Astrology are systemized and orderly. They give us certain rules for analyzing the chart and making predictions. They propose a deductive approach while predicting the general course of life.

In this course you will learn and practice using:

 

  •  To use the Ages of Man technique for determining longer periods within a lifetime
  •  Prediction by Fidaria, a planetary period system from Abu Mashar which is similar to the dasha system in Vedic astrology
  •  Direction by terms and bounds which describes the types of events and developments that take place during specific time periods
  •  Direction by triplicity in 25-year segments applied to each of the houses
  •  Integration of the above traditional predictive techniques

 

Weekly topics:

1. Ages of Man

2. Firdaria

3.  Directing by Terms and Bounds

4.  Direction by Triplicity

5. Putting it all Together

 


Required Books:

-       A History of Western Astrology Volume I: The Ancient and Classical Worlds Original title: The Dawn of Western Astrology: The Ancient and Classical Worlds by Nicholas Campion

-       A History of Western Astrology Volume II: The Medieval and Modern Worlds by Nicholas Campion

Suggested Texts:

If you are interested in learning more about the topics:

A History of Horoscopic Astrology

by James Herschel Holden
Paperback: 376 pages
Publisher: American Federation of Astrologers, Inc.; 2nd edition (October 1, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0866904638 ISBN-13: 978-0866904636

- Mythology Cliff Notes

Cliffs Notes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.

Pre-requisite: No prerequisite.

Course description:

 Students will:

  • Examine how astrology originated in various cultures and what questions it sought to address
  • See how astrology became embedded in mainstream culture in these societies
  • Study the lineages in which different astrological theories developed
  • Examine the relationship between the history of science and religion, philosophy and mythology
  • Examine the changes in cosmology throughout history and how these changes affected society's attitudes.
  • Critique the intellectual shifts in religion and philosophy that led to the modern scientific and secular worldview, and the rejection of intuitive ways of knowing
  • Explore how changes in 20th-century philosophy and science affected the arts and sciences, and how 21st-century research is moving toward a more inclusive world view.

This course is required for the Certificate Diploma, although it can also be taken as an elective.

Weekly topics:

1.    Mesopotamian Contributions

2.    Egyptian Contributions

3.    Greek Contributions

4.    Hellenistic Astrology

5.    Rome and Astral Religions

6.    Early Christianity and Astrology

7.    The Islamic World

8.    The Latin West

9.    The Renaissance

10. Other Astrologies