Astrology Classes

The foundations of astrology through a systematic and historical approach. Covers the four fundamental keys: planets, signs, houses, and aspects.

The 12 zodiac signs, their symbolism, and correspondences. How the rising sign matters more than the Sun sign in traditional astrology.

Planetary symbolism and classification, with emphasis on diurnal and nocturnal nature, and how planetary position shapes the chart.

House significations based on Valens and ancient traditions. Each house governs specific life areas that have remained consistent across centuries.

Oppositions, trines, squares, and sextiles. How each aspect creates a distinct dynamic between planets and influences chart interpretation.

How to read a birth chart by combining planets, signs, houses, and aspects into a coherent interpretation. Building your delineation skills.

The luminaries and angular points in the chart. How the Sun and Moon relate to the Ascendant and Midheaven to shape personality and direction.

Jupiter, Saturn, and the outer planets. How their long cycles create generational themes and how their transits mark major life chapters.

What transits are, how to read them, and how to prioritize which ones matter most. The foundation of predictive astrology.

The day-for-a-year symbolic technique. How the progressed Sun, Moon, and inner planets reveal internal developmental shifts.

Comparing two charts to understand relationship dynamics. Which contacts matter most and how to read attraction, friction, and long-term potential.

How eclipses trigger turning points, the difference between solar and lunar eclipses, and how to track their effects in your chart.

Annual profections as a timing technique, the lord of the year, and how to combine profections with transits for practical forecasting.

The Hellenistic technique for mapping life chapters. Peak periods, the loosing of the bond, and strategic career timing.

The celestial sphere, the ecliptic, the celestial equator, and the horizon. Understanding the great circles that form the foundation of chart calculation.

The difference between solar and sidereal time. How to calculate Local Sidereal Time (LST) from the birth data, the essential first step in chart erection.

Converting Local Sidereal Time to the Midheaven degree using right ascension tables and interpolation techniques.

Finding the Ascendant and house cusps through double interpolation for time and latitude. The core technique for accurate house placement.

How to physically draw the chart wheel on paper. Placing the axes, choosing a house system, and dividing the circle into houses.

Looking up planetary positions in the ephemeris and interpolating for the exact Universal Time of birth to find precise longitudes.

Understanding planetary declination, parallel and contra-parallel aspects, and the significance of out-of-bounds planets.

How to plot each planet in the correct position on the wheel. Cross-checking your work with control techniques to catch errors.

Building an aspect grid efficiently, calculating orbs, and avoiding the most common mistakes beginners make when identifying aspects.

A full walkthrough combining every step, from raw birth data to a complete hand-drawn natal chart ready for interpretation.

The first and most decisive filter of traditional analysis: is the chart diurnal or nocturnal? How each planet rejoices — or suffers — in hemisphere, sign, and solar phase.

The third rulership system. Finding the triplicity lords of a planet, how they support its condition, and the classical first–second–third lord reading of a life.

The fourth and fifth rulership systems. The five uneven bounds of each sign, the ten-degree faces, and how a planet in its own bound gains real dignity.

The synodic cycle of the superior planets. Speed, direction, visibility, heliacal rising and setting, and why a planet under the beams behaves so differently.

Mercury and Venus and their four critical moments, stations, then the lunar conditions: Hellenistic void of course, the Moon under the bond, and eclipse births.

Aspects as action done to a planet. Testimony, seeing and witnessing, then the first configurations: adherence, connection, and enclosure by benefics or malefics.

Overcoming, striking with a ray, opposition from a poorly situated malefic, and occupying the domicile of a benefic or malefic. The full maltreatment checklist.

Assembling sect, rulership, solar and lunar phenomena, and aspect testimony into one verdict. Grading a planet, and what good and poor condition actually predict.

The number-magic under every Hellenistic timing method. Lesser, greater and mean years of the planets, and why the same figures reappear in every technique.

How long each sign takes to rise at a given latitude, why that number is not thirty degrees, and how ascensional times convert chart space into lived years.

From the Greek peripatos, to walk about. The primary direction of a significator through the bounds, and how the ancients let a planet stroll through a life.

Reading the bound lord a significator arrives at, the planets that testify to it, and how to turn a sequence of bound lords into a narrative of chapters.

Where these methods come from: Valens, Ptolemy, the Anthology and its transmission. Which procedural choices are ancient and which are modern reconstructions.

A full worked example. Choosing the significator, running the direction, and cross-checking the resulting periods against the events of a real biography.

The great chapter technique of Vettius Valens. Building the four levels of periods from a starting lot, and what the level-one and level-two divisions each describe.

Two different lives in one chart. Fortune for body, circumstance and health; Spirit for career, action and reputation. When to release from which.

Peak periods, the angular triad from Fortune, loosing of the bond, and the tricky judgement calls: retrograde starting points and periods that overshoot a lifetime.

Reading a real life through its releasing periods. Spotting the turn of a chapter, and the difference between a loud peak period and a quiet productive one.

One sign per year from the Ascendant. Finding the lord of the year, and why this single cheap calculation reorganises the whole of a year's transits.

Profections below the year: monthly and daily levels, the handing-over of rulership between time-lords, and the Hellenistic use of the solar return chart.

Layering the three. How the profected lord filters which transits matter, and how the solar return chart colours the year the profection has already framed.

Running circumambulation, releasing, and profections over the same life at once. Where the methods agree, what to do when they disagree, and how to write it up.

Jyotish as the eye of the Veda, not a fortune-telling parlour trick. The karmic model it rests on, the role of parampara, and what the discipline refuses to answer.

Why they are grahas — those that seize — and not planets. The devata behind each one, Brihaspati and Shukracharya as opposing teachers, and the seven weekday lords.

Surya as the soul, the father, and the source of light in the chart. His significations, his dignity and debility, and the traditional Sunday practices tied to him.

The Moon as manas — the mind — and the true centre of Vedic chart reading. The 27 lunar mansions, their spans, their lords, and the birth nakshatra.

Tithi, vara, nakshatra, yoga, karana — the five limbs of the day. Then the real divide with Western astrology: precession, ayanamsha, and the sidereal zodiac.

Agni tattva split in two: Surya is light, Mangal is heat. Mars as commander, digestion, blood and courage — and the practical reading of a strong or afflicted Mangal.