UPDATE!!!

THERE HAS BEEN a little confusion regarding this course.  Some of the students who have taken the Advanced Synastry course already were not sure if this was just a repeat of Advanced Synastry, or if it was a new course.  (My fault entirely, I should have changed the name.)  The Advanced Synastry Workshop is a new course, intended as an addendum to Advanced Synastry.  It’s a practical course where we learn to put our techniques to good use, and begin putting together the multitude of information that comes with synastry work into a coherent whole.  I am also introducing the use of Draconic charts, so there will be something new added to the mix.

This course and the Advanced Synastry Course run concurrently, beginning Feb 5th.  Hope to see you all soon.

It’s the dead of Winter, and Love is in the air…

It is at the Inner Wheel, anyway–announcing a new course, The Advanced Synastry Workshop.  This course is available to all students who have previously taken Advanced Synastry and are looking to put all the techniques into practice.  We will take each romantic pair and work the charts as if we were doing a complete synastry analysis.

In this six week course we will analyze three couples.  The first session will be spent on the relationship signatures in individual charts and chart interaction; the second class for each couple will be spent on composite charts, including transits and progressions (for whose who are familiar with progressions).  We will also begin to take a look at the Draconic chart and what it means for synastry.

During the course we will explore the nature of attraction and attachment.  What causes one couple to live in a hell of their own making and another to face life’s challenges together?  We will go further into the darker nature of the outer planets in relationship.

Each class will run about an hour and fifteen minutes, and will be conducted in the usual way–one on one over the phone at an agreed time.  I will send data and/or charts ahead of time.  In this workshop, students will be expected to do their ‘homework’ on each set of charts before the class begins.  I expect the students to do a good part of the talking this time ’round.

The fee for this course is $270, payable via Paypal.  It can be paid in two installments of  $135.

Please email me at alcuin9@gmail.com if you are interested.  I will begin scheduling classes the week of January 29th.

UPDATE!!!

CLASSES WILL BEGIN THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5th FOR BOTH THE ADVNACED SYNASTRY COURSE AND THE ADVANCED SYNASTRY WORKSHOP.  IF YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT SIGNING UP, NOW IS THE TIME.  THERE ARE A FEW OPENINGS LEFT.

Welcome to Advanced Synastry.  Classes begin scheduling the week of January 29th.

This course will cover in depth how to reveal the psycho-sexual dynamics of individual natal charts and apply this to chart comparison. We will focus on why people come together and learn how to reveal the spiritual purpose underlying the relationship themes. We will also re-examine and redefine some of the synastry cliches and take a new look at the relationship planets and how they operate in a chart.  Expect the unexpected.

Each lesson will be 45 minutes to an hour (sometimes over an hour) and will be conducted over the telephone at the same time each week.  I will send you charts and/or data ahead of time.  There may occasionally be ‘homework’ assignments, including reading some of the synastry articles I’ve posted on this site. Certain articles are required reading.  Access to astro.com or a professional program like Solar Fire is necessary.

The Lessons will be eight in all, and the cost for the course is $290, which can be paid for in a two-part installment of $145 each, payable through Paypal.  There is an optional 9th class for an additional $35, which can be paid for at the time.

Below is a course outline and overview, but lessons can be adjusted according to each student’s ability and need, if necessary. There may be some outside reading involved. It is assumed that each student knows basic natal astrology and has some grasp of basic synastry, including chart inter-aspects.

If you are interested in joining me for this, please email me: alcuin9@gmail.com.  If you know you’re interested you should sign up soon, as this is a popular course that fills up quickly.

The Advanced Synastry Course

Lesson One:

The Relationship Planets and the Cardinal Cross Revisited:  A New Look at Moon/Saturn, Venus/ Mars

How to Determine Signatures for the Inner Male and Inner Female

Saturn as a Relationship Planet And Its role in Sexual Development

The Inner Marriage:  The Sun, The Moon and the role of the Phasal Relationship

The Rules of Attraction: Angles and Angle Rulers  The Electric Gateway

Projection and the Descendant: The Mysterious Double Inconjunct and Its Effect on relationships

Lesson Two:

Determining Capacity for and Inclination to Relationship

The Dual Role of Venus and Mars

Life Crises and Sexual Maturity

Lesson Three

The Mysterious Stranger  The Outer Planets and Chiron

The Outer Planets in Relationship: As Without, So Within

The Little Death: Fascination, Compulsion and the Outer Planets

How the Hell Do I Get Out of Here? : the Role of Mercury and Jupiter

Chiron in Synastry: A Look At Chiron’s Affect on the Relationship Planets, both within and between charts

Lesson Four

The Nodes as Relationship Indicators  (Part One)

The Nodes Within a Chart and Their Effect on Relationship

Lesson Five

The Nodes as Relationship Indicators (Part Two)

The Nodes Between Charts, including Nodal Interaspects

Aspects to the Nodal Axis (Homework)

Lesson Six

Interpreting Composite Charts:  Part One, The Midpoint Chart

Lesson Seven

Composites Part Two:  Davison Charts,  Progressed Composites and an Introduction to Draconic Charts

Why Do I Do the Things I Do When I’m With Him/Her?   Comparing the natal charts to the Composite

Lesson Eight

A Detailed Look at the Role of the Major Asteroids in Synastry

Optional Add-on:  Lesson Nine ($35 )

Esoteric Points: The Vertex, other relationship midpoints and the Arabic Parts

The Lessons May be Changed According to the Students’ Abilities and Interests.

Email me at alcuin9@gmail.com to sign up. The first payment will be due two days before the first lesson is scheduled to begin.

This course covers a lot of material, which is why I’m introducing the Advanced Synastry Workshop for students who have taken Advanced Synastry.  Details tomorrow.

After a flurry of emails it’s finally clear that the Advanced Synastry Course will be up next, followed by the Basics Redux.  After that we’ll have a round of Progressions Two (Progressions in Synastry) and then Progressions One.

For those who have completed the Advanced Synastry Course, there is  a new workshop course on offer in which we take the tools we learned in Advanced Synastry and go deeper, adding Draconic charts and esoteric points.  We will also focus a little more on problematic inter-aspects and do more work with the major asteroids.  The workshop will focus more on synthesizing the information found in the synastry.  Advanced Synastry is an eight week course (one lesson per week) and the Advanced Workshop is six.  The two synastry courses will run concurrently.  Detailed description of the Advanced Synastry Course and fees will be up tomorrow.  Details on the Advanced Synastry Workshop will be posted later on this week.  I’m hoping to begin scheduling classes the week beginning Sunday, the 29th January.

A course titled, “Chart Synthesis:  An Organic Approach to Astrology” will begin sometime in the Spring.  The course is aimed at intermediate students who are still dependent on lists of aspects and are unable to sort through the infinite amount of information a natal chart gives.  This course will let you get to the heart of the chart and see the astrology in a much more intimate and useful way.

Back soon with more info…

Hello, Potential Students–

There are a few of you who have expressed an interest in taking the Basics Redux course.  If there are any of you who would be interested in taking the class this month, please get in touch with me at alcuin9@gmail.com.  If there are enough of you, I’ll begin the class this month.  If not, we’ll plow ahead with Advanced Synastry and schedule Basics Redux in the Spring.

I’m putting together the class list for winter/spring 2012, and classes will be announced on Friday.  There are some new courses for students who have already taken my advanced classes, and some for complete beginners.  It looks like a fun semester.

Hope to ‘see’ you all in class very soon.
Yours,

Dawn

To all my readers, fellow astrologers and all keepers of the light within–Happy Solstice, and all that follows.  May we all live within the warmth of the light as the days grow cold and the nights grow long.

To all the fans of The Inner Wheel, thank you for your patience during my absence.  The truth is that I’ve been under the weather, plagued by a mysterious (and as yet undiagnosed) nasty that has zapped a lot of my energy.  While I’ve been able to do readings and teach on the usual level, there hasn’t been much energy left over for my favorite part of the work, writing here with you in mind.  Writing requires a mental discipline that has been eluding me these past couple of months.  Transiting Pluto is squaring my all-important first house Mercury, and I have the feeling that my thinking processes are being dismantled slowly but surely in order to arrive at a different perspective on myself and my work.  Mercury is my chart ruler, dispositor of my Virgo Sun, and rules the cardinal dominant 1st and 10th houses. While I was expecting change I wasn’t quite expecting it to take this form, and yet as I write this it all makes perfect sense. 

But the good news is, as I work my way through this Plutonian brain freeze, I’ve been given a course of Vitamin D which does seem to have helped tremendously; after a few days to celebrate Christmas, The Inner Wheel will be up and running again.  Perhaps not quite at the same speed at first, but yes, I am ready and looking forward to coming back.

First, a couple of announcements.

OFF THE CUFF READINGS SCHEDULING NOW

Yes, it’s THAT time of year again.  Mark the Solstice with an Off the Cuff reading.  For those of you new to me and the site, I offer what I call Off the Cuff readings twice a year at the solstices.  These readings are at a greatly reduced rate in order to allow everyone access to astrological guidance.  The readings are $45 dollars for 45 minutes, and are spontaneous (in that I don’t prep beforehand) but are not limited in topic.  We can focus on one thing or I can give you a general overview of the year ahead.  Payments are due before the reading is scheduled and are payable via Paypal to my usual email address:  alcuin9@gmail.com.   These are available for a limited time only–from December 27th through the 12th of January.  Please email me soon if you are interested, because these are popular and slots fill up quickly.  A lot of my readers and clients give them as gifts, which I think is a great idea for an unusual present. 

CLASSES FOR JANUARY AND BEYOND

I am trying to fit in a course of The Basics Redux before the following classes begin.  If there is enough interest, I will begin it before the Advanced Synastry class, as I’ve had a number of people asking about it.  The Basics Redux is a course which causes us to rethink the fundamentals of our art.  Details to follow.  In addition to working with polarities and the journey of the houses and signs (the zodiac tells the story of awakening from birth to rebirth), we learn why aspects behave the way they do and delve into the esoteric meaning of numbers.  You won’t think of the signs in the same way again.

The next class definitely scheduled is Advanced Synastry, and details will be up very soon.  We will begin the 8 week course in mid-January.  For details for the time being, you can look up Advanced Synastry in the archives for old class notices.  The course may differ slightly from those announcements, but the main structure is the same.  If you are thinking about taking the course I strongly recommend coming on board, because I don’t know when I will have time in the schedule to teach it again.  I’ve had a number of inquiries  and the class is partially full already. 

I will be announcing a new class, Advanced Transit interpretation, very soon.  In this class we will work with dispositors and house rulership in a more detailed way, which will give you a more organic and holistic view of the natal chart.  No aspect happens in a vacuum, and this course will allow you to gain a better working knowledge of the way transits manifest.  If there is time, we may also touch on Solar Arc Directions and introduce Progressions’ involvement in the way transits operate.

After that there will be Progressions Two (Progressions in Synastry) for all those who have taken Progressions One. 

UPCOMING ARTICLES

MORE on Ceres and the asteroids, including the elusive Pallas. 

More on the Progressed Sun and Moon in synastry.

More on the Chiron series, including Chiron/Angles.

Sacred Earth–What Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are not telling us.

UPCOMING

Please continue to bear with me while I rearrange the site features.  A shortened version of the Gyre will go out in January, and I hope to have it fully up and running in February. 

Thank you all for hanging in there with me.

Much love,

Dawn

PS:  Sorry about the lack of the falling snow feature we had last year.  I loved it, too, but the new server doesn’t offer it.

First off, I want to apologize to subscribers of The Gyre.  Computer bugs have stopped me from creating the October issue.  The November issue will go out as planned, the first Friday of the month.

Will be back in a few days.  Glitches all around–computer glitches, life glitches, the best laid plans…sometimes surprising new roads call us.

New material very, very shortly, as promised.  The current Sun/Neptune trine is sitting on my Neptune, and while I’ve been vacillating between inspiration and fog some good things have come of it.  I’ve been a little under the weather recently (Neptune can do that to you, even in a ‘good’ aspect) but should be back to the old self soon.

Thanks for being patient.

Dawn

Progressions One is almost full, so if you were thinking about signing up for the course, now is the time.  There are a couple of slots still available.  I won’t be offering this course again until the middle of next year, so if you don’t want to wait, sign up now. 

I realize that things have been quiet around here for a week or so.  I’ve been busy writing, and will be back with articles and announcements in a couple of days.  The new edition of the Gyre will be out this coming Friday, and will be focused on synastry, so if you’d like your copy, sign up now on the bottom right of this page.

Thanks. 

Dawn

Secondary Progressions are absolutely crucial to any natal chart interpretation. They’re the ‘why’ behind the ‘who’ of the natal chart and the ‘what’ of the transits. Without a correct interpretation of secondaries, we have no focus, no perspective on personal development nor on our spiritual evolution. For those of you new to the field, more details on what secondary progressions are and an overview of how they operate in the chart can be read in the post, The Progressed Chart Confusion. Ever wonder why an anticipated ‘big’ transit didn’t come off? The answer is in secondary progressions.

I’ve been teaching classes in secondaries for a while now, but I’ve come to the conclusion that the classroom situation is not the best teaching format for this subject. There is no question that secondaries qualify as ‘advanced’ astrology and need focused concentration. Most students have a lot of questions about secondaries. It’s hard to find good information and what is out there is often dated, overly technical, and focused on prediction. Secondly, there are a lot of misconceptions about secondary progressions–my favorite one is that the slower moving planets don’t matter–and how they relate to the natal chart. Sometimes, with classes, by the time you get around to correcting everyone’s misinformation, there is little time to actually learn the techniques of interpretation. Thirdly, there is just too much technique to absorb in two chunks of time. You need to play with secondaries to really ‘get’ them.

 This is a course on how to read and interpret the secondary progressed chart. The emphasis is not on prediction (though this does crop up) but on the ability of the secondary progressed chart to reveal what is being emphasized in terms of the soul’s growth. As Shakespeare said, “The readiness is all” and secondaries reveal to us what we are ripe for knowing. Secondary progressions provide meaning and context to transits and directions. We will see how they provide a guide to important, dynamic and necessary change via the soul and the psyche. Reading the progressed chart correctly gives a perspective on the natal chart that was previously missing. The quote I hear most often from students after the course is, “I don’t know how I interpreted a chart before this.” Progressions often bring us a sense of wonder and magic in the timing of the universe, and provide us with continued inspiration in the practice of our art. I never cease to be awed and humbled by what is revealed in progressed charts.

This series of seven structured classes is $290, and will begin in mid-October.  The class has been expanded from previous classes due to feedback from the students who’ve taken it. There will be one hour long (more like an hour and 15 min) lesson per week at a time to be mutually arranged. I will take the cost of the phone call if you are on my worldwide calling plan. Landlines or Skype are preferred, and no mobiles if you are outside the U.S. and Canada. The fee for the class can be paid in two installments of $145. If you need other financing options, I’m happy to discuss them. I will schedule this series of classes beginning the week of October 15. If you are planning on taking the class, be sure you have a time of the week where you will be consistently available.

Lessons will be tailored to the ability of each student, but in general will be as follows:                                 

Lesson One:  An Overview of Secondary Progressions

Definition of secondary progressions and how they differ from transits and directions.  A study of progressed movement.  Defining the progressed chart.  Homework: Training the eye–an exercise in the use of old rulerships and the importance of the lights in secondary progressions.

Lesson Two:  The Progressed Angles

How a progressed chart is constructed,  the importance of the Progressed Angles and their rulers.  The four methods of constructing the progressed angles.

Lesson Three:  The Soli-Lunar Phasal Relationship

Interpreting the Progressed Sun and the Progressed Moon;  The Soli-lunar progressed cycle and how it relates to the Progressed Moon/transiting Saturn cycle; Progressed Sun and Moon as triggers; Soli-lunar Aspects and Orbs of Influence; Types of conscious awareness as defined by the Soli-lunar relationship.

Lesson Four:  Progressed Aspects and Retrogradations

The Difference Between Progressed and Natal Aspects. The ‘Magical” aspects.  Retrogradations and stations of the inner planets.

Lesson Five: The Outer Planets in progression.

This class is illustrated by looking at a long-term progressed aspect  in a chart over the course of a lifetime.

Lesson Six:  Adding Transits

Transits and other  “Triggers” to the progressed chart.  Homework:  Determining crisis times.

Lesson Seven:  A Case Study

Progressions through a lifetime. (Subject to be determined. This lesson is 90 minutes.)  Determining the progress of major life themes through progression.

For those who can’t get enough, there is a voluntary written final exam which consists of analyzing progressions for a crisis year in two charts.

These lessons will put you well on the way to interpreting secondaries accurately and using them to focus on what is most important in a chart at any given time, allowing you to understand what is revealing itself in terms of the soul’s development. I will provide some material via email and also links to significant articles.

Places fill up quickly, and I won’t be able to take on that many students at a time, so if you’re interested please email me at alcuin9@gmail.com. Needless to say, an adequate working knowledge of natal astrology is necessary as a prerequisite. You will need access to a professional astrology program like Solar Fire, or to astro.com.

In the near future I will be offering Progressions Two, which focuses on reading the progressed chart in terms of relationships–timing for relationships, relationship compatibility, attraction and duration, and problems and issues that can be seen in the progressed chart. Due to the level of expertise required, the series of classes I’m offering now (Progressions One) will be a prerequisite to the relationship classes (Progressions Two). There are no exceptions to this, as I am providing material that cannot be found elsewhere, which you will need to navigate your way through Progressions Two, even if you are experienced in using secondaries. The Progressions Two class will be offered in the early spring of 2012, after the Advanced Synastry Course.

Looking forward to meeting you and working with you all.

Dawn

“There are angels in your angles

There’s a low moon caught in your tangles

There’s a ticking at the sill

There’s a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day”

 Of Angels and Angles, The Decemberists , from the LP Picaresque,  Copyright © 2008 Colin Meloy

Listen to it here.

Of Angels and Angles:  The Cardinal Modality, Part One

One of the things I focus on most, when I teach any of my classes, from the Basics to advanced progressions, is the importance of the angles.  Angles are not just arbitrary lines by which we section the sky.  The angles themselves are highly sensitive, like antennae.  Think of them as magnetic gateways of experience which divide the eternal circle.  They are the bones, the spine, of the chart, the cross of matter, determined by time and space, by which a lifetime distinguishes itself from the ever-expanding potential of eternity.
A tall order.  And that’s only the beginning. 

Last week’s post on Mars and Saturn and the relationship planets which create the cardinal cross (Mars/Venus, Moon/Saturn) got me to thinking about the cardinal story.  On the surface, given the planets involved, one might think that cardinality, and the instinct that is inherent in it, is all about relationship.  After all, you’re pitting young lovers Mars against Venus right off the bat (Aries /Libra) and then switching over to the more mature Moon against Saturn, who are busy making careers and homes.  But relationship isn’t the purpose of the cardinal mode, it’s merely the processing of it.  What the cardinal mode is about, is initiation.  And the story of the cardinal mode is about the initiation of consciousness.   It’s about our awakening to ourselves.

Now, I know we’ve been told this since we first began to study astrology—but what does it really mean?

The dictionary definition of initiate is, “to begin, set going, or originate…”

And so we begin, first off, with Aries.  We assume an Aries is going to get things going.  They’re good at starting things, at being inspired (fire) to begin (cardinal).  The first cardinal sign is kind of like Neo in The Matrix.  He’s The One—literally.  Aries is associated with One.  Now, one of the great mysteries is, why begin?  Why initiate?  Why, in your great united  singleness, do you decide to start something, when presumably you’re content within yourself?  Ah, but are you?  Life is restless, ever percolating, ever bubbling over with the impulse to change, to grow.  What draws The One out of its singleness?  Easy.  The Two.  The One is seeking Other, and this is why relationship is sacred, and the symbol for the foundation of all existence.  This is the root of the initiating impulse of the cardinal mode.  I must move outward, towards what I (perceive I) am not.  It’s the beginning of beginnings, the primary initiation. Very Aries, isn’t it?

Material reality is also represented by the duality of the 2.  There is Self driven to Other, the “I” to the “Not I.”  Although we know that we are all united in our make-up, all sprung from the same sea of electrical impulses and molecules, we experience the world as our interaction with what we are not.  And this is the simple initiation of forward movement through time and space, which we call Life.

The Two is represented by Libra.  I know, I’m confusing you here.  Two is all about Taurus, right? It’s about having, it’s about material possessions, etc.  Ever wonder why Venus rules both Taurus and Libra?   This is why.   Libra is the seventh sign, but the impulse behind it is the two of duality and partnership.  Two is about relationship, about the opposition, about the exchange of energy between opposites that creates the world we have and own, as represented by Taurus  Ultimately, Venus is a connecting energy, and this is why Venus is the esoteric ruler of Gemini. 

All well and good.  We begin the movement outward, round the circle, and come to our first turning point, the first square of the cross of matter.  And here we find our second cardinal point, the I.C.—and Cancer.

I think an entire book can be written about the I.C. and its mysteries.  What does this murky, hidden, emotionally driven house (Cancer) have to do with initiation?  Cancer is notorious for going backwards. Have you ever watched a birth and been awed by the sheer force of life filtering through a body?  The I.C. is about the power of birth itself—the impulse to manifest (at the correct time) after the seed of life is quickened.  Women who have given birth know that once that life decides to manifest, there is nothing to do but hang on tightly.  The I.C. is literally about this power, the power of manifestation into the world.  Aries represents the impulse to consciousness, but the I.C. and Cancer is all about the initiation of individual consciousness into the world.  The first three houses represent a pre-conscious state, but the fourth house is where we become aware.  There is power in that awareness, the power to claim one’s individuality and go forth in life in full knowledge of it.  In understanding who we are, we can tap into the power of our inherited past to fully ground ourselves in experience and strengthen ourselves for the journey to come.  The fourth house is about sustenance of all kinds, which we get from the never-ending flow from the tap root of the chart.  It’s as if the I.C. is that force of the root that makes its way into the soil.

You can see clearly why motherhood and Cancer is associated with this cardinal point.  It is about manifestation of awareness into physical reality.  We can also see why the I.C. is considered vulnerable, and is the place in the chart where we  hide.  Where the 10^th house is all about what we wish to display to the world, the I.C. and the fourth house is what we prefer to keep hidden.  Even if you have no planets in the 4^th house, the I.C. can represent those things about your make-up that other people find hard to find or to know.  It’s almost as if we feel that the fourth house is where we hide our Kryptonite—and if anyone had access to it, we would be destroyed.  Alas, we often avoid our own power,, rather than face what we can be.  Alas, if we turn our heads away from our conscious awareness in the fourth house, what tools do we have when we must build a life for ourselves in the 10^th?  Where are our materials, where are our resources? 

Often, we have a crisis in the 10^th when we find ourselves empty handed…

This is a sampling of some of the material we will cover in more depth in the Basics Redux class.  Part Two next week.

UPDATE:  The Basics Redux is now fully booked for this session.  If you intended to take the course and didn’t get in, send me an email and I’ll put your name on a list in case one of the current students cannot take the classes.  The next session will be given in Spring of 2012.

A NEW SHORT COURSE BEGINNING LATER THIS MONTH:

THE BASICS REDUX

September is on its way and that ‘Back to School’ feeling is in the air.  So sharpen your pencils and sit back as we revisit some familiar territory and take a fresh look around.  This course evolved from student requests, my experience with clients, and my own frustration at a lot of the junk that’s passing for astrology information on the Internet.  We’re going back to square one, only we’re going down deeper than we’ve ever gone before.  This is an opportunity to get to the core of astrology, and stomp on some sacred cows along the way.

This course consists of four individual lessons on rethinking the foundations of our art. 

Lesson One, The Signs Redefined:

Much of current understanding of signs is based on Victorian and Edwardian definitions, many of which no longer apply in the modern world.  Current astrology has also confused sign expression with houses. Each of the signs has a deeper, more vital archetypal meaning and this new territory is what we will explore.  No more fussy Virgos, mothering Cancers or dithering Librans–we will get beyond the surface of the signs and understand them regarding number, polarity, and esoteric rulerships.

Lesson Two, The Angles:

The Ascendant as ‘the mask’?  The MC as ‘career’?  The Descendant as ‘partner’? The I.C. as ‘Home and Family’?  Only on the tip of the iceberg.  Take the plunge and discover why the angles are on fire, the gateways of matter on the face of the infinite.  You will come away with a new respect for the angles and for the four cardinal points. We will also cover the importance of certain aspects to angles. If there is time, we will cover the Vertex as the ‘Electric Ascendant.’

Lesson Three, The Houses:

The house sequence tells the story of life itself, from the conception of a unique consciousness to the joining of that consciousness with The All. Uncover the layers of possible meaning within each house polarity.

Lesson Four, The Aspects:

Squares bad, conjunctions good?  Trines always positive?  Not really.  Learn about the hierarchy of aspects according to sacred number.  Find out why a square behaves like a square, and why sextiles chatter.  We will also cover so-called ‘minor’ aspects and rediscover their importance:  semi-squares, quincunxes, semi-sextiles, and the esoteric aspects.

Optional Lesson Five:  The Lights and the Inner Planets Revisited: A question of influence

Learn about the role of the lights in creating our reality.  We will address some common misconceptions about the lights and focus on how the dance between them alters our conscious awareness. We will also take a new look and shed light on the function of the inner planets:  Sun, Moon vs. Saturn, Moon; Mercury, Jupiter and the Mutable Journey, The Two Faces of Venus; The Two Faces of Mars, Jupiter/Saturn and the Mutable/Cardinal crisis.

This course can be tailored somewhat to the students own interests and abilities, as long as we stay within the parameters of the subject matter. This four part class is $160 (the optional 5^th class is an additional $40) and is taught over a two or four week period.  (A two week period week period is preferable.) Payment is payable via Paypal.  The course  will begin scheduling  September 13th.  Email me at alcuin9@gmail.com if you’re interested, with the subject heading “Basics”.