Chart Synthesis ✦ Dawn Bodrogi ✦ The Inner Wheel
Why This Course
After a while, as a student starts getting comfortable with reading charts, the deeper unification of aspect, sign and house gets dismissed. We see Sun/Saturn in a chart and go — Oh, of course — assuming that Sun/Saturn is Sun/Saturn. That isn’t the case. Sun square Saturn is completely different from Sun opposite Saturn. And then there is house placement. Is a Sun/Saturn opposition from the first to the seventh house the same as one from the 3rd to the 9th? Of course not — and yet how often is house position ignored?
Analysing aspects in depth is where we often get lazy and sloppy. Everyone worries whether or not they can synthesise a chart — but the first step to true chart synthesis is learning how to interpret aspects properly, and then weigh them against one another.
— Dawn Bodrogi
This course — part chart work, part spiritual discourse, and part quest — begins with understanding why the aspects behave the way they do. We will delve into sacred number and Pythagorean number theory. We will learn why conjunctions are erratic and unpredictable and why squares are so focused. We will be unearthing a deeper level of meaning in the chart.
Be assured that we are not going to analyse aspects and planets in a mundane, cookbook way. This class will be good for honing basic skills but it is not entry-level. You need some familiarity with the working of the planets in their houses in order to get the most from the class.
Astrological Alchemy Part One: Course Outline
Class One
Beyond Planet and Aspect
An overview of aspects via Pythagorean Numbers theory. The Sun as the Heart of Spirit. Focus on the Sun, the conjunction, and the higher path.
Class Two
The Moon, Memory and Relating
Focus on the opposition and our conflicted relationship with the outside, dualistic world. The IC’s role in anchoring the chart.
Class Three
Reaching Out: Mercury, Venus, and the Connecting Principle
The other opposition and the sextile/trine. How opportunity presents itself. The principle of attraction.
Class Four
Breathing Out and Breathing In: Jupiter and Saturn
Expansion and contraction in the chart. The Possible vs. the Real. Saturn’s little secret. Janus — God of the threshold. How and what do we build?
Class Five
Sacred or Profane?
An exercise in using planets from the esoteric point of view. Why, in esoteric astrology, is Virgo represented by the Moon — and what impact does that have in chart interpretation? The spiritual underpinnings of the chart. What happens if we don’t get the message?
Class Six
All Hands of God
Interpreting larger aspect patterns: T-Square, Grand Cross, Grand Trine, Kite, Thor’s Hammer, the Mystic Rectangle, and one or two you haven’t heard of yet. Flow, stasis, and the importance of examining the inherent energy of the chart in an organic way.
Class Seven
An Introduction to Esoteric Aspects
Sorting out the possible from the probable. The meaning of quintiles, septiles, noviles, and their bi counterparts. Finding the seeker in the chart.
Free Resource
Go Deeper Into Chart Synthesis
Get the free Synastry Booklet — the structural framework for reading two charts together, built on Dawn Bodrogi’s 25 years of practice.
Prerequisite reading
The Foundations Book by Dawn Bodrogi
The essential groundwork in chart interpretation — Dawn’s Foundations Book covers the synthesis principles that Beyond Planet and Aspect builds directly upon.
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The first step to true chart synthesis is learning how to interpret aspects properly — and then weigh them against one another.