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Astrology

By successfully completing this course, you will:

  • Gain skills and knowledge in Astrology
  • Be awarded the New Age Foundation Certificate in Mantic Arts

You can study this course from the comfort of your own home; in your own time and at your own pace; with helpful support and encouragement from our friendly tutors.

Course overview

This course will teach you how to construct and interpret a natal chart, using basic mathematical techniques, an Ephemeris, Table of Houses, the course instructions and various recommended texts. It will introduce you to the concepts of predictive work, and the nature of Solar Charts so that you could start to produce newspaper style popular horoscopes.

Syllabus

  • Lesson One
    • Introduction
      • The Branches of Astrology
    • Astrology – Foremost of the Mantic Arts
      • The Beginnings of an Elemental Theory
      • The Cradle Lands of Civilisation
      • The Spread of Astrology
      • The Renaissance
      • The Elizabethans and the Age of Enlightenment
      • The Victorian Age and into the Twentieth Century
      • Astrology and Research
  • Lesson Two
    • Astrology and Astronomy – Uneasy Sister Sciences
      • The Solar System
    • Astrological Geometry
      • The Zodiac
    • Introduction to the Horoscope
      • Three Dimensions in Two
      • The Basics of Interpretation
  • Lesson Three
    • The Zodiac
      • The Signs – not just Sun Signs
      • Three Important Categories
      • Rulership
      • The Signs of the Zodiac
  • Lesson Four
    • The Ascendant and the Angles
      • The Significance of the Ascendant
      • Different Ascendants
      • Finding the Approximate Ascendant
      • The Angles
    • A Question of Time
      • Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and Universal Time (UT)
      • Double British Summer Time
      • British Standard Time
      • Introduction to the Ephemeris
      • Sexagesimal Arithmetic
      • Calculating the Ascendant
      • The Angles
  • Lesson Five
    • The Planets
      • Some Basic Astronomy
      • The Planetary Groups
      • The Gods as Planets
      • Calculating the Sun’s Position
      • Calculating the Positions of the Other Planets
      • Study Exercises
  • Lesson Six
    • The Houses
      • Drawing the Equal House System Horoscope Chart
      • Drawing in the Ascendant
      • Drawing in the Planets
      • The Meaning of the Houses
      • Planets in the Houses
      • Rulership and Lordship
  • Lesson Seven
    • First Interpretations
      • General Characteristics
      • The Rising Sign
      • The Ruler of the Rising Sign
      • The Angles and the Angular Planets
      • The Individual Planets
    • Additional Topics
      • The Nodes of the Moon
      • Arabian Parts
      • The Part of Fortune
      • Asteroids
  • Lesson Eight
    • The Aspects – First Principles
      • The Different Aspects
      • The Major Aspects
      • The Minor Aspects
      • The Parallel Aspect
      • Orbs
      • Unaspected Planets
      • Application and Separation
      • Disassociation
      • Rulership, Exaltation, Detriment and Fall
      • Determining the Aspects
      • Drawing the Aspects on the Horoscope
      • Aspect Patterns
  • Lesson Nine
    • Interpreting the Aspects
      • Aspects of the Sun
      • Aspects of the Moon
      • Aspects of Mercury
      • Aspects of Venus
      • Aspects of Mars
      • Aspects of Jupiter
      • Aspects of Saturn
      • Aspects of Uranus
      • Aspects of Neptune
      • The Satellitium – Another Major Aspect Pattern
    • Drawing the Threads Together – and Unravelling Them Again!
      • Book One – The Story of the Planets
      • Book Two – The Facets of Life
  • Lesson Ten
    • Introduction to Predictive Astrology and Synastry
      • Progressions
      • Transits
      • Solar and Lunar Returns
      • Midpoints
      • Synastry
  • Lesson Eleven
    • Popular Astrology
      • The Solar Chart and the Solar Equilibrium Chart
      • Twelve Charts in One
      • And Now for Something Completely Different….
  • Lesson Twelve
    • Chinese Astrology
      • Yin and Yang
      • The Five Elements
      • The System of Numbers
      • The Years
      • The Years and the Elements
      • The Animals
      • The Interaction of the Animals and the Elements
      • New Year Starts in January or February

Practical training

No practical training is required to complete this course.