Astrology Courses Natal II

Natal Astrology (Birth Chart Interpretation): synthesizing planets, signs, and houses; aspects; working with your North Node and South Node of the Moon; identifying prominent planets in charts; interpreting charts systematically; researching specific features in other people's charts and how they experience these features; using your heart and mind to resolve life issues defined by astrology; and ethics. The course includes weekly reading assignments, self-tests, and other exercises. It does NOT include predictive techniques or synastry (the astrology of specific relationships).

Whether you want to learn to read birth charts for only yourself,...or for friends and family,...or for complete strangers, this course takes your beginning knowledge of astrology to the next level.

If you are not sure, email me at proudphoenix@pobox.com. I will send you a free written self-test about beginning natal astrology, to help you answer that question.

To reinforce students’ learning from the textbook, I provide self-tests for them to complete after doing the reading for most, if not all, of the class sessions. In creating the self-tests, I aim to pull out points from the reading that I consider especially important for a student to understand and to be able to apply, in order to master the material that is covered in the course.

In addition to the textbook reading and self-tests, I assign required and optional homework exercises to complete for each week of the course. The exercises help students apply concepts in a such a way that the complexity of the analysis and interpretation involved increases gradually—and so manageably--as they progress through the course. It’s common for people to get lost or feel overwhelmed once the material becomes more complex, and this step-by-step method of learning helps students build successfully on what they have learned earlier, without experiencing that.

I provide handouts of material to help students apply the material successfully in their own practice as astrologers. I select/design the handouts based on what I have found helpful in my own practice. For example, if I have written material to help me interpret particular features in birth charts for clients, I might provide students with that same material or some simplified version of it.

When I facilitate class discussions, I clarify and expand upon points that the writer makes in the textbook. I also introduce questions and comments about points that are not addressed in the textbook, such as ethics and communication techniques, for the benefit of those students who plan to do interpretation for others.

As a teacher, I encourage students to take an active, creative role in applying what they learn. Whenever possible, I try to teach them to “fish” rather than handing them a “fish” and encourage them along the way. In other words, I aim both to help students arrive at “the answers” and to help them become increasingly independent, rather than simply telling them the answers. I also facilitate students in the process of learning from each other.

I teach the course on an online message board. The board is accessible only to class members. Each Wednesday, I post homework assignments on the board.

It is difficult to answer this question accurately because it depends on a number of factors that vary from one student to the next.

However, you can figure on spending an estimated 7 to 11 hours per week, possibly less, depending mainly on how much or how little you want to put into interpretation and class discussion.

The course is designed so that you can do the required work anytime you want during the week, as long as it's done by each Wednesday. For example, if you want to spread the work out over a seven-day period, you can do that. If you want to do it all on the weekends, you can do that. If you want to do it all on Tuesdays, you can do that. And so on.

Time spent on the class includes two things: required work (any reading that I might provide, self-tests, exercises) and class discussion.

Apart from the required work, class discussions unfold between one Wednesday and the next, at whatever pace individual students (and the class as a whole) post messages. Each week, I post my comments and discussion questions. Students post their replies/comments/questions, and the discussion continues from there in its own particular way.

Beyond participating in general in weekly class discussions, I don't require anything specific for discussions. Therefore, how much time students spend on class discussions can vary a lot from one person to the next, depending on theirs inclinations and styles of communicating.

The course emphasizes practice in applying the theory from the textbook through interpretation.

When it comes to interpretation, a person can spend anywhere between a little time and a lot of time into it, depending on how long she wants to ponder the symbols and write about them, how much she wants to polish her words, and how much material overall she wants to write about whatever is being interpreted. I don't specify the length of interpretation that students should produce, so, in the end, there is a lot of leeway for what students do.

I use The Inner Sky as the textbook for Beginning Natal Astrology, and I sell it for $14.95 plus shipping and handling.

Instructor

Brian Habit

Class Size

The next class (eight weeks) will start on Wednesday, April 21, 2004. The 8th and final week will start on Wednesday, June 9, and end by Tuesday, June 15.

I teach the course on a private section of the Proud Phoenix message board. This section is accessible only to class members. Each Wednesday, I post homework assignments on the board.

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The Inner Sky: How to Make Wiser Choices for a More Fulfilling Life by Steven Forrest. (I will also provide supplemental reading free of charge.)

Many students outside the U.S. find that they cannot get a copy of this book in their part of the world. If you are outside the U.S. and order your book here, please place your order no later than 30 calendar days before the the class starts. This is to ensure that you receive the book before class begins.

If fewer than three students register for the course, I will cancel it. In the event of cancellation, you will receive either a refund of your registration fee or a credit toward a future course or some other Proud Phoenix service (whichever you prefer).

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Instructor

Brian Habit

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