Instructor: Madalyn Hillis-Dineen
5-week course
No external texts are required

Many astrologers have heard the term Uranian Astrology, but do you know how useful it can be? The Uranian system of astrology was developed by Alfred Witte (1878-1943) in the early part of the twentieth century. Witte postulated that the character and destiny of a person is not solely determined by the aspects between the planets but is seen primarily through the symmetry of the planets. 

The Early Renaissance in Florence was a turning point in the history of Western thinking and culture – and looks forward to much in modern astrology. It was a remarkable time but more complex, contradictory, and chaotic than what we learned about in school. This course will explore some of its chaos and contradiction. 

INSTRUCTOR: Joseph Crane 
5-week course 
No external texts are required

Marsilio Ficino was a major player during this time, the main translator of and commentator on recently-available philosophical texts from antiquity. His mixture of traditional astrology and medicine, the Christian religion, Neoplatonism, and paganism helped launch the Italian Renaissance. Most important to us is that he also used sympathetic magic and astrology to support the health and flourishing of body and soul.

Predicting the future is an intuitive need in human nature. The ability of astrologers to make predictions is one of the main reasons why astrology has stood the test of time. The skilled make more accurate predictions, and it is this skill that can lead to higher wisdom.

Instructor: Öner Döşer
Self-directed course (4 months to complete)

Have you ever asked, "What is my soul's purpose this lifetime?" Have you wondered if there is not only a deeper meaning to life but a way in which it all fits together into holistic one-ness? 

Instructor: Michael Bartlett 
5-week course begins on February 15, 2020 
Required readings provided in the course

Astrologers have worked with these questions since ancient times, finding new approaches throughout the years. At the beginning of the 1900s, Alice Bailey stated that "Esoteric astrology is entirely concerned with the forces and energies which affect the consciousness aspect of the human being, and condition the personality life…..Esoteric astrology is concerned with the soul…." Her perspective was been further developed in the work of Alan Leo. Alan Oken and Ruth Hadikin have continued to explore and rework this material for a more modern age.

5-week course
Instructors: Gary Gomes and Kenneth Miller

Indian Astrology is a uniquely unbroken tradition of astrology, practiced continuously for as long as 2,000 years according to modern scholarship. In Indian, the tradition is viewed as extending back at least 5,000 years. It is referenced in the religious writing of India as far back as the Maha Bharata and the Atharva Veda, two ancient spiritual texts.

Instructors: Gary Gomes and Kenneth Miller
Prerequisite: V100A, V101A or basic knowledge of Indian astrology

Students will learn commonly used Indian astrology techniques and put their knowledge to work by delineating a chart every week. Example charts will emphasize “ordinary” people, the kind of charts people see in the real world. Although some would argue that they are more difficult to interpret than famous charts, this approach will help students to swiftly refine their judgments.

By the end of this course, students should be able to make a meaningful delineation of a natal chart in the Indian style. The goal is to help students think like an Indian astrologer and combine chart elements into a meaningful whole.

Astrological counseling as a profession has some unique features. In this course, students will be introduced to considerations involved in astrological counseling as a profession

10-week course
Primary Instructors: Karen McCauley and Inga Thornell. Guests have included Claudia Dikinis and Robert Glasscock

Throughout this course students will work on communication issues with clients, including organizing a session, delivering content, dealing with ethical issues and developing referral strategies.

Temperament is present at birth and the class is built around the first two years of development. However, temperament remains over time, so the concept can be used for every age because it describes the behavioral style of the individual. It's helpful in understanding the interaction of couples, with other family members and between parents and children, even in the workplace with co-workers. So the concepts of the class can be applied to any age.

This is a wonderful chance to learn from one of the rare astrological experts in this field!  Based on a lifetime of work in the fields of astrology and child development, Cornelia has developed a new approach to looking at temperament using modern child development concepts. 

Instructor: Joseph Crane
5-week course
No external text required, materials will be provided in the course

Family relationships form the background complexity of all of our lives: they set patterns that manifest in relationships with bosses and subordinates, close friends and intimates, and in our career and lifestyle choices. This course will go beyond the so-called “nuclear family” and also consider social, ethnic, and historical contexts of family life.

This course is designed to help you better understand how to work with the natal chart with regard to questions about relationships. It will help you improve your consulting skills and communication skills when clients come with the most common questions about their chart, for example: "Can this other person and I get along?" "How can I improve my relationships?" "Why am I having so much trouble with my co-workers?" 

INSTRUCTOR: Karen McCauley
Click here for required reading

Using Comparison and Composite Charts - Explore the Playmates and Playgrounds in Your Life!

Instructor: Diane Ronngren
5-week course

Our personal relationships with those we love and our intimate partners as well as in our families, communities, workplaces and other personal networks affect how we feel about ourselves. Relationships count heavily in our survival, sustenance, and shelter as well as our motivation to succeed. Explore the secrets of personal connections, of attraction and repulsion, and the chemistry that draws us to the playmates and playgrounds of our lives.

Instructor: Alex Trenoweth
Prerequisites: A solid understanding of the basics of astrology (planets, signs, houses, aspects) 

Professional astrologers can help parents to understand their adolescent child's cycles of development and show how they, as parents, function as authority figures. This can aid parents through insights into their relationship with their child, and empower them to discipline their child appropriately and most of all, support their child when it really matters. Although Child Protection guidelines discourage unqualified people from working with the under 18s, you can use astrology to help provide a unique insight into how this age group grows and develops.

The instructor’s unique position as both a professional astrologer and a school teacher provides a perspective that has been previously unexplored in astrology. Participants will work with information discovered through the instructor's research on the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn. Students will also be provided with unpublished resources from the tutor’s own collection as well as resources from other fields. 

Instructor bio: 

Alex Trenoweth, MA, DFAstrolS. MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from Bath Spa University. Alex is both a professional astrologer, astrological research, and teacher. She used her observations in the classroom to write “Growing Pains” (2013), a seminal resource on the topic of child development and astrology. In 2018, she received an honourary PhD from the Krishnamurti Institute of Astrology in Kolkata India as well as an award in 2015 for her outstanding service and her innovative and ground-breaking research on astrology and adolescence. 

For several years, Alex has alternated teaching and traveling across the world to lecture on astrology. She has also been writing and developing workshops and courses on how to use astrology to help make school a better experience for pupils, teachers, and parents.

Alex's website is at alextrenoweth.co.uk