ASTROLOGY
Life Learning
Students show up when the Teacher is ready.
And the Teacher shows up when the Student is ready.
Learning Astrology takes time, repetition, review, research and more review.
And practice, practice, practice.
It takes a LONG TIME to learn Astrology - keep this in mind.
As of Fall 2021, I offer several levels of online, interactive, Astrology classes.
Students attend in the Zoom classroom environment and
handouts are available for download prior to each class.
I have been teaching students Astrology since September 2011.
Learning Astrology for 23 years, I continue to uncover more layers, and my own AHA! moments, from my Birth chart. This is Astrology.
It grows and goes deeper as we do, personally.
Whether you've experienced a real Astrology chart reading or not,
you are living your Birth chart - what you signed up to learn, experience,
and be challenged by, as you Soulfully Evolve.
Learning the Basics - my ASTRO101 class - brings you insight and AHA! moments - Soulfully, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically - into your own Life path. The whys, wherefores and especially the whens!
You will expand out to more deeply understand your family, friends, co-workers, colleagues, relatives and neighbours.
That we're all truly connected. Namaste
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
ASTRO101: Basics of Astrology
ASTRO201: Intro to Chart Interpretation
Here you learn the following:
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Basics of Astronomy as it relates to Astrology with the 6,000-year history of Astrology/Astronomy intermixed
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Meanings of the 12 Astrological Signs, their Planetary Rulers, Chiron, Eris and Sedna, the Luminaries and 12 Houses of Life Experience - the Natural Wheel of the Zodiac
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Rulerships and inter-connections of the Astrology Basics - Signs, Planets and Houses
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Recognition of the glyphs (symbols) of each sign and planet/luminary - homework will need to be done between classes folks! The MORE you practice and study the easier it is to identify and remember the shorthand (glyphs) and their meanings.
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Each sign’s element, modality, polarity and orientation
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Each House mode/orientation too
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Classes 2-9 will have handouts for each class to help students fill in their HOMEWORK worksheet, gaining knowledge and remembering what they've learned as each class passes.
Cost: $540CAD for the 2.5-hour class/week for 9 weeks - TUESDAYs beginning MARCH 21, 2023 at 7:00 pm MST until 9:30 pm MST until TUESDAY MAY 16, 2023
DISCOUNT: if you Register early - save $60 and pay only $480CAD - by MARCH 15th 2023
Payment: E-transfer, or via PayPal invoice. Please indicate which way you plan to pay at Registration. I offer a Payment Plan - initial deposit and two monthly payments. Registration form and Class Syllabus will give you all the details!
2023 Dates: TUESDAY MARCH 21, 2023 to TUESDAY.
Classes will be done through ZOOM video meeting links and recorded for download the next day.
Ensure you have the tech set up for this (dedicated wi-fi/internet, speakers, screen, colour printer etc.) for a smooth connection to each class.
Birth data information ( time, date and place of birth) is required to create your chart for this class. You will become familiar with YOU and what you signed up for this lifetime. If birth time is not known Laurie Rae will assist you in finding this out (at no extra charge) easily and simply.
TO REGISTER/Receive the Class Syllabus: Click the button below to Email Laurie Rae - myhouseofastrology@shaw.ca - ask your questions here too!
You will learn the following:
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How to Use the Ephemeris - the Astrologer's Bible - through exercises in class and as Homework, to understand the Cycles of the Planets and Luminaries through your own LifeTime Cycles. Very insightful.
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First class will be dedicated to learning the components that go into Casting a Birth Chart by Hand - we can delve into this MORE through future Astro Student Salons if there's interest to do so. To know what the computer apps are now doing FOR YOU in minutes, vs. hours!
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Meanings of all the Aspects and their glyphs: all the angles a planet / point can make to other planets / points within the chart – what their relationships are to one another.
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How to fill in the Aspectarian form and the Chart Overview worksheet - an at-a-glance collection of data to be referred to when learning to interpret the Birth chart.
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Actual Aspect keywords will be introduced, practiced and discussed
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Chart Patterns: discern the pattern created by the grouping of planets within the chart and what it says about the personality
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Basic Interpretation a.k.a. Delineation of the chart is woven in throughout, with key handouts and worksheets to be downloaded prior to each class.
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We'll also practice, using the Astro-Dice, interpreting random throws of these dice. To hone your interpretation skills, as a group.
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Interspersed with opportunities to interpret each other's charts along the way - as a Student, you need to dive into this at some point!
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Each student MUST have their own set of Ephemerides for this level, and moving forward (see reference to this at the bottom of this page).
NB: you will be learning a lot about, and from, one another over the course of this level of study. Always a good thing.
Each class level builds upon the previous one. For students wishing to become Astrologers (moving beyond your basic curiosity within ASTRO101 level of the Astrology Basics) you will need to purchase a set of Ephemerides (the Astrologer’s key reference) for ASTRO201 levels and beyond.
These two ephemerides can be ordered from Amazon.ca:
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The New American Ephemeris for the 20th Century 1900-2000 at Midnight, by Rique Pottenger, Neil F. Michelsen, ISBN 97809762422-9-1
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The New American Ephemeris for the 21st Century 2000-2100 at Midnight, by Rique Pottenger, Neil F. Michelsen, ISBN 0-97862422-3-0
Ensure that you do purchase the MIDNIGHT version, not the NOON version, and that you order the set far enough in advance for shipping time prior to your first class of ASTRO201.
Cost: $480CAD for 2.5-hour classes/week over 8 weeks of instruction.
DISCOUNT: if you Register early- save $60 and pay only $420CAD
Payment: E-transfer, or by PayPal invoice. Please indicate which way you plan to pay at Registration.
FUTURE DATES: TBD. Student must have ASTRO101 Basics as a prerequisite. Classes will be done through ZOOM video meeting links. Ensure you have the tech set up for this (dedicated wi-fi/internet, speakers, screen, colour printer to print off your handouts/Homework worksheets) for a smooth connection to each class.
REGISTRATION: please Email Laurie Rae - myhouseofastrology@shaw.ca - ask your questions here too!
ASTRO301: Advanced Interpretation
ASTRO401: Advanced
By the end of 6 weeks, you will have a good grasp of the following:
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Advanced Chart Patterns: YOD, Grand Trine, Grand Square, T-Squares and Mystic Rectangle.
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Retrograde (Rx) planets, intercepted signs, and how they "work" in the Chart Interpretation.
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Other pieces of Chart Interpretation: Dwads, Decanates, Part of Fortune/Spirit, the Moon’s Nodes, Critical Degrees, Mutual Reception.
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Interactive - expect to learn by doing - honing more of your Interpretive skills.
Cost: $360CAD for 2.5-hour classes/week for 6 weeks of instruction.
Payment: E-transfer, or via PayPal invoice. Please indicate which way you plan to pay at Registration.
FUTURE DATES: When students appear - must have ASTRO101 Basics and completed ASTRO201 as a prerequisite.
TO REGISTER: please Email Laurie Rae - myhouseofastrology@shaw.ca - and ask your questions here too!
Here's where you learn about the TYPES of Astrology chart readings your clients will be interested in:
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Natal/Birth chart reading
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Transits / Secondary Progressions
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Solar, Lunar, Planetary Returns
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Relationship readings
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Business chart readings - a whole other interpretation!
And opportunities to use your interpretation skills along the way!
Cost: $480CAD for 2.5-hour classes/week for 8 weeks of instruction.
Payment: E-transfer, or via PayPal invoice. Please indicate which way you plan to pay at Registration.
FUTURE DATES: When students appear - must have ASTRO101 Basics, ASTRO201 and ASTRO301 completed as a prerequisite.
REGISTRATION: please Email Laurie Rae - myhouseofastrology@shaw.ca - ask your questions here too!
UPCOMING CLASSES:
Start your learning here...
MARCH 21 - MAY 16, 2023:
The next round of online interactive Astrology Classes: ASTRO101 Basics of Astrology via ZOOM Video
This 9-week course begins MARCH 21, 2023 for 2.5 hours/class
REGISTER below to receive the Class Syllabus and Registration Form.
Cost: $540CAD for 2.5-hour classes/week over 9 weeks of instruction.
DISCOUNT: if you Register by MARCH 15th - save $60 and pay only $480CAD
Payment: E-transfer, or by PayPal invoice. All details are on the Registration form.
I look forward to Teaching another class of eager Astrology Students! Namaste
The next round of ASTRO201 Intro to Chart Interpretation Online Classes via ZOOM Video - TBD:
This 8-week course begins TBD
REGISTER your INTENTION to join in on the 2022 OCT/NOV ASTRO201 round of classes SOON
Cost: $480CAD for 2.5-hour classes/week over 8 weeks of instruction.
DISCOUNT: if you Register early - save $60 and pay only $420CAD
Payment: E-transfer, or by PayPal invoice. Please indicate which way you plan to pay at Registration.
TO REGISTER: Click button below!
Each class level builds upon the previous one. For students wishing to become Astrologers (moving beyond your basic curiosity within ASTRO101 level of the Astrology Basics) you will need to purchase a set of Ephemerides (the Astrologer’s key reference) for ASTRO201 levels and beyond.
These two ephemerides can be ordered from Amazon.ca:
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The New American Ephemeris for the 20th Century 1900-2000 at Midnight, by Rique Pottenger, Neil F. Michelsen, ISBN 97809762422-9-1
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The New American Ephemeris for the 21st Century 2000-2100 at Midnight, by Rique Pottenger, Neil F. Michelsen, ISBN 0-9762422-3-0
Ensure that you do purchase the MIDNIGHT version, not the NOON version, and that you order the set far enough in advance for shipping time prior to your first class of ASTRO201.
The fundamentals of Astrology
It has been documented, via the early written words in cuneiforms and hieroglyphs from the Sumerians / Babylonians / Assyrians and Egyptians, that Astrology has been in use at least 6,000 years. Who knows how much longer previously in oral history?
Astrology began with celestial measurement by observation only, long before written history.
Astrology, religion and medicine were intermixed with correspondences realized between them early on – they interrelated with one another.
The richest vein of astrological records came from the library of Sardanapalus, last King of Assyria (7th Century BC) where observatories covered the whole kingdom, with professional astrologers reporting their work continuously.
A state library supplied all needed information to prognosticate times and seasons for agriculture, and portents for King and State – not for individuals as we do now until the Greeks turned Astrology into “of the people” or Genethliacal – it began the reading of horoscopes / birth charts as we know today.
The Ancients believed what wasn’t caused by men must be caused by Gods – the deities of the planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). These same Gods were the basis if myths of all countries around the ancient world.
The history of Astrology is also the history of Astronomy (we cannot have one without the other).
European/North American Astrology (Western Astrology) is derived from ancient Mesopotamia.
Key Astrologers from the past have been: Miletus, Pythagoras, Berosus, Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.
Modern Astrologers include: A.J. Pearce, Alan Leo, Charles Carter, Alice Bailey, Carl Jung, Dane Rudhyar, Stephen Orroyo, Stephen Forrest, Rick Levine, Liz Greene, Harold Sasportas, Demetra George, Barbara Hand Clow, Jeffrey Wolf Green, Robert Hand, Neil Michelsen, Celeste Teal, Noel Tyl, Robert Ohotto, Daniel Giamario, Cayelin Castell and Rose Marcus - to name a few!