Course curriculum

  • 1

    Signature Astrology

    • Introduction to Signature Astrology
    • Goals of this course
  • 2

    Western Astrology

    • Historical Overview of Western Astrology
    • Key Concepts
  • 3

    The Astrological Chart

    • The First House Cusp
    • Individual signs and corresponding house themes
    • Ways of "Looking" at the Chart
    • How to render an astrology chart
    • Planets, Signs, and Symbols
    • Basic Angular House Orientation
    • Planetary Directionality
    • Angular Houses in Depth
  • 4

    The Doctrine of Signatures

    • The Expressivity of the Oikodespotes
    • Revisiting Melothesia, Astral Piety and Cosmic Sympathy
    • Beyond the Symptom, the Living Body beneath
  • 5

    Cosmic Empathy

    • The Living Body
    • Cosmic Empathy and Looking Forward
    • The Layered Body Model Visually-Represented
  • 6

    The Signatures

    • Correspondences of the Signatures
    • 1st House/Aries: Part I
    • 1st House/Aries: Part II
    • 1st House/Aries: Part III
    • 2nd House/Taurus: Part I
    • 2nd House/Taurus: Part II
    • 3rd House/Gemini: Part I
    • 3rd House/Gemini: Part II
    • 4th House/Cancer: Part I
    • 4th House/Cancer: Part II
    • 5th House/Leo
    • 6th House/Virgo
    • 7th House/Libra: Part I
    • 7th House/Libra: Part II
    • 7th House/Libra: Part III
    • 8th House/Scorpio
    • 9th House/Sagittarius
    • 10th House/Capricorn
    • 11th House/Aquarius: Part I
    • 11th House/Aquarius: Part II
    • 11th House/Aquarius: Part III
    • 12th House/Pisces: Part I
    • 12th House/Pisces: Part II
  • 7

    Course Assessment

    • Worksheet
    • Course Assessment
    • Quiz
  • 8

    Bonus material & bibliography

    • Where does life begin?: An essay
    • Meeting in Emptiness: Zheng Qi and Shen
    • Bibliography
    • Suggested Reading

Checklist

  • Learn how to read an astrological chart

  • Learn how astrology can be considered a medical device

  • Connect astrology reading to CM zang fu health for deeper self understanding, patient diagnosis, treatment.

  • Develop a thorough framework for viewing the psychophysical body as was Classically understood.

  • Gain a rare glimpse into the earliest Western perspectives of the body and how they correlate to Chinese medical concepts.