In her search for the most powerful system for prediction, Joni Patry has studied many techniques from Western astrology, but has found the Dasha system from Vedic astrology to be the most amazing and accurate. You will learn how to implement this powerful system into your astrological practice, ...

A brief overview of Hellenistic astrology, touching upon the history, philosophy and techniques of the tradition with a technical focus on specific techniques from the Hellenistic tradition that should prove to be new and useful to modern astrologers, such as whole sign houses, sect, sign rulersh...

Roundtable discussion on various traditional astrological techniques with Norma Jean Ream, Ty Price, Doug Noblehorse, and Hazel Leung. Moderated by Chris Turner. Recorded September 13, 2009.

This lecture is provided in both English and Russian.

Эта лекция проводится на английском и русском языках.

The theme of lunar nodes is one of the most confused and fogged in mass myths of Western astrology. In the course of this lecture, we will examine the mythology, astronomy, and history of...

This lecture concentrates on the techniques and origins of mundane and political astrology and prediction. The lecture draws on classical techniques originating from ancient Mesopotamia and supplemented by such mundane masters such as Masha’allah, through Kepler and down to the more contemporary ...

This lecture is provided in both English and Russian.

Эта лекция проводится на английском и русском языках.

Horary questions concerning hidden or absent things occupy an important place in astrological art. In fact, most of the manuals for astrologers describing the rules and methods of horary ...

Astrologers often talk about the soul, but without saying what they think it is. Many scholars think that the Self was discovered in the late nineteenth century. But it was in the thirteenth century that the translation of astrological texts from Arabic caused a crisis in the European mind. This ...

Most astrologers with any knowledge of Hindu astrology (Jyotish) are aware that it uses a division of the zodiac into 27 nakshatras, often referred to as Lunar Mansions. Fewer astrologers are aware that Arabic and Medieval Latin astrology also have such a system except that it is based on the div...

We could say that the Oxyrhynchus papyri are a sort of time capsule miraculously preserving not only the literature but the daily life that was taking place some 2000 years ago, in the so called Hellenistic era. Actually these papyri were discovered at an archaeological excavation of an ancient r...

In this talk, we explore the ancient Hellenistic and Indian understanding and use of the nodes of the Moon in natal astrology, comparing and contrasting the ancient use of the nodes, and the philosophy surrounding their use, with our current use of the nodes in modern astrology.

In this lecture, we will discuss how traditional western astrology identifies mental health illness in the natal charts. This was often seen in severe afflictions to the Moon, Mercury, excessive mutability in the chart, and some other configurations. Elena illustrates how these astrological patte...

Persian astrologers kept the track of time using several cycles, including the great conjunctions, for centuries. They based the conjunction points and cycles as one of the most deciding points of mundane astrology. The point of previous conjunction had been mentioned in birth chart of the kings ...

Ancient Chinese divided the sky into seven regions. Three of them, called the Three Enclosures, are near the north celestial pole and the polar star, while the other four, the Four Symbols, are along the zodiac.

These four zodiacal regions are symbolised with totems of dragon, tiger, turtle, and...

Mars: Understanding the traditional ruler of Aries and Scorpio, the first and eighth house. How can we incorporate the recognized modern ruler of Scorpio, Pluto, and its relationship to the eighth house and its relationship to Mars? Mars came first, but how does Pluto fit in? We’ll explore some i...

From the ancient world we find the roots of many of our modern astrological predictive techniques: transits, progressions and directions, solar returns. Planetary period (or chronocrator) systems, however, fell by the wayside, and that’s unfortunate, for they look at human time within a different...