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The Cosmic Pulse: Episode 5, Libra 2023 - Medical Astrology
Anita Kolisch, medical doctor and IAA graduate, joins host Jen Ingress to discuss how she combines her practice of medicine with astrology.
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The Psychology of Prediction: Fatalism in the 21st Century, with Christian Borup
Astrology is the sublime art of prediction. If free will ruled supreme, there would be no reason to do astrology. If fate ruled supreme, then why can’t astrology predict everything?
This lecture explores ways to reconcile the modern psychological worldview with classical predictive techniques. T...
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The Quindecile: Aspect of Obsession, with Colleen Coffey
The quindecile, 165°, an aspect of the 24th Harmonic. Perhaps the most notable observation about this aspect of compulsion and obsession is that those who advocate its use are quite fanatical about its value in the natal chart, dynamics, and synastry.
Colleen says she really did not need another...
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The Progressed Moon: The Cycle of Our Evolving Emotional Needs, with Lynn Koiner
In this lecture, Lynn discusses the progressed Moon's perigee and apogee periods in a person's life together with the minor aspects such as the septile, quintile, etc.
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The Astrology of Happiness: An In-Depth Look at the 4th House, with Joni Patry
The 4th house is the one of the moksha houses meaning spiritual liberation. The water houses 4, 8 and 12 are the most misunderstood houses of a chart because they rule the mysteries of life. On the surface the 4th house is known to signify home, security and mother. But there is a much deeper lev...
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The Magic and Mystery of Childhood, with Gloria Star
Exploring the astrological chart of a child requires a different approach. Children are works in progress, and they are only beginning the journey of personal development.
As one of the unique areas of her work as a professional astrologer, Gloria has written books, articles, and even astrologic...
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The Keys to Mundane Astrology, with Ed Tamplin
This lecture explores the astrological techniques of world prediction. It examines cycle work and how that applies to specific countries. Ed also clarifies which national charts to use and/or discard, as well as improved methods of predicting without using national horoscopes.
He explains exactl...
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The Astrology of Body Issues, with Kira Sutherland
Is there a person alive that doesn’t have issues with body image, weight control or self-esteem? Why is it such a struggle to love the body we are in, and how can we be kinder to our bodies rather than fight against them?
In this lecture, Kira takes you on a journey of weight issues, body image,...
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Amazing Comparisons Between the Babylonian and Mayan Venus, with Thomas Gazis
The Mayan astrology is quite different from our modern western astrology. Surprisingly, though, it is very similar to the ancient Babylonian astrology! In particular, the planet Venus was very prominent to both the Maya and Babylonian astrologers, who revered it as a "dual" deity (matutine and ve...
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Rulerships from a Modern Perspective, with Georgia Stathis
Georgia Stathis, a professional astrologer since 1978, demonstrates how to delineate a chart using modern rulerships -- the key to reading a chart accurately. Using the concept of rulerships assists you in refining the smaller, often unseen details in a horoscope.
Georgia taught this course at K...
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Progressing the Birth Chart, with Greg Bogart
The birth chart is not a fixed or static structure. It implies movement, growth, and evolution, which can be measured by various techniques of planetary progressions.
Utilizing the natal and progressed charts of several workshop participants, Greg demonstrates how an astrologer can look at any c...
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Prenatal Progressions, with Joyce Hoen
With this technique, we dig up some of our family history which we inherited in our genes prior to birth, and are influenced by in our life, as per our charts. We use plenty of examples as well.
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Pluto in Capricorn with Neptune in Pisces, with Darby Costello
In the last 3,000 years Pluto has been in Capricorn twelve times before now. Neptune has been there with it six of those times. This talk will look at the previous transits of this combination and pick out themes that run through these periods, so to illuminate our understanding of the present in...
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Philosophical Issues in Ancient Astrology, with Chris Brennan
Chris discusses the four primary philosophical positions held by astrologers in the ancient world, focusing on the issue of the mechanism underlying astrology as well as the degree to which things are viewed as predetermined. This talk also involves a discussion about how these positions are stil...
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I've Got a Feeling: First Impression Horoscope Judgment, with Richard Smoot
The computer prints the chart in seconds. You only have an hour or so to do your consultation. Who is this person behind the chart and how do I begin to piece my understanding of the person and the chart together?
Before your in-depth chart analysis, first impression judgements of the horoscope ...
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Modified Solar Return (MSR), with Gregory Clare
The ascendant, Sun and Moon are used to calculate the Lot of Fortune. Thus using this formula we can begin to understand how a ternary or threefold relationship is formed.
In this lecture, Gregory demonstrates another way of casting solar returns. This method was touched on some years back by Ro...
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The Phases of Saturn, with Ani Bettati
The cycle of Saturn has clear manifestations in our lives, because this energy develops the spinal cord of our growth and allows us to integrate higher levels of all the natal chart. The energy that activates Saturn through the 12 phases enables us to become totally conscious, and overcome concep...
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How Do Your Prenatal Eclipse & Lunations Shape Your Life? with R. Hakan Kirkoglu
Although there is not extensive material on prenatal eclipses and their relation to our life stories, Hakan considers them especially useful in pinpointing major life themes for astrological counseling when it is used side by side with the natal chart. The themes of the sign of the prenatal eclip...
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How to Get the Most from Your Stellium, with Donna Cunningham
Donna Cunningham draws on a lifetime of experience with her own stellium and two multiple conjunctions to share strategies and practical tools she developed for realizing the potentials and avoiding the pitfalls of these planetary concentrations. Helpful for people who have them, and for astrolog...
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IAA Graduation Ceremony 2023
IAA Graduation Ceremony held on July 11, 2023, with the graduates along with IAA administrators, instructors, and staff.
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Harmonics, with Christeen Skinner
We can of course spot oppositions, trines, sextiles and squares with the naked eye. This does not invalidate other aspects. Several of these -- especially the 5th, 7th, and 9th -- tell us so much about a person's potential.
In this talk we also look at the impact of the recent Neptune-Pluto sept...
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Fidaria Sequence: A Time Lord Technique, with Norma Jean Ream
Life unfolds differently for day and night births. The technique of firdaria is based on the nativity being diurnal or nocturnal. Each traditional planet rules a period of years, with sub-periods co-ruled by a series of rulers of shorter periods.
This technique can be very useful as a preliminar...
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Katarchic Astrology, with Geoffrey Cornelius
"Katarche" is a term from early Greek astrology, applied to a range of non-natal practices. These include what later tradition distinguishes as electional, inceptional and interrogational (horary) astrology. It may be translated as "initiative," and the astrology of the katarche responds to human...
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When the Chart Says "No," with J. Lee Lehman, Ph.D.
If we are honest about it, the old cartoon, "If my natal chart were a horary, the answer would be no!" is true. This fact should not be disturbing to us as astrologers, but instead should be the demonstration for why our craft is so needed to understand life. A statement of "no" is merely the rea...