Mundane Astrology
National charts, ingresses and great conjunction cycles.
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Level 1Units: 5
Level 1 · Unit 1
The scope and history of mundane astrology
What mundane astrology studies, from Mesopotamian sky omens and Ptolemy's universal astrology to medieval cycles and the modern revival.
- Astrology of the world
- Omens for king and country
- Ptolemy's universal astrology
- From Baghdad to the modern revival
- Checkpoint: The scope and history of mundane astrology
Level 1 · Unit 2
National and event charts
Charts for states and events: choosing a founding moment, the competing United States charts, the United Kingdom and India, and reading national houses.
- Choosing a founding moment
- The United States charts
- Other nations, other problems
- Reading the houses of a nation
- Checkpoint: National and event charts
Level 1 · Unit 3
Ingress, lunation and eclipse charts
The four cardinal ingresses, casting them for a capital, the lunation before each season, and new Moon and eclipse charts.
- The four cardinal ingresses
- Casting the ingress for a capital
- The lunation before the season
- Eclipse charts
- Checkpoint: Ingress, lunation and eclipse charts
Level 1 · Unit 4
Planets as mundane significators
How mundane astrologers read the Sun, Moon and planets for collective life, the outer planets as a modern layer, and combining planet, sign and house.
- The lights: government and people
- The five planets in public life
- The outer planets, a modern layer
- Planet, sign and house together
- Checkpoint: Planets as mundane significators
Level 1 · Unit 5
Practice: reading a seasonal chart
One invented teaching ingress chart from a real sky, read step by step: rising sign and its ruler, angular planets, the Sun and Moon, and a responsible write-up.
- First survey of the chart
- Angles, angular planets and the Sun
- The Moon and her contacts
- Writing it up responsibly
- Checkpoint: Practice: reading a seasonal chart
Level 2Units: 5
Level 2 · Unit 1
Great conjunction cycles
Synodic periods, the 2020 conjunction up close, untidy mutations and triple conjunctions, and the outer-planet cycles as modern research.
- Synodic periods
- The 2020 conjunction up close
- Mutations and triple conjunctions
- Outer-planet cycles as modern research
- Checkpoint: Great conjunction cycles
Level 2 · Unit 2
Eclipses and history
Saros series in depth, eclipse paths versus chart points, and how past societies read eclipses, studied as history.
- Inside a Saros series
- Paths and points
- Eclipses in the historical record
- Reading eclipse history as history
- Checkpoint: Eclipses and history
Level 2 · Unit 3
Method and ethics
Hindsight bias and cherry-picking, why this course never forecasts disasters, deaths, wars or elections, and respect for nations and peoples.
- Hindsight and cherry-picking
- Why this course never forecasts harm
- Respecting nations and peoples
- Good practice in mundane study
- Checkpoint: Method and ethics
Level 2 · Unit 4
Slow planets changing sign
Sign ingresses of Saturn and the outer planets, retrograde back-and-forth, Pluto into Aquarius, the 2025–26 moves into Aries and Gemini, and earlier visits read with care.
- Ingresses of slow planets
- Pluto into Aquarius
- The 2025–26 moves
- Earlier visits, read as history
- Checkpoint: Slow planets changing sign
Level 2 · Unit 5
Timing with national charts
Transits to a candidate national chart, national solar returns, Saturn and Pluto returns and progressions, with the disputed founding time kept in view.
- Transits to a national chart
- National solar returns
- Saturn and Pluto returns
- Progressing a national chart
- Checkpoint: Timing with national charts