Welcome to the second module of the most comprehensive foundational course in medical astrology.
In this five-lesson module, students will expand their knowledge of how to construct and interpret astrological charts for the onset of an illness, for consultations, or for individuals. They will learn how to use astrology to improve their assessment of patients’ wellbeing and general prognosis, and to ethically and responsibly guide treatment using astrology.
This includes instruction on some essentials of astrological interpretation and their practical application, including essential and accidental dignity, aspects, sect, planetary motion and phases, antiscia, and other techniques, in addition to how to astrologically classify medicinal plants. This course will be beneficial for all herbalists, therapists or doctors who use botanical medicines and wish to upgrade their practice with astrology.
The course is structured as five two-part lessons with several videos in each lesson, downloadable PDFs, five quizzes to test your knowledge, an online community, a reading list to expand your knowledge, and bi-monthly live Q&A sessions. This is the second of three medical astrology modules for herbalists, therapists and medics, and includes elements of both Level 1 (novice) and Level 2 (apprentice) medical astrology.
Course Content
Lessons 1a & 1b –Time:
· Ethics in astrology
· Planetary Hours (and days)
· Sect
· Aspects – applying and separating
· Beholding and Aversion
· Example charts: use in practice
Lessons 2a & 2b – Nature (Essential dignity)
· Domicile + Exaltation
· Detriment + Fall
· Triplicity
· Terms / Bounds [M] + Decan / Face
· Receptions and Rejections
· Example charts: use in practice
Lessons 3a & 3b – Power (Accidental dignity)
· Angular, Succedent, Cadent – revision
· Advancing and retreating
· Direct and Retrograde motion
· Combustion, cazimi and under the sunbeams
· Oriental, Occidental, Moon phases, and planetary phasis
· Example charts: use in practice
Lessons 4a & 4b – Precision
· Planetary motion + average speeds
· Precise manual chart calculation: using Raphael’s logarithms
· Chart calculation software and demos
· Antiscia
· Overcoming
· Example charts: use in practice
Lessons 5a & 5b – Animation
· Planetary associations
· Rulerships expanded - e.g. herbs and treatments of planets, planets in signs
· Culpeper’s rules for treatment
· “Humoral, Physical, Psychological” approach to medical chart interpretation
· Rulership, Placement, Aspect + Reception: tying it all together
· Example charts: use in practice
Example Curriculum
Module tutors: Marcos Patchett & Oliver Rathbone
Marcos Patchett (BSc Herbal Medicine, BA Fine Art, MNIMH) has been practising as a medical herbalist in London since 2004, and has taught as a clinical training supervisor at Middlesex and Westminster University and Heartwood online. He is also a medical and horary astrologer, an affiliate tutor for Kepler College in the U.S.A., the UK Qualified Horary Practitioner (QHP) school, and a faculty member of the Academy of Astrology UK.
Oliver Rathbone (MSc herbal medicine, MNIMH) is a medical herbalist and publisher. He trained in medical herbalism at Middlesex University and now has a herbal practice in East Sussex. He is currently the publisher at Aeon Books which specialises in herbal medicine and spirituality titles. He has been fascinated by Astrology since the 1980s.
