A school bringing quality medical astrology and continuing practitioner development (CPD) training to users of plant medicine worldwide.
From Level 1 (novice) to Level 3 (practitioner), the core curriculum and supplementary courses connect herbal folk with the best traditional astrological guidance from above, and help astrologers rediscover the wisdom of below with botanical medicines.
Additional CPD modules are available to assist herbalists and astrologers build profitable practices in sustainable and ethical ways.
Courses by qualified medical herbalists and experienced astrologers, designed specifically for healthcare practitioners of all kinds, and students of herbal medicine and astrology.
-Marcos Patchett, mNIMH, mAMH, Plan*tarium founder
Astrology for Herbalists: core curriculum
This course is suitable for therapists of all kinds, including herbalists, medical doctors, pharmacists, homeopaths, acupuncturists, etc. The course is oriented towards people who utilise plant medicines, but teaches medical astrology from the ground up for all therapists who work with real patients or clients.
Level 1 - novice. For those who haven't studied traditional medical astrology before. Three modules introduce key concepts and historical figures, how to calculate charts by hand, and the use of decumbiture (illness), consultation, and birth charts in medical astrology to guide prognosis, diagnosis and treatment.
~ MODULE ONE NOW AVAILABLE ~
Level 2 - apprentice. Suitable for students with a good grounding in traditional medical astrology, these modules provide a deeper dive into the technicalities of traditional medical astrology, incorporating additional prognostic tools such as crisis charts, answering medical questions with astrology (horary), and using the birth chart to calculate temperament and analyse congenital, inherited or "constitutional" health issues.
Level 3 - practitioner. Suitable for practicing medical astrologers, or those who have completed the preceding level! Several modules covering various topics such as controversial "length of life" techninques and their ethics and application, use of primary and secondary directions, profections and solar returns in the birth chart, medical elections, analysis of global health concerns with mundane astrology, and more!
Growing your practice
A module teaching essential business and marketing skills for herbalists and other complementary medicine practitioners, astrologers, and self-employed therapists. Created and taught by experienced medical herbalists who have been there and done it themselves, from the ground up!
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Hi, I’m Marcos!
I began practising as a medical herbalist in 2004, initially specializing in complementary care for people living with HIV, working from Neal’s Yard Remedies’ Therapy Rooms and Tony's Holistic Centre in London. I worked as a dispenser in Middlesex University’s training clinic for their Western Herbal Medicine BSc in 2009-2010, and later as a clinical supervisor for the Western Herbal medicine BSc and MSc courses at Middlesex from 2013-2018, and for Westminster University in 2021-2022, and Heartwood online in 2020-2023.
I'm also a medical and horary astrologer, and a lifelong student of renaissance and classical astrology. I'm 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. My first book, The Secret Life of Chocolate (thesecretlifeofchocolate.com), was released in 2020, and the forthcoming paperback "herbalist edit" of this book - Pharmakakawa: Theobroma cacao in medicine and ceremony, was released in November 2024.
Medical astrology has a long history in association with herbal medicine, and it's my hope that Plan*tarium will help raise the standard of both medical astrology and herbal medicine by making these incredible tools more accessible to all.
