Syllabus

for Nitty Gritty Astrology Course 1!

Presented by Samuel F. Reynolds

Required text is On The Heavenly Spheres: A Treatise on Traditional Astrology by Helena Avelar and
Luis Ribeiro ($39.95). Buy here

Class ONE (January 6, 2018):
What is astrology and what can it (really) do for people who use it?

Class TWO (January 13, 2018):
Plain Truth About the Planets—Introducing THE SEVEN primary planets, the keyholders for unlocking
the heavens.

Class THREE (January 20, 2018):
Deeper Truths About the Planets—Outer planets, Chiron, & Black Moon Lilith.

Class FOUR (January 27, 2018):
Understanding Essential Dignities and “signs”—Understand how the signs, the doorways to the
cosmos, work with the planetary keyholders.

Class FIVE (February 3, 2018):
A CLASS PRACTICUM–Creative exercises, chart examples, and discussion on integrating an
understanding of planets and signs.

Classes SIX (February 10, 2018) AND SEVEN (February 17, 2018):
Wheelin’ and Dealin’, Part 1—Understand how the relationships (or aspects) between planets crack
open the code of a chart.

Class EIGHT (February 24, 2018):
Wheelin’ and Dealin’, Part 2 —Understand how the planets, their relationships, and important
positions in the sky of heaven (in what are called houses) can reveal what happens on Earth.

Class NINE (March 3, 2018):
Toward a Method — Crystalizing a clear method with laid-out steps for how to read each house of a
chart effectively.

Class TEN (March 10, 2018):
A CLASS PRACTICUM — Looking at various charts to test your chart-reading chops.

Class ELEVEN (March 17, 2018):
“Speed” Reading a chart —Using only 20% of somebody’s chart, i.e., the rising, moon and Sun sign,
learn how to extract 80% of what you need to know about that chart.

 CLASS TWELVE (March 31, 2018):
LIVE readings by students of each other’s charts or willing volunteers.