Astrology of Healing Certificate:
This Certificate requires 40 weeks of study This module equips students with the techniques necessary for a thorough medical astrological consultation (within the bounds of their own medical knowledge, legal permissions, and personal competence) and to investigate medical events using astrology.
This program aims to prepare consultants to provide astrologically informed insight into the Astrology of Healing; insights into body, mind, and spirit matters.
All courses at Kepler College are taught in English unless noted otherwise. Proficiency in English is required for all students.
Attendance may be required in some of the classes.
Prerequisite: Kepler Fundamentals Certificate or equivalent
Certificate Requirements: 40 credits.
All courses are five (5) credits unless otherwise stated
Overview:
The Astrology of Healing Certificate courses address the questions surrounding medical astrology. This will encompass horary and decumbiture charts, the currency of great astrologers like Abraham ibn Ezra and Nicholas Culpeper. For all but the last roughly 100 years, medicine was understood as applying to any of hundreds of methods to relieve the human condition related to the many diseases that our bodies, minds, and spirits encounter in our journeys through this Earth. No one school or philosophy of medicine had right or priority, much less legal and professional right of priority. In our foundational courses in this program, we will present the history of how this happened and its impact on us, both as practitioners of the art and as personal users.
Because these society-wide changes have resulted in our possessing less than full professional autonomy, we are opting here to use the wording Astrology of Healing, which is legally unreserved. But like any attempt to use precise language, it also has disadvantages. Within the New Age community, which includes astrology, that phrase implies a viewpoint that is not exactly what we mean here. You might call our usage here “lower case” – we are not advocating a hierarchy of the three concepts infinitely entwined with belief systems but a continued reverence for the long path that carries our journey to self-understanding, healing, and acceptance. Some adherents may work on strictly physical matters; others may work on mental or spiritual; all seek a place of health and well-being, and all see astrology as a means of practice, understanding, and support.
Program objectives:
Successful graduates will be able to:
- Compare and contrast knowledge of the historical practices of astrology with a focus on Hippocratic and Galenic medicine and related systems of thought, astrological rulerships, and pattern recognition principles.
- Describe Hippocratic, Aristotelian, and Stoic systems of humoral thought.
- Compare historical applications and how this medical diaspora was syncretized with astrological principles.
- Apply astrological analysis and critical thought to enhance applications of historical medical and non-orthodox protocols designed to improve the client’s bodily, mental, or spiritual experience.
- Use timing principles to astrologically inform elections, prognoses, procedures, wellness programs, and prognoses for enhanced experience, wellness, and amelioration.
- Situate their practice within the astrological culture and that of the communities of care.
Required Courses:
- MPC310 Medical Astrology: History & Foundations (10 credits)
- MPC306 Elements, Humors, Temperaments
- MPC311 The Astrology of Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Disease
- MPC316 Melothesia: Astrological Anatomy
- MPC321 Decumbitures: Prognosis
- MPC331 Traditional Disease Tendencies in Medical Astrology
- MPC391 Certificate Level Demonstration of Learning
All courses at Kepler College are taught in English unless noted otherwise. Proficiency in English is required for all students.
Faculty: Lee Lehman, William Morris, Marcos Patchett, Kira Sutherland
