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Kepler Certificate Program

Take courses at your own pace and pay as you go. For courses that lead to a certificate acknowledging your hard work, we will keep track of your progress. The time for the live sessions may be adjusted based on where members of the class are living. Most live sessions are held on the weekends or evenings.

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Certificate Courses

Everyone is welcome to enroll in our intensive courses.

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Are planets better behaved in some signs than others? In an opposition, what planet is most likely to win the tug of war? Are mutual receptions always nice? The key to answering these questions and many more is understanding dignities and debilities.

Instructor: Charles Obert
5-week course

The traditional astrology tool of dignity and debility is a powerful and nuanced way to add detail to your chart interpretation. But many astrologers do not realize how effective and useful this tool can be or they think it is simply archaic and overly complicated. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The goal of this class is to show how you can reclaim this effective tool.

Traditional astrology offers a particularly effective system of forecasting that combines techniques to help you prepare for the future and understand the past.

Instructor: Charlie Obert
5-week course

This system is known as the Cycle or Turning of the Year. Instead of just using a Solar Return, this method was prepared yearly for each birthday. It has its roots in Hellenistic astrology, came to full flower in the Arabic and Persian eras, and persisted through the late Classical period of Lilly and his contemporaries. Ben Dykes' translation of Abu Mashar's On Solar Revolutions in Persian Nativities3 is a full exposition of this system.

Learn ancient talismanic magic that actually works! Astrological magic can be used for wealth, romance, career, self-improvement, and spiritual growth.

Instructor: Nina Gryphon
5-week course

This course will teach the theory, methods, and practical application of astrological magic, as practiced in the West and the Middle East for the past two thousand years. Historic astrological magic has only been fully rediscovered in the past two decades as older astrological and magical texts were translated into modern languages.

Astrology has a rich heritage stretching back thousands of years. We sometimes think of astrology as just one thing, but different cultures asked different questions as they found meaning in the ever-changing sky. This class offers a survey of the history of astrology, primarily in the West.

Instructor: Inga Thornell
10-week course

The mythology of the Greco-Roman gods is our foundation for understanding the meaning of the planets and the basis of our astrology. 

Instructor: Inga Thornell
5-week course

The Greco-Roman Gods have not been worshipped in any official capacity for over 2000 years, and yet this mythology is the foundation for much of the allusion, characters and literary forms in Western literature. We still refer to people as jovial, junoesque, or to music as martial. What keywords can we discover as we read the god's stories and try to understand them from a more astrological point of view?

Astronomy and astrology have the same origins in the explorations and explanations of the visual sky.

INDEPENDENT STUDY 
Instructor: Bruce Scofield

Astronomy is the study of the nature, motions, and history of the Earth's cosmic environment, astrology is the study of how the cosmic environment affects Earth and its inhabitants. In this course, specifically designed for Kepler College students, we will emphasize themes relevant to a general understanding of the subject rather than one involving technical knowledge and mathematics.

Explore the different dimensions of our experience of soul. Discover and how soul, psyche and astrological psychology are entwined. 

Instructors; Joseph Crane and Enid Newberg 
5-week course
No external texts are required for this course

The ancient world saw the soul as body and mind, as breath and life force, as our basic nature that outlives the body, and as the self that reveals itself to others. Here are the beginning investigations of why we say someone is a "good soul" and how the cracks and breaks in soul express in "character flaws." These ideas also form the bedrock of what we consider "the Good Life” and how a soul can act in harmony with itself and the world. 

What does astrology tell us about our soul's calling that helps us understand what we are meant to do?

Instructors: Enid Newberg and Joseph Crane
5-week course
No external texts are required for this course

The essence of the soul’s journey is the discovery of a larger sense of who we are and how we live in the world. In ordinary experience, our primary interactions with the world are through our daily work, our job or career. But this may not be the same as being "called" to a particular type of action or work. Sometimes the soul's calling is quiet; sometimes it is a demand that is triggered by grief or other traumas in our lives. The soul's calling asks us to trod a path that can transform ourselves and our world. Whether or how we act upon that call that is our soul’s “vocation.” This course explores how astrology can help us understand our soul's journey.

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  1. E520C The Recurring and Evolving Soul 2nd ed.
  2. E522A Finding the Whole - Systems Thinking in Astrology
  3. EV101 Evolutionary Astrology
  4. L201A Sacred Paths through the Written Word: Western Traditions
  5. L201B Sacred Paths Through the Written Word: Eastern Traditions
  6. M100 Chart Calculation
  7. V100A Indian Astrology Crash Course
  8. V110A Vedic Electional Tricks for Western Astrologers
  9. E260 Mesoamerican Astrology
  10. E301A Modern Astrology's Heritage
  11. E510 Symmetry in Astrology 1 (Uranian astrology plus ...)
  12. E513A Introduction to Uranian Astrology
  13. E521A ​The Life, Times and Astrology of Marsilio Ficino​
  14. E531 Horary Astrology
  15. E536A Ancient Predictive Techniques and Applications
  16. E610A Adventures in Esoteric Astrology
  17. WR201 Counseling Issues in Astrology
  18. WR202A Working with Parents and Children
  19. WR202B The Astrology of Family Patterns
  20. WR203A Attraction and Repulsion
  21. WR203B Comparisons & Composites
  22. WL220 The Basics of Astro*Carto*Graphy
  23. WL221A The Astrology of Local Space
  24. W100A Fundamentals: The Bridge Course ($215)
  25. W101 Fundamentals I: Introduction
  26. W102 Fundamentals II: Interpretation Tools
  27. W103 Fundamentals III: Building Delineation Skills
  28. W104 Fundamentals IV: Natal Practicum
  29. W110 Fundamentals V: Predicting Major Life Circumstances
  30. W111 Fundamentals VI: Advanced Predictive Techniques-Relocation, Planetary Returns, Synodic Cycles and More

Subcategories

Certificate: Alternate Traditions

Most of our course offerings focus on the most common aspects of modern astrological practice. But there are additional unique traditions that have a different perspective and/or philosophical underpinning that astrologers incorporate into their practice. This includes Esoteric Astrology (originally developed by Alice Bailey or the Church of Light), Evolutionary Astrology (originally developed by Jeffrey Wolf Green and Steven Forrest), Uranian/Symmetrical Astrology (developed in the early 20th century), Astro*Carto*Graphy (developed by Jim Lewis) and  Astromapping, Hellenistic Astrology, Medieval Astrology and Indian Astrology. 

This certificate requires 30 weeks from a range of courses focused on these traditions.

Certificate: AstroMapping

Astromapping is the art of using the astrological chart to determine a good place to live or even the best way to structure one's local environment (similar to Fung Shui).  Astro*Carto*Graphy is the art of using the natal chart to determine what areas of world support or challenge the natal planet positions. Local Space astrology uses the natal chart to interact with your local environment so that it supports who you are. Like Feng Shui, you can use these techniques even to the level of an individual room in your house.

The Astromapping certificate requires 20 weeks of instruction and includes the 10-week course WL220 Astro*Carto*Graphy, and two 5-week courses - WL221A Local Space and WL221B Astromapping Practicum.

Certificate: Astrological Counseling and Relationships

Astrological counseling has unique features. This certificate requires 30 weeks of instruction. It provides students with a solid foundation of the considerations, issues, and ethics of astrological counseling and the ability to work with clients in the most common area of practice:

  • relationships,
  • one's own capacity for and style of giving and receiving love, and
  • the interactions of lovers, spouses, parents and children, and the family itself.

Certificate: Fundamentals of Natal Astrology

This certificate focuses on building skills for natal chart interpretation. The required courses provide students with the skills they need to successfully interpret a natal chart, an understanding of many of the types of tools they can use (and any controversies surrounding them) and a consideration of the ethical issues involved. It gives students a broad enough view that they can also understand the different approaches available for interpretation (such as traditional, modern, or evolutionary) so they can decide for themselves what direction interests them further.

The standard certificate (30 weeks) requires W101, W102, and W103. The extended certificate (40 weeks of instruction) requires the natal chart practicum, W104, which hones student's ability to work with common client questions (based on actual client charts and issues).

Certificate: Movement and Forecasting

This certificate includes courses covering various methods of moving the chart in time, including techniques such as transits, progressions, solar arc directions, solar returns, planetary returns, profections, elections, rectification and more.

W110 and W111 are required for this certificate (20 weeks). Students can choose to take W112 and/or W113 (practicums focused on application) to fulfill the requirement of 30 weeks (the standard certificate) or 40 weeks (the extended certificate) of instruction.

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