EMAIL/ONLINE COURSE IN ASTROLOGY
CHTA has a very popular Astrology Education via internet in the Netherlands (90 students), and the course is more or less translated but still very inactive in the English language. Maybe the Dutch are more keen on learning with one teacher for a longer time until they have completed their course, or maybe there are plenty of possibilities in the English language. But anyway, studying astrology in the English language is possible with us, but curently only the beginnerscourse is available. Studying with website/lessons and feedback per email gives all those unable to attend classes in person after all a chance to receive good astrology tuition as well as being able to do it all in your own time!
The emailcourse consists of approx. 24 lessons per 'year'. A 'year' however is the amount of material which a student is normally able to grasp in this timeframe. Many emailstudents manage to do this in 3-4 months time, sometimes taking a lesson a day, others take much longer, depending on their available time.With each lesson you are required to answer a set of questions & email these back - then you will receive the next lesson.
In the course of the first year you will learn all the basic elements that make up a horoscope, from both a practical as well as a spiritual perspective. You will receive your own birthchart (not interpreted) by mail upon registration of the course and in due time will learn to calculate horoscopes yourself, either manually, or with a computer-programm (this is optional, & the computerprogramm advised is pathfinder )
The course is designed by Joyce Hoen DF Astrol S, who has taught astrology and medical astrology for many years, both in her own school in Zutphen, Holland, (Europe) as well as on an Academy for Natural (Holistic) Health.
You will receive 24 lessons yearly (depending on your own free time). You may decide after the first year to continue with the next one - which at this particular moment in time is in translation and cannot be offered until it is ready, but we expect that by the time you arrive at that point the lessons will have been translated. It is however not possible at this moment to enroll for the second "year" skipping the first, but we expect to be able to offer this opportunity in the future. Many Dutch students, where this course originated, have started with the second year after having studied elsewhere:-)
In the first year you will learn all basic details of astrology, and in this 2nd year horoscope-delineation and transits (lifecycles) are the main focus of study. The 3rd diploma-year is also in preparation and will consist of more indepth material & techniques such as counseling, relationships, progressions. Another course - post diplom as it where - is also in the making: an intensive on medical astrology for non-medical astrologers. After completion of three years if and when these lessons are available, it is possible to gain the diplom of the CHTA, certifying you as an astrologer who will practice astrology in a meaningful, positive and non-destructive way to your clients. As with any diplom in astrology, these are not officially recognized. (With the exception, which is completely new in our field, of the graduate studies at Kepler College in Seattle). However, having taken a course and having gained a diplom, this will satisfy both yourself as well as your future clients that you take its study and yourself seriously.
The fee is USD 400.00 or €250.00 EURO per year, inclusive of creditcard-and banktransferfees. When paying within Europe using IBAN/BIC numbers the fee in Euro is 250.00 Creditcardpayments can be made via Paypal to chta@astrologie.ws or I can send you an invoice, and Paypal will collect the creditcardpayments.
All coursematerial is copyrighted and for your own private study only.
For more information, or for receiving a first lesson to see whether this is material you can align with, feel free to email.
CONTENTS OF THE LESSONS FOR THE FIRST "YEAR"
- Philosophical introduction about the practice of astrology. What is astrology. How does astrology work.
History: a bird's-eye view. Introduction - Origins -Greece - Late Middle Ages -The 19th Century in an astrological perspective.The 20th Century.
The Solar System. Astronomical & Astrological principles. Language-exercise
The signs of the zodiac - 1 What are signs The symbols of the signs The zodiac and the chartdrawing. The Ascendant and the Midheaven
The signs of the zodiac - 2. Aries till Virgo
The signs of the zodiac - 3 Libra till Pisces
Order of the signs: The cycle of 1 to 12. The polarities.The signs next to each other. The seasons and the quadruplicities.
The elements. The elements combined with the houses.
The psychology of the elements and the quadruplicities. The birthchart of Karl Marx. The "hierarchy" of the planets.
The meaning of the planets.
Mars in the 12 signs. Mars in your own chart.
Saturn in the 12 signs. Saturn in your own chart.
Uranus-Neptune and Pluto generations.
Planetprinciples and a languageexercise.
Planets and Signs combined. Planets as rulers.
The houses. The meaning of the 12 houses.
The ephemeris. Moonphases. Time in astrology.
The ephemeris and retrograde planets.
Chartcalculation by computer. (optional: chartcalculation by hand) Exercises.
Interpreting the planets in the signs in the houses. The rulers of the houses.
The Lunar Nodes
Aspects. The pyramid. The birthchart of Rudolf Steiner.
Scheme of the aspects & aspectgrid.
Additional information on aspects. The birthchart of Krishnamurti.
Example-readings. The charts of : the Netherlands, Napoleon, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, Matahari. Alexandra David Neel, Elsie Wheeler,Florence Nightingale, and: your own chart..
Appendix with useful tables.
From lesson 15 onwards you are supposed to invest in a book: "The American Ephemeris for the 20th Century at Midnight", by Neil F. Michelsen, (ACS, San Diego), which you can order from amazon - Alternatively (if sold out) you can order the New International Ephemerisses (same page) but from Proxis (Belgium).
STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE
This first year consists mainly in becoming thoroughly acquainted with astrology's symbolism, and your own birthchart will be used as workingmaterial for this. You will also be guided to calculating birthcharts on your own, whether manually with a (Koch) Book of Tables, or with the use of a computerprogramm (your decision). It is not until the second year that we will start to interpret the chart as a whole. In the 2nd year you will also learn how to work with Timing, i.e. past, present and future, and the meaning of all that is astrologically happening at this moment in time in charts.
The frame of reference from which astrology is taught by the CHTA is somewhat metaphysical and philosophical (spiritual), always psychologically useful and very practical at the same time. The idea about humanistic & transpersonal astrology is not so much about 'what will happen', or 'what is my character like', it is more about: what is the highest potential for this lifetime? , how to go about that., and about the why of life's circumstances.
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE TUTOR:
Joyce Hoen D.F. Astrol S. (1953).
Joyce was originally trained by the British Faculty of Astrological Studies and received her diplom in 1986. After this she was inspired by astrologer Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) in honor of which she named her Center the Center for Humanistic & Transpersonal Astrology. After years of lecturing and counseling she taught medical astrology at a Dutch Academy for Natural Health from 1988-1995. Next to this she regularly organizes workshops and seminars on astrology and runs courses in the Center in Zutphen.
She also coordinated the first international astrology congress of 'OIBIBIO' in Amsterdam in June 1996,. As of 1997 she is "vice-president for the Netherlands" of ISAR: (American based) International Society of Astrological Research. (URL : http://www.isarastrology.com)
How do you proceed to participate:
1) Send the details below by email to: chta@astrologie.ws
2) Request creditcardpayment or pay thru paypal to chta@astrologie.ws - it is possible to start with payment for half of the course first, i.e. for the first 12 lessons.
3) After receipt of the information below you will receive a handdrawn birthchart in spite of this computerage:-) by ordinary mail.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION TO EMAIL:
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Date of Birth:
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Do you happen to have access to a computerprogramm which calculates horoscopes? And if so, which one?
I herewith register for the 1st year of the Email Astrology Course of the CHTA.
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I understand that all the coursematerial is for my private use only.
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If you want or need more information before enrolling for the course, just email (chta@astrologie.ws)
Center for Humanistic & Transpersonal Astrology
Oudewand 19 - 7201 LJ Zutphen - the Netherlands
Telephone: +31-575-516479
