Astro Coach Academy

Category: Introduction

  • Introduction to the Astro Chart

    This is a quick introduction to the Astro Chart. We will go more in depth into this in another post down the road.

    Basically, there are 3 concepts you want to understand:
    – Planets
    – Signs
    – Houses

    This is what an astro chart looks like:

    This is a Chart

    Everything is there. By the way, this is a chart that was drawn for the beginning of an astro course I gave in 2007. Some people like to draw charts, not for the birth of a person, but to find the best time for events (say the day & time to sign a contract, buy a house etc…) In this particular case, I just drew this chart as a support for the particular course without looking for meaning and significance, but just to show our students what a chart can look like.

    Let’s start with the planets. Can you see the funny looking larger signs in different colours? Those are the planets. when you study astrology, you will have to familiarise yourself with what we call “glyphs” (the funny-looking colourful symbols around the outer circle). They represent each planet. It is easier and faster to write the glyphs rather than the full name of the planet, plus the glyphs themselves have a symbolic significance. For example, the dark blue round shape with a dot inside is the Sun.

    The smaller symbols that are next to the glyphs are the signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini etc… Here the Sun is in Virgo (Virgo’s symbol is the turquoise colour symbol that looks like a stylised M with an ear on the right hand side).

    And finally, the straight lines that come out of the circle and the numbers 1,2,3,4 etc… are the Houses.

    So we say that each planet is in a certain sign and in a certain house. In the example above, the Sun is in Virgo in the 11th House.

    What does this all mean? To make things simple, imagine a theatre play. The actors (planets) represent certain characters (example: a King) who may be wearing clothes (signs) that fit their status or not (the King may be dressed as a King or disguised as a beggar), and they appear in a certain setting (houses): the garden, inside the castle, on the battle field etc… The planets, signs and houses are the 3 fundamental pillars of the play of our lives.

    We will learn how to give meaning to the chart during the course, so if you have not done so yet, join the Astro Coach academy members list here. You do not commit to sign up, you just tell us that you want to know more, and you will get a chance to benefit from the bonuses that our members will get when the course goes online.

  • Musings

    Astrology is an ancient art that has been practiced for thousands of years. The real significance of a chart draws into deep esoteric roots and have to do with the essence of the relationship between Humans and the universe.

    I want to say this right now: at its core, Astrology is not about prediction (although it’s been widely used that way), it is about movement, flux and relationships. Astrology is not about the tangible, it is about the quantum, the intangible. Because of the secret nature of ancient astrology, what is left to us nowadays is often only surface meaning.

    We, as humans, lean toward certainty. We want to know what is going to happen, we want to know that our world is going to behave a certain way. This explains why lots of time, we use the tools that astrology provides to tell the future. However, this is not what we will talk about on this website, and this is not what we will teach in the Astro Coach Academy course (by the way, if you have not signed up yet to the mailing list, do so now by clicking this link).

    What we will talk about is how to practice the art of astrology to catalyse and unlock potentials. There is a difference between telling people what is going to happen to them (remind to tell you a story about self-fulfilling prophecies) and assist them to unlock their own potentials from inside. An Astro Coach knows to tell the stories to their client that will help their unconscious minds to do the work needed.

    More on that later.

    Ah! And another thing. The ‘astrology’ you read in magazines has nothing to do with astrology. It is based on what is called “solar astrology”, which only takes into account… well… the Sun! You may know that the Sun changes sign approximately every 30 days. When we say “I am a Leo”, it means that the Sun was in Leo at the time of you birth.

    To put it bluntly, there is no way you can tell a person’s character or predict his or her future solely from the Sun. Solar astrology has other interesting applications, but not to mass predict what the coming week will be like for the 126 millions Aries in the world (and if you are wondering where I got that figure.. I just made it up).

    There are 10 planets (11 if you include Chiron) in a chart. We use the word in its wider sense here. Strictly speaking, the Sun and the Moon are Luminaries, not planets. Also, even though Pluto was ‘demoted’ from it’s status as a planet some time ago, in astrology we still consider it as a planet). So you can imagine the mind-bloggling amounts of possible ways those planets can combine to create a totally unique chart.

    Plus, as we will learn during the first part of the course, even if you have exactly the same chart as someone else (as in the case of twins for example), you do not manifest the meaning of the planets, signs and house the same way (hang on there, we’ll explain all those words later).

    Voila, that’s it for this first post. I will come back on many of the concepts that we’ve touched upon in the coming posts. And of course, we will learn what is, and how to give meaning to a chart, as well as to how to use it in a coaching context with people.

    If you want to be kept in the loop, sign up to the Astro Coach Academy Members mailing list. By doing so, you do not commit to take the online Astro Coach Academy course, but you are telling us that you want to know more, and that you want to get the members-only benefits when the course goes online. There will be some special bonuses for people on the list when we start.

    Bye for now.