ishpiming astrology/EMBER: the core teachings of natal astrology

  • $333 or 3 monthly payments of $111

EMBER: the core teachings of natal astrology

  • Course
  • 8 Lessons
  • Starts Apr 1

EMBER is the quiet, enduring core of the fire. this eight-week live course teaches the essentials of natal astrology: planets, signs, houses, and aspects, in a rigorous, relational study container. these teachings are burning coals for you to take, relight in your own hearth, and tend as part of your lifelong practice. meets live on zoom and recorded, wednesdays, 5-7pm pacific from april 1 to may 20, 2026.

Contents

WK 1: the chart is a map

in our first week, we'll study:

  • the birth chart as a map of the sky

  • brief overview of the history of astrology

  • the project of reintroducing ourselves to earth & starry sky

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WK 2: meet the planets

in week two, we'll discuss:

  • essential significations of the planets

  • inner planets, social planets, outer planets

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WK 3: the signs

in week three, we'll study:

  • zodiac signs through elements, modalities, & planetary rulership 

  • planetary dignity & debility through the signs

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WK 4: the houses

in week four, we'll study:

  • the houses as angular, succedent, and cadent

  • topical meanings of the houses

  • which house system to use?

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WK 5: condition & strength

in week five, we'll study how planets are affected by:

  • essential & accidental dignity

  • angularity

  • retrogradation

  • visibility

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WK 6: aspects & configuration

in week six, we'll study:

  • major aspects as relationships of sight

  • whole-sign vs degree-based aspects

  • application and separation of aspects

  • superior and inferior aspects

  • aspect patterns

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WK 7: synthesis

in week seven, we'll integrate our understandings through a step-by-step methodology for reading a birth chart.

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WK 8: practice

in week eight, we'll practice the techniques we've used with AA-rated birth charts of ramona bennett, trixie mattel, and kinsale drake.

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