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Astrology Foundations

Signs, elements, planets and houses, from the ground up.

A free, unhurried introduction to the building blocks of Western astrology. You will learn where the zodiac came from, what the signs, planets and houses stand for in this tradition, and how astrologers combine them into a reading. Along the way you will meet two sample charts and see what controlled research has and has not found.

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What you will learn

Explain what the zodiac is, where it came from, and why tropical and sidereal versions differ.
Name the twelve signs in order with their element, modality and traditional ruler.
Describe what each planet and each house stands for, and why houses need a birth time.
Read a placement as a plain sentence and find the Sun, Moon and Rising in a chart.

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Course assessment

Ten questions across the course. Score 70% or more to complete it.

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