Yes! However, with the Personal and Professional Astrology programs, the Basic Astrology Self-Learning Course is included, it is specifically designed for beginners and will enable you to start NAT-1 (Foundations in Astrology) with everything you need to begin. We start with the fundamentals and build your knowledge systematically. This is the perfect starting point for your personal and/or your professional astrology education.

These self-learning programs give you complete flexibility to study at your own pace with access to all materials and community support that you need. The live instructor access is available in various forms across all of the Education Programs, including Free Chart Delineation sessions and other community events available to Free and Program members. However, true instructor led classes available to the Professional Astrology Education Program are available as you the student enroll in the class you want for the semester, providing weekly scheduled classes via Zoom or GoToMeeting, real-time interaction with certified instructors, personalized homework feedback, and recorded sessions you can review anytime.

While an active program member, you will receive lifetime access to all the 400+ video library of seminars, courses, workshops etc and as a Personal Education Program member, also all course materials for NAT and PSM studies, as well as the community forums once you sign up. For live instructor packages, all classes are recorded so you can access them at any time via the Community Learning area and review them anytime, even if you leave the program for any reason or finish your education, any live classes you have been involved in, you will be provided ongoing access to them at all time into the future via the Community Learning area, even if you continued as a Free Community Member.

This is a limited-time January Semester special offer and will be available until midnight 30th January 2026 (EST).

NAT-1 is the essential first module in your professional training. It provides the solid foundation needed to continue toward full certification as a professional astrologer through the complete IAA curriculum. This is the beginning of your certification path and details of this can be seen on our website, but it will not provide you the expertise to practice as an astrologer on it's own. Like all true education programs, it takes time to become professional and that journey, although ongoing for life, should have you able to practice astrology as a beginner after the completion of NAT-5.

The Basic Astrology-001 online course (a 10 week, self -learning course, normally $249, live instructor lead normally $595), is a key foundational course available to those that join the Personal or Professional Education programs. This course reinforces key concepts and provides additional learning resources to strengthen your astrology knowledge and is required to prepare your foundational knowledge expected to be known prior to commencing NAT-1. It ensures you are ready and competent to begin.

Absolutely! You can choose to study however you want at the IAA, that is what we are aiming to do for you. You can study and pay per semester for courses and be a Free member of the community, or simply upgrade to a Community Education Program as well to have access to the resource library of over 400+ videos and take advantage of Community discounts on specialist workshops, intensives and mini-courses.

Where possible, the IAA will endeavour to make available live classes in various time zones, however this is not always possible and from time to time, specific courses may not be available at a convenient time for you. This is why we are adding the self-learning courses to the Personal and Professional Education Programs, so you can still do the course material in your own time as well. We supplement this with Live Instructor Q&A sessions scheduled through each calendar month that you can join at any time to assist.