NAT-4: Aspects and Disposition
Prerequisites:
Must have completed NAT-1 through NAT-3.
Class Description:
This is a pivotal course. It covers the various ways that planets combine. You will learn how to delineate planetary interactions such aspects, major aspect configurations, reception, disposition, and more.
Classes are held weekly.
Class 1: Aspects, Orbs, and Configurations – Conjunctions and Stellia The Conjunction – 1st Harmonic Aspect Out-of-Sign Conjunctions Conjunctions That Span Two Houses Stellia – Three or More Planets Sharing the Same Space
Class 2: Hard Aspects The Opposition – 2nd Harmonic Aspect The Square - 4th Harmonic - 90° Aspect Out-of-Sign Squares Corruption Making Simple Astrological Phases with Oppositions and Squares Aspects ad Their Configurations The T-Square The Grand Square
Class 3: Soft Aspects and their Configurations Trine and Out-of-Sign Trine Sextile and Out-of-Sign Sextile Bonification The Grand Trine The Kite Less Common Configuration involving Trines And Sextiles: The Cradle with a Hood The Grand Sextile The Mystic Rectangle The Minor Trine
Class 4: Aspects by Latitude – Declinations Parallels Contra-Parallels Out-of-Bounds Conjunctions and Oppositions Combined with Parallels and Contra-parallels
Class 5: Minor Aspects I The 8th and 12th Harmonic Aspects and Their Configurations The 8th Harmonic Semi-Square and Sesquiquadrate The 12th Harmonic Semi-square and Quincunx Beholding The Yod The Boomerang
Class 6: Minor Aspects II Additional Minor Aspects and Configurations The Quintile The Septile The Novile The Quindecile
Class 7: Close Aspect Networks Working with Planets and points at the same Degree
Class 8: Midpoints I To Understand the Concept of Midpoints and How to Apply How it is Applied Finding Midpoints
Class 9: Midpoints II Learning the Applications of Cosmobiology, Symmetrical Astrology, and Vibrational Astrology
Class 10: Midpoints III Learning the Applications of Uranian Astrology The 90-Degree Dial
Class 11: Practical Application Standouts and Review
Class 12: Final Exam
Appendix – Aspects and Sacred Numbers
Required materials:
NAT-4 Aspects & Disposition Course Book
The cost of this book ($36.00) is included in the registration fee, and the e-Course Book will be available in Moodle.
Understanding Interceptions, by Chris McRae
Suggested/supplemental materials:
The following suggested and supplementary materials are available through the IAA online shopping areas:
The Lunation Cycle: A Key to the Understanding of Personality, by Dane Rudhyar
Planetary Aspects: An Astrological Guide to Managing Your T-Square, by Tracy Marks
Aspects in Astrology: A Guide to Understanding Planetary Relationships in the Horoscope, by Sue Tompkins
Dynamics of Aspect Analysis, by Bil Tierney