Course Details

📍 Level: Foundation (Open to Faculty & non-Faculty students with prior astrology knowledge)
📍 Tutors: Toby Aldren & Itziar Azkona
📍 Credits: 20 Credits (Full attendance required)

Develop your chart interpretation skills in this practical, hands-on course designed to help you integrate the core elements of astrology into a cohesive and insightful analysis. You’ll work with personal and mystery charts, learning how to identify key themes and planetary interactions while refining your ability to deliver accurate and structured interpretations.

📅 Schedule:

• Registration: Sunday 17th August, 2 PM – 5 PM
• First lecture: Monday 18th August, 9:30 AM
• Final session: Friday 22nd August, 1 PM

📝 Course Details

Natal Chart Interpretation: Putting the Pieces Together

This course is designed to help you bring together the fundamental building blocks of astrology - planets, signs, houses, angles, and aspects into an integrated and fluent chart interpretation.

🌟 What You’ll Learn:
🔹 Identifying main themes in a natal chart
🔹 Synthesising planets, signs, houses, and aspects into a coherent reading
🔹 Understanding angularity, planetary strength, and rulerships
🔹 Exploring astrology’s philosophy & its relevance in the modern world
🔹 Hands-on experience interpreting real charts

📌 Important: To enrol, you must either have completed Modules 1 & 2 prior to Summer School or have equivalent training.

📩 If you don’t have credits for Modules 1 and 2, please email summerschool@astrology.org.uk to check if you are eligible.

📚 Additional Learning Opportunities

📌 Optional Workshops (Sunday & Wednesday afternoon)
Enhance your learning with specialist workshops such as:
✔️ Exploring the Sky with Stellarium (Chris Mitchell)
✔️ Gateway to the Soul – Exploring the Moon in Our Charts (Cat Cox)
✔️ Disenchantment & Re-enchantment – Working with Saturn/Neptune Cycles (Mark Fountain)

📌 Evening Talks (16th–20th August)
Engage with inspiring astrology lectures, including:
✔️ Dracula: Death Never Dies (Frances Clynes)
✔️ The Age of Aquarius: Fact or Fiction? (Itziar Azkona)

📌 Morning Meditations & Astrology Yoga
✔️ Planet Meditations – Reflect on the planetary ruler of each day
✔️ AstroYoga – A mindful way to integrate astrology with movement

📌 Gala Dinner – 21st August
A magical evening featuring live music, fine dining, and an after-dinner talk from Lindsay Gladstone.

🏡 Accommodation & Booking Information

🏛️ Stay in the heart of Oxford! Choose between:
✔️ Exeter College – Historic, traditional Oxford accommodation
✔️ Cohen Quad – Modern, en-suite rooms with premium amenities

📅 Bookings open 1st March 2025 at 10 AM GMT – Spaces fill up fast!
⏳ Bookings close 31st July 2025