The Academy for Diviners · Part I of the curriculum

Foundations

The two languages of the course, the chart wheel, and the history and evidence of the art.

The trainings Enroll

The Cosmos, a card of the Divine Arcana Tarot — The Cosmos

4trainings in Part I, about 5 hours

100%every segment test, passed before you go on

2books: The Science of Astrology, WaveForm Astrology

Spring Equinox 2027the Academy opens

Part I of the curriculum

What Part I teaches

Part I starts at the first chart in four trainings. The first sets out the two languages of the course, Western astrology and the WaveForm reading, and how each speaks of the same placement. The second teaches the chart wheel: how a chart is cast from the date, time and place of birth, its glyphs, houses, angles and aspects, and the two house systems our diviners use, Placidus and Whole Sign.

The history and the evidence are taught from The Science of Astrology and The Sacred History of Astrology. Every diviner of our Academy learns the record of the art and can answer its critics with the data.

Each training is set out in segments of a few slides, and each segment ends with a test of three to five questions: multiple choice, yes or no, or select all that apply. Every answer must be correct. When an answer is wrong, the student watches the segment again and is then tested only on the questions missed, until every question of the segment is answered correctly, at 100%. Then the next segment opens. A question guide to print holds every question of the training.

Watch the segment
Take its test
100%Go on to the next segment

A wrong answer: watch the segment again, then retest what was missed

Part I: the trainings

What is learned, training by training

Training A01 · about 85 minutes

The Two Languages: Western Astrology and WaveForm

What astrology is, how a chart is read, and the two languages a diviner of our Academy speaks to a client.

What you learn

What astrology is, the oldest record, and the chart as the sky at one moment for one place
The ecliptic, the tropical zodiac as the Sun's year, the four angles, and tropical and sidereal
The four parts of every chart: the ten bodies, the signs with their elements and modalities, the houses and the aspects
The planet as operator, the fourfold hierarchy, the process sequence and the Moon as the reflective medium
The translation table: planet and operator, sign and mode, house and region, aspect and phase relationship
One placement read twice: Mars in Cancer in the Western delineation and in the eight WaveForm steps
Speaking to a client in cost and never in fate, and how the course, the segment tests and certification run

Taught from: WF Ch 1WF Sections 9.2 to 9.12, 11.1 to 11.3, 18.3 to 18.11, 19.2, 21.7WF Appendix DWF Appendix E
Tested by: 18 segment tests, 78 questions in all, each test passed at 100%

Training A02 · about 75 minutes

Reading the Chart Wheel

How a chart is cast, how the wheel is drawn and how a reader finds every part of it.

What you learn

What a chart needs: the date, time and place of birth, the checks on the data, and the practice when the birth time is unknown
The glyphs of the planets, the signs and the other points on the wheel
Degrees and minutes, longitude as one circle of 360 degrees, and a placement read aloud as one sentence
The horizon and the meridian, the four angles, the houses, the cusps, the hemispheres and the house systems
Intercepted signs, empty houses, house rulers and the retrograde and station marks
The aspect lines, the aspect grid, the orb, and applying and separating aspects
A full walk round one example wheel, from the sect and the shape to the Ascendant, the chart ruler, the Sun and the Moon

Taught from: WF Appendix DWF Appendix EWF Sections 18.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.9, 19.10, 20.5 to 20.7, 22.3
Tested by: 12 segment tests, 59 questions in all, each test passed at 100%

Training A03 · about 80 minutes

The Lineage of the Art: A History of Astrology

What each age added to the chart a reader uses today, from Babylon to WaveForm.

What you learn

Babylon: the heavenly writing, the omen series When Anu and Enlil, the planets as the bodies of gods and the first horoscope
The Hellenistic chart: the rising degree, the twelve places, the decans, Manilius, Ptolemy, Valens, sect and the lots
India, Baghdad and the medieval West: election, Abu Ma'shar and the great conjunctions, al-Kindi, Toledo, Bonatti and Aquinas
The Renaissance: Ficino and Pico, the casebooks, John Dee, Kepler's harmonics and William Lilly
The modern revival: the outer planets, Alan Leo, Evangeline Adams, Jung and Pauli, and the psychological school
Gauquelin and the turn to counting, and Richard Tarnas and the cycles of history
WaveForm's place in the lineage, the three levels of astrology and the answer to a client

Taught from: SoA Ch 4, 5, 21, 26 to 28, 32WF Ch 2WF Sections 14.6.4, 18.9, 27.6.1, 28.1Sacred History Ch 1, 2, 9, 15 to 19, 23
Tested by: 14 segment tests, 69 questions in all, each test passed at 100%

Training A04 · about 75 minutes

The Evidence for Astrology

What the sciences and the statistics show, and how a diviner answers a skeptical client.

What you learn

What astrology claims, the three theories of how a chart describes a life, and why the proper test is counting
Odds, the size of an effect, combined results, and how science receives an anomaly
The sky in the natural sciences: the tides, the Moon's longer cycles, the planets and the Earth's orbit, lunar and solar rhythms in living bodies
The tropical sign and the season of birth: lifespan, disease, schizophrenia and the mechanism from the laboratory
Gauquelin's key sectors and the Mars effect, the registries of Sachs and Castille, and the square between spouses' Suns
The refutations that failed, Carlson's test in Nature and Ertel's re-analysis, and the standard objections answered
The scorecard and the verdict, synchronicity, and arguing from consilience inside a consultation

Taught from: SoA Ch 1, 7, 8, 10 to 14, 18 to 25SoA Ch 29, 31 to 33SoA Appendix CWF Ch 3 and 4
Tested by: 16 segment tests, 72 questions in all, each test passed at 100%