Certificate Program In Archetypal Cosmology

The Archetypal Cosmology Certificate is a six-course, 12-credit program offering weekly online classes over a nine month period. These courses may be taken either as a noncredit Certificate Program or as a credit bearing courses leading toward an accredited M.A. in Archetypal Cosmology and Conscious Evolution.  

Chart interpretation and transit analysis is explored from an interdisciplinary perspective. Incorporating elements of Jungian psychology and various other models, students become familiar with astrology as a personality theory, psychological language, and diagnostic tool.  

Online classes are supplemented by reading assignments, audio files, and video. For each class, there are written exercises and quizzes that provide immediate, automated feedback. One course unfolds into the next so that students learn to interpret charts in a progressively more complex manner. By the end of the program, students will be proficient in knowing how to interpret planets in signs, houses, and aspect, how to track significators and dispositors, and how to reveal the overall plot structure of the chart.

Participants will also learn how psychodynamics, psychopathology, and healing are articulated within the astrological model, and how astrology can be utilized in counseling to facilitate empathy and deepen therapeutic impact. Transits and progressions are analyzed in terms of psychological growth and development. Particular emphasis is placed on how the birthchart symbolizes a life story capable of being lived on successively higher levels of integration.  

While much of astrology can be learned through memorization of proper keywords, mastery of the language requires a thorough understanding of its grammar and syntax. The primary value of the program is that it teaches the student how to think and speak the language of astrology. Relevant psychological concepts are thoroughly explained, as are the nature of symbolism and the art of chart synthesis.  

Upon successful completion of the final exam, students receive a Certified Diploma suitable for framing. Qualified students may elect to go on for a Masters Degree in Archetypal Cosmology and Conscious Evolution.

Masters Degree In
Archetypal Cosmology 
and Conscious Evolution

This is an accredited  two year, ten-course, 36-credit Masters Degree Program that explores the relationship of psyche and cosmos. After completing the Certificate Program (first six courses), students expand their understanding of astrology by investigating the nature and development of human consciousness against the backdrop of its cosmological environment.

Combining astronomy with modern depth psychology, archetypal cosmology investigates correlations between cyclical alignments of the planets and archetypal patterns in human experience. Participants draw upon diverse perspectives in science, philosophy, and religion to study various models of evolution. These range from the Neoplatonic philosophy of ancient Greece to chaos and complexity theories of post-modern science. A single overriding question informs the program: What are the implications of a conscious Universe for the evolution of human consciousness?

Astrology provides the overarching framework for exploring human change processes from multiple perspectives, including archetypal psychology, developmental models, general systems theory, psychodynamics, and consciousnesses studies. These realms of inquiry enable participants to identify incremental stages of growth and to anticipate how consciousness evolves through stages and crises that correlate with planetary cycles. Participants investigate how human capacities emerge over time and why the evolutionary intent of the cosmos may be operative in the self-actualizing processes of the psyche.

The program is especially suitable for individuals who wish to evolve consciously while seeking an in-depth understanding of the scope and nature of archetypal cosmology. Participants complete their learning with an extensive, research-based, culminating project.