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This 6-week co-taught course covers in depth themeaningof the 5 major aspects in astrology, also known as the Ptolemaic aspects: conjunction, opposition, square, trine, and sextile. We promise to breathe new life into this traditional topic. One-half of each class is devoted to a deep dive into the clinical manifestations of a single major aspect as Jessica has seen in her 15+ years of astrological counseling. In the other half of each class, Travis offers a specific approach for understanding all the aspects together: historical, mathematical, geometric, musical, harmonic, and archetypal. We study how to understand the aspects in the birth chart, personal transits, and world transits. We also explore the meaning of major aspect patterns such as the t-square, grand cross, grand trine, Star of David or grand sextile, yod, kite, and mystic rectangle. Additionally, we go into the meaning of the minor aspects: the quincunx, semi-square, and sesquiquadrate, as well as the quintile and septile. A brief elaboration of the theory of harmonics provides an overarching framework. This course is appropriate for all levels, from beginner to advanced, and is designed to enrich every level of student.
Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have about this Trust Psyche online course or any other. We love hearing from you and are happy to speak any time at Travis@TrustPsyche.com.
What our students are saying:
“Travis, I had a moment (or two) of absolute awe yesterday in class when you got to the end of your lecture on Sacred Geometry. In fact, I was so stupefied that I stopped writing, but it was something to the effect of seeing how each detail of the universal order has been so beautifully planned, and the care and love that goes into the support structure that we live within, and how this is always with us on a daily and minute-to-minute basis. Whenever we really look and try to see or understand the universe, we are met with brilliant and sometimes unexpected openings. As above, so below.”
“This cosmology we’re learning together feels like an antidote to loneliness, to the isolation that humanity feels. There’s a spectrum of loneliness to belonging, and just getting an experience of this beauty, intelligence, sound, visuals, shape of the waves, on and on, the layers and depth, just getting a chance to be in that is enough. If we hold this in our hearts and in our energies, it’s enough to create ripples of healing along that axis, as individuals and as a collective. What we have been experiencing in this class is what ameliorates the isolation and loneliness that humanity feels. And when we go down the spectrum toward belonging, it’s like a remembering. There is no wrong chart. There is no wrong human being. It’s all just pathways to belonging.”
“I will never look at the aspects the same way again. This has totally transformed how I see them, sense them, feel them. They are not just aspects, not just geometric things on paper. They are not just harmonics, although they are that. They are not just numbers, although they are that. They are a whole field of energy that overlays the archetypes and channels how they come through. It is just incredible and I am so much in awe and humbled. When you asked us to write our intentions for the course I very innocently wrote, “I want to expand my consciousness about aspects.” And the universe said, “well okay, here you go!” And every week, I would do a ritual to open the field for the aspect in my chart, and then everything for the next 3 days was about that aspect. It wore me out but it was glorious, wonderful. Now the aspects are 3-dimensional for me. Thank you both for your love and care in setting up a structure for accessing these experiences. It was beyond my expectations. Thank you, class. This has been such a loving, supportive place to be with these experiences.”
“I’ve been a student of astrology for over 10 years and I feel like aspects are something that are always glossed over. Sure, we hear how a square is like Mars, a trine like Jupiter, and so on, but the integration of music and harmonics, of geometry, and especially the correlations with psychology just really bring it home for me. That has felt unique about this class. Also, the co-teaching. Your styles really complement each other and create a great dynamism. I appreciated the class academically, but what’s more, I hadn’t expected that the class would hit me in my life so personally, that my life would be so fractally synchronized with what we were learning about. I wondered, am I the only one, but it sounds like I’m not. It was such a powerful lesson when I took the time to step back and see it more than personally. I can feel both of your care and intention in how you set up the class and how you teach it––your presence. This also feels very unique in terms of the teachers I have experienced.”
“I have taken lots of astrology classes, and your students and the field you create is magical and spectacular. I have never experienced it in any other class. In reflecting here, a phrase came to me from Angeles Arrien, “pattern of integrity.” I feel so much that that is what is going on here. You are bringing us back into the pattern of integrity, which feels perfect for a class on aspects. So much of astrology is soul retrieval, getting back and remembering who we are. Thank you, because I feel like every time I come into community with you and learn from you, it’s like coming home, and I think that’s the larger resonance that you are bringing to the world and to the world of astrology.”
Aspects in Astrology: Sacred Geometry
23-hour recordedcourse with Jessica DiRuzza, MFT and Travis DiRuzza, PhD