Basics I is offered online in a series of ten weekly one-hour classes. It is scheduled ”on demand“ when we have a group of 9 to 11 students who have contacted us to indicate that they are interested in beginning the program.

We strive to align this platform as closely as possible with traditional teaching, so each class is limited to seven students. This allows us to actively encourage, engage, interact with, and question each student during the session.

This lively exchange ensures that the experience is not passive and transactional, but rather it actively cultivates thinking and is therefore a transformational experience. Students are also expected to do homework to promote engagement with the material.
Basics I serves as a prerequisite for the rest of the series, though exemptions may be granted in some cases. This class aims to create a group mind and shared understanding of key terms that get further cultivated through Basics II-IV.

Upon completion, students join ongoing Digestion and Content classes geared to their level. These classes are also limited to nine students.

Tutoring is also available for additional support.

This is a crucial class for clearly understanding one of the most fundamental levels of analysis – Bhava Vicara (House analysis). We spend the weekend going step-by-step through methodologies that enable a student to generate a huge amount of remarkably accurate and relevant information about a horoscope. It serves as the script for any reading.

Basics II is the prerequisite for all the rest of the Basics series which will build sequentially.

Basics III is the first of the weekends in which we undertake a thorough study of astrological yogas. Though most students of Jyotisha have encountered yogas, they often wind up being cataloguers rather than interpreters of these fascinating combinations. Yogas are integral to understanding the size of the canvas on which people will play out their karmas for this lifetime. This seminar provides core information on how to understand the underlying message of these yogas and how to qualify and prioritize them.

Traditionally, the triangle of teacher, student and the precepts collected in the ancient texts provided the essential ingredients for perpetuating and learning Jyotisha. In the age of the published word and the internet, this structure has largely broken down. This weekend is devoted in part to sharing how these ancient works are organized and exploring some of the keys to unlock the wisdom contained in them. A major section of the class is devoted to how to interpret rather than just catalogue yogas that appear in a chart. Rounding off the class is a unit on planetary dashas including Rahu and Ketu.