This bundle of five, 90-minute long classes, helps students develop a foundational knowledge of the planet Saturn, aka the Greater Malefic, and: his magical and mytho-poetic role in astrology, his role in your natal chart, his influence as a transiting planet, and both ceremonial and mundane ways of strengthening or softening his influence. The first class focuses on understanding Saturn’s role within the cosmology of the gods and their influence on earth. We additionally explore his reputation in the Ancient, Medieval, Vedic, and Evolutionary Astrology traditions. The second class looks at Saturn’s significations by house, exploring what it means when he occupies angular, succedent, and cadent houses. Our third class focuses on Saturn’s significations by sign: we will make note of where he is in domicile, detriment, and exalted, and how the twelve zodiacal signs influence him, and vice versa. The fourth class investigates Saturn’s significations by aspect, in particular: how conjunctions, squares, oppositions, trines, and sextiles with other planets, and some notable fixed stars, can manifest within the nativity and by transit. The fourth class also discusses Saturn Return, Saturn as Time-Lord, Saturn activation by Annual Profection, and Saturn Opposition. The fifth, and final class, pursues magical and mundane paths for remediation and propitiation of Saturn, giving students the opportunity to develop a more functional relationship with the Greater Malefic, and providing various ceremonial and practical techniques for improving rapport, and earning favor. While the classes may be taken individually, each builds upon the last to teach you how to begin synthesizing the information (i.e. house + sign + aspects = this remediation). Students are encouraged to submit their own natal chart (in whole sign house system) to be used (anonymously!) as an example in the class, but we will also examine the charts of celebrities and public figures to help see Saturn in action.

CLASS ONE: ON FATE’S GREAT MASON:

The first class focuses on understanding Saturn’s role within the cosmology of the gods and their influence on earth. We additionally explore his reputation in the Ancient, Medieval, Vedic, and Evolutionary Astrology traditions. This class will also emphasize:

*Saturn as Roman God, and the gods of other cultures who were assigned Saturn’s role

*Saturn’s auspices, archetypes, angels, and accoutrements as found in a multitude of grimoires,

*And writing by Lilly, Agrippa, Culpeper, Aslesha, Paracelcus, Dorotheus of Sidon, Rudhyar, Greene, Coppock, and more.

*The benefits and boundaries of working with the Greater Malefic, why he has that title, and whether he is your more problematic planet based on sect.

CLASS TWO: IN EVERY DREAMHOME A HEARTACHE:

This class looks at Saturn’s significations by house, exploring what it means when he occupies angular, succedent, and cadent houses, how powerful or hindered he might be as a result of that, and other conditioning details.

*A concise and simple exploration of the significations of all 12 houses

*An exploration of how Saturn is shaped by, and shapes, the house he falls upon

*The concept of angular, succedent, and cadent houses, and what it means for Saturn’s essential or accidental dignity

*Identifying the Lord of the House which Saturn Falls in, and what that means for Saturn in the chart

CLASS THREE: THE RETINUE:

This class focuses on Saturn’s significations by sign: we will make note of his essential dignity by sign, and how the twelve zodiacal signs influence him, and vice versa.

*Easy techniques for remembering Saturn’s signs of rulership, detriment, fall, and exaltation.

*The critical degrees for Saturn in each sign, which could further exacerbate his influence.

*Who Saturn becomes when influenced by the character-organization of the sign he occupies.

*Which virtues and vices get fed or starved by him occupying whichever sign he is in.

CLASS FOUR: A TOUCH OF LEAD:

This class investigates Saturn’s significations by aspect, in particular: how conjunctions, squares, oppositions, trines, and sextiles with other planets, fixed stars, and the nodes, can manifest within the nativity and by transit. The fourth class also discusses Saturn Return, Saturn as Time-Lord, Saturn activation by Annual Profection, and Saturn Opposition.

*Themes and trends associated with Saturn conjunct/conjoined, opposing, squaring, sextiling, and trining other celestial bodies.

*Predispositions, behaviors, and predictions around difficult and complementary aspects.

*Understanding activation by aspect in transit for Saturn Returns, Saturn as a Time-Lord, Annual Profections with Saturn as the ruler, or in the profected house, and Saturn Opposition.

*Identifying the aspects and transits which are most challenging, as a basis for the following class on remediation.

CLASS FIVE: SCYTHE MIND:

This class pursues magical and mundane paths for remediation and propitiation of Saturn, giving students the opportunity to develop a more functional relationship with the Greater Malefic, and providing various ceremonial and practical techniques for improving rapport, and earning favor.

*Planetary Charity, musical and literary works as prescription for understanding and appeasing Saturn, associated animals, minerals, and plants, and mundane remediations around wardrobe.

*Psychotherapeutic techniques and modalities useful for individuation, destruction of false ego, and reduction of melancholic tendencies.

*Theurgical devotion via the Hygromanteia, Picatrix, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, and Orphic Hymns, and more, for prayer.

*Solomonic Pentacles for necromantic and protective workings, and more baneful pursuits.

About the Presenter: 

Sasha  Ravitch is committed to emancipating the sorcerous machinations of the  Ivory Tower, and bringing the spoils back into the agora.  With an  academic background in philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, literary and  poetic studies, and further endeavors of the spirit-as-mind, and with a  lifelong fealty to "folk necromancy" (Cummins & Hathaway-Diaz) and  magic, she aspires to make-whole the psyche and spirit. She has  professional experience as a clinical counselor, and has done graduate  work in psychoanalytic modalities of transpersonal psychology. She has  spent two decades studying divinatory arts, researching and practicing  Florari Rrom folk magic, and investigating ways to heal the occulted  unconscious.  She currently sees clients as a spiritual counselor and  diviner, provides Death Doula services through her certification with  INELDA, and is co-founder of the International Necromancy Consortium, in  New Orleans, LA.

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