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Western Astrology · Depth Psychology

The chart is a map. The psyche is the territory.

Learn to read the natal chart as a map of the psyche: its drives, defenses, complexes, and growth potential. Integrate Jungian archetypes and depth psychology with astrological technique for self-understanding, shadow work, and therapeutic insight.

16 modules96 lessonsLifetime access

  • The planets as archetypes, and the three outer planets as transpersonal forces that move a whole generation.
  • The shadow and the complexes — the aspect patterns a complex takes, and the defenses that keep it in place.
  • The inner family of Sun, Moon and Saturn, Chiron the wounded healer, and the lunar nodes.
  • Relationship patterns, transits read as psychological process, the life cycle in the chart, and dreams and active imagination.
Enrol — $497.00 USDSee the curriculum

Self-paced, on this academy · Lifetime access is included

Course artwork
A natal chart wheel: the twelve houses, the twelve signs and seven planetsA birth chart drawn as the wheel the course teaches and read as a map of the psyche. The outer ring carries the twelve signs from Aries, each in the colour of its element; the inner ring carries the twelve houses, numbered one to twelve from the Ascendant, with the four angular houses tinted and numbered in gold. Seven bodies are placed in their signs and houses — the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — and three of them are marked in gold: the Sun in Aries in the tenth, the Moon in Leo in the second, and Saturn in Pisces in the ninth, the inner family the course reads together. Inside the wheel, three of the five major aspects are drawn: the Sun conjunct Mars, the Moon square Jupiter, and Jupiter trine Saturn.A natal chart · 8 April 1994, 2:15 pm, AustinAsc 1° Leo · MC 14° Aries♈♉♊♋♌♍♎♏♐♑♒♓123456789101112ASCDSCMCIC☉☽☿♀♂♃♄☉SunAries10th☽MoonLeo2nd☿MercuryAries9th♀VenusPisces9th♂MarsAries10th♃JupiterScorpio5th♄SaturnPisces9thtrine · Jupiter–Saturnsquare · Moon–Jupiterconjunction · Sun–Mars
A natal chart read as a map of the psyche: the Sun, the Moon and Saturn — the course's own inner family — marked on the academy's worked chart, with the aspects between them left as lines to be read rather than verdicts.

The Technique

The same placements, read from the inside.

A psychological reading treats the chart as a description of inner relations rather than a set of labels: which drive is arguing with which, what a placement is protecting, where the chart has an excess and where it has a hole. The course works from the planetary archetypes through the shadow and the complexes to the transits that activate them.

  • The planets as psychic drives, and the outer three as transpersonal forces.
  • The shadow and the complexes, and the aspect patterns that carry them.
  • The inner family — Sun, Moon and Saturn — read together rather than one at a time.
  • The lunar nodes, the life cycle, and transits read as process rather than event.

The Problem

Keyword astrology has no interior.

"You're a Scorpio, so you're intense." A keyword is not a psychology. Depth psychology asks what a pattern is doing, what it protects, what it costs and what it is for — and a chart is unusually good at holding that question, because it was built to describe drives in relation to one another rather than traits in isolation. Read that way it stops being a label and becomes a place to work: the same placements, with an inside.

  • The archetypes

    The planets read as psychic drives rather than personality tags, and the three outer planets as forces that shape a generation rather than an individual.

  • The shadow

    What the chart refuses to look at: the disowned material, the placements that usually carry it, and why the qualities we cannot stand in others tend to be the ones we have exiled in ourselves.

  • Complexes and patterns

    Aspects as the shape a complex takes — the T-square with something to prove, the grand trine with nothing to push against — read as structure rather than as fate.

  • The inner family

    Sun, Moon and Saturn: identity, need, and the inner authority that judges both. The course treats the three together, because most of the argument in a chart happens between them.

  • Relationship patterns

    What a chart repeats in its relationships, and how the pattern can be seen without being blamed on a partner or on a sign.

  • Growth, not comfort

    The lunar nodes, the life cycle in the chart, and transits read as psychological process — the course's honest note being that the growth they describe is meaningful and difficult, not a promise of ease.

The curriculum

16 modules · 96 lessons

  1. Foundations of Psychological Astrology6 lessons
    1. What Is Psychological Astrology
    2. Rudhyar Greene and the Psychological Turn
    3. Predictive vs Psychological Approaches
    4. Jung and Astrology
    5. The Chart as a Map of the Psyche
    6. Ethics in Psychological Readings
  2. The Archetypes of the Planets6 lessons
    1. The Sun Ego Identity and Purpose
    2. The Moon Emotional Needs and the Inner Child
    3. Mercury Cognitive Style and Communication
    4. Venus Values Desire and Relating
    5. Mars Drive Assertion and Anger
    6. Jupiter and Saturn Expansion and Limitation
  3. The Outer Planets as Transpersonal Forces6 lessons
    1. Uranus Awakening and Individuation
    2. Neptune Longing Dissolution and Transcendence
    3. Pluto Power Death and Rebirth
    4. Generational Imprints
    5. Outer Planets in Aspect to Personal Planets
    6. Living with Transpersonal Pressure
  4. The Shadow and the Chart6 lessons
    1. What Is the Shadow
    2. The Descendant as Shadow Mirror
    3. The 12th House and Hidden Material
    4. Hard Aspects and Repressed Drives
    5. Unaspected and Singleton Planets
    6. Shadow Integration Through the Chart
  5. Complexes and Aspect Patterns6 lessons
    1. Aspect Patterns as Psychological Complexes
    2. The T Square Chronic Tension
    3. The Grand Trine Talent and Complacency
    4. The Yod Crisis of Purpose
    5. The Grand Cross and Stelliums
    6. Working Therapeutically with Patterns
  6. The Inner Family Sun Moon and Saturn6 lessons
    1. The Sun as Father Principle
    2. The Moon as Mother Principle
    3. Saturn the Inner Critic and Authority
    4. Sun Moon Aspects and Parental Dynamics
    5. Saturn Aspects and Early Conditioning
    6. Reparenting Through the Chart
  7. Chiron the Wounded Healer6 lessons
    1. The Myth of Chiron
    2. Chiron by Sign the Nature of the Wound
    3. Chiron by House Where the Wound Lives
    4. Chiron Aspects to Personal Planets
    5. The Chiron Return
    6. Healing vs Curing Working with Chiron
  8. The Lunar Nodes and Psychological Growth6 lessons
    1. The Nodes as a Growth Axis
    2. The South Node Conditioning and Comfort
    3. The North Node Individuation and Growth
    4. Planets Conjunct the Nodes
    5. Eclipses as Psychological Catalysts
    6. The Nodal Return and Life Chapters
  9. Relationship Patterns in the Natal Chart6 lessons
    1. Venus and Mars as Relational Drives
    2. The 7th House and Projection
    3. The Descendant and Partner Selection
    4. Attachment Styles in the Chart
    5. Repetitive Relationship Themes
    6. Psychological vs Event Based Synastry
  10. Vocation Creativity and the Self6 lessons
    1. The MC and the Public Self
    2. The Sun and Creative Self Expression
    3. The 5th House Play and Creation
    4. Saturn and Vocational Maturation
    5. Midlife Transits and Career Reinvention
    6. Aligning Work with Inner Calling
  11. Transits as Psychological Process6 lessons
    1. Transits as Inner Process Not Outer Events
    2. Saturn Transits Maturation and Reality
    3. Uranus Transits Liberation and Disruption
    4. Neptune Transits Disillusionment and Surrender
    5. Pluto Transits Death and Rebirth
    6. The Developmental Timeline of Major Transits
  12. The Life Cycle in the Chart6 lessons
    1. The First Saturn Return Becoming an Adult
    2. The Uranus Opposition Midlife Awakening
    3. The Chiron Return the Healing Crisis
    4. The Second Saturn Return Elderhood
    5. Neptune Square Neptune and Other Milestones
    6. Using the Life Cycle in Counseling
  13. Defense Mechanisms and the Chart6 lessons
    1. What Are Defense Mechanisms
    2. Projection and the 7th House
    3. Denial and Neptune Aspects
    4. Intellectualization and Mercury Dominance
    5. Sublimation and Creative Channels
    6. Recognizing Defenses in a Reading
  14. Dreams Symbols and Active Imagination6 lessons
    1. Planetary Archetypes and Dream Symbols
    2. Active Imagination with Chart Symbols
    3. Journaling Exercises for Each Planet
    4. The 12th House and the Unconscious
    5. Synchronicity and Meaning
    6. Building a Practice of Self Inquiry
  15. Case Studies in Psychological Astrology6 lessons
    1. Reading a Chart Psychologically Step by Step
    2. Case Study a Saturn Return Identity Crisis
    3. Case Study a Pluto Transit and Power Struggle
    4. Case Study a Relationship Pattern
    5. Case Study a Vocational Crossroads
    6. Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  16. Building a Psychological Astrology Practice6 lessons
    1. The Boundary Between Astrology and Therapy
    2. When to Refer to a Mental Health Professional
    3. Holding Space for Emotional Material
    4. Structuring a Psychological Consultation
    5. Integrating with Other Modalities
    6. Recommended Reading and Next Steps

What's included

  • 96 lessons in 16 modules
  • Lifetime access
  • Online, at your own pace
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Your Instructor

Taught by Master Sean Chan

A Singapore-based astrologer and Chinese-metaphysics consultant with more than 15 years of practice and 10,000+ clients served — the same standard here as in private consultation, with every claim checked against the chart.

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Common Questions

Before you enrol.

  • Is this therapy?

    No, and the course opens by saying so. Psychological astrology draws on Jungian and depth psychology, but it is not psychotherapy and not a substitute for it: it illuminates patterns, and therapy heals wounds — the course's own division of labour, with neither replacing the other. It also teaches the boundary as technique: what an astrologer must never do (diagnose, treat a clinical condition, process trauma, touch medication) and when to refer someone to a professional.

  • What does it mean to read a chart psychologically?

    It means treating the chart as a description of inner relations rather than a set of labels: which drive is arguing with which, what a placement is protecting, where the chart has an excess and where a hole. The course works through the planetary archetypes, the shadow, complexes and aspect patterns, the Sun–Moon–Saturn configuration, Chiron, the nodes, relationship patterns and the transits that activate them.

  • Do I need to have studied astrology before?

    The course reads a natal chart throughout, so familiarity with signs, houses and aspects helps. It builds its own psychological vocabulary from the foundations — archetype, complex, shadow, projection — and teaches each technique with the chart it is being read from.

  • Is this only for practitioners?

    No. The course is written for anyone who wants to read a chart with more depth, including for their own, and its final module covers the professional side for those who take it to clients — the frame of a session, when to refer, and the ethical boundaries of working psychologically with someone else's chart.

  • How is the course delivered?

    Entirely online, on this academy, in written lessons and fully self-paced: no deadlines, no scheduled classes to keep, and no app to install. Lifetime access is included.

  • Can I get a refund?

    You may request a full refund within seven (7) days of purchase, provided you have not completed more than 20% of the course content. See the Terms & Conditions.

Enrolment

One course. One price.

The complete course in psychological astrology — the planetary archetypes, the shadow, complexes and aspect patterns, the inner family, Chiron, the nodes, relationship patterns, the life cycle and the transits that move it — open to you as soon as you enrol, with the boundary between this work and therapy kept in view from the first lesson.

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Psychological Astrology: The Chart as Psyche

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