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Learning with Lee: A New Approach to Astrological Education
Look and Listen Astrology Lessons using the latest computer technology Ideal for students and professional astrologers.
Studies have shown that students grasp concepts more quickly when the study material utilizes more than one of the five senses. In order to move ahead with classical as well as general astrological education, world-renowned Classical Astrologer Lee Lehman is releasing a series of instructional CDs on a monthly basis: the CD of the month for astrological studies.
The Learning with Lee CD series combines the advantages of audio and videotapes as well as written material and images.
These look and listen CD's now bring to your desktop the hot topics in Classical Astrology, allowing you to learn from scratch - or review those topics that you have already covered.
- Essential Dignities (Lesson 1) Bestseller!
- Lifetime Financial Planning (Lesson 2) Bestseller!
- Relationship Horaries (Lesson 3)
- Pluto: The Moment of Truth (Lesson 4) Bestseller!
- Solar Returns (Lesson 5) Bestseller!
- The Logic of Electionals (Lesson 6)
- Rendering: Advanced Dignities and Debilities (Lesson 7)
- Significator of the Spirit (Lesson 8)
- Mundane Astrology: The Annotated Edlin Part 1 (Lesson 9)
- Mundane Astrology: The Annotated Edlin Part 2 (Lesson 10)
- Apoklima (12 Sign Relationship) (Lesson 11)
- The 5th House in Medical Astrology (Lesson 12) Bestseller!
- Houses: Natal and Horary (Lesson 13)
- The Relative Speed of the Planets (Lesson 14)
- The 11th House (Lesson 15)
- The Afflicted 7th House (Lesson 16)
- Avicenna on Temperaments (Lesson 17)
- Avicenna Applied (Lesson 18)
- When Zodiacs Collide (Lesson 19)
- Mundane Directions (Lesson 20)
- Conflict (Lesson 21)
- Gift of Nature (Lesson 22)
- Angularity (Lesson 23)
- The Cadent Houses in Horary (Lesson 24)
- The Discovery of Uranus (Lesson 25)
- The Astrology of Homoeopathy (Lesson 26) Bestseller!
- The Void of Course Moon (Lesson 27)
- 25 Job Horaries (Lesson 28)
- The Moon in Diet Electionals (Lesson 29)
- Hyleg Variations (Lesson 30)
- Lilly's Ruler of the Geniture (Lesson 31)
- Classical Delineation of a Chart (Lesson 32)
- The Bendings in Natal Astrology (Lesson 33) New!
- The Bendings in Horary (Lesson 34) New!
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This cd is necessary to the understanding of all the Learning with Lee cd's. It takes the concept of the five dignities and shows you how it works in a real application. It covers all five essential dignities, plus the idea of peregrine, and then applies these dignities to natal chart examples.
This cd takes you through two ideas: (1) how to look generally at three major periods of life, according to the methods of Abraham ibn Ezra, and (2) how to examine multiple houses for ideas for different ways to make money besides earning it. This process is especially useful in working with client concerning their retirement, and especially how much they can expect to make while being retired.
This cd focuses on just one type of horary: but it's a popular one! The method here is learning by example, as 25 relationship horaries are delineated, showing something of the range of variations in the questions asked. There is also discussion of 5th house (primarily sexual) relationships vs. marriage and intimate relationships.
It might seem that Pluto would show up as a topic of a classical series, but this cd explores both some of Lee's insights into the meaning of Pluto, but also how a classicist can approach the use of bodies that earlier classicists never had the chance to study.
Solar returns used to be called revolutions, and the proper understanding of this word in its historical context is one of the keys to learning the classical method of using solar returns. However, perhaps the most important piece of learning classical revolutions is to break the biwheel habit, and look at the chart as a chart, and not as a derivative of the nativity.
Oftentimes, the hardest thing about electional astrology is getting started in the first place. This cd doesn't discuss the rules for electional (such as: what are the rules for marriage electionals, or putting a house up for sale) as much as the system that applies to all electionals. This includes such factors as how to read the ephemeris to scan for good times, how a chart needs to match the nature of the electional, and so forth.
Rendering is the English word for the return of virtue, the opposite of donation of virtue. Specifically, this refers to situations in which a planet combust or retrograde is not in as bad condition as one would expect from its accidental debility. The concept is also the flip side of reception.
This cd takes you through two concepts: (1) how the traditional ideas concerning the nature of the soul can be applied to understand the mind and its astrological components, and (2) how two planets that do not otherwise aspect can operate together through the offices of a mediator planet.
Part One: This is part one of two, and the two collectively represent the first reprinting of Richard Edlin since the 17th Century. This work on the Mars-Saturn conjunction is a major mundane treasure, because it provides the reader with the traditional theories for major conjunction in general, and the Mars-Saturn in particular. In Part 1, Lee introduces the context of the major conjunctions, and discusses these with regard to the weather. She even presents some quantitative data that suggest that there really might be something to this. The text begins, and Lee makes some running commentary to explain some of the more archaic references.
Part Two: This is part two of two, and the two collectively represent the first reprinting of Richard Edlin since the 17th Century. This work on the Mars-Saturn conjunction is a major mundane treasure, because it provides the reader with the traditional theories for major conjunction in general, and the Mars-Saturn in particular. In Part 2, the remainder of the text is presented, and then Lee works some modern charts.
The apoklima is a hellenistic reference to the 12th sign relationship of one planet to another. Many modern astrologers learned some approximation of this technique, but here you get the original references, and Lee's ideas for how we can apply it - as she does in a large number of chart examples.
The 5th House is probably not the House you think of first when you think
of medical. Lee walks you through Richard Saunder's system of examining the
liver using the 5th House, and how this applies to the digestive processes
as they were understood in galenic medicine.
Once the meanings of the houses was stabilized in the late Hellenistic period, the major debates centered on house system calculations, not meaning. However, in the 19th Century this consensus on meaning began to break down. Lee discusses this change - and why it happened.
The Babylonians used the relative speed of the planets as part of their system of classifying the condition of a planet. These ideas link the concepts of speed, retrogradation and combustion into one system. Learn how this works, and how to apply it.
The 11th house is enigmatic in that few astrologers even use it consistently. (How many questions have you gotten about friends recently?) Lee suggests that a major reason for this underutilization is because astrologers left behind one of the major uses of this house when they stopped speaking Greek. In this lesson she looks at the 11th house in relation to how an individual experiences the transmission of generational values. In looking at values and the teaching of those values, she also discusses the relationship between Mercury and the 11th house, and the significance of the 5th house using various sample charts.
Even if you don't have a passion for historical romances, it may have struck you that relationships now work in different ways than when marriage wasn't just the norm, but the be-all and end-all. Lee uses this cd to explain how to use the logic of classical method to explore the varieties of the relationships as they occur in the present day.
It's hard to really understand how to apply the concepts of astrology to traditional medicine without understanding traditional medicine! Here, Lee takes you through the theory of Galenism as enunciated by Avicenna, one of the most influential of the Medieval Arabs.
This cd follows directly on from #17 to take the theory as discussed by Avicenna
applied to understanding the medical nuggets in the nativity. Each case is
examined in detail, showing the mutliple medical approaches to a single chart.
This cd examines the use of the sidereal and tropical zodiac in Horary astrology when charts have significant points at 23 degrees in the Tropical Zodiac and thus 1 degree in the Sidereal Zodiac.
The Sibly Chart of the USA. There has been much talk of the Sagittarius rising chart for the US, with Sibly as the proposed author. Find out what Sibly actually said, and also examine one of the older methods of timing mundane charts directions.
How do you work with war charts? Wouldn't it be wonderful if, as astrologers, we could forget how to do this? Lee shows how to look at multiple battles within a single conflict, and "isolated" military actions.
The early Arab astrologers worked out a series of different techniques based on planets disposing each other. This represents yet another such usage, as a supplement to the material in Rendering (Lesson Seven).
Hellenistic and Medieval astrology rated angularity so highly that it could make up for many other kinds of debility. A planet cadent was either bad or non-functional. How well do these ideas work in our culture?
In horary astrology, debilities are often seemingly emphasized more than dignities, perhaps because debility can destroy a question, whereas dignity alone can seldom clinch a positive outcome. This CD can be considered a continuation of Angularity in exploring this important question of Quadruplicity.
How did Uranus come to be associated with the sign Aquarius? This CD outlines the discovery of Uranus, the attempts by contemporary astrologers to understand the meaning of Uranus, and how the astrologers of the 19th century built on these early ideas, as well as debating whether Uranus should have a rulership at all.
We know from Cornell that many of the medical astrologers of the 19th and early 20th centuries were homoeopaths, but we don't know much about their actual practice. In this CD, Lee reviews material from three languages on cell salts, and other homeopathic substances, comparing the rulerships assigned between authors, and presenting some of her own research into this subject.
How did the ancients view the void-of-course Moon? Did they consider it to be as bad as some modern astrologers see it? How did it rate as an affliction of the Moon?
Done in the same format as Lee's earlier 25 Relationship Horaries, this
CD takes you through the logic of doing job horaries, with plenty of examples
to study.
Just how important is the position of the Moon in diet electionals? What are
the rules that you have to follow, and which are safe to ignore?
The Hyleg has been computed since at least Ptolemy, yet many different methods
have been used in its computation, and different assumptions about vitality
underlie these different methods. In this CD, Lee compares three different
methods, and examines their underpinnings and assumptions, as well as their
application in charts.
The alternative title to this CD is "Five Years, One Chart". This title came from a martial arts reference to the idea that one form could be studied intensively for years, instead of the usual pattern of studying one for a shorter period, and then moving on to the next. Lee explores this idea of mastery through minimalism by exploring only one nativity through many different facets.
The Bendings and the Nodal Cycle: One of Lee's personal break-through ideas in the modern interpretation of classical astrology came through the study and appreciation of the Bendings - the points square the Nodes. Here, Lee shares some of the ideas she has had about these points since her ground-breaking work in Classical Astrology for Modern Living.
Lee says that one of the most popular chapters in her book “Classical Astrology for Modern Living” has been the one designated to the bendings. In this CD Lee answer the question: What are the Bendings? and explains how to interpret the Bendings in Horary Astrology. She has plenty of sample charts.
All you need is a Windows web browser (such as Netscape, Opera or Internet Explorer) to take advantage of this new learning system. The design of the CD uses the "frame" method, which shows you an outline of the pages on the left side of your browser screen, giving you an easy way to manoeuvre, and pick and choose your sequence, which is especially handy for review purposes.
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About the Author
World-renowned astrologer Lee Lehman has a Ph.D. in Botany from Rutgers University. She is author of The Ultimate Asteroid Book (1988), Essential Dignities (1989), The Book of Rulerships (1992), Classical Astrology for Modern Living (1996), and a translation from the French of Papus' Astrology for Initiates. Her fifth book, The Martial Art of Horary Astrology, is in press with Whitford.
She originated the Classical Studies course curriculum, which presently includes seven regular courses. She teaches regular classes in Atlanta and Boston, and recurring classes in several other cities. She is on the faculty for Kepler College. In her spare time, she studies herbalism and Chang-Hon style Tae Kwon Do, in which she holds a 1st Dan black belt.
Along with Graham Dawson and Stephanie Johnson of Esoteric Technologies, Lee has created two software report writer programs written specifically for the classical astrologer: Solar Writer/Medicus, for medical questions and decumbitures; and Solar Writer/Classical, for natal delineation in the matter-of-fact style of the Renaissance astrologer. She was the winner of the Marc Edmund Jones Award in 1995.
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