Astrology for Therapists and Coaches

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What will you learn?

Week 1: Orientation to the Zodiac

• “What are your Big 3?” Introduction to the Sun, Moon and the Ascendant
• The 12 signs of the zodiac
• The 12 houses of the chart
• Exercise: “What do your Luminaries say about you?”.

Week 2: Orientation to the Planets

• The Visible Inner Planets: (Mercury to Saturn)
• Their Greek and Roman Pantheons/Myths and dignities
• Exercise: “Which of your planets are delivering and which ones need conscious effort to bring out?”

Week 3: Orientation to the rest of the Planets and the Aspects

• The Outer Planets (Uranus to Pluto) and their myths
• Major aspects: Sextiles, Trines, Squares, Oppositions, and Conjunctions
• Exercise: “How are your planets looking at each other?”

Week 4: Houses, Zodiac, Planets, and Aspects: Bringing the Four Elements of Chart Reading Together

• Personality types (using the Enneagram) and their charts
• Exercise: “What personality type does your chart indicate you might be?”

Week 5: Fate vs Freewill, Ethics, more Practice

• Discussion on ethical guidelines when reading charts
• Fate vs. Freewill discussion
• Developing your system for looking at a chart
• Exercise: more chart reading practice

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Over the course of five weeks, you will:

• understand how to navigate your own chart
• discover the ways to see blockages and trouble spots in a client’s chart
• understand how un-integrated planets carry our projections
• see examples of character analysis used alongside astrology
• develop an approach of curiosity toward your clients’ chart and planetary placements.
• have a better understanding of what’s involved in the fate vs freewill discussion and its history
• be able to navigate a conversation around house systems

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This study group is for you if you:

• are a coach, therapist, Jungian analyst, or another type of counsellor who sees themselves using astrology with their clients
• are curious about how astrology can help people improve their lives through self-awareness
• want practice reading charts in a structured setting
• are willing to share some of your reflections with the group
• want some theoretical background to help navigate discussions and controversies around astrology

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Who is leading this?

My name is Erin, and I “discovered” Astrology in the mid-2010’s when I was waiting for my cello lesson and reading my horoscope: it said that I would double-book myself that week. Well, I ended up triple-booking myself that week and my antennae went up and said, “Hmm, maybe I should look into this a bit more.” I did casually, but it wasn’t until 2019 when I really became serious about studying Astrology. I learned about the Enneagram in 2010 when I was considering becoming a nun and to this day, I consider it the most brilliant moment of my life when I learned my type, it was so helpful. I had been quite angry growing up and I was lost as an adult, and the Enneagram helped me learn how to nagivate my inner turmoil. I love both modalities so much and I find they come together beautifully in Jungian thought and mindfulness.

I have a degree in Political Science from the University of Regina in Saskatchewan and a degree in Intercultural Studies from Providence College in Manitoba. I’m currently the secretary-treasurer for the Canadian chapter of the International Enneagram Association. If you’re interested in gently poking and prodding the planets in your chart and learning how to do the same for your clients, I warmly welcome you to study with me.

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How do I generate my chart?

Open an account at either astro.com or astro-seek.com. Here are the instructions.

The first class is Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM EST over Zoom.

1.5 hours each meeting

Time Zone Conversion:
5:00 PM PST=
7:00 PM CST=
8:00 PM EST

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Course Registration Form

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*Sometimes Challenging but Ultimately Rewarding: Finding your Enneagram Personality Type

Finding your Enneagram gives a BIG boost to integrating the planets in your astrological chart. When you see yourself wholistically and understand that your disparate, unintegrated planets make sense and you see the internal logic that you’ve been operating on, however flawed, you can have a much greater compassion yourself. When you learn your type, the Enneagram gives you a personalized map of emotional intelligence growth specific to your personality type, which also helps you get more out of your astrology sessions. To find out your type, you can do an Enneagram test. There are lots of “free” versions online that surprise you with a charge at the end, but one of the original and most well-known tests is the RHETI test, and it is USD $20. It takes about 40 minutes to complete. A test can only do so much, though; ultimately, your observation practice of your reactions and mental, instinctual, and emotional patterns will help you find your type more than a test will. To start finding your type for free, you can peruse these short descriptions here or here. The Chestnut-Paes team have a good overview on youtube here.

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Astrological symbols as psychological impulses

“The sun, moon, and planets were the exponents, so to speak, of certain psychological or psychical constituents of the human character; and this is why astrology can give more or less valid information about character… The religious mysteries of later antiquity were all concerned with freeing man from the Heimarmene, in other words, with freeing him from the compulsive quality of the foundations of his own character.”

Carl Jung, Modern Psychology, Vol 5-6, pg. 120

Alchemy

“In the Middle Ages, the work of alchemy was to produce gold from base metals. There were charlatans trying to make actual gold, but the best alchemists were those working with the gold of the spirit.”

Robert A. Johnson, Inner Gold

Owning our Shadow

“Any repair of our fractured world must start with individuals who have the insight and courage to own their own shadow. Nothing “out there” will help if the interior projecting mechanism of humankind is operating strongly. The tendency to see one’s shadow “out there” in one’s neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the moden psyche. It has created two devastating wars in this century and threatens the destruction of all the fine achievements of our modern world. We all decry war but collectively we move toward it. It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow, to which every one of us has contributed.

Robert A. Johnson, Owning your own Shadow

The planets represent the various “I’s” we identify with

“Planets are enormous beings, and have relations between themselves as people do. They are reactions, tensions. They vary in shape and form, but their revolving in space causes them to appear as spheres. They communicate by emanations- a pure force which does not operate through and by means of matter; and by radiations- which operate through and by means of matter. … In very ancient times, priests, who were then men of understanding, knew how to organize religious ceremonies on a vast scale so as to use the forces of the tension. … We ourselves as individuals are subject to these tensions, we get out of sorts, irritable, rash, and find ourselves doing and saying things that we afterwards regret. How often a person pursues a certain course under the influence of one of his I’s, completely identified, oblivious of everything else; and then, with a start, as it were, he comes to himself, wakes up, and is horrified with the realization of what he has been doing. Examples of this, from the comic and merely irritating to the tragic, are to be seen every day. … This is the result of the influence of the planets….”

Orage’s commentary on George Gurdjieff’s writings.

The Client’s Unconscious Attributions of Power to the Astrologer

“…. Whatever our affinities, we would be wise to remember our ancient roots, for they are still with us and are sometimes contrary to the role in which we presently see ourselves. Not only do we lose a rich and valuable sense of belonging to an ancient and continuous tradition if we disregard those roots; we also remain unconscious of their reffect on us and our clients.”

Liz Greene, The Astrologer, the Counsellor and the Priest