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chinese astrology

chinese astrology
 



Chinese Astrology provides a snapshot of your personality and a remarkable insight into your strengths, weaknesses and how you relate to the world around you. Focusing on the ancient art of Four Pillars astrology, you will learn how to analyse charts in order to advise and guide your clients about ideal career pathways, health concerns, financial and/or relationship dilemmas. This course has been developed for practitioners, consultants and anybody who wants to obtain an understanding into why people's lives are the way they are, and more importantly, how to guide them through the ebbs and flows of their life to enable them to achieve their goals.

The Certificate in Chinese Astrology (Four Pillars) is a part time course made up of two subjects that is available via correspondence or on-campus in Melbourne and Sydney. Chinese Astrology Foundations is NOW AVAILABLE VIA CORRESPONDENCE! (Correspondence students can start any time of the year and will receive DVDs of the lectures in addition to the manual).

Your teacher: The course is taught by Vic Ketis who is the longest running lecturer of Chinese Astrology in Australia. Having studied extensively both here and overseas since the 1990s, as well as being a popular guest speaker at seminars and conferences, Vic Ketis is a Chinese Astrologer, Western Astrologer and philosopher bringing a unique and passionately enlightening topic to his audience. Without doubt, one of the most popular courses at the college, this course is one of self discovery. If you are feeling lost in your life or need some guidance on which path to take... then this is the course for you!

Subjects
Subject Costs
Pre-requisites
Correspondence Available
$695
None
Yes
$695
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July 2012
Fee Structure
Classes are held in Melbourne, Sydney and Gold Coast. A $100 non-refundable deposit is required along with a completed enrolment form in order to guarantee your place in the subject. Correspondence students can start any time of the year and need to pay for the subject in full before the course pack is sent. Students will be required to purchase the Thousand Year Calendar book in order to be able to draw people's charts.

To enrol, click HERE.

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What is Chinese Astrology?

The "four pillars of destiny" is a system of Chinese solar astrology that interprets cosmological energy qualities, represented by characters, which are present at each moment of time. It is more complex than the popular animal astrology where analysis is made solely upon one's year of birth. The energetic qualities are interpreted in terms of the system of the five elements, and the twelve animal signs. They represent your year, month, day and hour of birth. Four pillars astrology can interpret many qualities and themes in a person's energetic make up such as relationships, creativity, status, resources, money, career preferences, health, strengths and weaknesses and so on.

The cycles that are encountered over the course of a lifetime are referred to as your "Luck Pillars". They illuminate which cycles are more favourable and which are more difficult, and the prevalent themes of these time periods. With this information, we attain a glimpse as to the likely outcome of a situation and how to negotiate these time periods when they arise. In times of growth, we can proceed more confidently, whilst in challenging times where can proceed with care, caution and discretion.

The influence of each year can also be deduced, 2007 being the Chinese Year of the Fire Pig. This yearly information is also woven into the matrix of analysis. The four pillars also has special emphasis to Feng Shui as a person's favourable elements can be ascertained, this being important in recommendations and choice of colour, décor and furnishings. This knowledge can bring harmony as well as strengthen a person's living environment. Recommendations of an unfavourable element can create imbalance and disharmony. Because it is elementally based and considered to be one of the eight limbs of Traditional Chinese Medicine, one of its strengths is ascertaining health qualities and trends, and therefore recommendations can be made accordingly. Specific healing modalities particular to a client's physical and mental blueprint can also be identified to facilitate the healing process. Four pillars astrology can also be used in selection of auspicious dates to maximise success for example, for opening ceremonies, starting a business, marriage, travelling times, buying homes, and so on. This is a skill highly regarded by the Chinese and involves reference to the Chinese Almanac or ''Tong Shu'' for selecting auspicious dates.

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TSUNAMI TRAGEDY (December 26, 2004)

Written by Vic Ketis (Chinese Astrology lecturer).

At each moment in time, the energies that are affecting the planet can be listed and their qualities and dynamics interpreted. Events can also be interpreted such as September 11, the sinking of the Titanic, stock market crashes and the Tsunami disaster.

The Four Pillars on Boxing Day 2004 @ 7.59am Banda Aceh Indonesia was:

Hour Day Month Year
Earth Earth Fire Wood Heavenly Stems
Dragon Rabbit Rat Monkey Earthly Branches
(Earth) (Wood) (water) (metal)

At each moment of time there are Four Pillars of information. This is represented by eight characters ie four combinations of Stems and Branches. From the Four Pillars on this day, a number of things can be deduced that reflect the events:

1. The three strongest Pillars, the Year, the Month and the Day are all in elemental clash between the stem and the branch indicating a day of disharmony and instability

2. The strongest element in the chart is the Rat, because it is the element of the season. It is strengthened by the yearly metal branch of the Monkey. This indicates that water is very strong in its influence and it comes from underneath

3. The water influence is stronger still as the Dragon also combines with the Rat and the Monkey as part of the water combination of elements

4. The Rat and the Rabbit side by side in this configuration are also a clash or penalty situation reflecting disharmony

5. The Earth element (representing the earth) is very weak as it is under attack from the strong Wood element and weakened by the strong Water element. It has no support from its elemental foundation of Fire. In this situation, the Earth is weak, active and unstable. Unstable earth is frequently seen on days of earthquakes and is particularly prevalent on this day

6. Two Earth elements in the stems indicate more than one land mass is affected

In conclusion we can see an imbalance of Water element, unstable Earth and huge clashing elements in the chart triggering an earthquake as the Earth element is weak and unstable. The instability comes from beneath and rises up. The dominating Water indicates the tidal wave. For those interested in the western astrology interpretation, Mars which represents accidents, was in a conflict aspect with Uranus (representing sudden unexpected shocking events like earthquakes), on a day of the full moon when the logical mind is in deficit. Much has been said of the lack of warning even though the signals were there. Chiron (the planet of wounding and healing) is in tight aspect to Pluto (destruction) and Saturn (rebuilding) at this time as well.

This event is also consistent with the age we are in. Chinese Astrologers also look at cycles of time according to twenty year periods. This is used predominantly in Feng Shui and the current time period which started in 2004 is represented by the Earth element. This means a greater increase in earth quakes and shifts to the land mass as whenever there is an increase in Earth, there is a disaster possible. The current era also relates to children and the theme of children has been prevalent around this disaster. As has the issue of spirituality, which the disaster has raised. People are asking how can God allow something like this to happen, how can God allow so much suffering. Whether these questions can be answered is a deeply theological one but that the question has been asked is what’s important. It may not be a question that can be answered, but the questioning and engagement into the theme can guide us into the mystery, take us into a deeper experience of the spiritual realms. Here there are not so much answers but deeper illuminations, insights and perhaps further questions into the realm of human destiny and experience. It is interesting to ponder that the word ''disaster'' means ''against the stars''.Also the disaster has galvanised governments and people to come and work together in aid, medical service and relief, which is very much a spiritual theme.

It is difficult to say why and what triggers the events on this day as there can be many days like this that have similar qualities, some perhaps even worse. What is the trigger for this day in particular? This is one of the mysteries as predictive astrology, which can indicate trends, but we never know exactly when or how the energy will manifest itself.

It is interesting to ponder the work of David Suzuki. He has spoken of the relationship between energy in a molecule. If the path of an electron is artificially altered then another electron in the same molecule will alter its path to compensate. I believe this translates to all levels of energetic life. For example if there is a bomb dropped somewhere on the globe then there will be an adjustment somewhere else to compensate such as an environmental or human tragedy. The world can be viewed as a living connected energetic unit. The natural state of the universe is unfoldment, evolution, and balance and the universe will seek to restore balance.

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