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古典占星工作坊：宇宙天體、星盤詮釋與預測

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We live in exciting times for traditional astrology. As more ancient material is made available, the options for learning it expand, and our understanding becomes richer and more rewarding. Traditional astrology contains two broad groups of assumptions and values which make it attractive. First, there are moral and intellectual values of patience and sympathy for the human condition, and the cultivation of responsible choice, especially once we understand what the chart says about our position in the universe. Second, there are practical benefits from its use of learnable and teachable rules and procedures, which are meant to aid and enhance our efforts, not hinder them.

 

我們正站在古典占星學令人振奮的時代，隨著古典文獻的翻譯資料不斷的增加，我們可以學習、理解的占星學內容就更加豐富，因此產出更多的成果。古典占星學涵蓋了兩個大方向的概念與價值觀，使得它引人入勝：首先，透過星盤的訊息，因而了解我們在宇宙中的定位，我們將對於人生處境更加增長的耐心與同理心，以及兩者在道德與學識上所產生的價值；再者，運用這些可教學相長的法則與步驟，具有應用面的價值，可以有效提高幫助我們努力的成果，而非妨礙我們。

 

This intensive will introduce modern practitioners to ideas and techniques which animated our Art for many centuries, from the Hellenistic and Persian Empires through the Arab conquests and the Latin West. It is suitable both for professional astrologers and astrology students, and does not assume any prior knowledge of traditional astrology. However, we will quickly move beyond basic concepts and introduce “bread and “butter” techniques as well as advanced topics (including some mundane astrology). The intensive will involve lecturing and a discussion of many concepts, but the primary focus will be on practical chart work—primarily on the nativities of the attendees—and how we can understand traditional notions in the modern world. By the end of this intensive, you should be: 

 

本次工作坊，將為學員介紹流傳數十世紀的占星學之概念與技巧，包括希臘、波斯至阿拉伯、拉丁時期的文獻。此工作坊，對於已具備古典占星的知識、或是專業占星師與占星同好們都適合參加。我們會將一些基礎的觀念、專業的基本功、以及進階的主題（包含部分的時事占星學），課程將會以教學與討論的方式，來探討許多觀念，但課程焦點主要是在星盤解析的實務練習，大多是針對與會者的本命盤，並試著以現代人的眼光，來了解古典占星的觀點。

 

在課程結束時，您將具備以下能力

 

• Competent at applying basic and concepts to any chart in a traditional manner, such as: sect, special configurations, bodyguarding, angularity, aspects and aversion.

• Able to interpret houses, planets, and Lots, according to nature, place, and rulership, and in combination with each other, to yield accurate and concrete information about many areas of life, such as eminence, identity and purpose, relationships, and family members.

• Able to apply several predictive techniques to charts, especially profections, distributions, solar revolutions, and transits.

• At the end, attendees will receive a certificate in recognition of accomplishing this rewarding and enriching material from our forebears.

 

• 可將古典占星解盤的基礎與概念，應用在任何星盤分析上；例如：日夜區分（sect）、特殊相位結構（special configurations）、護衛星（bodyguarding）、尖軸（angularity）、相位與不合意（aversion）。

• 能依據宮位、行星、特殊點，三者的自然性質、所在位置、主管行星，將以上條件合併，去詮釋各種不同的人生領域，像是格局高低、自我與人生目標、人際關係、與家族成員探討等等，提供準確而具體的資訊。

• 能應用數種預測技巧，特別是小限法（profections）、配置法（distribution）、太陽週期盤（solar revolution）、與過運（transits）。

• 最後，學員將受頒證書，作為完成本次課程，獲得豐富而珍貴的先人智慧的一項認證。

 

 

預計討論主題（可視情況稍作調整）

Expected topics (subject to minor alteration):

 

• House interpretation. Learn to interpret houses and other topics, paying special attention to rulership and aversion. 

• Special planetary configurations and conditions. These include “overcoming,” detriment and fall, and aversion.

• Essential predictive techniques: profections, transits, solar revolutions (“returns”), perhaps other time-lord techniques.

• Lots (so-called “Arabic Parts”) and how to interpret them. Learn effective ways of interpreting and using predictive techniques with Lots, especially those of Fortune, Spirit, Marriage, Parents, and Children. 

• Advanced interpretation: eminence and prosperity. Apply combinations of other concepts to charts in order to identify signs of eminence and prosperity, or difficult and lowly social status.

• Advanced prediction: distributions (and directions). Learn  an important and widely-used technique, sometimes called “directing through the bounds/terms.” Distributions  are a time-lord technique that covers longer periods of life, but can also be adapted in solar revolutions for shorter periods of time.

•  Horary astrology. We will discuss some of the history and techniques of this branch of astrology, with example charts.

• Mundane astrology: basic concepts. As time permits, we will take a short excursion through mundane techniques, looking at weather prediction, eclipses, and astrological theories of history.

 

• 宮位詮釋：學習詮釋各個宮位以及主題，特別著重於行星主管關係與不合意的詮釋。

• 特別的行星相位結構與狀態：其中包含＂壓制（overcoming）”，陷（detriment）與弱（fall），以及不合意。

• 必備的預測技巧：小限法、過運、太陽週期（太陽回歸），以及其他時間主星的技巧。

• 特殊點（Lots，常被稱為阿拉伯點Arabic Parts）與其詮釋方式：學習更為有效的詮釋法，並將特殊點合併使用在預測技巧中，特別是幸運點、精神點、婚姻點、雙親與子女點。

• 進階內容：格局與成就。合併應用其他觀念，來找出星盤上，哪些徵象代表格局與成就，或是困難重重、低社會位階。

• 進階預測：配置法 （以及”向運法（directions）“）。一種重要並廣泛使用的技巧，有時亦稱為 ”界行推運法（directing through the bounds/terms）”。配置法是一種使用時間主星的技巧，可用於較長期的生命週期之推運，但也可以搭配太陽回歸盤，作為短期預測的工具。

• 卜卦占星：我們將會以實際案例討論這項占星學科的歷史與法則，其中特別詮釋勝利星（Victor）的計算與在本命及卜卦上的應用。

• 時事占星學（Mundane Astrology）：介紹時事占星學的基本概念，並簡要瀏覽時事占星學的技巧，以及氣候預測、日蝕、及此理論的歷史發展。

 

學員資格

Course requirements:

 

• Some basic knowledge of astrology: basic meanings of planets, houses, aspects, etc. And previous knowledge of traditional astrology is advised, best book recommended reading : Traditional Astrology for Today by Dr. Benjamin N. Dykes.

• Multiple copies of your natal chart, in “whole sign” houses (not a quadrant system such as Placidus or Regiomontanus). They should have the Lot of Fortune in it (switching the calculation for night/day), but no outer planets or asteroids. Use of chart information and personal information will be confined to the course, and participants are asked to preserve each other’s confidentiality.

 

• 需具備基礎占星知識：行星、宮位、相位等等的基本認識。建議學員需具古典占星基礎，推薦閱讀古典占星的優良書籍：戴克博士所著：當代古典占星研究。

• 數張學員本身的出生盤，以整宮制為主 (非普拉西德制或雷喬蒙塔努斯制等象限宮位制)。星盤中應包含幸運點 (需注意日夜間盤的計算方式有所不同)，但不包含外行星或小行星。由於星盤與個人資料僅供課程使用，要求與會者必須對學員彼此的資料保密。

• 全程英文教學，學員需具有占星基礎英文之聽讀能力，每天會有兩次各一小時之中文摘要整理。

 

有助於課程學習的工具

Helpful but not necessary:
 

• A calculator which can use degrees, minutes, and seconds.

• An ephemeris.

 

• 可計算度、分、秒的計算機  及  星曆表        

• 星曆表

• 翻譯軟體