ALMUTEM
Degree 1 — the foundations
Nine lessons on reading a chart the way the tradition reads one. Each lesson ends with an exercise on your own chart, so the material is learned on the sky you were born under and not on a worked example.
The first lesson is open to everyone. The rest ask for a free account.
At the end of the nine, a certificate
Pass the nine quizzes and Degree 1 closes: you get a certificate of completion as a PDF, with your name and the nine lessons on it. It costs nothing, like the degree.
A record of study — not a professional qualification.
- 01
What a chart is
The sky at one moment, and why the frame is the observer.
- 02
The seven planets
Natures, benefic and malefic, sect — and the three that came later.
- 03
The twelve signs
Element, mode, ruler: how a sign filters what a planet does.
- 04
The twelve houses
Where a life actually happens, and why the birth time decides it.
- 05
The five aspects
How planets see each other, and why orbs belong to the planet.
- 06
Dignity
Why one planet acts easily and another does not.
- 07
Sect and the light of the Sun
Day and night charts; cazimi, combustion, under the beams.
- 08
The Moon
Phase, speed, and the end of a sign.
- 09
Putting it together
Reading a chart in five steps — and what is not promised.