Learn to read the patterns in a birth chart and bring them into daily life
Jyotish, often called Vedic astrology, offers a map for exploring the relationship between planetary patterns, the body, the mind, and the choices we make. Its full tradition is vast, but you don’t need to master every part of it to begin using its insights.
This nine-class course offers an approachable entry into Jyotish for your own practice and for your work with clients or students. Using free online chart software, you’ll learn to identify a few powerful features of a birth chart and explore what they may reveal about a person’s gifts, recurring challenges, emotional landscape, and relationship with healing.
You’ll also learn how to bring those insights into conversation and Yogic practice with care. A chart can open meaningful questions about someone’s experience, while the person in front of you remains the authority on their own life.
What you’ll take away
- The ability to generate a Jyotish birth chart using free online software, with no AI interpretation required.
- A practical way to begin reading signs, planetary placements, and the lunar nodes without feeling overwhelmed by the full system.
- A deeper understanding of how Jyotish can inform your personal Yoga practice and daily choices.
- New questions to explore when a client or student feels caught in a recurring emotional pattern or finds healing difficult.
- Ways to consider a person’s emotional and physical experience alongside chart symbolism, without treating the chart as a diagnosis.
- Simple practices for working with lunar cycles and the qualities traditionally associated with the planets.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
- Generate a birth chart and locate the placements covered in class.
- Explain how Jyotish relates the movements of the cosmos to patterns of human experience.
- Identify chart features associated with the body, identity, emotion, desire, conflict, growth, courage, and communication.
- Interpret the Sun, Moon, planetary placements, and karmic axis as starting points for reflection.
- Ask thoughtful questions that help clients and students connect chart insights with their lived experience.
- Choose supportive Yogic practices in response to the themes that emerge, while honoring each person’s needs and choices.
Course Format: Live online with recordings available
Duration: 27 hours across nine classes
Dates: November 21 – March 13
Schedule: Two Saturdays each month, 1:00–4:00 pm PT
Taught by Cloe Obelar – a Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner, Herbalist and Psychology Consultant, and owner of Health Revolution Ayurveda. She is Program Director at Sacred Flame Wisdom School, teaching Shaiva-Shakta Tantra philosophy, Ayurveda, Jyotish, and healing arts like Mantra and Marma Chikitsa. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Liverpool and a BA in Religion from George Washington University (summa cum laude, Harry Yeide Prize). A Dharma teacher in the Sakya Tibetan Buddhist lineage and certified Jyotish astrologer, Cloe brings over a decade of tantric study and a background in infectious disease research to her teaching.