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
By the end of the course, you will:
- 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.
What you’ll take away
By the end of the course, you will:
- 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.
THE CLASS JOURNEY
Online two Saturdays each month, 1:00–4:00 pm PT
Class 1: The Karmic Map of Your Birth Chart (November 21)
Explore the relationship between planetary movements and human life. You’ll learn your way around a Jyotish birth chart and begin identifying the themes that may point toward your soul’s aims in this lifetime.
Class 2: The 12 Zodiac Signs and the Body (December 5)
Discover how the signs are traditionally associated with different areas of the body. You’ll explore how their positions in a chart can invite reflection on physical experience and opportunities for care.
Class 3: Sun and Moon: Identity and Emotion (December 19)
Examine what the Sun and Moon can reveal about patterns of identity, emotional life, and inner integration. We’ll consider Yogic practices that may support the themes you discover.
Class 4: The Karmic Axis: Past Patterns and Present Desires (January 2)
Explore Rahu and Ketu as symbols of familiar patterns, compelling desires, and the movement of growth. You’ll reflect on the gifts you bring into this life and the experiences that call you forward.
Class 5: Venus: Conflict, Creativity, and Harmony (January 16)
Meet Venus as a guide to relationships, creativity, pleasure, and the tensions that arise when our values meet the world around us. Explore how Venusian themes can help you work more consciously with conflict and connection.
Class 6: Jupiter and Saturn: Expansion and Contraction (January 30)
Learn how Jupiter and Saturn can illuminate purpose, responsibility, resources, and wisdom. You’ll explore how their different qualities may work together through periods of growth and limitation.
Class 7: Mars: Confidence, Anger, and Courage (February 13)
Explore Mars as a source of action, power, and courageous leadership. We’ll consider how to listen to anger with discernment, finding the message within the emotion without being carried away by the story around it.
Class 8: Mercury: Thought, Fear, and Expression (February 27)
Move beyond common myths about Mercury retrograde and discover Mercury’s broader relationship with learning, communication, and practical skill. You’ll examine mental habits, needs for expression, and ways to meet fear through Yogic practice.
Class 9: The Moon in Daily Life (March 13)
Bring Jyotish into the ordinary moments of your day. You’ll explore the Moon’s movement through the sky, notice how lunar themes may relate to your thoughts and emotions, and learn simple practices for working with each day more attentively.
Come with curiosity, your birth information if you have it, and a willingness to learn through your own chart. You’ll leave with a practical foundation you can continue to deepen in your life and in your work with others.
Meet Your Teacher
Cloe Obelar is 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.
Learning objectives
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.