The curriculum

Six semesters, start to certification

Forty-seven classes. Start from 0 and finish with the ability to sit down with a stranger's chart and tell them what's coming.

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The six semesters

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Semester 01 · 8 classesFoundations of Your Birth ChartCast and read a full Vedic chart from a birth time — and explain why it differs from the Western one you already know.

Sidereal against tropical

Why your planets sit in different signs, and what the 24° difference means.

Casting the chart

Rashis, houses, and the South Indian format Joni teaches throughout.

The nine grahas

What each planet governs, and the company it keeps in a chart.

Rulership and exaltation

Where a planet is strong, where it is compromised, and why it matters.

The twelve houses

Each house in turn, and the four that carry most of the weight.

The 27 nakshatras

The lunar constellations, and why the Moon dates a chart.

Rahu and Ketu

The two points with no body — the eclipse axis and what it asks of you.

Reading a whole chart

Putting it together end to end, for the first time, on your own chart.

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Semester 02 · 8 classesMastering Life's TimingRun the dasha periods and transits together to date an event in a chart to the month.

The Vimshottari dasha

The 120-year cycle, and the nine planetary periods that divide it.

Sub-periods and precision

Antardasha and below — how a date narrows from years to weeks.

Reading transits

What the planets do as they move, and which movements actually matter.

Bhavat Bhavam

The house-from-house method, and reading one house through another.

The nodal returns

Rahu and Ketu in transit, and the eighteen-year rhythm they set.

Saturn's long passages

The periods of consolidation, and why they are rarely the disaster feared.

Jupiter's openings

Where expansion is genuinely promised, and where it is only hoped for.

Dating a real event

Working backwards from something that already happened, to prove the method.

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Semester 03 · 8 classesPredicting Life's Turning PointsAnswer the questions clients actually arrive with — will this marriage hold, is this the right move, when does the work change.

Marriage and partnership

The seventh house and its lord, and what actually predicts a lasting union.

Career and standing

The tenth house in depth, and reading vocation rather than job title.

Children and family

The fifth house, and the questions clients ask most carefully.

A worked case study

One chart analysed all the way through, decision by decision.

The charts of winners

What sustained success looks like in a chart, and what it costs.

Wealth and its yogas

The second and eleventh houses, and the combinations that build money.

Health and the sixth

Reading vitality honestly, and the line an astrologer must not cross.

Delivering a prediction

Saying it plainly, with the care the subject deserves.

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Semester 04 · 8 classesSpirituality & World PredictionsRead an eclipse or a nodal shift against a nation's chart, and speak about the moment we are living through.

Mundane astrology

Reading the chart of a nation rather than a person.

World predictions

The method, not the prophecy — how a defensible forecast is built.

Eclipse geometry

Where the nodes meet the ecliptic, and what an eclipse marks.

The yugas

The ages of man, the precession, and why Aquarius is not yet here.

Moksha and the twelfth

The spiritual chart, and the house of release.

Karma and the nodes

What you brought with you, and what you are pulled toward.

Mantras in practice

The traditional use, and how they are actually prescribed.

Writing a forecast

Your own world forecast, argued from the charts and defended.

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Semester 05 · 8 classesRemedies, Compatibility & MuhurtaPrescribe a remedy, compare two charts honestly, and choose the hour to begin something that matters.

Remedial measures

What the tradition prescribes, and when nothing is needed at all.

Gemstones and elements

The reasoning behind the stones, rather than the shopping list.

Ashtakavarga

The bindu calculations, and reading strength as a number.

Kuta matching

Traditional compatibility scoring, and its real limits.

Synastry between charts

Two whole charts side by side, read as a relationship.

Muhurta

Electing the hour — choosing when to start, not just what.

Prashna

The chart of the question, cast at the moment it is asked.

Advising a client

Being useful without overstepping what the chart can support.

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Semester 06 · 7 classes & final readingBuilding Your Astrology PracticeTake a paying client from first chart to finished reading, and leave certified with a practice you can run.

Structuring a consultation

The whole hour, planned — where to begin and how to close.

Intake and rectification

Getting the birth data right, and what to do when it is missing.

Delivering hard news

Saying a difficult thing usefully, and knowing what to withhold.

Fees and records

Charging properly, scheduling, and keeping notes you can return to.

Ethics and limits

What an astrologer should never claim, and why the boundary holds.

Finding clients

Building a practice that fills itself, without pressure or theatre.

Supervised practice

Real readings, reviewed by your tutor before you charge for them.

The final live reading

One reading, live with Joni. Pass it and you are certified.

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The full certification

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