This six week course was presented by Richard Alwin Fidler in January and February of 2025.

Understanding Transits and Progressions is essential if you want to become a skilled astrologer. Most of the useful information we get from transits and progressions is derived from aspects, so you need to be comfortable with astrological aspects to make effective use of transits and progressions. You also need to be versed in how to read an ephemeris.

The Graphic Ephemeris is exactly what it claims to be: it’s a way of rendering the information in the ephemeris graphically visible. It’s a marvellous thing for astrologers who love aspects!

You don’t need the Graphic Ephemeris to use transits and progressions skilfully, but the Graphic Ephemeris is an invaluable tool for translating the data you’re processing when you’re using transits and progressions into a very helpful bird’s eye view. It enables you to instantly identify patterns that you would otherwise have to labour long and hard to find. When the logic and structure of the Graphic Ephemeris is grasped it opens up a world of possible uses and applications. It’s not only handy for making personal transits and progressions graphically visible, it is also useful for the study of synodic cycles in Mundane Astrology.

There will be some “back to kindergarten” exercises in this course. We’re going to create our own Graphic Ephemeris with printed templates and colored pens, using a regular ephemeris to plot the patterns of time in graphic form. It’s loads of fun, but also illuminating.

We’ll use the Graphic Ephemeris to take a deep dive into our own life cycles.

Apart from the recordings of the six two hour lessons in this course you’ll get a pdf of a draft version of a reference book on Transits by Richard Fidler, along with a more general 200 page textbook on astrological chart interpretation. There also many graphs, charts and other resources that come with the recordings.