Zodiacal Releasing Course

I’m pleased to announce that enrollment is open for my Zodiacal Releasing course with Kepler College! In this five week course you’ll learn all you need to know to begin utilizing the Zodiacal Releasing timing technique. I’ve also had many students in the past who were already familiar with the technique deepen their understanding and usage of the technique through completing my course. This will be the third time that I’ve taught Zodiacal Releasing for Kepler College and there is currently an early registration discount if you sign up before October 11.

Course Schedule: October 25 – November 22, 2025
Class Time: Saturdays, 10 am – 12 pm Pacific Time

What is Zodiacal Releasing?

Zodiacal Releasing is a Hellenistic astrology time lord technique that reveals the timing and multi-layered nature of pivotal events and peak experiences in powerful ways. Zodiacal Releasing is unlike any other astrological timing method because it creates archetypal timing structures based upon the Lot of Fortune and the Lot of Daimon, the lots of the Moon and the Sun. It can be a powerful way for understanding your personal narrative and different archetypal themes and dynamics that unfold similarly to different seasons or episodes of your life story.

Preserved in the writing of 2nd century astrologer Vettius Valens, methods for working with Zodiacal Releasing have been recovered over the past thirty years as part of the Hellenistic astrology revival via the work of astrologers such as Robert Schmidt and the community at Project Hindsight, Demetra George, and Chris Brennan. Although the instruction for Zodiacal Releasing given by Valens in the second century CE is the only surviving textual evidence for the technique, its potency has been proven by it becoming one of the most most popular and widely used time lord (from the Greek chronocrator) techniques to emerge out of the Hellenistic astrology revival of the early 21st century.

As a time lord technique, Zodiacal Releasing allots certain periods of time to certain planets during which time that planet’s meaning as found in the natal chart becomes activated and is given authority to further its natal agenda. Working with a time lord technique such as Zodiacal Releasing opens another perspective to add to other techniques you may already utilize such as transits or secondary progressions, as it brings us into a different relationship with time that makes connections between our personal narratives and archetypal themes that are released across our lifetime, like different chapters in a book or different seasons and episodes within a televised drama.

Zodiacal Releasing is only one of many time lord techniques from the Hellenistic era, but the reason it possesses such potent divinatory power is due to the symbolic significance of the Sun and the Moon and their lots: the Lot of Fortune and the Lot of Daimon. The Lot of Fortune and Lot of Daimon are calculated based upon the relationship between the zodiacal degrees of the Sun, Moon, and the ascendant, casting the soulful light of the luminaries from the rising intersection of soul, spirit, and body. Whereas the Lot of Fortune indicates material experiences of the soul incarnated into the bodily form associated with the Moon, the Lot of Daimon points to the immaterial, animating force within the soul associated with the Sun that inspires us to express our soulful purpose into the world.

Zodiacal releasing provides the timing for when the life matters signified by the Lot of Fortune and the Lot of Daimon will take form from their natal potential, and from a storytelling perspective reveals a narrative structure within which the drama of life develops. By considering the timing of Zodiacal Releasing for both the Lot of Fortune and the Lot of Daimon, we may glimpse into the mysterious unfoldment of the material prosperity and vocational calling indicated by the natal promise. 

Why learn Zodiacal Releasing?

Zodiacal Releasing is a potent technique for providing insight into time periods of heightened activity in one’s vocation as well as the ups and downs one experiences in life. Zodiacal releasing offers a nuanced perspective into unfolding life narratives, serving as a tool for reflecting upon past and present storylines as well as looking forward to future developments. It can help people explore their vocational potential and the timing of it’s unfoldment, as well as the timing for inner turns of direction and soul calling.

If you are already familiar with the popular approach to Zodiacal Releasing that emphasizes “peak periods” angular to the Lot of Fortune, you’ll learn much more about the importance of considering the full natal context of the lords of the activated signs as well as other nuances that will add depth to your use of Zodiacal Releasing.

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The Zodiacal Releasing Course is part of the Hellenistic Astrology Timing Techniques certificate available through Kepler College. There is also a Hellenistic Natal Astrology certificate available through Kepler College. We have many outstanding courses and faculty members that are part of our Hellenistic Astrology program at Kepler College – please take a look at what is being currently offered!