Graduate Certificate – AI and Archetypal Astrology: How to Embrace Uranian Energy Without Losing Your Soul

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein

Artificial intelligence is transforming our world at an astonishing pace, and archetypal astrology offers a powerful way to understand why. Uranus, the planet of disruption and innovation, is linked to technological breakthroughs—just as past Uranian cycles brought electricity, space travel, and the internet, today’s rise of AI signals another revolution. But beyond the tech itself, this shift challenges us on a deeper level: How do we embrace progress without losing what makes us human?

This course will teach you how to work with archetypal astrology to navigate change, especially by understanding your personal Uranus—the part of you that craves freedom, reinvention, and breakthroughs. You’ll explore practical tools to harness AI for self-discovery, pattern recognition, and decision-making, while also developing intuitive practices to stay grounded. Through guided exercises, personal chart analysis, and interactive discussions, you’ll learn to balance technology with inner wisdom. By the end, you’ll have a clear framework for engaging with AI in a way that enhances, rather than diminishes, your unique path forward.

The Advanced Training Certificate course consists of 9 pre-recorded lectures that students can watch at their convenience. The lectures are preparation for live, weekly interactive sessions with a master teacher. In this advanced graduate-level course, you will encounter diverse and often opposing viewpoints, fostering critical thinking and a deeper engagement with complex ideas. In this modern technological and fast changing world, students will realize that an archetypal perspective is not only useful, it is essential.

Because this Certificate is designed for a wide range of participants, it neither requires nor confers a license or degree.

Program Description:

What you will receive:

• 10 Interactive Live Webinar Sessions with world recognized expert in applied archetypal astrology
• 9 Video Learning Sessions to watch at your convenience
• A Private, on-line Discussion Forum
• Pacifica Graduate Institute Advanced Training Certificate upon successful completion of the course

This course is ideal if:

• You have a basic working knowledge of astrology, and you have an accurate copy of your natal chart (this is a prerequisite)
• You wish to understand archetypal astrology in context with our changing times and applied specifically to AI
• You are interested in the politics and ethics of AI
• You are interested in learning how to understand and apply archetypal astrology in your own life
• You are a depth psychologist or a therapist of any orientation wishing to use archetypal astrology in your practice as a map of the psyche
• You are interested in the archetypal psychology of James Hillman
• You are interested in the practical applications of archetypal astrology and AI in the corporate world
• You are interested in the insights archetypal astrology offers your creative practice
• You are a coach or a consultant curious about how to blend archetypal thinking with a developmental model to more effectively lead—ourselves, and others

Individual Session Descriptions

Week 1: Opening the Portal – Setting the Stage for Discovery

Who are we, and what are we here to discover? This week, we set the stage for our journey into the intersection of AI, astrology, and the rapidly shifting world around us. We’ll explore what it means to engage with both the future and the archetypal forces shaping our lives. What will we gain from this course? How can we apply these insights practically? And most importantly—who is in the room, and what unique perspectives do we each bring? Let’s clarify all expectations!

Week 2: Why now? The Astrological Backdrop

AI didn’t emerge in a vacuum—it arrived in sync with powerful astrological cycles that have shaped revolutions throughout history. We’ll examine the current planetary transits, especially Uranus, and how they reveal the deeper story behind AI’s rise. Understanding these cosmic forces will help us see the broader patterns of change and position ourselves to navigate them wisely.

Week 3: What is AI and How Does it Know?

AI is often seen as a mysterious force, but what is it really? How does it process information, generate insights, and even seem to “think”? This week, we’ll break down how AI works—its strengths, its limits, and what it reflects back to us about human intelligence. We’ll also explore how AI’s emergence mirrors mythic and archetypal patterns of creation and discovery.

Week 4: Globalism, Decentralization and Hive Mind

AI is reshaping society in ways that go beyond individual use—it’s transforming economies, governance, and even consciousness itself. We’ll explore themes of decentralization, the rise of the collective mind, compare this to Jung’s Collective Unconscious, and the shifting balance between personal agency and networked intelligence. What does this mean for us as individuals, and how does it reflect larger Uranian themes of revolution and interconnectedness?

Week 5: Ethics and AI

With great technological power comes great ethical responsibility. As AI grows in influence, we must ask: Who controls it? Who benefits? And what happens when machines make decisions that impact human lives? This week, we’ll explore ethical dilemmas such as bias, surveillance, and AI’s potential to either liberate or control. We’ll also discuss how astrology’s wisdom can help us stay conscious of AI’s impact on society and our own moral compass.

Week 6: “Who is here?” Recognizing and engaging with Uranus

Uranus is the cosmic disruptor, the bringer of breakthroughs, and the force that awakens us to new possibilities. But how does Uranian energy show up in our personal lives? This week, we’ll explore Uranus as an archetype—its role in astrology, mythology, and modern life. We’ll begin to develop a personal relationship with this force, learning to recognize its presence and work with its transformative power.

Week 7: Activating Your Inner Renegade

Uranus invites us to break free from old limitations and reinvent ourselves, but doing so requires courage. This week, we’ll explore what it means to embody Uranian energy—challenging outdated norms, embracing innovation, and stepping into the role of the visionary. Through practical exercises, we’ll begin activating our inner Renegade, learning how to harness disruption as a force for personal and collective growth.

Week 8: Getting Future Fit: Uranus in your Astrological Chart

Where does Uranus live in your chart, and how does it influence your relationship with change, technology, and personal freedom? This week, we’ll dive deep into individual charts to explore how Uranus shapes our ability to embrace new paradigms. By understanding our unique Uranian blueprint, we can develop strategies for navigating the future in a way that aligns with our soul’s path. We will not be doing deep chart readings yet we will learn how to apply what we have learned to individual charts.

Week 9: Practical, Soulful Engagement with AI

Just like astrology, AI is a tool—one that can either distance us from ourselves or help us tap into greater insight and creativity. This week, we’ll explore hands-on ways to engage with AI in a conscious and soulful manner. Whether it’s using AI for self-reflection, creativity, decision-making, or problem-solving, we’ll develop practices that keep us in control of the technology rather than the other way around. The goal is to find balance between AI’s power and our own intuition.

Week 10: Summing Up, Review and Learnings

What have we discovered, and how will we integrate these insights moving forward? In our final week, we’ll reflect on our journey—revisiting key themes, sharing personal takeaways, and identifying concrete steps to bring this wisdom into our daily lives. This is not just the end of a course, but the beginning of a new way of engaging with both technology and astrology in a rapidly evolving world.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the Astrological Timing of AI’s Emergence in the Context of the Age of Aquarius and Plato’s Great Year
   Explore how AI’s rise aligns with the transition into the Age of Aquarius, a period associated with technological advancement, decentralization, and collective intelligence. Examine its connection to Plato’s Great Year, the vast cyclical movement of civilizations, to understand AI as part of a larger cosmic shift shaping the evolution of human consciousness.
2. Develop a Conscious Relationship with AI
   Learn how AI functions, its capabilities and limitations, and how to engage with it in a way that enhances rather than diminishes human intuition, creativity, and agency.
3. Explore the Intersection of Globalization, Decentralization, and Collective Intelligence
   Examine AI’s role in reshaping economies, social structures, and global consciousness, and understand its alignment with Uranian themes of revolution and interconnectedness.
4. Cultivate Ethical Awareness and Critical Thinking in AI Use
   Assess the ethical implications of AI, including issues of bias, autonomy, and responsibility, while exploring how astrology and depth psychology can offer guidance for ethical engagement.
5. Identify and Work with Uranian Energy in Your Life and Chart
   Discover how Uranus operates in your personal astrology, shaping your relationship to change, technology, and personal reinvention, and learn techniques for working with its energy.
6. Apply AI as a Tool for Insight, Creativity, and Transformation
   Engage in practical exercises using AI for self-reflection, decision-making, and pattern recognition, integrating it into personal and professional practices without losing depth or meaning.
7. Develop a Future-Focused Mindset for Navigating Change
   Build strategies for staying adaptable, innovative, and “future fit” by blending archetypal astrological wisdom with emerging technological trends, ensuring personal and professional resilience in an AI-driven world.

Career Competencies:

1. Astrological and Technological Synthesis:

Developing a deep understanding of how astrology, particularly Uranus, aligns with technological revolutions like AI. This competency bridges ancient wisdom with modern advancements, allowing professionals to integrate astrological insights into future-oriented fields.

2. Ethical and Conscious Engagement with AI:

Cultivating the ability to critically assess and ethically engage with AI technologies, ensuring their use aligns with personal, professional, and societal values. This includes navigating the intersection of AI, intuition, and human agency in decision-making.

3. Futurist Mindset and Adaptive Intelligence:

Building skills to anticipate and adapt to rapid technological and societal change by integrating astrological cycles with emerging trends. This competency equips individuals to remain “future fit,” fostering innovation while staying rooted in depth psychological and symbolic thinking.

4. Transdisciplinary Insight and Applied Intuition

Merging archetypal astrology, AI, and depth psychology to develop new frameworks for self-understanding, leadership, and collective transformation. This competency supports careers in coaching, consulting, research, and visionary entrepreneurship, empowering individuals to guide others through the evolving technological landscape.

5. Creative and Archetypal Innovation:

Cultivating the ability to use AI as a tool for creative exploration, mythic storytelling, and symbolic meaning-making. This competency empowers individuals to develop new ways of working with archetypes, astrology, and emerging technologies—whether in personal development, education, media, or visionary leadership.

 

SCHEDULE FOR LIVE ONLINE LEARNING SESSIONS

Week 1: Zoom Session – Saturday, May 10, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 2: Zoom Session – Saturday, May 17, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 3: Zoom Session – Saturday, May 24, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 4: Zoom Session – Saturday, May 31, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 5: Zoom Session – Saturday, June 7, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 6: Zoom Session – Saturday, June 14, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 7: Zoom Session – Saturday, June 21, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 8: Zoom Session – Saturday, June 28, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 9: Zoom Session – Saturday, July 5, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

Week 10: Zoom Session – Saturday, July 12, 2025, 10:00 – 11:30am PT

 

Required Readings

Week 1:

 Read (before 1^st class):

• Ray Grasse, Signs of the Times: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roades, 2002) You can read the book OR use the brief distillation of some of the key ideas provided by the author. (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)
• Peter Pomerantsev, How To Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (New York: Hachette Book Group, 2024).

Watch (before 1^st class):

• James Hillman – Accentuate the Positive: Reclaiming the Country from the Nation | Lecture to Bioneers in 2006 https://youtu.be/SovVxyNHJ9A?si=QipHQgpDBJDZlJk6

 Week 2:

• Ray Grasse, When the Stars Align: Reflections on Astrology, Life, Death, and Other Mysteries (Chicago: Inner Eye Publications, 2022). Select passages: 21 things worth knowing about the Aquarian Age reprinted with the permission of the author. (PDF Handout will be available on D2L).
• Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View (New York: Penguin, 2006) pp 139-202.

Week 3:

• Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2018).
• Gary Marcus, Deep Learning Alone Isn’t Getting US To Human-Like AI, Noema Magazine, Online, August 11, 2022 https://www.noemamag.com/deep-learning-alone-isnt-getting-us-to-human-like-ai/ accessed 2/19/25

Week 4:

• Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (New York: Crown Business, 2017).

 Week 5:

• Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (New York: Crown, 2017).
• Bostrom, Nick, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. Forthcoming. “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.” In Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Keith Frankish and William Ramsey. New York: Cambridge University Press. (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)
• Stahl, B. C., Schroeder, D., & Rodrigues, R. (2023). Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges. Springer Briefs in Research and Innovation Governance. Springer Nature. (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)

Week 6:

• Richard Tarnas, Prometheus the Awakener: An Essay on the Archetypal Meaning of the Planet Uranus (Thompson, CT: Spring Publication, 1995).
• Laurence Hillman, Planets in Play: How to Reimagine Your Life Through the Language of Astrology (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007), pp 227-243. (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)
• Laurence Hillman, Keywords for the Ten Astrological Archetypes (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)

Week 7:

• Laurence Hillman and Richard Olivier, Archetypes at Work: Evolving your story, one character at a time (London: Matador, 2019), 78-84. (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)
• Cleveland Clinic. “You’re Not the Boss of Me! Why We Don’t Like Being Told What to Do”, November 17, 2020, https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-we-dont-like-being-told-what-to-do

Week 8:

• Ray Grasse, Whatever Uranus Touches (PDF Handout will be available on D2L)

 

(No Required Readings for Weeks 9 &10. Assignments will be posted in D2L. )