Robert Schmidt Astrology

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Heidegger at our House Party

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC During the course of an exciting weekend, Robert Schmidt leads a Heideggerian phenomenological approach to the astrologer's experience. What is the nature of intuition and the moment of insight when reading a chart?

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Astrology and the Rehabilitation of the Sciences: Logic, Mathematics & Physics

© 1995 Project Hindsight LLC Overture lectures given at the 2nd PHASE Conclave, arguing that Logic, Mathematics and Physics will have to be totally refurbished and rehabilitated before they can deal adequately with the question of Astrology.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Transcendence and the Outer Planets

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC How do we come to characterize the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto? What does it mean when we call them 'transcendental' planets?

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Esoteric Mathematics

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt discusses esoteric mathematics in Classical thought, and its application to astrological concepts. A harbinger for Schmidt's later Eudoxus discovery.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

How Astrology Works: Four Hypotheses

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt approaches the problem of astrology from four different angles: from a (rehabilitated) scientific model, from a grammatical model, a philosophical model, and an historic framework.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

On Celestial Grammar - Phasis

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC What does it mean for astrology to be a language? Robert Schmidt looks at the metaphysics of verbal structures as seemingly simple as "It is" and relates them to the planets and the signs.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

The History of the Nativity

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt takes a new look at what sort of spaciality and temporality belong to astrology. This includes the Greek view of the natal chart as hypostasis and more.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Recapitulation and Overview

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC In spite of it's title, Robert Schmidt presents new material not discussed in previous talks. He reveals his motives behind introducing the philosophical material into the discussion of astrology.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Celestial Grammar - Logos

© 1997 Project Hindsight LLC Astrology is a language with a special type of celestial grammar which can provide the standard for natural languages.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Astrology and the Fields of Consciousness

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt draws upon Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Aristotle's Metaphysics for a possible scientific framework for astrological causation.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Making Astrology into a Science: The Range of the Problem

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC This workshop introduces modern developments of science, including Quantum theory, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and Chaos theory, that may be explored while articulating a theory for astrology.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

FATE: Allotment & Decree

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC This discussion centers on some of the ancient views on fate including, Heimarmene, Anangke, Pronoia, and Tuche in the Corpus Hermeticum.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Being and the Zodiac

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt returns to the concept of Phasis and Logos, and deals with the three strata of Hellenistic astrology: Ptolemaic (scientific), Stoic (philosophic), and Egyptian (divinatory).

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

The Same and The Other

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC This workshop begins with discussion of two primary philosophical concepts which are critical to an understanding of Hellenistic astrology - logos and phasis. Schmidt encourages investigation of first principles.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

A Natural History of Time

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt seeks first to restore the original experience of Time in ancient astrology and philosophy; secondly, to distinguish it from the modern scientific view; third, to approach ancient temporality as a modern.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Coincidence Synchronity, Seriality and Chance

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt presents a fresh view on coincidence and astrology. What kind of phenomena are astrological? What is the concept of an event in Classical astrology?

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

How We Aim Our Minds

© 1996 Project Hindsight LLC Schmidt argues that planets are consciousnesses and provides an example of a theoretical framework for astrology by relating them to the different metaphysical worlds proposed by Plato and others.

All Courses, Discovering the Esoteric Roots of Western Astrology 2010-2018

Basic Course Part 2 - The Eudoxus Files

This groundbreaking course was first published under the full name "Basic Course in Hellenistic Natal Astrology, Part 2" in 2015, and was only released to a small group of students.

All Courses, Discovering the Esoteric Roots of Western Astrology 2010-2018

House System Conversation

In his own words Robert Schmidt discusses house systems used in Greek astrology in response to the discourse between Chris Brennan and Deborah Houlding on The Astrology Podcast.

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Downloadable Diagrams and Tables

All Courses, Discovering the Esoteric Roots of Western Astrology 2010-2018

A Conversation Between Bob Schmidt & Herbalist Matthew Wood

An introduction to Robert H Schmidt and Project Hindsight featuring an interview with herbalist Matthew Wood.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

A Comparison of Ancient and Modern Astrology - "Whither and Whence"

An introduction to Robert H Schmidt and Project Hindsight with a look at ancient astrology in comparison to modern astrology.

All Courses, The Early Years - Recovering Ancient Doctrine 1993-1998

Discourse on Method: An Overview of Hellenistic Astrology

© 1998 Project Hindsight LLC Robert Schmidt presents the first comprehensive overview of the system of Hellenistic astrology based on surviving texts.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

General Principles of Hellenistic Delineation

In this practical intensive, Schmidt examines Hellenistic delineations - astrological houses, hermetic lots, and planetary configurations.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

The Einstein Intensives

Robert Schmidt conducted 4 workshops using the Hellenistic approach for an astrological reading of Albert Einstein's natal chart.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Translating Hellenistic Astrology into a Modern Idiom

Schmidt breaks new ground by adapting Greek astrology to meet some expectations and requirements of modern astrology.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Behind the Scenes

Impromptu lectures or spirited discussions during breaks between lectures.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Saturnalia

Lectures on a range of topics between Dec 22nd, 2000 - Jan 6th, 2001 celebrating Robert's 50th and welcoming the new millennium.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit

Zodiacal Releasing is a Hellenistic time-lord technique from the writings of Vettius Valens - re-discovered and interpreted by Schmidt.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Hermetic Lots Intensive

Schmidt examines the Hermetic lots as a “window on the soul” and their essential role in Hellenistic astrological study of psychology.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Planetary Configurations

Schmidt discusses the Hellenistic doctrine of planetary configurations and how it applies to modern astrology.

All Courses, Restoring the Lost Art - Techniques and Practice 1999-2009

Image and Original Lecture

Early talks about the twelfth-parts & antiscia using Plato's "image and original" and the issue of Fate vs Free Will in Hellenistic astrology.