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Written in the Stars, Manifested in the Body
November 7, 2027 - November 28, 2027
Written in the Stars, Manifested in the Body
Online CourseMain Course: November 7, 14 & 21, 2027
Flash Retreat Weekend: November 27 & 28, 2027
How your astrological chart shows up in your body, and how to shape that relationship, with Catherine Pawasarat Sensei.
At-a-Glance
Dates & format:
- 3 online classes (November 7, 14 & 21)
- An optional flash retreat weekend (November 27 & 28) online from home, or at Clear Sky Center
Time commitment:
- Classes are 90-minutes each (Sundays, 9:30–11am Alberta Time)
- Practices to explore between classes. Most people find about an hour a week rewarding; there’s no set requirement
- Option to join a weekly one-hour sangha study group
Cost:
- For the 3-week course: Admin Fee + dāna to the Teacher
- For the Flash Retreat Weekend: dāna only (no admin fee)
- See below for an explanation of dāna and for admin fee details
Prerequisites:
- Open to all backgrounds. No astrology experience is needed
- You’ll need your natal chart (instructions provided upon registration)
Why This Matters Now
Each of us has a particular way of being in a body. Some of us live mostly from the neck up. Some push through tiredness as a matter of course, and some carry tension in the same place year after year. Most of us take our own way of being embodied as simply how bodies are.
AstroDharma suggests there’s more to see. The patterns of energy your natal chart describes show up in the psyche, and they show up in the body too: in how you inhabit it by default, and in how you relate to it day to day. Seeing those patterns clearly is the first step. The second is choosing how to work with them.
Over a full month, Catherine Sensei will guide us through what to look at in the chart when it comes to the body, how we may be experiencing our physical selves by default, and how to use AstroDharma to shape a more conscious relationship with the body in the physical world. You’ll leave with a working sense of how your chart lives in your body, and practices to keep that relationship growing.
Who This Is For
- You’ve explored your natal chart and want to bring it out of your head and into lived, physical experience
- You took The Body as Foundation or The Somatic Line in 2027 and want to complete the year’s arc
- You joined AstroDharma: Navigating Transits in September 2027 and want to keep going
- You notice patterns in how you treat your body (pushing, neglecting, overriding) and suspect they have deeper roots
- You’re part of a sangha and want to understand one another’s embodied patterns, not only psychological ones
- You have the bandwidth this season for a month of practice that happens in daily life as much as in class
What You’ll Practice / Learn / Discover
Reading the body in your chart. Learn what to look at in your natal chart when it comes to the body and physical life.
Your default embodiment. Explore how you may be experiencing your body by default, including the patterns you’ve always taken as “just the way I am.”
From description to practice. Use AstroDharma not only to describe your patterns but to work with them, through practices that shape how you relate to your body in the physical world.
Time to integrate. Spread over a month, the course gives the material time to move from insight into daily life, with practices between classes and a flash retreat to bring it together.
Mapping for one another. Build the facility to read these patterns in other people’s charts too, so that we can understand and support one another.
What’s Expected of Me
This course asks for some preparation and some practice. Please have your natal chart ready before the first class; instructions come with registration. Between classes, you’ll receive practices to try in daily life. There’s no fixed time requirement, and the care you bring to them will shape what this course becomes for you.
AstroDharma can be fascinating enough to keep us up in our heads, so expect Catherine Sensei to keep bringing the group back to direct experience in the body. That pull toward analysis is a habit we all share, and noticing it together is part of the work.
Classes include breakout discussions. We invite you to bring your presence and support to one another, so we can co-create a grounded space where everyone can stretch and grow.
If this season of life calls for something lighter, the Intro to AstroDharma self-study course is a lovely place to start.
Meet the Teacher
Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a contemporary Dharma teacher, attendant, consort, co-teacher via Planet Dharma and co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life, Catherine also draws on generative living and universal spiritual tools including transpersonal astrology and Japanese arts.
She trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan from 1998 until his passing in 2024, in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003.
She has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation, synthesizing Buddhist teachings on spiritual awakening with transpersonal Western astrology based on the teachings of Carl Jung.
The Teaching in Context
Written in the Stars, Manifested in the Body is the third and final online course of Planet Dharma’s 2027 Year of Embodiment. Catherine Sensei sees the year’s three courses as flags planted in the ground. The Body as Foundation (February) began with Namgyal Rinpoche’s Body, Speech and Mind. The Somatic Line (August) brought in the Integral perspective Qapel encouraged us to explore. This course adds AstroDharma, which Catherine Sensei is bringing in more and more because of how much understanding it opens up about the patterns we live with.
It follows AstroDharma: Navigating Transits (September 24–26, 2027). That weekend looks at what is moving through your chart now; this course looks at how your chart lives in your body. Each course also stands on its own.
Course Schedule
November 7 – 28, 2027
Class Times (Mountain Time)
- Sunday November 7 – 9:30am – 11am
- Sunday November 14 – 9:30am – 11am
- Sunday November 21 – 9:30am – 11am
The formal, live teachings for this course will occur on Sundays. Class times are estimates and may change slightly.
Registration for the flash retreat on the fourth weekend is optional but recommended. (See below.)
We encourage you to connect with Sangha outside of class times to discuss and deepen your learning of the material. If you are interested in connecting with a sangha study group, we will help you join a group taking place in your time zone.
Flash Retreat Weekend: November 26 – 28
The final weekend is a flash retreat (separate registration) to deepen and integrate your experience. Join from home, or spend the retreat with us at Clear Sky Meditation Centre in Eastern British Columbia.
5 formal group sessions will be held at these approximate times:
- Flash Retreat Friday evening session: 7:30pm MT
- Flash Retreat morning session: 9:30am MT
- Flash Retreat afternoon session: 2:30pm MT
- Sessions will be 60-90 mins in length.
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Course Details
Time and Location
Each of the weekly classes in this online course will be streamed live at 9:30-11am MST. We ask participants to attend live whenever possible. The recording of each class will be available for one week after each class. We encourage you to connect with sangha outside of class times to discuss and deepen your learning of the material.
The course culminates with a Flash Retreat on November 27 & 28, 2027, with formal group session times held at 9:30am and 2:30pm Mountain Time on Saturday and Sunday, with a 60-90 minute duration. There may also be a class to introduce the weekend on Friday, February 26th at 7pm MT.
What Does the Course Cost?
This course is offered based on the unique combination of:
- dāna, and
- a $80-120 USD administrative fee:
- Register by October 10 $80 USD
- Register by October 24 $100 USD
- October 25 to November 7 $120 USD
You may have come across this elsewhere in the form of “pay from the heart.” Dāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “generosity.” With dāna, we give as a mutual exchange of generosity. It’s our joy to offer this course, and we trust you’ll match our time, energy, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us.
The dharma has been built on generosity. No one is excluded for lack of funds. However, it is also extremely beneficial to give as much as you are able.
Typically people give in a range of $120-$500 USD for a course.
As we’re committed to ensuring everyone has access to the Dharma, please feel comfortable to give less if you are not financially secure. Another form of giving dāna is to offer service, and if you are interested in providing support in a non-financial way, we invite you to contact us.
If you are financially secure, we invite you to generate merit by providing more financial support to the Triple Gem. Contributions like these make the difference in supporting our teachers, teachings, and center.
We're delighted to share that we created a short online course so that you can learn more about the practice of dāna here.
In a traditional model of in-person teachings, a retreat center or urban meditation center invites teachers to visit. In these cases the centers have infrastructure and organization costs to cover, which might be covered by an admin fee. For the teaching itself, dāna to the teachers is offered in a bowl. This honors both the sustainability of the teachers, and of the supporting center.
We’ve tried to recreate this approach online. The teachers’ time and the teaching themselves are offered on the basis of dāna, separate to the admin fee. With our dāna offering we are making a direct gift of generosity to the teachers to support their teachings and livelihood.
The admin fee* goes to support the infrastructure and organization necessary to support them to teach. As anyone with an online business will know, the costs of setting up good infrastructure to support effective teaching and connection online can be surprising.
Our admin fee changes based on the date of registration.
Register four + weeks prior: $80
Register two to four weeks prior: $100
Register less than two weeks prior: $120
*We also do not wish to exclude anyone from the Teachings, so if you are not currently in a financial position to afford the admin fee, please contact the course Registrar via [email protected] so we can support you to attend.
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Below are a few of the work and benefits that your admin fee payment is supporting:
- High speed internet (to allow interviews and classes on-line)
- Online class systems (Zoom)
- Registration / admin systems (Eventbrite, Basecamp)
- Communication systems to keep everyone informed, share connection details, teachings and other resources (Mailchimp)
- Online storage (for example, Dropbox, to allow us to let students watch recordings, and to store and share selected teachings in other forms such as podcasts and video later, and Amazon cloud)
- Quality sound, video and editing equipment (both for live teachings and to provide good enough quality for later sharing as podcasts and video). We are regularly updating our equipment to improve your user experience.
- Online calendar booking system to allow students to book interviews
- Website hosting and maintenance for sharing upcoming courses, teachings, blogs and other resources.
We welcome any questions. May all our efforts be sustainable, abundant and for the benefit of all beings!
FAQs
I’m new to astrology. Can I join?
Yes. Catherine Sensei introduces what you need in class. If you’d like a head start, the Intro to AstroDharma self-study course covers the basics of reading your chart.
What if I miss a live class?
Each recording is available for one week after the class.
Can I take the course without the flash retreat?
Yes. The retreat is recommended but optional, with its own registration.
