The North Node in Pisces Conjoins Royal Star Fomalhaut — A Mystical Fated Encounter

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Happy Monday, everybody. Today, we're going to take a look at the north node of the Moon in Pisces, moving into a conjunction with the Royal fixed star Fomalhaut. There were four ancient royal fixed stars, and they all had tremendous power and meaning in ancient astrology. This one in particular has a correlation with many of the peak Piscean themes of mysticism and other worldliness, as well as things like illusion.

So we're going to look at this today. I'm going to tell you all about this fixed star. What you need to know about the conjunction of the North Node to this fixed star, which is going to take place over the next month or so. We'll have a list of things to watch for tomorrow. We're going to do horoscopes on this conjunction as well, to place it into your birth chart. So that's our agenda for today.

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Anyway, what we can see here is that I have the fixed star Fomalhaut on the screen. By the way, I looked at like four different places online for how to pronounce it, because it looks like Fomalhaut. But I was told by people I trust and a number of online sources that Fomalhaut is the actual pronunciation. But if that is wrong, I'm sure someone will let me know. Anyway, you can see the North Node, which moves retrograde, is coming into a conjunction with Fomalhaut. It's within about a degree right now.

I want to take you through the transit and show you how this is going to map out. We're going to go week at a time. You're going to see that next week, the North Node is now conjoined Fomalhaut, this royal fixed star we're going to talk about today, and it stays in that conjunction all the way till the end or the beginning of June. Now let's give it another about two degrees, and that's going to take us all the way through the middle of June. So between now and about the middle to end of June, we have a three degree orb of the North Node crossing this fixed star.

Now that's interesting from the perspective of what the North Node means and what Fomalhaut means, and that's going to be the subject of today's talk. So first of all, if you're not familiar with this fixed star, I'm going to tell you about its history, its meaning, and what you can watch for given the conjunction with the North Node. But let's start with the North Node, because the only reason we're doing this is because there's a planet or point. In this case, Rahu is thought of as a shadowy planet in Vedic astrology, but we think of it as a lunar point, intersection of the Moon's path with the ecliptic path of the sun rising upward. The North Node is going above the ecliptic.

So the North Node is associated with the pull of desire and destiny, the pull of desire toward things that are unfamiliar, toward the future, to what we have yet to accomplish or attain or taste that we somehow crave. The problem with the North Node is, of course, as Rahu in Indian astrology, this can be nothing more than the perpetuation of more lifetimes due to desires that continue to entangle us in illusion. So you can't just think about the North Node generically as good, as the thing you ought to go do so that you'll evolve. At the same time, repression accomplishes nothing. So repressing desires is not really the way to go either.

We have to learn from what we desire by experience. I mean, we desire things. For example, basic example, I desired children. I desired a family. What I'm learning about doing this path of marriage and family is the work it requires, the commitment, the real. It's not an ideal thing. It's a real thing, and the North Node always presents us with ideals or desires that we think will quench a thirst or a hunger. Now I have my North Node in the fourth house of home and family, so this is something I needed to go check out for one reason or another. It's not to say that I regret the decision, but it is to say that I'm realizing exactly what it is and isn't. You see what I mean.

So the North Node pulls us into experiences that we somehow need to have, but not because it's ideal or it's going to solve all of our problems, but because it's the new evolutionary terrain in which we have to go and learn and grow, oftentimes through what we can't find fulfillment in as much as what we think will fulfill us. So if you have the North Node in the marriage house, it's not to say, oh, marriage will fulfill you. It's to say marriage is where you're supposed to go learn. Learn what? Learn about divinity and the soul and the great mystery that we're all here to learn about. That can happen through all different kinds of events and experiences in marriage, but that's the terrain.

So when the North Node is moving through a sign, we're thinking about the qualities of that sign. We're thinking about things like in Pisces. We're thinking about things like faith and compassion, romance and idealism, imagination and mysticism, the upward pull of the soul towards some state of union or divine bliss, the sense that life must be about something more sublime, and the intolerance toward that, the ache and disappointment of human life and its limitations, the feeling that nothing is ever good enough, the yearning and the frustration with being alive and the desire for something heavenly. These are all themes that are wrapped up in Pisces. When the North Node is moving through the sign, these themes become central somehow to our evolution, spiritually speaking.

So when we take that and we then combine it with a conjunction to one of the major royal stars, there are four stars in ancient astrology that were considered royal and, in a way, granted a level of power and importance above most other fixed stars, for sure, in the royal star lineage of ancient Persia, which we're going to talk about next. So let's get to know Fomalhaut. Now, Fomalhaut is the star of the Southern Fish. It's located in Pisces, around four degrees of Pisces. It gradually, very, very gradually moves through the zodiac. It is interestingly 13 times the brightness of the sun. Of course, we don't experience it like that, but that's fascinating.

It is one of the four royal stars of ancient Persia. So in case you're not aware, in ancient Persia, there were four stars that marked the cardinal directions that were thought to uphold cosmic order and uphold the universe, in a sense. So those fixed stars: Antares, Aldebaran, Regulus, and Fomalhaut. I'm not always sure how to pronounce them, to be honest. I've heard different pronunciations so many times. But Fomalhaut, which I did take the time to try to figure out how to pronounce, is the watcher of the South, and it is a fixed star that was associated with the winter solstice.

Now the South, when you think about the sun coming down toward the earth in the Northern Hemisphere, moving toward the south rather than the north means moving down toward the earth, the arc of the sun. That's our winter solstice, when it gets closest down to the earth. So this fixed star was associated with the winter solstice and was called the watcher of the South. It becomes associated eventually with one of the four archangels, Gabriel. This fixed star association with the archangels is also very old.

Now royal stars, all of them, are thought of as tremendously auspicious omens, but usually with built in tests of morality and integrity. So all of the fixed stars usually carry a promise of great success or fame or wealth or accomplishment, but only of the kind that doesn't come with a hard karmic backlash if integrity is at the heart of the success. That's kind of a general rule of thumb that I mapped out in my master class on the fixed stars, which, by the way, if you're interested, you can find on the shop page of the website. So every royal star of the four carries kind of a built in downfall clause, karmically, if ethics are compromised. We'll talk about that more in a moment.

The other thing to note is that, as this is the fish swimming in the stream of water poured out by Pisces in the ancient imagination of the zodiac, you can think about this star as a part of the fish, and kind of a part of the fishy, watery space that flows between Aquarius and Pisces in constellational lore. That's not to say anything about the elemental designations of the signs. It's just talking about the sense of the mythology and the environment of the constellation imagery that was associated with the mythology. Because of this kind of mystical space that's associated with the waters being poured from Aquarius and the fish of Pisces, this fixed star has come to be associated, over thousands of years, with divine inspiration that flows into the material world.

The water is imaginative, prophetic, spiritual, artistic, progressive, visionary. The fish swimming or drinking it, so to speak, is an earthly creature receiving this kind of higher water, or moving through this kind of higher water. So the fixed star in the southern tail of the fish, this royal star, has always had a strong link to mystical states, dreams, revelation, prophecy, and let's call it imagination and romantic qualities in general. So it's a fixed star that, of course, in the sign of Pisces, in many ways resembles and sort of amplifies a lot of the things that we think about in the sign of Pisces in general.

Now, in ancient astrology, astrologers gave fixed stars planetary pairings so that you could understand the nature of a fixed star in terms of the planets. Now, Fomalhaut was given Venus and Mercury as a combined planetary quality. Then, more recently, in modern astrology, you'll see modern astrologers sometimes associating it with Neptune, but the Venus-Mercury combination of Fomalhaut speaks to a kind of artistic beauty and communication, harmony, idealism, and transmission of speech or skill or messages. So someone who plays an instrument beautifully, an entire inspired flow state, poets, mystics, dreamers. So you kind of have this theme of poetic revelation and inspired speech and a visionary art, sort of flowing forth from some other worldliness.

If you want to think about a Fomalhaut star, think of Rumi, or the mystic poet, visionary spiritual teacher, guru. A lot of these kinds of things stand out for Fomalhaut. Now the shadow of this, of course, is a lot like some of the shadows of Pisces that we think about generally. You have the high expression of inspiration, spiritually, artistically, romantically. The shadow will be escapism, tendencies toward illusion or delusion, fantasy detached from reality. I know that a lot of you are going to say this just sounds like Pisces. That is true. However, you will find that these themes get particularly strong and amplified at this degree because of this fixed star within the constellation of Pisces.

So prophecies and oracles, sacred music and sound, divine messages or visions. Is it any coincidence that I'm leading a retreat while the North Node is conjoined Fomalhaut in my 11th house that's all about receiving oracles and developing your relationship with oracles? No. In fact, I only became aware of this after it had been planned, when I was looking at the transits. At the time, I didn't notice it because it's still relatively new for me to be using fixed stars regularly. Like anything, it just takes a while for it to become more integrated into the way that I look at charts. But after a while, I realized, oh my god, we're going to be in a group in a setting by the ocean, talking about oracles, connecting experientially with the oracular intelligence and emphasizing that point in a group or community space. Okay, that feels very North Node Fomalhaut in the 11th house. It's the first retreat of one that we plan to host annually. So kind of opening this evolutionary door to something that I suppose I'm interested to go and learn about. We'll see. I'll learn all about hosting a retreat. We've done retreats before, but you know, everything is so interesting when you can see it through the lens of astrology.

You can also see sometimes there are themes of martyrdom or sacrifice for some kind of higher ideal. But some of the darkness will also be that tendency toward illusion. Given all of that, I have a list of five things to watch for now, and I have some chart examples I'm going to show you from the fixed star presentation I did on Fomalhaut in my master class a couple years ago. This is from the 2024 master class I did. The winter master class was on fixed stars. I think we did about 20 fixed stars altogether, maybe 16. I can't remember.

The first thing to watch for with the North Node conjoined Fomalhaut is vision, creativity, and calling. This can fit for the North Node in Pisces in general. Remember, we're going to do horoscopes tomorrow, so we'll apply this through horoscopes in part two of this talk. But the first thing is to notice how strong a pull towards some larger spiritual, creative, romantic desire, yearning, longing, mission may become. It may become very intense and overwhelming. You may notice it very strongly. Look at the whole sign house of Pisces in your chart. Again, we'll do that in horoscopes tomorrow.

Number two would be heightened sensitivity, heightened imaginative or psychic sensitivity. This can mean anything from increased intuition, precognitive experiences, dreams, synchronicities, the veil sort of thinning between reality and imagination. I think it's very important to also be discerning about signal versus projection. So sometimes we're going to sense or feel things that are partially real, but then maybe it's like 25% we felt something, and 75% we projected onto something. Sometimes you can feel something, you know. Maybe you're in a conversation, you're subtly feeling what someone is thinking, but they're not saying, and you're right, but you project onto it 75% more than what they were actually feeling or thinking, if that makes sense. We can get into trouble with the heightened psychic sensitivity, because it's also prone to a kind of blurriness, so want to be careful about that, because it's a fixed star that can really amplify those Piscean themes.

Number three would be escapism or fantasy, the risk of anything more addicting. I would just say that your groundedness is important right now, because the potential for something very alluring to call and bring you out into something but to unground you is there, or for something to be more escapist, something to be addictive or destructive, something to be rooted in fantasy rather than reality, would be a real risk or shadow of this transit for the next month or so.

The amplification of artistic or spiritual gifts would be there as well, which means that if you are a creative, you may experience a surge in your music making or your poetry writing or your film or your photography, or even your astrology. If you're a symbolic artist, like astrologers are kind of symbolic artists, then you may find that there's a flow in terms of your ability to understand or work with the symbols that you work with. There may be more collective impact around art or spirituality, too, groups, places of learning, interactions with other people, or communities where artistic or spiritual gifts or subjects or skills are being learned or discussed or shared. That can also happen.

Then, last but not least, I would say that there may be moral or spiritual testing. Royal fixed stars always test us in some ways, morally, spiritually, integrity. Things get elevated. Compromise, things that looked good start falling apart. The fixed stars are so mythically associated with people that obtain some fame, but then some compromise of integrity, often very publicly, knocks them off of a pedestal, or casts some shadow over the accomplishment. It's very human, and so we should be compassionate, because we're all learning, but alignment with truth is a big part of how very positive outcomes either last and stick and create something royal, meaning a success that can have a long term impact, that can carry something forward, like a lineage or a legacy like royalty, or something that can sink you because it's not cared for, or the success isn't midwifed with humility and thoughtfulness.

So Fomalhaut is an initiatory star that can, especially with the North Node here, open us creatively, imaginatively, romantically with vision and a kind of creative or spiritual spontaneity, and often will connect us with streams of wisdom or inspiration that are very otherworldly. I mean, the way that I've been integrating fixed stars into my practice, especially when you're looking at constellational stars that match up with one of the zodiacal constellations, is that they will frequently be one of the peak points of importance within the constellation or the zodiacal sign archetype that we already know a lot of. The star, in other words, is very Piscean, as I said a few times in this talk. But there are a few points along the way, when we hit fixed stars, where everything gets really big and bright, even though it feels like the Pisces theme is done. A lot of planets have moved out of Pisces, Saturn moved out of Pisces, Neptune moved out of Pisces. We had a huge lineup of planets moving out of Pisces. We still have an eclipse coming up in Pisces. We still have the North Node transiting Fomalhaut in the next month.

So I just wanted to share this today, because I thought it would be interesting. Now what I want to do is just show you just a small portion from my presentation on Fomalhaut from my winter master class a few years ago. So Venus-Mercury for the designations, gone through all this. This is an interesting quote from Bernadette Brady, who wrote a great book on fixed stars. She says Fomalhaut is like the Persian character Zal, out of step with society. He strives to give the greatest prize in the kingdom, the beautiful Rudabeh, and though there are numerous odds against the couple, their intoxicating, unworldly love for each other wins through. Fomalhaut contains a touch of the mystic, a sense of magic, and inspires high ideals or lofty visions.

As one of the royal stars that bestows charisma, in particular in Fomalhaut's case, beauty or perfect harmony, an individual with Fomalhaut strong in their natal chart will have to clash with mainstream thought in order to achieve these ideals. If the ideal is a noble cause, the person will find personal happiness or success for the benefit of the collective. However, if the ideals or dreams are corrupt in any way, then the downfall is total. The challenge of people strongly influenced by Fomalhaut is to maintain the purity of their ideals or dreams.

I put some tarot card associations that I find work with Fomalhaut in my own practice: The Magician, because of how creatively inspired this card is; The High Priestess, because of how intuitive; The Devil, for how prone to fantasy, addiction and escapism; The Moon, for how deeply unconscious and mystical certain things are around the star; Ace of Cups for what a creative beginning point; Seven of Cups for the potential for illusion; Knight of Cups for the romantic chivalry of the sign of this star; and the Nine of Swords for the tendency to be somewhat tortured by spiritual fantasies. This card, that part's a little bit of a stretch, but there is a sense in this card of, what do I yearn for? Desire, wish for, long for. I'm sort of tortured by the fact that this world is not so ideal. I probably can't have everything I long for, and it can kind of keep you up at night anyway.

Now I want to show you this is my dad's chart, just a placement from my dad's chart. He has Venus on Fomalhaut within about a degree and a half. One thing that was really unique about him was that he was a very successful Methodist minister, whose success was due in large part to the ability that he had as a speaker, storyteller, mystic, teacher. He was a very inspiring person, and I really wouldn't be who I am without him. However, and I wrote about this in my book very publicly, he suffered a bit of a mental health crisis. Had to leave the ministry due to exhaustion, breakdown, a secret, a series of secret affairs that he had with women who were intensely magnetized to him. He had some mental health downfalls. I wrote about all of this in my book. A big portion of my first book, Fishers of Men, is a story about Fomalhaut in my dad and growing up under the star of Fomalhaut in my family. It is no joke. It inspired every ounce of mysticism I have. I also saw how much he learned. He's in a better place today, you know, he's learned a lot and grown a lot as a human, and I love him dearly. He's someone who's learned a lot and went through a lot through the testing of integrity related to spirituality. And that's a big Fomalhaut lesson for many of us.

Anyway, Osho had Fomalhaut on his midheaven in Pisces. So if you think about a guru who had a very public downfall due to compromise of integrity, there's Osho. He was also intensely charismatic, persuasive, mystical. Have you ever seen the documentary called Wild Country? I think it was called Wild Wild Country. That's the documentary on Netflix. If you want an intense immersion into the mythology of Fomalhaut, check out that documentary.

Now, George Harrison also had the Sun on Fomalhaut, and he became a Hare Krishna. Not surprisingly, right? He was into devotional yoga, and followed Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement. I did too. I got into bhakti yoga. I would say I was part of a very progressive, open minded, not so culty group, because there's lots of different niches within the bhakti yoga world. I had a really nice temple community I hung out with in DC. Anyway, it played a really sweet role in my life for a while, and then I kind of had a Fomalhaut experience. Not surprisingly, some of those experiences constellated around some transits through Pisces.

Anyway, George Harrison had his lot of fortune and the Sun on Fomalhaut. He was someone who was very charismatic, and according to his wife, alternated between intense meditating and drug use or partying. I mean, there's Fomalhaut, right. Also, later in his life, he was attacked by a demented fan who believed it was God's will that he should kill Harrison. So the demented kind of visionary darkness, or almost like a spiritual psychosis that the star is sometimes associated with, sometimes that plays a role in people's lives.

Now this is a client chart that I'm sharing with permission. This client shared with me that in their teen years, they had Mars on Fomalhaut in the 12th house as their ascendant ruler. They were institutionalized multiple times due to serious, serious but failed suicide attempts that they described to me as a call for help. I noticed immediately their ascendant ruler conjunct Fomalhaut in the 12th house. Now they're in a much better place, but they had to go through a pretty hard time discerning reality from illusion. Basically, they had really intense mental health challenges. So that is just a little piece from a former master class I did. That's a pitch too. If you want to learn more about the fixed stars, there's about 12 hours worth of content going through all of them that we studied in the classroom. I think it was like 16 or 20.

I think this is going to be a really interesting time with a really interesting star. Like I said, I can't believe it. Let me go back in time, just to tell you one more story that I dug up. So when Neptune was on Fomalhaut in 2011 and 12, during that time, I met my wife, and we moved in together and formed a yoga studio that existed out of a house that we lived in. We called it Sky House Yoga, and it became a very popular community spot. It was a very Fomalhaut experience. A pretty benign, harmless, sweet little cult. Yeah, we had a really sweet community space that we formed while Neptune was on Fomalhaut. That was in her ninth house, my wife's ninth house, and my 11th house. So you could look back around that time, 2011-12, for what was happening in your life when Neptune was on Fomalhaut. That was a pretty powerful time for probably a lot of us.

Anyway, I'm going to leave it there. I hope that this has been educational. This week we're also going to get to some of the other major transits of the week. We've got a new moon coming up in Taurus. We're going to be exploring that this week. We have a Mercury cazimi that we're going to be exploring this week. Like I said, we're also planning on doing horoscopes, and we're going to do horoscopes for the Fomalhaut conjunction tomorrow. I didn't want to do it all at once. That would have made for a bit too long of an episode, so I'm putting this in part one and part two.

Anyway, I'm going to sign off now, but let me tell you what is on my altar this week to start the week, and we'll end there. All right, so over on my altar, you are going to see a statue of the Virgin Mary. I got this statue for my wife Ashley for Christmas. She is with my girls right now in southern Italy on a tour visiting sacred sites of ancient goddesses. They just went to a festival of the Madonna, I want to say a festival of the Black Madonna. It was carried from one location to another, and they walked up this kind of mountain, and I got to see pictures. I was feeling so thankful for the presence of this archetype, this goddess, this figure Mary, but also all of the other goddesses that sometimes get conflated into Mary. This happened, I guess, in southern Italy. It's one of the things she's been learning about while she was there, that different previous goddesses were sometimes kind of conflated into Mary.

Anyway, all of this is just to say that Mary is not just the Christian Mary, but the big M. I'm thinking of Jupiter in Cancer. I'm thinking of Venus coming to conjoin Jupiter in Cancer soon. I'm thinking that they're thanking the goddesses for taking care of my wife and girls while they're over there. As a Cancer, I feel like it's part of my life to be learning more about that archetype. Not always easy in my experience being a man identified that way, coming in contact with these things. There's a lot of shame and fear around it for men, at least I've experienced that with other men. I really am thankful for my wife and girls, that I'm a girl dad, you know, that I have a very sweet goddess-oriented wife that has really helped me deepen into my Cancer placements.

So anyway, I'm sharing that today because that's what's on my altar, and that's what I'm thinking, because I really feel like my family's in the protection of the goddess right now. I'm just feeling thankful for that. If you have an altar, you can do anything you want with it. It's just a way of connecting to the sacred and remembering that nothing isn't alive and nothing isn't capable of having an intimate relationship with. An altar is a great way to remember that. Try to remember it as a part of our path anyway.

That's it from me. I hope that you're having a good day, and that this was a fun talk. Stick around, because I want to tell you about the Year One program next. That is an absolutely outstanding program. I hope to see some of you in classes soon. Take it easy.

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I want to talk about what you're going to learn in the program. You're going to learn the foundations of ancient traditional astrology, starting with some history, some basic astronomy and philosophy to help you really understand: what is karma? What is fate? What is destiny? What is divination? What is the epistemological mode of understanding that ancient people were living in? They were living in an animistic sense of the cosmos that they thought spoke through the oracle of the planets and stars. What does that mean for us today? Where does the study of fate, destiny, karma, the evolution of the soul play into all of this? Transmigration, reincarnation? We really try to set a strong philosophical foundation. From there, we move through the primary components of the language: planets, signs, houses, and then the different ways in which those features interact with each other through things like aspects, dignity, accidental and essential dignity. Then we start tying things together through interpretive methodology.

All of this is something that if you have a background in modern astrology, that'll help you, but this is also a whole other level of seriousness and specific craft-based ideas that are unique to Hellenistic astrology. Everything we do at Nightlight incorporates a modern psychological and archetypal perspective. My background is also in modern evolutionary astrology, and I have a background in Indian philosophy and yoga. So you're going to find that there's a little bit of a cauldron of different spiritual and philosophical backgrounds that are present, even though our main focus is Hellenistic. You're going to learn about ancient techniques, but you're also going to learn how to apply them in the modern world we live in today.

How does a course work logistically? Let's talk about that for a second. It's a year long container. There are live classes. There are also recordings. So if you can't make it live, you can follow along with anything at your own pace. In fact, you have a couple of years in which to work before you would have to submit an exam, and the exam itself is optional, only for people who are seeking certification because you're interested in practicing professionally. We have discussion forums, discussion in and outside of class year round. We have tutors on staff who also lead breakout sessions for review in between our major units of study. So there's 30 classes on the year, and then there's about six breakout study sessions, give or take. Those study sessions are there to help complement the work we do in class. You can go at your own pace.

Toward the end of the program, we have a lot of practice sessions that are meant to work through charts together, and that also feature live readings with real clients. So you can see what a day in the life of practice looks like for me as a practitioner and see all the things we're studying applied with real people in a real live setting. The thing that's most important is, why study here, right? Why study with me and our staff? It has to do with fit. If you love this channel, if you love the way I teach and talk about astrology, then you're probably going to really love studying with us. The people that I've selected to be a part of my staff are people whose spiritual lifestyle and values are similar to my own, who were standout students in understanding the way that I taught and worked with the material myself in practice, and who are competent astrologers working with other people.

I've been practicing for 16 years full time. I've seen over 13,000 clients, and I have led four to five thousand students through our programs. My approach is rooted in ancient Hellenistic traditional techniques, but it has a real spiritual, ecumenical vibe at Nightlight that's really open to a lot of different traditions, and that also allows you to make your own practice and build your own meaning out of the content that we provide you with. The practical application is that you're going to have a tool that helps you navigate your life spiritually, philosophically, a practical tool that you can use for yourself, family, people you care about for the rest of your life. At the same time, you may find, whether it's your intention or not, that you're also ready to practice for other people. Many people come through our programs and are able to practice part time to full time.

Astrology, to me, the big takeaway from this is not just the learning, not just the prep for potential professional practice, but because you are going to feel confident reading charts, you're going to have a deeper understanding of the cycles of your own life and working with astrology in your own life. Most profoundly, people tend to come out of this program feeling spiritually transformed, feeling healed, feeling like they have a spiritual path in life that will last them for the rest of their lives. When astrology becomes a daily living spiritual practice, then you know that you've really learned something that way, the way that astrology is always intended to be learned, which is to accompany you as a spiritual path in life. This is absolutely huge. This is, to me, the biggest payoff of studying at Nightlight: you're being grounded in a tradition and a lineage that we see as technical and predictive, but as a counseling tool and as a way of living a spiritual path.

So if you want to enroll, start date is June 28, 2026. Enrollment is now open on the website. I'm going to take you over there in a second and show you where to go. Early bird discount is available, so you're going to save majorly off the course cost. If you register early, you'll save big on the cost of the course. However, there's also need-based tuition, and there's a payment plan you can use as well. So we have some payment flexibility that's built into the way the program works. You can do it month by month. You can pay for it up front, get that early bird discount, or you can use need-based tuition if you're hurting financially and need a lower price point. We don't want people overspending, overextending themselves, going outside of their budget. You shouldn't have to live outside your means to study a sacred topic. That's a big belief of ours.

So head over to nightlightastrology.com, go to the Courses page, click on the first year course, scroll down, you'll see everything you need to know about the program, and at the bottom you'll find these early bird payment plans. You're going to save a couple hundred dollars off the course when you use the early bird rate or the early bird installment plan that does it all at once or over the course of 12 months. But if you're like, I want to take this, but I don't have the means to do it, check out the tuition assistance, because that is going to greatly help you when it comes to making the course affordable. That allows you to pick your tuition cost per month within a range of different options that you have. So there's a price range, and we just say, pick your price within there and tell us your situation. It's that simple. Please do take advantage of it. We trust that people won't use that when they could afford it. We trust that people are using it for the right reasons. So take advantage of that. It's there for you.

If you are feeling this call to study astrology, Nightlight is a safe, sweet community space that has a lot of support built into it: relational support, community support, spiritual support. So check it out. I hope to see you guys in June. If you have any questions at all about the program, email us at info@nightlightastrology.com. See you soon.