The Recognition
You already know the pattern is there.
If you have searched for a professionally credentialed framework that weaves together psychological archetypes and astrology into practitioner tools you can use with real clients, your search is over. Nothing else at this level of rigour, professional standing, and ICF-approved CCEU delivery exists anywhere in the world.
You have felt it before the client could name it. Sensed it in the question that was never being asked. Watched someone arrive at the same crossroads for the third year in a row with a different story and the same wound underneath.
You have also seen what happens when a client encounters the AstroLife Blueprint for the first time. The way they go quiet. The way they look at their own patterns mapped with a precision no other instrument has ever given them and say: nobody has ever shown me this before.
You already know this works. You have seen it work. And somewhere along the way, you went quiet about it in professional spaces.
Because the world decided that the symbolic framework you trusted made you less rigorous, not more. That you had to choose between the depth of what you knew and the credibility of a professional credential. That astrology and psychology belonged in separate rooms.
That is the choice this programme was built to end.
You were not wrong to trust this work. You were simply waiting for the professional framework that proved it.
The Tools
The tools. What they are. What they change.
The AstroLife Blueprint and the AstroValues Alignment Assessment are professional practitioner assessment tools. You receive both at enrolment and work with them from the very first workshop, beginning with your own patterns before you ever use them with a client.
The AstroLife Blueprint is a structured, personalised psychological map of the twelve archetypal patterns operating in a specific person's life. Not a personality category. Not a score. A unique, precise map of which patterns are present, how they interact, where they express in their light, where they operate in their shadow, and which domains of a person's life they most significantly shape.
The AstroValues Alignment Assessment maps the values patterns that drive every significant decision a client makes. Most clients have never seen their values structure at this level of depth. Most practitioners have never had a tool that surfaces it this clearly.
Here is what makes the AstroPsychology methodology unlike anything you have encountered before.
You are not learning to read these tools. You are learning to ask from them.
The AstroLife Blueprint tells you exactly where to go in a conversation. Not in general. For this specific person, in this specific session, the tool shows you the exact archetypal pattern at the root of what they are carrying. And then the AstroPsychology methodology gives you the framework to ask the question that takes them there.
The question they have never been asked before. The one that stops them mid-sentence. The one that makes them say: how did you know to ask that?
The tool shows you the territory. The methodology teaches you to ask the question that walks your client through it. That question is where transformation lives.
The Science
The science behind the methodology.
AstroPsychology is not astrology made acceptable. It is the recognition that the astrological symbolic system and the science of human psychology have been mapping the same territory from different directions for centuries.
Carl Jung spent the later years of his life working with precisely this connection. His archetypal framework, the foundation of depth psychology, drew directly on the same symbolic tradition the AstroLife Blueprint is built around. He understood what every serious practitioner of this work already knows: the map of the inner world is not metaphysical. It is structural. And a structure precise enough to hold the full complexity of a human being is a profoundly powerful clinical and coaching instrument.
The AstroPsychology framework rests on the same foundation as every programme in the Rise and Thrive academy: positive psychology, the science of identity-level change, depth psychology, and the ICF Core Competencies. The programme carries 40 ICF-approved CCEUs because the ICF reviewed the curriculum, the methodology, and the ethics framework and confirmed they meet professional standards.
The symbolic system is ancient. The methodology is rigorous. The tools are yours to use with clients from the moment you complete the training.
Who This Is For
Three doors in. One destination.
Every person who finds this programme arrives from a different place. All three are exactly the right starting point.
You are a psychologist, therapist, or mental health professional.
You have spent years doing depth work. You know Jungian archetypes not as a metaphor but as a clinical reality. You understand shadow, integration, and the identity-level patterns that organise how people protect versions of themselves that are no longer serving them.
And at some point you recognised that the AstroPsychology framework was mapping the same territory your clinical training described, with a specificity that most clinical instruments cannot reach. You wanted the professional bridge. A structured methodology that extends your existing depth into the future-focused, resource-oriented territory your clinical training was never designed to reach.
The AstroLife Blueprint gives you that bridge. You bring the clinical depth. The AstroPsychology framework gives you precision tools for the archetypal level where the deepest patterns live. And the coaching methodology gives you a way to move a client through what you find there, not just name it.
You will not be starting from scratch. You will be adding the most precise archetypal mapping instrument ever built to the clinical foundation you already have.
You are a credentialed ICF coach.
Every three years, 40 CCEUs. That is the requirement. And you have done enough renewal cycles to know the difference between hours that count toward a credential and hours that genuinely change what you are capable of in a session. Most CCEUs are the former. This programme is the latter.
You hold your ACC, PCC, or MCC. You have built a practice. You are good at what you do. And you have started to notice the ceiling.
Not in your clients. In the tools available to you. The client who keeps arriving at the same crossroads with a different label. The leader whose goal changes every quarter but whose pattern never does. The high performer who can articulate exactly what is holding them back and still cannot shift it. You have been working at the edges of that territory for long enough.
The AstroLife Blueprint gives you a structural language for the exact archetypal pattern beneath the presenting issue. Not a hunch. Not an intuition. A precise psychological map that shows you exactly where to go and exactly which question will take this specific client into the territory they have been circling for years.
Your 40 CCEUs are built into every hour of this programme. Renewal handled. Practice transformed. Both at the same time.
You love astrology and you know it belongs in your professional work.
You have been working with this symbolic language for years. You have watched someone encounter their AstroLife Blueprint and understand, in a single session, the exact pattern that has been governing their decisions for thirty years. You have felt the territory open up the moment the archetypes are named with precision.
And you have wondered: now what? The tool has shown you exactly where the wound is. But what do you do with someone once they see it? How do you hold the conversation that takes them from recognition into genuine transformation?
That is the gap the AstroPsychology methodology was built to close. Not to teach you the tool. You already have that. To give you the coaching framework that turns what the tool reveals into the questions that create real change. The professional credential that says to every client and every organisation: this work is rigorous, this practitioner is certified, this methodology has been approved by the world's leading coaching body.
On the other side of this programme, every session you run will go somewhere it could not go before. Because now you will know how to ask from what you see.
You are a CHRO, executive coach, or leadership development professional.
You have invested in leadership development programmes. You have brought in coaching, 360 feedback, behavioural assessments, culture initiatives. And you have watched smart, capable leaders absorb the insight, nod in recognition, and return to the same patterns three months later.
Not because they did not want to change. Because the intervention never reached the level where the pattern actually lives.
The AstroPsychology methodology reaches that level. The AstroLife Blueprint maps the exact archetypal patterns governing how a specific leader thinks under pressure, makes decisions, responds to challenge, and limits their own effectiveness. Not as a category. Not as a score. As a precise, personalised map that a certified practitioner uses to ask the questions that shift what nothing else has shifted.
The practitioners you develop through this programme become your internal capability. Certified coaches and HR professionals who can bring the AstroPsychology tools into leadership development programmes, executive coaching engagements, and culture initiatives with the depth and precision that most leadership development never reaches.
You certify first. You experience the methodology from the inside. You understand what it produces in a session before you decide how to deploy it across your organisation.
The leaders who have been through coaching before and said it did not stick have not yet sat with a practitioner who has this methodology. That is the difference you are about to be able to offer.
In The Room
What actually changes.
Picture your next session with the client who has been arriving at the same crossroads for three years.
You have tried everything. Great questions. Powerful reframes. Real breakthroughs that somehow did not hold. And something keeps bringing them back.
This time you have the AstroLife Blueprint as your structure. You know the exact archetypal pattern beneath the presenting issue. You know where it formed, how it has been expressing in behaviour, and what integration looks like on the other side. And so you ask the question you could not have asked before. Not because it is clever. Because the tool showed you precisely where to find it.
Your client stops.
"How did you know to ask that?"
You did not guess. You used a precision instrument built on two thousand years of symbolic development and a methodology carrying ICF CCEU approval to ask the one question this specific person has never been asked before.
That moment is not occasional in this work. It is what the methodology produces. In session after session.
The practitioner who has this does not just know more. They ask differently. And the question you ask is the difference between a client who sees their pattern and a client who changes their life.
The Academy
The academy behind this programme.
Rise and Thrive Global is an ICF-accredited Positive Psychology Coaching Academy operating across 12 countries. Our Level 1 and Level 2 programmes carry full ICF programme accreditation, the highest standard awarded by the International Coaching Federation.
The AstroPsychology Practitioner Programme carries ICF CCEU approval: 40 continuing coach education units reviewed and approved by the ICF for credential renewal. CCEU approval is applied for and granted. It means the ICF has assessed the curriculum, the methodology, and the ethics component and confirmed they meet professional standards. For credentialled coaches, every hour in this programme counts toward your ICF renewal submission.
Catherine Plano PhD, MCC founded Rise and Thrive Global on one principle: you cannot teach transformation without first living it. The MCC is the ICF's highest designation, held by fewer than five percent of coaches globally. Everything in this programme is built to that standard.
ICF Level 1 Accredited Academy
ICF Level 2 Accredited Academy
40 ICF-Approved CCEUs
Catherine Plano PhD, MCC
From People Who Have Been Where You Are
Five workshops. One complete methodology.
You receive the AstroLife Blueprint and AstroValues Alignment Assessment at enrolment. The five workshops build the psychological framework that makes you extraordinary with the tools already in your hands.
Workshop 1
Houses, Signs, and Rulers
You get a lot more than what you bargained for, in the best way possible. You’re not just learning how to be a coach. You’re also going through that transformation. There is a really massive investment in you and you grow tremendously from it.
The instrument takes shape. You start to see what it has been showing you all along.
Workshop 2
Archetype Shadows and Light
Every archetype has a highest expression and a defended one. This workshop takes you into both with precision. You learn the light and shadow of all twelve archetypes: their characteristic thought patterns, emotional signatures, behavioural costs, and what integration looks like when the pattern finally shifts. You leave knowing how to recognise these energies in a live conversation and how to ask from them rather than around them.
Not changing the pattern. Understanding it at the level where it can actually move.
Workshop 3
Archetypes Across Levels of Consciousness
The same archetype looks entirely different in two clients. This workshop shows you why and what to do about it. You explore all twelve archetypes across three levels: universal, personal, and the soul-level patterns that shape a person's deepest sense of who they are. You learn to meet each client at the level where their pattern actually lives, not where the theory says it should.
The tools speak. This workshop teaches you to hear exactly what they are saying about this specific person.
Workshop 4
The AstroLife Blueprint in a Live Session
This is where the methodology becomes a working skill. You learn to use the AstroLife Blueprint as the structure behind your questions in a real session: to identify the exact archetypal pattern generating friction, map where it formed, and ask the thought-provoking questions that take a client from seeing their pattern to shifting it. You practise on real case material with real-time feedback from credentialed faculty.
From knowing what the Blueprint shows to asking what changes everything.
Workshop 5
Synthesis and Applied Practice
The complete methodology in live practice. You work in real conversations as both practitioner and client, applying everything under the eyes of credentialed faculty and peers. You leave with a methodology that is yours. Not almost ready to use. Ready.
One methodology. Permanently yours.
Beyond The Workshops
Six months of practice.
Because a workshop is not where skill is built.
The workshops give you the framework. The six months that follow are where it becomes the way you work.
Every fortnight, a live group coaching lab. Real client material. Real-time feedback. Practice that sharpens the precision of the questions you ask. Every month, a one-to-one mentoring session focused entirely on your development as a practitioner. All of it mapped to the ICF Core Competencies.
We have watched what happens when practitioners are given a powerful methodology and left to figure it out alone. The methodology stays at the level of knowledge. Practice is what takes it into the body of the work. Into the reflexive, precise, confident presence that makes a practitioner genuinely transformational.
The workshops open the door. The six months are how you walk through it and stay.
40
ICF-Approved CCEUs
5
Live Workshops
31
Live Hours
9
Self-Paced Hours
Included
What you receive.
The AstroLife Blueprint and the AstroValues Alignment Assessment: yours at enrolment, yours to use with clients permanently on completion
Client-ready worksheets and session guides, owned permanently
Five live workshops building the complete AstroPsychology methodology from the ground up
31 hours of live synchronous sessions across workshops, coaching labs, and mentoring
9 hours of self-paced learning through the Rise and Thrive online platform
Fortnightly group coaching labs with live observed practice and credentialed faculty feedback
Monthly one-to-one mentoring sessions across six months
40 ICF-approved CCEUs for credentialed ACC, PCC, and MCC holders including the required ethics component
The Rise and Thrive AstroPsychology Certified Practitioner designation on completion
In Their Words
From people who have done this work.
The words that matter most are not ours.
"The AstroValues assessment is one of the most powerful and comprehensive tools I have experienced as a catalyst for self-awareness. It beautifully captures an individual's inner world and serves as an outstanding backdrop for coaching exploration. It is so much more than learning content. It is personal transformation that invites self-reflection, growth, and authenticity."
Lora Courtois
"There are myriad personality inventories and assessments, but none of them match the personalised depth these tools bring. This approach asks the questions that underlie the external reflections of our worlds. If a person is willing to embark on genuine transformation to align with who they really are, this is the work."
Karen Hlady
"I am amazed at how accurate the AstroValues assessment is. It delves into the core values that drive my decisions and actions, offering insights I had not previously considered. This newfound understanding of my value system provides a clearer perspective on why I approach certain situations the way I do, and has allowed me to align my actions more closely with my true values."
Annie Framand
An Honest Question
Is this for you?
Be honest with yourself here. The programme will ask the same of you.
This is the right place for you if
- You hold an ICF credential and want 40 ICF-approved CCEUs that genuinely advance your practice
- You are a psychologist, therapist, or clinical practitioner who wants to extend your depth work into coaching application using the AstroPsychology framework
- You love astrology, you know the tools work, and you want the professional methodology and credential to take your client sessions further than they can go right now
- You are a CHRO, executive coach, or leadership development professional who wants to certify in the methodology and bring it into your organisation
- You are ready to work with your own patterns in the Blueprint before you guide anyone else through theirs
- You want practitioner tools and a certified methodology you can use with clients from the moment you complete the training
This is not the right starting point if:
- You are new to coaching and do not yet hold a credential. Begin with our ICF Level 1 ACC Programme. This framework will be here when you are ready
- You are looking for traditional chart reading or predictive astrology training. This is a coaching and practitioner methodology
- YYou want a certificate without genuine engagement with the work and with yourself
- You are looking for a passive learning experience. This programme practises you, not just teaches you
The Level 1 ACC Programme is the right starting point.
Not yet credentialed but drawn to this work? Our ICF-accredited Positive Psychology Coaching Programmes build the foundation. This programme will be here when you arrive.
Enrolment
Your investment.
The AstroPsychology Practitioner Programme
The complete programme: the AstroLife Blueprint and AstroValues Alignment Assessment at enrolment, five workshops, six months of fortnightly coaching labs and monthly one-to-one mentoring, all client-ready worksheets and session guides, 40 ICF-approved CCEUs for credentialled coaches, and the Rise and Thrive AstroPsychology Certified Practitioner designation.
Programme Investment
AUD 7,215
Approx. USD $4,990 | EUR €4,387
A 6-month payment plan is available
Or book a clarity call first. 20 minutes. No obligation. A real conversation about whether this is the right fit.
Common Questions
The questions most people ask before they say yes.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Your next step.
If something on this page named what you have been quietly carrying, pay attention to that.
Not as a feeling. As information.
It is telling you that you have been sensing the territory for long enough. That you already know the work is real. That you have been waiting for the professional home, the rigorous methodology, the tools that match the depth of what you already know.
It is built. The tools exist. The methodology is here. The credential is real.
The clarity call is 20 minutes. No obligation. A real conversation about where your practice is, what you have been working with and working without, and whether this is the right next step.
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TThe gap between what you already know and what you are fully equipped to do with it. That is exactly what this programme closes.
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