Sue Brayne, D.F.Astrol.S.
Uncover the ancient and esoteric mysteries of life and death — and the alchemical process of “becoming” — through a greater understanding of your astrological birth chart and the wisdom of the cosmos.
Receive a FREE resource to obtain your birth chart once enrolled — to support your understanding of your soul’s evolutionary journey and help you navigate the stages of your life with greater clarity, purpose, and authenticity.
Within your soul is a map of your life’s journey...
Ancient Hermetic teachings suggest that this map was created as we descended — as sparks of divine light — through the planetary spheres into human form; and when we die, we ascend back to where we came from.
Every life has its arc of beginnings, endings, and renewal. Our mortality can become a profound spiritual teacher that initiates a deeper dialogue with our true self as we embrace the beautiful, mysterious, heart-wrenching, mind-blowing experience of being human.
The celestial gifts, lessons, and energetic imprints are embedded in our descent, life experience, and return to the stars can be found in our astrological birth charts, asserts soul astrologer and end-of-life researcher Sue Brayne.
Sue’s work is grounded in extensive academic, therapeutic, and esoteric study — from training as a life, death, and transition facilitator with the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Organization and earning dual MAs in death studies and creative writing, to being an honorary researcher for one of the first end-of-life studies with neuropsychiatrist Dr. Peter Fenwick, which explored the mysteries of consciousness at the end of life.
During this insightful course with Sue, you’ll uncover how the cycles of life, death, and rebirth are reflected in your birth chart and the greater journey of your soul across lifetimes.
This includes your purpose, path, and karma — and how you were meant to express your light in the world.
If you choose to enroll, you’ll receive a resource for how you can obtain your birth chart for free.
Guided by ancient Hermetic and alchemical wisdom, Gnostic insights, and modern psychology, you’ll discover how specific planets and houses in your chart hold divine clues not just about who you are but where your soul has been, where it’s going...
... and how you can navigate the many stages of life and death with greater ease, wisdom, integrity, and intention.
You’ll learn where to look for past-life influences and insights about your current life’s calling, including your magnum opus — or great work.
You’ll uncover powerful allies for conscious aging and learn how to work with challenging transits to propel your spiritual growth forward and gain insights that can help you embrace endings — not as final, but as passages in an infinite journey.
If you’re ready to meet life’s thresholds with courage and curiosity — and would like a timeless map to guide your way, Sue will help you illuminate a path through the stars — and to the greater story your soul is here to tell.
During this enlightening journey, you’ll:
- Explore how astrology reveals a map of your unique soul journey, the natural cycles of life, death, and incarnation, and its role in easing the fear of death
- Discover potential astrological release points — the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses and the South Node — areas of the chart that the soul might release karmic patterns and support your evolution and passage through death
- Delve deep into the esoteric insights of astrology and the shared Hermetic roots of astrology and alchemy — and how both explore transformation of matter, spirit, and self through symbolic, spiritual processes
- Explore how the “Cross of Matter” (four angles of the chart) symbolizes the soul’s incarnation in the physical world
- Contemplate ancient and modern ideas on what the soul is and why it incarnates — from the mystical to psychological to astrological
- Learn how planetary cycles mirror our life stages and patterns of transformation, aging, and legacy
- Harness challenging transits like Saturn returns, Pluto squares, and nodal oppositions as initiations that push us to shed old identities and awaken deeper truths
- Learn how your birth chart illuminates your magnum opus — your great work or the greater purpose of your life
- Explore how psychopomps such as Anubis, Hermes, Mercury, and Pluto serve as universal soul guides across cultures and astrology — and symbolize the passage through life, death, and transformation
- Befriend your journey as an evolving, infinite soul by understanding where reincarnation is revealed in your chart
Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, end-of-life professional, or astrology enthusiast longing to understand the deeper wisdom within your chart, this 7-week journey will help you understand how astrology offers timeless wisdom for navigating your soul’s evolution with ease, reverence, and compassion.
Each week offers space for astrological and spiritual inquiry — helping to transform the fear of the unknown into a deeper understanding of the great cycle of life and death.
Life’s transitions — whether they feel marked by endings, new beginnings, or unexpected detours — become far less daunting when you see them as part of a larger cosmic rhythm...
... when you can recognize the turning points and challenges in your life as a reflection of a greater planetary cycle for transformation that’s not impeding you but beckoning you into a more authentic version of yourself.
Step forward with the cosmos as your compass, and discover how profoundly you are held, guided, and called to shine.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Sue will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to uncover the ancient and esoteric mysteries of life and death and how they are revealed in your astrological chart.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Sue and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Sue’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2025-09-30 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Sue. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to embrace the transformational potential of your birth chart and your soul’s ongoing journey within the cycles of life and death.
Module 1: Shift Out of Denial to Embrace Death as a Meaningful & Profound Transition Needed for Your Soul's Evolution (2025-09-30 9:00:00 am)
Modern Western culture struggles to talk openly about death because it has been largely hidden, medicalized, and stripped of its deeper symbolic and spiritual meanings.
The enduring human longing for belonging, meaning, and transcendence, reflected in Carl Jung’s work and across mystical traditions, invites us to see death as a profound transition within life’s great cosmic cycle.
During the first session, Sue will share how astrology was once deeply intertwined with the soul, fate, and cosmic cycles, offering a divine framework to understand mortality as part of an ongoing cycle of life and death.
You’ll explore how the rise of organized religion replaced this view with a linear understanding of life ending in a final judgment — rejecting concepts like reincarnation and diminishing astrology’s influence…
… and how the Enlightenment further promoted rationalism, pushing spiritual and astrological perspectives, as well as the language and symbolism that helped humans meaningfully engage with mortality into the shadows.
You’ll also contemplate emerging scientific explorations of consciousness and a panpsychic universe, where mind or spirit is seen as fundamental to all matter.
In this session, you’ll explore how:
- Death denial is cultural, not natural
- Ancient astrology connected mortality to cosmic cycles
- Astrology was suppressed by religious institutions and the Enlightenment
- Emerging research is helping bring astrology back, reclaiming it as a meaningful language to understand consciousness, the cosmos, and the soul’s journey
- Your birth chart offers insights into your personal relationship with life and death
- Astrology reconnects you with the soul, cosmos, and mysteries of existence
- Be guided in a contemplative exercise to reflect on your own mortality and what it feels like to be part of a sentient, conscious universe
Module 2: Incarnation & Reincarnation - How the Four Major Angles of Your Birth Chart Reveals the Soul's Evolution Across Lifetimes (2025-10-07 9:00:00 am)
Astrology and reincarnation offer meaningful ways to understand growth, healing, death, and the soul’s timeless journey.
While Eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism see reincarnation as central, Abrahamic faiths focus a single lifetime followed by judgment.
This week, you’ll explore how astrology offers a symbolic language for both incarnation and reincarnation by mapping karmic lessons, past-life influences, and the soul’s purpose.
You’ll also explore incarnation into the “Cross of Matter” — the four major angles of the birth chart, including the Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, and Imum Coeli — which represents how the soul grounds itself within the physical world. It can also indicate the soul’s journey of reincarnation.
Besides the four angles, Sue will share important factors including the lunar nodes, Pluto, Saturn, and specific house placements, which together reveal the soul’s journey through matter.
You’ll also discover how historical figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Alice Bailey, and Rudolf Steiner explored these themes, blending spirituality and psychology.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore how the “Cross of Matter” (four angles of the chart) symbolizes the soul’s incarnation in the physical world
- Learn how across cultures, death is viewed as a transition into the soul’s ongoing evolution rather than the end
- Discover how belief in reincarnation dates back thousands of years for Eastern traditions
- Learn how astrology, especially the South Lunar Node, reveals past patterns, soul lessons, and habits to overcome
- Discover the resurgence of belief in reincarnation in the West through spiritual movements, modern psychology, and popular culture, offering pathways for deeper meaning and spiritual growth
- Be guided in a contemplative exercise about what it might mean to have lived before — and to return again
Module 3: Understand the Deeper Nature of the Soul to Connect With Your Purpose & Soul's Journey (2025-10-14 9:00:00 am)
This week’s session explores the nature of soul, what it is, how we’ve understood it through time, and how astrology can help us reconnect with its deeper purpose.
Sue will share historical and modern views of the soul to demonstrate that regardless of your worldview, the wisdom of astrology can support your understanding of your own soul and its evolution. From Plato and Aristotle's early philosophy on fate versus free will — and how astrology historically mirrors the changing tension between destiny and choice...
… to mortality as deepening the soul, which astrologers can interpret in the astrological chart as the. map of the soul's journey.
You’ll also explore how mysticism mirrors astrological cycles of ageing, transformation, and legacy — and how neuroscience links early attachment to death anxiety and soul connection that honours death as a rite of passage and astrology as the practice for nurturing the soul.
In this session, you’ll discover how:
- Plato and Aristotle saw the soul as the essence of life and the root of knowledge, central to human existence
- The question of how fate, destiny, and free will interact has sparked endless debate throughout history
- Roberto Assagioli’s psychosynthesis aligns with evolutionary astrology — suggesting life and death as soul evolution
- James Hillman invites us to embrace death and grief as soul-making, with astrology as mythic guidance
- Neuroscientist Allan Schore links early attachment to death anxiety and how this relates to astrology
- Christian Mystic Richard Rohr’s mysticism mirrors astrological cycles, showing how suffering and the 12th house deepen the soul
- Be guided in a contemplative exercise on your soul’s journey and how fate, free will, and destiny have shaped it
Module 4: Use Planetary Cycles As a Compass for Conscious Aging, Legacy & Navigating Life Stages With Intention, Wisdom & Authenticity (2025-10-21 9:00:00 am)
Knowing your natal chart and tracking planetary cycles provides a personal compass that can guide you with intention through beginnings, endings, initiations, and rebirths.
Sue will share how planetary cycles mirror life’s developmental stages — and how astrology helps us recognize turning points not as crises, but as invitations to evolve. Challenging transits like Saturn returns, Pluto squares, and nodal oppositions push us to release outdated roles and uncover deeper truths.
These patterns repeat over time, but with each return comes an opportunity for greater wisdom, authenticity, and alignment with the soul’s purpose.
You’ll also explore how personal journeys weave into generational collective rhythms, shaping a legacy that reflects not just what we’ve done, but also the role we have played generationally.
From this perspective, aging is a process of soul-deepening rather than decline, and astrology offers a way to support and integrate this journey.
In this session, you’ll explore:
- Change and transition as central to the human experience — and how astrology helps us see them not as threats but as essential parts of the soul’s unfolding journey
- Astrology as a soul-centered map for conscious aging and legacy, with planetary cycles reflecting life’s stages and supporting growth and acceptance
- How challenging transits like Saturn returns, Pluto squares, and nodal oppositions act as initiations that push us to shed old identities and awaken deeper truths
- How individual lives connect to collective evolution and legacy through astrology
- How astrology serves as a compass for soulful aging — guiding us through endings and beginnings toward integration and meaning
- Be guided in a contemplative exercise to explore what you are experiencing in the present moment and the life lessons it holds for you
Module 5: Discover Your "Magnum Opus" Through the Alchemical Process of Transformation in Your Chart (2025-10-28 9:00:00 am)
Through the lens of astrology and alchemy, both rooted in ancient Hermetic philosophy, you’ll explore the transformation of matter, spirit, and self through life’s trials. Together, astrology and alchemy reveal the Magnum Opus — your Great Work).
This week, you’ll explore how alchemy’s quest for the Philosopher’s Stone symbolizes the pursuit of inner enlightenment, working with classical elements (earth, water, air, fire) and the Tria Prima (mercury, sulphur, salt) to illustrate stages of transformation.
Hermetic principles, such as “As above, so below,” unite cosmic and personal evolution and explain the alchemical journey through darkness, purification, illumination, and integration.
Sue will share what celebrated astrologers such as Liz Greene, and Clare Martin believed the astrological process for transformation occurred in our astrological charts, inviting us to reconnect with the cosmos and to understand our personal cycles of transformation.
This week, you’ll explore:
- The shared Hermetic roots of astrology and alchemy — how both explore transformation of matter, spirit, and self through symbolic, spiritual processes
- How the Philosopher’s Stone symbolizes inner enlightenment and personal awakening — represented through the classical elements and the Tria Prima
- A deeper perspective of the Hermetic principle “As above, so below” as it expresses the deep connection between the cosmos and the individual soul, grounding both astrology and alchemy
- How astrology reveals the archetypal timing and patterns of transformation, mapping psychological and spiritual stages similar to the alchemical journey
- Why the “Great Work,” or Magnum Opus, represents the journey toward wholeness and soul — with astrology and alchemy guiding us back into alignment with the cosmos and conscious awareness
- Be guided in a contemplative exercise that invites you to connect with your own deeper process of alchemical transformation as a catalyst for inner growth and renewal
Module 6: Restore Reverence to the Dying Process Through Ancient Wisdom & a Deeper Understanding of Where Release Happens In Your Chart (2025-11-04 9:00:00 am)
This week, discover how groundbreaking research into the dying process mirrors ancient teachings.
Guides for souls between the seen and unseen worlds, or psychopomps, appear across ancient cultures, from Anubis to Hermes, and in astrology as Mercury and Pluto. These archetypes reflect the soul’s journey through thresholds of life, death, and transformation.
Ancient teachings describe the soul’s descent through planetary spheres into the physical elements at birth — and its ascent back through them after death. Soul Midwife Felicity Warner’s study into how the dying release attachment to life through the elements is an astonishing mirror for these teachings.
It reminds us that death is a rite of passage rooted in profound ancient wisdom. In astrology, the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses together with the South Node function as release points — a letting go of attachments, identities, and karmic residues.
They also reveal the soul’s past experiences, which must be surrendered in order to evolve. Together, these planetary archetypes and practices restore reverence to the dying process and guide the soul through the veil to whatever comes next.
In this session, you’ll discover how:
- Death as a profound transition rather than a clinical event
- Psychopomps such as Anubis, Hermes, Mercury, and Pluto serve as universal soul guides across cultures and astrology — and symbolize the passage through life, death, and transformation
- How cosmology views the soul’s journey as a cyclical descent through planetary spheres into the elements at birth — and an ascent back after death to return to its origin
- Felicity Warner’s work and research as a Soul Midwife highlights dying as a process of releasing attachments through elemental stages, reflecting ancient wisdom
- Astrological release points, the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses and the South Node, suggest areas of the chart that the soul might release karmic patterns, supporting evolution and passage through death
- Be guided in a contemplation inviting you to explore your relationship with death and dying and reflect on what may happen to consciousness after death
Module 7: Integrating Astrology Into Your Daily Life to Embrace Mortality As a Teacher That Guides Your Spiritual Growth & Transformation (2025-11-11 9:00:00 am)
In this final session, you’ll briefly review the key themes from the past six weeks and be invited to embrace your Magnum Opus — your unique Great Work — by consciously connecting with mortality and honoring your life’s natural cycles.
The session encourages you to explore ways to integrate astrological cycles into your daily life — to deepen your understanding of yourself and your aging process.
There will also be extra time for questions, personal reflections, and group discussion to share insights and explore how your relationship with life and death has evolved over the past seven weeks. This session aims to help you recognize the cycle of life and death not just as an inevitable process — but as a profound spiritual teacher guiding your growth and transformation.
In this session, you’ll embrace:
- Astrology as a map for your soul’s journey by understanding how it reveals your unique soul path — and its role in easing the fear of death
- Your Magnus Opus by inviting conscious connection with mortality and honouring the natural cycles of life, death, and incarnation
- Practical ways to integrate astrological cycles and apply planetary rhythms to deepen self-awareness and support healthy aging
- Your personal growth with opportunities to share insights, ask questions, and explore shifts in your relationship with mortality
- Mortality as a spiritual teacher by cultivating death awareness as a source of wisdom and transformation on your life journey
- Be guided in a journaling contemplation to actively engage with mortality, using the awareness of life’s transient nature as a teacher and guide to live with greater presence, purpose, and insight
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Sue ’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Your Astrology Workbook: A Beginner’s Guide
PDF Workbook From Sue Brayne, D.F.Astrol.S.
This astrology workbook is the perfect companion for the deeper work of Sue’s course, The Astrology of Life & Death, and is designed to support your understanding of astrology and interpretation of your birth chart. It introduces essential concepts such as the four elements, modalities, and the balance of yin and yang energies. You’ll also explore the planets, houses, zodiac signs, and key chart points like the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and nodal axis. With practical exercises and reflective prompts throughout, this guide invites you to engage with the archetypal patterns shaping your life.
The Psychology of Dying Consciously
PDF Excerpt From the Book, “Living Fully, Dying Consciously: The Path to Spiritual Wellbeing,” by Sue Brayne, D.F.Astrol.S.
This 20-page chapter explores the deep connection between embracing mortality and cultivating spiritual wellbeing. It invites you to engage honestly with the reality of death as a pathway to living with greater clarity, purpose, and presence. Through personal narratives and expert insights, Sue reveals how facing the transient nature of life can awaken wisdom, compassion, and inner strength. Both inspiring and grounded, this excerpt of Facing the Tiger encourages people of all ages to move beyond fear and live more fully and authentically.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Sue Brayne, MA, D.F.Astrol.S.
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from astrologer Sue Brayne, MA — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to understand the alchemical power for spiritual growth and transformation that is held in your birth chart. Course sessions are on 2025-09-30 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
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If you’re serious about learning how astrology can help you befriend mortality, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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About Sue Brayne, D.F.Astrol.S.
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Everything changed for Sue Brayne 40 years ago. Surviving a light aircraft crash forced her to confront her mortality and catapulted her onto a profound healing journey, which sparked her interest in astrology and the great cycle of life and death.
Sue initially trained with the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation as a Life, Death, and Transition facilitator, and went on to gain an MA in the Rhetoric and Rituals of Death (King Alfreds, Winchester) and a second MA in Creative Writing (Oxford Brookes).
Sue became neuropsychiatrist Dr. Peter Fenwick’s honorary researcher for one of the first end-of-life experience (ELE) studies, which studied consciousness during the dying process. This inspired Sue to train as a psychotherapist, specializing in trauma, end-of-life issues, and bereavement and grief, and to work as a Death Cafe facilitator.
She went on to achieve a diploma with the Faculty of Astrological Studies; her astrology work focuses on helping people identify their soul’s evolutionary path. Sue is also a TEDx speaker, sharing her view on the importance of wearing your mortality with pride, and is host of the “Sue Brayne: Celebrating Astrology” YouTube channel.