If you want to be able to synthesize your most important task is to turn astrology from an intellectual study  into one based on instinct. The means to accomplish this task of turning astrology into an instinct is to become a disciplined observer who can recall experiences accurately and then speculate on those observations. But this speculation is not blind guessing but conjecture based on your past life experience.  

The purpose of this very deliberate 3-step  activity is to facilitate gaining a sense... an instinct for the signs and the planets. It may sound somewhat odd, but at first... you should not  read books. Doing so puts another person between yourself and your experience. Instead, your initial understanding and feeling for signs and planets should be derived from your own life experience based on a  minimal amount of astrological knowledge. 

The purpose of  observation, recollection, and conjecture lies in gaining such a feeling. Your initial impressions of the planets and signs should be based on your feelings, your thoughts, your emotions, and not on those of other people.  

Later on you can read what those folks have had to say about signs and planets,  but again, your initial impressions should be based on your experiences. To complement your practice of observation, recollection, and conjecture. we introduce during  early class sessions simple  exercises  to help you gain this instinctual feel for the planets and signs. Again,  the GOAL of these activities is to help you gain a sense of what to expect from a sign or a planet. Astrology must become an instinct.

Our program assumes no knowledge of Morin on your part. This insures that as we unfold his tradition, it will not appear obscure be misunderstood or taken out of context. Naturally we discuss the basic components of a chart -  signs, planets, and houses,  but we also discuss in-depth  their inter-relationship that is so vital and crucial to correct chart interpretation. Yet as we've already indicated it must never be forgotten that the complement to this material is developing good work habits and process for without these astrology remains an intellectually stimulating but lifeless activity. This means, astrological instruction must teach you how to combine all the considerations in a chart in such a way that it creates a meaningful image for you where meaningful means, that it must make sense to you.

Interpretation starts with a very structured analysis of the chart.  With increasing experience we advance from analysis to synthesis by being able to combine ever more quickly ever larger blocks of information.  The accomplishment of this skill forms the foundation upon which horoscope synthesis rests.  Synthesis is a talent that ripens with maturing skills and regular practice. It is an incremental process.  After we know what to expect for a person from their chart, we would then like to speculate on when those events may come about. We would like to foresee. We would like to know the timing of the life events.

A common misunderstanding about Forecasting Techniques
There is a lot of misunderstanding about astrological prediction. The ability to predict is an acquired art that begins with a good understanding of the natal chart.

Prediction is based on the natal chart. The question of WHAT to expect, that is, WHAT is possible for the person is seen in the natal. What is not seen in the natal will not occur during the lifetime. Forecasting techniques answer only the question of WHEN to expect events, that is, forecasting techniques deal only with the issue of TIMING.

With foreknowledge events may be anticipated and with discipline many events may be avoided or if desired realized. What we can avoid or what we may bring about depends to a large degree on how much of a free will we have and how much a particular event is under our direct control. For those things over which we can exercise control, there is more of a possibility to bring about the desired result and less so when those things are not.