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10 Tips For Learning Astrology
October 19, 2007 – 3:23 am | 62 Comments

So you want to learn about astrology? Not the generalized Sun-sign stuff that you find in newspapers and magazines, but serious astrology. The advanced type where you can actually determine specific information about a person’s life through the observation of the planets and other celestial phenomena. Here are some tips to help you get started.

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Top 10 Astrologers of All Time
September 20, 2012 – 2:38 am | 36 Comments
Top 10 Astrologers of All Time

This is a list of the most famous and most influential astrologers of all time.
The list mainly covers astrologers who played an important role in the astrological tradition over the past 3,000 years, and it …

Speech from the Final Kepler College Graduation
June 19, 2012 – 1:14 pm | One Comment
Speech from the Final Kepler College Graduation

The final graduation ceremony for Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences took place on Sunday, May 27, 2012, starting at 8:00 PM in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Kepler lost its ability to grant accredited degrees after …

Do Not Associate Astrology With 2012
July 30, 2011 – 6:54 pm | 151 Comments
Do Not Associate Astrology With 2012

Over the past few years a well-meaning group of astrologers called the Cosmic Intelligence Agency has led a campaign to “make 2012 the year of astrology.”  Their goal is to use some of the hype …

Does the Natal Chart Reveal Everything?
January 20, 2011 – 3:35 pm | 4 Comments
Does the Natal Chart Reveal Everything?

An astrology student from Kepler asked me a question recently:
“Does the natal chart reveal everything that happens to a person? Why or why not?”
This was my somewhat impromptu response:
My first impression as I think …

The Origins of Horary Astrology
June 28, 2010 – 6:59 am | One Comment
The Origins of Horary Astrology

I posted a video on the origins of horary astrology today on YouTube, as a response to a video that Kevin Burk recently posted on the subject.
The specific point of the video was to counter …

2012 and Millenarianism
November 22, 2009 – 1:36 am | 8 Comments
2012 and Millenarianism

I recently realized that I may have been a bit too brash last year in my declaration that people who are freaking out about 2012 need a reality check.  Now, I don’t really feel the …

The Antikythera Mechanism Was Used for Astrology
December 16, 2008 – 1:26 am | 7 Comments
The Antikythera Mechanism Was Used for Astrology

In 1901 a group of sponge divers discovered a complex mechanical device lying at the bottom of the ocean, just off the coast of a Greek island named Antikythera.   The device subsequently became known as …

The Transmission of Hellenistic Astrology to India
December 11, 2008 – 7:02 pm | 23 Comments
The Transmission of Hellenistic Astrology to India

Over the course of the past century researchers have discovered that Hellenistic astrology was transmitted to India sometime around the 2nd century CE. Inklings of this transmission were noted in the late 19th century, for …

Starting A New Website With Electional Astrology
November 20, 2008 – 5:31 pm | 7 Comments
Starting A New Website With Electional Astrology

Recently a friend asked me a question about which electional chart is more important when you are starting a new website.  The question is essentially whether the chart for the idea of the website is …

The Questionable Origins of the Exaltations in Astrology
November 16, 2008 – 3:54 pm | 10 Comments
The Questionable Origins of the Exaltations in Astrology

Current academic scholarship tells us that the exaltations are one of the few techniques that were directly inherited and incorporated into the Hellenistic system from the Mesopotamian tradition of astrology, and at the present time …

On The Use of Mythology in Astrology
March 6, 2008 – 5:23 am | 5 Comments
On The Use of Mythology in Astrology

I wrote this paper on the use of mythology as a device in astrological delineations a few years ago while I was still attending Kepler College . I think that I initially wrote …

Fate, Free Will and Determinism in Astrology
March 3, 2008 – 2:12 am | 6 Comments
Fate, Free Will and Determinism in Astrology

I’ve been of the opinion for a while now that astrology is fundamentally deterministic, and that the majority of astrologers approach the subject with a more or less deterministic mindset, whether they consciously acknowledge it …

A Reply to Glenn Perry’s Article ‘From Ancient to Postmodern Astrology’
January 8, 2008 – 3:32 am | 14 Comments
A Reply to Glenn Perry’s Article ‘From Ancient to Postmodern Astrology’

I just finished reading a surprisingly misinformed article by Glenn Perry in the latest issue of the NCGR Journal titled From Ancient to Postmodern Astrology, Toward a New Synthesis. Normally I would just let the …

Ignorance Is Bliss
October 13, 2007 – 9:37 pm | 4 Comments
Ignorance Is Bliss

So this girl that I work with approaches me the other day and tells me that she needs my help. She is obviously distressed about whatever the matter is, and for some reason she …