So you want to learn about astrology? Not the generalized Sun-sign stuff that you find in newspapers and lame websites, 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.
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Reviews of the latest books on or related to astrology by Chris Brennan.
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Google released this fascinating program called Google Trends a while back that can be used to track search trends for various keywords over the past few years. Basically, it displays different graphs showing how popular …
The outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, and yes, Pluto, are often overplayed in modern astrological delineations. They are overplayed in the sense that they are often the first thing that a modern astrologer will look …
An immensely important concept in the Hellenistic astrological tradition that did not survive it into modern astrology is the concept of ‘sect’. The term ‘sect’ is a translation of the Greek word hairesis (αἵρεσις), which …
I just got an email from the founder of Matrix Software, Michael Erlewine, saying that has has re-acquired the company. He lost it in the mid-90’s through some sort of deal that isn’t altogether clear, …
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 …
After being around the astrological community for a while you start to get a sense of the different types of groups or factions within the community. Different sorts of people with different interests …
Astrodienst recently unveiled two new services/projects on their website, www.astro.com. The first new thing is that they took my suggestion from a few weeks ago and started offering an option on their site to store …
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 …
Horoscopic astrology is a very specific and advanced type of astrology that was developed in the Mediterranean region during the late Hellenistic period, sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE. The tradition of astrology …
I recently came across some really beautiful astrologically themed artwork by an artist named Mindy Sommers, and I wanted to post some of it here because I was particularly impressed by it.
I took the liberty …
The US presidential election is only a few weeks away and we appear to have reliable birth data for Obama, McCain and Biden at this point, although there is still one missing piece: we don’t …
I wrote a suggestion to the Astrodienst team at www.astro.com on their forum today about offering registered users the option of paying for additional chart space once they hit the 100 chart limit. What follows …
Last week I noticed that the domain HellenisticAstrology.com was open so I decided to buy it before some other domain name headhunters did, and so one thing led to another and I ended up launching …
The United Astrology Conference (a.k.a. UAC) took place in May in Denver, Colorado, and I thought that it would be a good idea to detail some of the highlights of the conference from my perspective.
The …
At one point or another, many astrologers and astrology enthusiasts try their hand at writing a Sun-sign column. If you’re thinking of trying your hand at it, here are a few tips:
CNN has been running a story today about how the difficult economic times have seen a rise in business for “psychics” and “fortune tellers”. The majority of the segment focuses on an interview with …
A review of Demetra George’s recent book Astrology and the Authentic Self. In the book Demetra outlines a practical synthesis of modern and traditional astrology.
Astrological conferences are an important part of the social dynamic in the astrological community. Since most astrologers and astrological enthusiasts are spread out all of the world, usually studying in relative isolation, the opportunity to …
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 …
I made a video today which outlines the history of western astrology in 10 minutes. It is ten minutes long because that is the restriction for all YouTube videos, although I covered quite a bit …
Introduction to Hellenistic Astrology - This is a full online course on the ancient tradition of Hellenistic astrology, which is focused on how to predict concrete events about the future of an individual based on their natal chart. Introduction to Horary Astrology - This is an introductory course to a branch of horoscopic astrology known as horary astrology, which is the art of answering a specific question based on a chart cast for the moment that the question is posed to an astrologer. 
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