10 Tips For Learning Astrology
Fri, 10/19/07 – 3:23 | 55 Comments

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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Apotelesmatics.com moved to horoscopicastrologyblog.com
Thu, 07/24/08 – 18:03 | 3 Comments
Apotelesmatics.com moved to horoscopicastrologyblog.com

After about a month of concocting various elaborate schemes in order to get the old address of this blog back (apotelesmatics.com), I eventually decided to just get a new domain. So, the title and …

Book Review: Works of Sahl and Masha’Allah by Ben Dykes
Sat, 06/7/08 – 1:28 | 10 Comments
Book Review: Works of Sahl and Masha’Allah by Ben Dykes

It was with great pleasure and excitement that I read Ben Dykes’ latest contribution to the field of astrology with his new book Works of Sahl & Masha’allah. Ben is well known in traditional …

Hellenistic Astrology Course Endorsement
Thu, 04/3/08 – 14:59 | One Comment
Hellenistic Astrology Course Endorsement

I just received an email from a former student of mine a couple of days ago who recorded a video endorsing my introduction to Hellenistic astrology course. Since I am starting a new …

On The Use of Mythology in Astrology
Thu, 03/6/08 – 5:23 | 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 …

Nick Dagan Best On Astrology
Sat, 03/1/08 – 23:34 | 3 Comments
Nick Dagan Best On Astrology

My friend Nick Dagan Best has a new video up on Youtube from his interview in the forthcoming documentary Return of the Magi. It is a rather insightful look into the the …

John McCain, The New York Times and The Lunar Eclipse
Thu, 02/21/08 – 2:08 | 5 Comments
John McCain, The New York Times and The Lunar Eclipse

Lately astrologers have been talking a lot about the lunar eclipse that just occurred tonight in Virgo. Eclipses of any sort of often tend to be rather unpleasant, depending of course on how they …

Rob Hand and Nick Campion – Kepler College Graduation Speeches
Fri, 01/18/08 – 16:24 | One Comment
Rob Hand and Nick Campion – Kepler College Graduation Speeches

Kepler College recently started a YouTube account and they posted a few clips from a recent graduation ceremony that took place in October of 2007.
I found Rob Hand and Nick Campion’s speeches to be particularly …

A Rejoinder to Glenn Perry’s Article ‘From Ancient to Postmodern Astrology’
Tue, 01/8/08 – 3:32 | 14 Comments
A Rejoinder to Glenn Perry’s Article ‘From Ancient to Postmodern Astrology’

I just finished reading an astonishingly 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 …

Astrology of the 2008 Election – Birth Data Problems
Sun, 01/6/08 – 16:50 | 34 Comments
Astrology of the 2008 Election – Birth Data Problems

As I said in my previous post on Hillary Clinton’s birth chart earlier this year, one of the biggest issues that astrologers are going to run into when trying to make predictions about the upcoming …

Book Review: A Brief History of Ancient Astrology by Roger Beck
Fri, 12/28/07 – 5:27 | No Comments Yet
Book Review: A Brief History of Ancient Astrology by Roger Beck

It is not the purpose of this article to give a full review of Roger Beck’s new book on Hellenistic astrology titled A Brief History of Ancient Astrology. The major shortcomings of the …

The Return of the Magi: An Astrological Documentary
Sun, 11/25/07 – 20:45 | 4 Comments
The Return of the Magi:  An Astrological Documentary

An astrologer named Kelly Lee Phipps has been filming a documentary over the past year on astrology called The Return of the Magi. It is sort of a What The Bleep Do We …

Firdaria: A Medieval Time Lord System
Tue, 10/16/07 – 1:13 | 11 Comments
Firdaria: A Medieval Time Lord System

I came across an interesting website today called firdaria.com which provides free calculations for the medieval-era time-lord system known as Firdaria. This system, like all time-lord systems, breaks up a person’s life into specific sections …

Ignorance Is Bliss
Sat, 10/13/07 – 21:37 | 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 …

Interview Questions From the Blast Astrology Conference
Fri, 10/12/07 – 19:23 | No Comments Yet
Interview Questions From the Blast Astrology Conference

Last year Moses Siregar gave me a few interview questions to answer as a speaker at the Blast Astrology Conference which took place in Sedona earlier this year. The Blast turned out to …