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31 Percent of Americans “Believe” in Astrology

A new Harris Poll was released yesterday in which 31 percent of respondents said that they “believed” in astrology. 51 percent said that they don’t believe in it, while 18 percent said that they were not sure. The poll was apparently conducted online with 2,126 Americans between November 10th and the 17th, 2008. I noticed […]

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Video

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 interesting, as usual. Rob Hand: Kepler College and the Liberal Arts Click here for part 2. Nick Campion

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history and philosophy of astrology

The Alleged Babylonian Aspect Doctrine

I spent the majority of Monday reading through Nick Campion’s paper Babylonian Astrology: Its Origin and Legacy in Europe and trying to understand the areas of continuity and divergence between the Mesopotamian and later traditions of astrology that developed in the Hellenistic world. I became quite excited and surprised by one statement towards the end […]