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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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United Astrology Conference 2012 Recap
July 5, 2012 – 7:42 am | 2 Comments
United Astrology Conference 2012 Recap

The eighth United Astrology Conference, otherwise known as UAC, took place in New Orleans from May 24-29, 2012.
The conference was wildly successful, although it was such an intense week that many attendees were kind of …

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 …

Video Showing Asteroids Discovered Since 1980
September 6, 2010 – 1:26 am | 6 Comments
Video Showing Asteroids Discovered Since 1980

This video is making the rounds on the internet right now which depicts all of the asteroid discoveries that have been made since 1980.
I though that I would post it here, since asteroids have become …

Tutorial on How to Draw the Astrological Glyphs
August 16, 2010 – 9:43 am | 8 Comments
Tutorial on How to Draw the Astrological Glyphs

A few days ago a friend of mine told me that she had never learned how to draw the astrological symbols or “glyphs” because she had always used computerized charts.
So, I decided to make a …

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 …

How the Classical Planets Came to Rule Two Signs
February 2, 2010 – 9:26 pm | 4 Comments
How the Classical Planets Came to Rule Two Signs

Several years ago I made this animation which depicts the story of how the five classical planets came to rule two signs of the zodiac each.
It is loosely based on a Medieval Persian story that …

Rachel Maddow Talks About Mercury Retrograde on MSNBC
January 8, 2010 – 2:14 pm | 12 Comments
Rachel Maddow Talks About Mercury Retrograde on MSNBC

The astrological community is abuzz today after political commentator Rachel Maddow discussed the current Mercury retrograde period last night on her popular television show on MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show.
Mercury has been retrograde since December …

Nick Dagan Best on Venus and Mars Retrograde Cycles
September 10, 2009 – 5:19 pm | 2 Comments
Nick Dagan Best on Venus and Mars Retrograde Cycles

Back in March of 2007 I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the first Blast Astrology Conference in Sedona, Arizona.  The conference was organized single-handedly by Moses Siregar, and it was a smashing …

Hard Venus-Pluto Aspects in Relationships
August 29, 2009 – 11:33 pm | 9 Comments
Hard Venus-Pluto Aspects in Relationships

I was reading some random blogs tonight when I came across a video that provides a pretty compelling illustration of what hard aspects between Venus and Pluto are like in relationships.  By hard aspects I …

House System Poll & Rectification Research Project
February 18, 2009 – 11:49 am | 12 Comments
House System Poll & Rectification Research Project

The Academy of Astrology and The Tradition journal recently announced two new research projects that they are working on in order to conduct studies within the astrological community.
The first project is an online house system …

Astrologer Diana Brownstone Featured on Fox News Health
January 19, 2009 – 6:01 am | One Comment
Astrologer Diana Brownstone Featured on Fox News Health

Fox News recently ran a segment on astrology and health that featured New York astrologer Diana Brownstone.  In what has become a somewhat infrequent occurrence, a major news outlet actually did a somewhat favorable story …

CNN Confuses Astrologers With Psychics
December 27, 2008 – 2:17 pm | 13 Comments
CNN Confuses Astrologers With Psychics

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 …

New Website for Hellenistic Astrology Launched at HellenisticAstrology.com
August 26, 2008 – 5:37 am | 4 Comments
New Website for Hellenistic Astrology Launched at HellenisticAstrology.com

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 …

Reflections on the United Astrology Conference – UAC 2008
August 6, 2008 – 12:38 am | 7 Comments
Reflections on the United Astrology Conference – UAC 2008

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 …