The latest issue of The Mountain Astrologer magazine features part 2 of my series titled An Introduction to Hellenistic Astrology. In the first part of the series, which appeared earlier this year in the February/March issue, I covered the basic concepts of Hellenistic astrology, focusing on the ancient approach to the planets, signs, houses and […]
Author: Chris Brennan
Chris is a practicing astrologer from Denver, Colorado, USA. He is the former President of the Association for Young Astrologers, as well as the former Research Director of the National Council for Geocosmic Research. He offers personal consultations and teaches online classes through his website at www.ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com.
Last week I was preparing the Horoscopic Astrology Blog for a traffic spike due to an interview that Patrick Watson and I did with ABC News for the Political Astrology Blog. I was trying to make sure that the blog could withstand a large increase in traffic, but I was also trying to beef up […]
The United Astrology Conference, otherwise known as UAC, is set to take place in New Orleans just two months from now, from May 24-29, 2012. UAC only takes place every few years, when all of the major astrological organizations get together and pool their resources in order to host a huge conference, with hundreds of […]
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New Astrology Blogs Page on Reddit
The astrology blogging community has grown so much in the past few years that I find it kind of difficult to keep up with what everyone is doing. It is hard to sort through all of the articles that are constantly being published on the various astrology blogs, and I know that I’m missing out […]
Last year I heard that a new astrology-themed movie called Five Star Day had recently premiered at a film festival in California, and I’m pleased to announce that the movie finally opened in theaters today. In the movie the main character is on a mission to disprove astrology by comparing his experience of a specific […]
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New Blog on Saturn Returns
I recently launched a new blog dedicated to Saturn returns called Saturn Return Stories. The purpose of the blog is to highlight real life stories about what happens when people go through their Saturn returns. Most of the stories tend to focus on the first Saturn return, which occurs for everyone between the ages of […]
What is the definition of astrology? If you search around the internet for a few minutes you will find a number of different definitions. Unfortunately most of them are wrong. They are wrong in the sense that they do not accurately reflect the way in which many astrologers conceptualize and subsequently define their own subject. […]
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 surrounding predictions about the significance of the year 2012 to draw greater attention to astrology and the astrological community as […]
The American Federation of Astrologers is hosting a conference from September 22-24 titled Traditional Astrology in the 21st Century, In Honor of James H. Holden. The main presenters at the conference are Benjamin Dykes, Demetra George and myself, Chris Brennan. The purpose of the conference is to give an overview of “traditional” pre-20th century forms […]
Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of discussion about the zodiac in the mainstream media. Unfortunately most of it has been misinformation and false reports, deliberately designed to make people question the validity of astrology. In order to set the record straight, I’m writing a two part series of articles on […]
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 about this question is that even though it seems very specific, there is a way in which it […]
Over the past few weeks as the drama surrounding WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange has played out in the news, a different type of drama has unfolded within the astrological community as astrologers have tried to determine the correct birth chart for Assange. The most important event occurred last week when the astrological magazine […]
A few days ago someone attended a filming of an episode of The Daily Show and asked Jon Stewart for his birth time. Stewart mentioned the question on the show, and the clip has been doing the rounds in astrological circles on Facebook for the past couple of days. Obviously it was an astrologer in […]
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NCGR Research Journal Released
The first issue of the new NCGR Research Journal has just been published, and it is available for sale on the National Council for Geocosmic Research’s website. Members of the NCGR should receive their copy of the journal in the mail this week, if it hasn’t shown up already. I edited the collection of papers […]