Articles by 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.
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 important concept in the Hellenistic astrological tradition that did not survive into modern times is the distinction between day and night charts, which is associated with a technical concept known as “sect.”
In this article …
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 tend to be …
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 went to Sedona, Arizona in order to speak at the Blast astrology conference. The conference itself was great. It was divided up so that each day was a focused on a different …
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 …
