News and information about what is going on in the astrological community, and in the world in general from an astrological perspective.
I recently released a new set of posters that depict the astrology of 2018, and while I was working on creating those it gave me some time to reflect on the major planetary alignments that will happen over the course of the next year. In this post I want to highlight the top 5 transits […]
Yesterday the History Channel aired an hour-long episode of its series The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved that focused entirely on astrology. The episode was not so much about the history of astrology as it was on debates about the validity of the subject in modern times. I had a lot of trepidation going into it […]
One of the challenges with western astrology is that it requires an accurate birth time in order to calculate a complete horoscope or birth chart for a person. Astrologers often like to use the charts of celebrities as examples in order to demonstrate various astrological techniques and concepts, since their lives tend to be so […]
About a year and a half ago I started a new podcast on astrology called The Astrology Podcast. The purpose of the show is to have discussions about technical, historical and philosophical topics related to astrology. On each show I usually either have another astrologer on as a co-host in order to talk about a […]
There are several major astrological conferences taking place in 2013, and I thought that it would be a good idea to compile a list of them for those who might be interested in attending. Conferences play an important role in the astrological community because they allow astrologers to meet up and interact with each other […]
I’m pleased to announce the launch of my new online course on electional astrology! The course has been in development over the past few years, and I finally got some time to finish it this month. Electional astrology is a branch of western astrology that is used in order to select astrologically auspicious times to […]
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 burnt out afterward, and so a lot of the reviews of the conference have been trickling in slowly over […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]