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 […]
A new astrologically themed movie called Five Star Day premiered yesterday at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California. Unlike the romantic comedy that came out in India last year titled What’s Your Rasshee, Five Star Day is a more serious drama that appears to incorporate astrological concepts into the film’s narrative at more than […]
The National Council of Geocosmic Research (NCGR) is hosting a large astrological conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts next week. The conference is titled ‘Planetary Revolution: Geocosmic Alchemy II’, as a followup to their previous successful conference in Baltimore in 2007. The main conference is scheduled to take place from February 25th to February 28th, 2010, with […]
Today the President of Kepler College, Enid Newberg, sent out an announcement effectively saying that the school will be closing down in the near future. The announcement confirmed rumors that had been circulating around the astrological community recently when it was announced that they had canceled their current school term, which was supposed to have […]
On the front cover of Steven Forrest’s latest book, entitled Yesterday’s Sky, there is an endorsement from the actor Robert Downey Jr., who is one of the leading actors in Hollywood right now. Most recently he starred in the adaptation of Sherlock Holmes that was just released in theaters a few weeks ago. I noticed […]
Ever wanted to see a romantic comedy that involves astrology as one of its main plot devices? If so, then you are in luck! A new movie came out in India a few months ago called What’s Your Raashee?. ‘Raashee’ is the term used by Indian astrologers to refer to a sign of the zodiac, […]
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 26th, and in a brief segment Maddow highlighted some of the wacky Mercury retrograde-esq things that have happened in […]
In September the video game company Nintendo released a new title in North America for their portable video game console called Astrology DS. Astrology DS is essential a compact astrology program that runs on Nintendo’s handheld touchscreen video game device called Nintendo DS. The program offers the user a few advanced astrological features such as the […]
Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, recently released his latest book titled The Lost Symbol, and the story contains a number of references to astrology. The novel is the latest installment in a series of stories featuring the main protagonist Robert Langdon, who is supposed to be an expert in religious symbology. Basically, […]
A new poll was released recently by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life which indicates that approximately 25% of Americans “believe” in astrology. The poll was part of a larger study on the religious beliefs of Americans which found that not only are New Age and Eastern beliefs widespread, but that […]
27 astrologers were interviewed at the Northwest Astrological Conference (NORWAC) in May of 2009, and MP3s of those interviews were recently released online for free. The podcast series is titled The Art and Science of Astrology, and it can be downloaded at EngagedHeart.com. The interviews were conducted by Kent Bye during the course of the […]
Kirk Kahn of PlanetWatcher.com recently released a new edition of his awesome astrological calendar for 2010, and this year you can order it online through Amazon.com. This is my favorite astrological calendar because it allows you to look at the entire year at a glance and immediately see what the major planetary events are. It […]
A few years ago Yahoo launched a website where users can submit and answer questions called Yahoo Answers. The site has become quite popular since then, and many people are familiar with it because it shows up frequently in search results for various queries. Recently I was doing some searches online when I discovered that […]