A while back a woman on the Horoscopic Astrology Group forum said: My Leo Moon is driving me crazy. It’s always makin me lash out or take my emotions to extreems. My Moon Squaring Uranus and Sun Squaring Neptune just makes everything worse. So my question is, how can we control the planetary influences in […]
Benson Bobrick, The Fated Sky: Astrology In History, Simon and Schuster, 2005. I’m going to get it out of the way and just say right from the onset that I did not like this book. I was actually quite excited when it first came out in late 2005 because there was a lot of hype […]
The origin of the traditional system of zodiacal sign rulerships lies is the mythical horoscope for the birth of the world known as the Thema Mundi. The Thema Mundi was used as a teaching tool or a conceptual device in Hellenistic astrology, and in that system it provided the rationale for sign rulership, the exaltations, […]
The purpose of this article is to give an overview of a form of house division used in western astrology called whole sign houses. Whole sign houses is the oldest form of house division, originating sometime around the 1st century BCE as a part of the Greco-Roman tradition of astrology known as Hellenistic astrology. Despite […]
I just returned from a three week trip to Paris where I had the good fortune of visiting the Louvre and seeing the Zodiac of Dendera. I went last Saturday night during the Moon-Venus conjunction that could be seen clearly in the night sky in the tropical sign of Cancer. The Zodiac of Dendera (or […]
Like many astrologers I try to keep an eye out for especially auspicious periods in the future to begin projects. This is what is generally known as electional astrology; the application of astrological principles to determine an auspicious moment to begin a venture or undertaking. Sometimes circumstance only allows you to make the best of […]
I have been in Paris since May 1st visiting my girlfriend and following the final days of the presidential election here. Back in December my girlfriend asked me who I thought would win the presidential election and I remember looking at the charts and thinking pretty quickly that Sarkozy would take the election because he […]
A couple of months ago my friend went to this exhibit at a museum in Paris that had what is called the Naos of the Decades on display. She took some pics and video clips of it for me because I was totally amazed and surprised to hear that it was on display. The Naos […]
The news has been going around the astrological community for the past few days that the city of Philadelphia has started cracking down on “fortune tellers” in the city and closing down shops that are in the business of “fortune telling”. According to some of the reports this has had its main effect on people […]
(Credits to J. & G. on Flickr for the photo of Sarkozy) The first round of voting took place today in France for the 2007 presidential election, and not surprisingly the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has taken the lead according to the current reports as of Sunday night, with his socialist rival Segolene Royal trailing […]
Earlier this year there was a lot of speculation from the press that Prince William was about to get married to his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton. A lot of the speculation centered around a rumored marriage date of sometime in late June or so. Then just last week on April 14th The Sun broke the […]
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Hillary Clinton’s Birth Chart
This is the first installment of what will be a series of astrological articles on the upcoming 2008 presidential election in the United States. I just got back from the NCGR conference in Baltimore Maryland where I was able to confirm my previous suspicions about Hillary Clinton’s birth time with what I consider to be […]
According to Wikipedia The 2007 French presidential election will be the ninth such election of the Fifth French Republic. It is assumed that the first round of voting will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2007, with a second round (if necessary, which usually is the case) on Sunday, May 6, 2007. Apparently the two […]
I spent the majority of Monday reading through Nick Campion’s paper Babylonian Astrology: Its Origin and Legacy in Europe and trying to understand the areas of continuity and divergence between the Mesopotamian and later traditions of astrology that developed in the Hellenistic world. I became quite excited and surprised by one statement towards the end […]