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 book just came out in which the author proposes a new theory about the Star of Bethlehem and the birth chart of Jesus. The book is aptly titled The Star of Bethlehem. It was written by a Swiss astrologer named Dieter Koch, who is primarily known for his work with the company Astrodienst, as […]
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 […]
The type of astrology that most western astrologers practice, horoscopic astrology, requires an exact birth time in order to work properly. That is to say, you need the time of a person’s birth in order to cast a complete natal chart that includes all of the factors that an astrologer would normally take into account […]
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 […]
Rhetorius the Egyptian, Astrological Compendium Containing His Explanation and Narration of the Whole Art of Astrology, translated by James Holden, American Federation of Astrologers, Tempe, AZ, May 21, 2009. Available through Amazon.com The phrase “Hellenistic astrology” has come to be used in contemporary historical discussions to designate a tradition of astrology that appeared in the […]
I recently realized that I may have been a bit too brash last year in my declaration that people who are freaking out about 2012 need a reality check. Now, I don’t really feel the need to recant that statement so much as I feel the need to explain my position a bit better than […]
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 […]
The publishers behind the astrological journal Considerations recently decided to scan and release their entire journal archive online for free through the website freeconsiderations.com. Considerations was one of the few serious astrological journals available over the course of the past few decades. It was issued quarterly starting in 1983, and under the editorship of Axel […]
Rob Hand wins the Lifetime Achievement Award at the United Astrological Conference in 2008, but is then unexpectedly interrupted during his acceptance speech…
Keeping up with their long track record of awesomeness, Astrodienst has just released two great new astrology widgets for website developers and astrology bloggers. Both widgets recently appeared on a new section of their site called Webmaster Tools. Widgets are essentially functional pieces of code that people can embed on web pages, allowing them to […]
One of the up-and-coming trends in the astrological community right now is podcasts and astrologically themed internet radio shows, and at this point my favorite is Traditional Astrology Radio. I began listening to it earlier this year when the original host David Hernández, who is a Medieval astrologer from Puerto Rico, starting featuring interesting interviews […]