By ‘tough’ I mean questions that involve Deborah Houlding sneaking up on astrologers at conferences and asking them a series of quickfire questions in rapid succession, sometimes only after alcohol has been consumed. The results can be kind of hilarious though. A few months ago she conducted a bunch of these ‘interviews’ in the U.S. […]
I made a video today which outlines the history of western astrology in 10 minutes. It is ten minutes long because that is the restriction for all YouTube videos, although I covered quite a bit of ground in such a short clip. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, although I was surprised […]
In 1901 a group of sponge divers discovered a complex mechanical device lying at the bottom of the ocean, just off the coast of a Greek island named Antikythera. The device subsequently became known as the Antikythera mechanism. It was found amongst the remains of a shipwreck that took place sometime around the early 1st […]
A new Harris Poll was released yesterday in which 31 percent of respondents said that they “believed” in astrology. 51 percent said that they don’t believe in it, while 18 percent said that they were not sure. The poll was apparently conducted online with 2,126 Americans between November 10th and the 17th, 2008. I noticed […]
Over the course of the past century researchers have discovered that Hellenistic astrology was transmitted to India sometime around the 2nd century CE. Inklings of this transmission were noted in the late 19th century, for example by the historian August Bouché-Leclercq in his 1899 work L’astrologie grec, although it was not until the middle part […]
Astrological conferences are an important part of the social dynamic in the astrological community. Since most astrologers and astrological enthusiasts are spread out all of the world, usually studying in relative isolation, the opportunity to meet up with hundreds of other astrologers for a few days is usually a rather unique and exciting prospect. These […]
At one point or another, many astrologers and astrology enthusiasts try their hand at writing a Sun-sign column. If you’re thinking of trying your hand at it, here are a few tips:
This is a new column I’m going to write every once in a while called ‘What’s Going On In the Astrology-Blogosphere?‘ The purpose is to highlight some interesting posts that I’ve come across on different astrology blogs recently, along with a little bit of commentary. It is not really meant to be comprehensive, and I’m […]
Over the course of the past year a lot of astrologers have been talking about this new book that came out in January called Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by a scholar named Michael Ward. In the book the author argues that C. S. Lewis patterned his seven […]
Lee Lehman gave an interesting speech at a recent Kepler College graduation ceremony in Seattle in October in which she drew parallels between the astrological community and the LGBT community, arguing that astrologers face a similar type of political discrimination as homosexuals do. During the course of the speech she pointed out a number of […]
Ten important tips for choosing an auspicious electional chart for starting a new venture or undertaking.
There is this website called StumbleUpon that I think more astrologers should use. The gist of the site is that you go there and set up a profile which lists different types of websites or topics that you like to study, and then you press the ‘Stumble’ button and it will take you to a […]
A review of Demetra George’s recent book Astrology and the Authentic Self. In the book Demetra outlines a practical synthesis of modern and traditional astrology.
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Celebrity Astrology Blog Launched
As visitors to this blog may have noticed over the past week or so, I recently launched a new astrology blog dedicated to following celebrities with my friend Patrick Watson. Surprisingly enough, we call it the Celebrity Astrology Blog. We were actually planning on holding off on announcing the new blog for a while so […]