Google released this fascinating program called Google Trends a while back that can be used to track search trends for various keywords over the past few years. Basically, it displays different graphs showing how popular a specific search term is in certain areas of the world. For me it is almost more of a novelty […]
The outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, and yes, Pluto, are often overplayed in modern astrological delineations. They are overplayed in the sense that they are often the first thing that a modern astrologer will look at in any chart delineation, and it is often the case that without the outer planets a modern astrologer will consider […]
An important concept in the Hellenistic astrological tradition that did not survive into modern times is the distinction between day and night charts, which is associated with a technical concept known as “sect.” In this article I will provide an introduction to concept of sect, and demonstrate how it is used in astrology. The term […]
I just got an email from the founder of Matrix Software, Michael Erlewine, saying that has has re-acquired the company. He lost it in the mid-90’s through some sort of deal that isn’t altogether clear, but apparently he has finally decided to take it back over again. Matrix is important from a historical perspective because […]
Recently a friend asked me a question about which electional chart is more important when you are starting a new website. The question is essentially whether the chart for the idea of the website is more important, or whether it is the registering of the domain or the launch of the website itself. The question […]
After being around the astrological community for a while you start to get a sense of the different types of groups or factions within the community. Different sorts of people with different interests tend to be attracted to certain specialized approaches within the community. And there’s nothing wrong with that, really. But just in case […]
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Astro.com Unveils Two New Services
Astrodienst recently unveiled two new services/projects on their website, www.astro.com. The first new thing is that they took my suggestion from a few weeks ago and started offering an option on their site to store more chart files for registered users. For people who reach the 100 chart limit in their registered account, which is […]
Current academic scholarship tells us that the exaltations are one of the few techniques that were directly inherited and incorporated into the Hellenistic system from the Mesopotamian tradition of astrology, and at the present time this transmission is assumed to have occurred by the majority of historians in the field, both astrologer and academic alike.[1] […]
Horoscopic astrology is a very specific and advanced type of astrology that was developed in the Mediterranean region during the late Hellenistic period, sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE. The tradition of astrology that flourished during this time period is usually referred to as Hellenistic astrology, although there is a distinction between horoscopic […]
I recently came across some really beautiful astrologically themed artwork by an artist named Mindy Sommers, and I wanted to post some of it here because I was particularly impressed by it. I took the liberty of adding the Greek names for each of the signs, along with a literal translation of what each name […]
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Sarah Palin’s Birth Time
The US presidential election is only a few weeks away and we appear to have reliable birth data for Obama, McCain and Biden at this point, although there is still one missing piece: we don’t have a reliable birth time for Sarah Palin. A couple of birth times have been floating around for her over […]
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A Suggestion for Astrodienst
I wrote a suggestion to the Astrodienst team at www.astro.com on their forum today about offering registered users the option of paying for additional chart space once they hit the 100 chart limit. What follows is the suggestion I posted on their forum. If you agree with the suggestion then you should stop by that […]
Last week I went to Sedona, Arizona in order to speak at the Blast astrology conference. The conference itself was great. It was divided up so that each day was a focused on a different astrological tradition (i.e. Hellenistic, Indian, Medieval, Modern, etc.). I gave three lectures on the Hellenistic track on the first day […]
Last week I noticed that the domain HellenisticAstrology.com was open so I decided to buy it before some other domain name headhunters did, and so one thing led to another and I ended up launching a website dedicated to Hellenistic astrology. The main purpose of this website is to help spur the revival of Hellenistic […]