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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It was with great pleasure and excitement that I read Ben Dykes’ latest contribution to the field of astrology with his new book Works of Sahl & Masha’allah. Ben is well known in traditional astrological circles as an ambitious scholar who made his publishing debut in 2007 with his monumental 1500 page translation of Guido […]
An astrologer named Kelly Lee Phipps has been filming a documentary over the past year on astrology called The Return of the Magi. It is sort of a What The Bleep Do We Know-esq documentary with a number of interviews from various astrologers in the field, as well as a running storyline with a narrative […]
So you want to learn about astrology? Not the generalized Sun-sign stuff that you find in newspapers and magazines, but serious astrology. The advanced type where you can actually determine specific information about a person’s life through the observation of the planets and other celestial phenomena. Here are some tips to help you get started.
I came across a clip today from Richard Dawkin’s new documentary titled Enemies of Reason in which he attacks a number of paranormal fields, including astrology. Dawkins brings out the usual modern arguments against the subject that have been recycled over and over again over the past couple of decades, mainly focusing on Sun-sign columns […]
Elsa just posted this really interesting quote from Benjamin Franklin on her blog which nicely illustrates his endorsement of horoscopic astrology. I was always aware that Franklin wrote the Poor Richard’s Almanac, but this really displays his stance on astrology in a bit more dramatic of a manner than I had seen previously. The quote […]
Vettius Valens was a Roman astrologer who was conceived on May 13, 119 CE, and born on February 8, 120 in the city of Antioch, which is now modern day Antakya, Turkey. Today Valens is known for his encyclopedic 9 book astrological textbook the Anthology (Ἀνθολογίαι). Although he was originally from Antioch, at one point […]