Ever wanted to see a romantic comedy that involves astrology as one of its main plot devices? If so, then you are in luck! A new movie came out in India a few months ago called What’s Your Raashee?. ‘Raashee’ is the term used by Indian astrologers to refer to a sign of the zodiac, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My article on the origins of horary astrology titled The Katarche of Horary just came out in the latest issue of the NCGR Journal. Most NCGR members should be receiving their copy of the journal right about now, and for those who aren’t a member of the NCGR the journal should be available for purchase […]