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Solar Eclipse in Leo

A solar eclipse occurred today in the tropical sign of Leo. Eclipses were traditionally seen as generally negative celestial omens since the luminaries which provide light and heat to the world are obscured during these times. For example, with the solar eclipse today the light of the Sun was completely blocked out and there was […]

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CNN Mocks Astrologer

I’ve been getting the vibe over the past few months that CNN isn’t very keen on astrology. It has almost become a regular occurrence at this point that every few months there will be some sort of snarky headline about astrology on the front page of their website. I guess that I’m not really particularly […]

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Nick Dagan Best On Astrology

My friend Nick Dagan Best has a new video up on Youtube from his interview in the forthcoming documentary Return of the Magi. It is a rather insightful look into the the views and the practices of a contemporary astrologer.  If you are not very familiar with astrology, or you don’t know much about how […]

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Rob Hand and Nick Campion – Kepler College Graduation Speeches

Kepler College recently started a YouTube account and they posted a few clips from a recent graduation ceremony that took place in October of 2007. I found Rob Hand and Nick Campion’s speeches to be particularly interesting, as usual. Rob Hand: Kepler College and the Liberal Arts Click here for part 2. Nick Campion

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The Return of the Magi: An Astrological Documentary

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 […]

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Interview Questions From the Blast Astrology Conference

Last year Moses Siregar gave me a few interview questions to answer as a speaker at the Blast Astrology Conference which took place in Sedona earlier this year. The Blast turned out to be the best astrological conference that I have ever attended at this point, and I was excited when Moses recently announced that […]

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Calculating the Lot or Part of Fortune

I made a video today on how to calculate the Lot of Fortune, sometimes known as the Part of Fortune, in a natal chart. In modern times the Lots are usually calculated using certain algebraic formulas where the longitudes of the planets are converted into 360 degree notation and then added and subtracted accordingly. For […]

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Robert Schmidt on Hellenistic Astrology – part 1

This is the first 10 minutes of a video that was made in August of 2006 by Robert Schmidt of Project Hindsight for a conference in St. Petersburg Russia that he was not able to attend. In it he touches on some basic points concerning the history and origins of Hellenistic astrology. He is talking […]