The recent Mercury-Venus mutual reception (October 8-November 1, 2015) has been a nice respite in the otherwise uninspiring planetary weather. With both Venus and Jupiter in signs of their detriment or fall, it’s time to hibernate! In John Frawley’s natal course, he mentions that the connection of Mercury with Venus can show a talented artist […]
Venus reached her greatest Western elongation on October 26, 2015 (46.4 degrees from the Sun, to be exact), initiating the last phase of the Sun-Venus cycle. At her greatest elongation, Venus is as far as she can be on the oriental side of the Sun. From here on out, Venus will begin to apply to […]
I have been taking Austin Coppock’s excellent web course on decans or faces. It’s clear that each of these ten-degree bits of the zodiac has a multi-faceted, complex personality that is best expressed through images rather than keywords. The hallucinatory pictures associated by various traditions with each of the faces help us momentarily hold the […]
I found these “I just really need to know this person’s sexual history” horary rules, or as I call them, chastity rules, in Richard Ball’s Astrology Improved (1723), on Philip Graves’s DVD From Sibly to Simmonite. His including the rules is not unusual. Such rules are found in many traditional texts, reminding us that most […]
This is the sixth in a series of articles examining clues to the winner of the U.S. Presidential elections in Aries Ingress horoscopes. Click on the Presidential Elections tag in this post to see all articles in the series. We are examining all U.S. Presidential elections from 1880 to 2016, each time adding to our list […]
Those of us who practice horary astrology of the 17th centuries and later think we know how to identify the correct planetary significator. You give the Ascendant and possibly the Moon to the person asking the question, then locate the other house or planet representing the desired matter or person, and you are done. However, […]
This is the fifth in a series of articles examining clues to the winner of the U.S. Presidential elections in Aries Ingress horoscopes. Click on the Presidential Elections tag in this post to see all articles in the series. We are examining all U.S. Presidential elections from 1880 to 2016, each time adding to our list […]
Something tells me that W. J. Simmonite, the 19th century English astrologer, and author of such books as The Complete Arcana of Astral Philosophy or Celestial Philosopher was a wagering man. I wanted to share with you some of his rules for determining who will win (but really, whether he will profit). His book The […]
This is the fourth in a series of articles examining clues to the winner of the U.S. Presidential elections in Aries Ingress horoscopes. Click on the Presidential Elections tag in this post to see all articles in the series. We are examining all U.S. Presidential elections from 1880 to 2016, each time adding to our list […]
A student asked me recently whether the condition of the Moon in horary was more or less important than the condition of the other significators. I thought this was a particularly valuable question deserving of a deeper answer than just “more” or “less.” Tucked away in the middle of William Lilly’s epic work on horary […]