Dear Friends, What a long, wild trip the last few months have been! I started a busy new job last fall, and things are finally calm enough for me to return to more regular posting. Here’s what’s new: I am writing a new column on magical elections for The Mountain Astrologer, starting with the February/March […]
This is the eighth in a series of articles examining clues to the winner of the U.S. Presidential elections in Aries Ingress horoscopes; today we look at the 2016 Presidential election. 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 […]
This article arose out of a series of conversations with a student about horary predictions based on a planet’s change in dignity. John Frawley, with whom I have studied, uses this technique extensively and to great effect. I searched for examples of this technique in William Lilly’s work to see if and how he used […]
If you enjoy arguments and strongly voiced views in American media and halls of power, the 2016 Aries Ingress has you covered. If you like action movies and explosions then 2016 may be your year. This year will twist and turn with a feverish, unpredictable vigor, even violence. Everyone will have an opinion, and the debates […]
This is the seventh in a series of articles examining clues to the winner of the U.S. Presidential elections in Aries Ingress horoscopes; today we look at the 1904 Presidential election. 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 […]
Astrology Predicts the Brexit Referendum On February 19, the European Union agreed to concessions to keep the UK in the European Union. Now, the UK will hold the “Brexit referendum” (a popular vote) on whether to stay in the EU on those new, special terms. If the UK votes to leave the EU, the changes […]
Jupiter in Virgo is a paradoxical combination; the Lord of Plenty in microscopic Virgo is an uneasy fit. Jupiter is in his detriment in Virgo, his expansiveness and wide-angle perspective feels hemmed in by the million details dictated by Virgo. Jove is not one for crossing the Ts and dotting the Is. In the next […]
A recent cluster of books on the life of the great English astrologer, William Lilly, has been published in the past year or so, warming the dusty, antiquarian heart of this traditional astrologer. Books for those of us interested in older forms of astrology are as rare as hen’s teeth, and therefore any new edition […]
In his 1598 book A Treatise of Mathematicall Phisicke, or briefe Introduction to Phiscike, by Iudiciall Astronomy, the author “G.C. gent. Practitioner in Phisicke” has a surprisingly strong explanation of planetary reception. Certainly, it is more nuanced and a more complete representation of planetary reception than William Lilly, who explains only mutual reception in Christian […]
Ask Only the Necessary Horary Question. As a horary astrologer, I found the hard way that clear questions give us the clearest charts – and answers. This may seem obvious, but it took me years and many horary charts to figure it out. As a student of horary, I used to be the worst offender […]