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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]