Here is a well-reasoned 2003 editorial by "Frater P.A.L." from the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition, No. 4. Vol. 1 titled "Why Study the Divinatory Arts?" (Forgive me if I've posted this article before, either here or in the tarot forums, but I wanted to expand upon its subject matter with a few personal … Continue reading File Under: “Why Bother?”
Horary Astrology
Horary on Hold: Strictures Against Judgment
Horary astrology has a self-limiting feature that doesn't appear anywhere else in the practice of astrology: the concept of "strictures against judgment." There are certain conditions pertaining to a horary chart that render it "unfit for judgment;" in his 17th-Century English, William Lilly called this "decisions before judgment" and described it thus: "All of the … Continue reading Horary on Hold: Strictures Against Judgment
A Horary “Journeyman’s” Test Case
I'm close to believing that I now merit the title of "journeyman astrologer" in the practice of horary divination. I've been working with John Frawley's methods for a few years now, slowly whittling down my more inclusive and holistic natal delineation style to zero in solely on the status of the "quesited" (the thing being … Continue reading A Horary “Journeyman’s” Test Case
2017 Total Eclipse Event Charts
Here are the event charts I cast for the Total Solar Eclipse tomorrow. I used John Halloran's Astrology Deluxe Report Writer. For the first chart, I applied a time of 19:30 British Summer Time at Greenwich, England. It matches the AstroDienst chart erected for 18:30.06 UT at London, England. The second chart provides the map … Continue reading 2017 Total Eclipse Event Charts
Eclipse Mania
There are two ways to look at transiting "sky events." The more common one is to see how they relate to the natal chart positions of a person, organization, country, etc. If there are no meaningful contacts, there are usually no events (and quite often there are no events even when there are such contacts; … Continue reading Eclipse Mania
Location is Everything
As most experienced tarot readers know, the cards are less than stellar at identifying where an event forecast in a reading is likely to take place. Locations determined solely from the images are often far afield from the reality of the querent's circumstances. A related question is where a missing item has concealed itself. I … Continue reading Location is Everything
An Astrological Crossroads
When I was first learning astrology in the early '70s, the psychological approach of writers like Dane Rudhyar and Marc Edmund Jones was in its ascendancy; the ideas of Carl Gustav Jung colored nearly every consideration, and the "modern" planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were receiving intense analysis, to the point of meriting whole books … Continue reading An Astrological Crossroads
Horary Astrology Notebook
Since my blog title promises some astrology, I decided to lay out what I intend to do with it here. Although I learned psychological, natal and predictive astrology in the early '70s, most of my recent astrological work has been in the area of horary, helping people on-line locate lost items. My success rate has … Continue reading Horary Astrology Notebook
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 