Students of tarot and astrology tend to take for granted the underlying influence of the four classical elements formulated by the Greek philosopher Empedocles - Fire, Water, Air and Earth - on the tarot suits and zodiacal signs. At their simplest, they represent action, initiative, enterprise and ego (Fire); emotions (Water); thoughts and ideas (Air); … Continue reading The Four Classical Elements
Traditional Astrology
Travel Event and Transit Charts – Part 2
Most trips have a return leg, so I repeated the previous process, casting an event chart for the flight back and matching it to our natal charts. Regarding the event itself, things look much more promising this time. Mercury and Mars, both direct and now legitimately conjunct in Virgo, are in the 9th House of … Continue reading Travel Event and Transit Charts – Part 2
At Home with the Wanderer
A request recently came up on one of the astrological forums wanting to know what our favorite natal planetary placement is (that is, in our own birth charts). Since I don't give much weight to the three modern planets these days, my decision was fairly straightforward, and not the one you might expect. First-house Jupiter … Continue reading At Home with the Wanderer
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
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 