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
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Expanding Your Reach
A brief article in the latest issue of The Cartomancer quarterly posed the question of whether anyone should feel inadequate for being a "one-trick pony" in the divinatory arts, only focusing on a single branch of the tree when the public seems to expect a well-rounded "gypsy fortune-teller" repertoire. This has me thinking about my … Continue reading Expanding Your Reach
“Cheap Shots” #13 – 2150 or Bust
There is a thread on the Astrologers' Community forum titled "Is Anyone Else Tired of Waiting for the Age of Aquarius to Take Effect?" Consensus among the numerous commenters is that the poor, benighted OP missed the boat somewhere. Personally, I'm not so sure. I understand that, sidereally, the Age of Aquarius will begin around … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #13 – 2150 or Bust
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
2017 Solar Eclipse in the Sibly USA Chart
I just compared the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse chart to the Sibly USA birth-chart. The degree of the eclipse in the USA 9th House is opposed the USA natal Moon within a little more than one degree. Looks like a time of great emotional unrest (but also awareness), hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth. It will … Continue reading 2017 Solar Eclipse in the Sibly USA Chart
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
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
Octile House Divisions in Astrology
In the mid-1970s, my brother and I were involved in the Hartford, CT astrological community, and we were also deeply absorbed in exploring the work of Reinhold Ebertin and the German Cosmobiologists. The German astrologers held that only the eight "hard aspects" show any outward manifestation in the life of a native, those defined by … Continue reading Octile House Divisions in Astrology
The “Tripod of Self-Discovery” Spread
This spread is loosely based on the Celtic triquetra, showing the union of Mind, Body and Spirit in a kind of “Venn diagram” also related to the broader “Tripod of Life” concept. It uses elemental and astrological (planetary) correspondences. Tripod of Self-Discovery Spread New Astro Update
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 