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
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Travel Event and Transit Charts
With Mercury going stationary direct at 28° Leo on September 5th, only 29 minutes after our outbound vacation flight is scheduled to depart, and the fact that it will be within two degrees of an applying across-sign conjunction with transiting Mars at that time (although it won't enter Virgo until September 10th or catch up … Continue reading Travel Event and Transit Charts
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
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
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 