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
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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
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
An Astro-Tarot Mandala
The imperfect and occasionally unconvincing merger of tarot and astrology is something that has always fascinated me. There is a sentiment among less-esoteric practitioners that they are entirely unrelated systems, and "never the twain shall meet." As a syncretic thinker on all aspects of divination (thank you, Mr. Crowley!), I find that correspondences between the … Continue reading An Astro-Tarot Mandala
Thoth Court Cards “By the Book”
A while back, as a service to the on-line Thoth community, I went through every paragraph of the Court Card section of the Book of Thoth, trawling Crowley's "moral characteristics" for words and phrases that could be compiled into a robust keyword list derived from his own words. After tabulating that, I created a second, … Continue reading Thoth Court Cards “By the Book”
Astrologically Rethinking the Major Arcana
If you're like me, you don't swallow every spoonful of generally-accepted wisdom that's pushed at you; at least you take a sniff first, and if it doesn't pass the "sniff test" (never mind the "giggle test"), you are wary of ingesting it. So it is with me regarding the astrological correspondences given to the Major … Continue reading Astrologically Rethinking the Major Arcana
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 