Yesterday I spent a few hours with Theresa working on composite charts, and it occurred to me that the potential for relationship insight that can be gleaned through such approaches is easily worthy of an article. Today therefore I would like to interpret the composite chart of Prince Charles and Diana, the results are almost... Continue Reading →
The fact that today I don't get a single hard transit, Venus conjunct Uranus woke me at 8:04 this morning and she crosses my Ascendant around lunchtime (and I am looking good today, if I say so myself), has got me in the way of thinking about the quality of aspect experience in the nativity.... Continue Reading →
Before I begin today's discussion, I would just like to let everyone know that I have been through a very difficult few days dealing with some quite acute life difficulties, and even though I anticipated them (by transit, progression and arc), it did not in the event make them any easier to dispatch; Eris is... Continue Reading →
Breathless I flee, these dark parades Bear down; a black whisper taunting, Flung out, scoured, perjured and tackless, By petty tyrants that gloat in Burnished pewter thrones, preen and glut, On sycophantic prophecy. Onward, this legion of one, unheard, 'Midst this cacophanous silence, I flit all crazed, a broke-wing bird, Maddened by vanished dreams of... Continue Reading →
Just before I woke this morning I dreamt I was in an asylum, and the nurse, a woman I seemed to know and who had, in my unquestioned impression, a fearsome reputation for being strict and rather distant, smiled at me in the most warm manner and I realised that she was quite beautiful, her... Continue Reading →
Would you be interested to see the nativity of a born astrologer? Somebody for whom the impetus to astrology would have been astonishingly powerful, irresistible even? When you look at the chart then, notice all of these indicators: Sun peregrinated in Virgo on one of the astrologer's degrees. (11° 35'), an overwhelming need to shine... Continue Reading →
Now, I have a thought for you to ponder about this whole question of dignity and traditionalism in the astrology. Saturn is, and always should be an important and powerful principle in human life, I would never question the import and advantage of a favourably placed Saturn, however, what I would question is if it... Continue Reading →
Deirdre just sent this to me, from Hamburg. I went out to find the Moon but it is very dark out there! What a pity, this falls in my usually unpopulated 5th house, conjunct Neptune which squares my Neptune exactly next week. Woooo.
Today, I want to discuss, broadly and without being too definitive about it, the astrology of marriage. Almost immediately, there is a slight difficulty because semantics are involved, but in this instance I determine marriage to be any significant partnership with another human being in which you share affection, a duty of care and -... Continue Reading →
I am at pains to emphasise that, in the astrology, the distribution of trines and squares, conjunctions and oppositions is profoundly insightful and the astrologer ought always to take note of how they stack up, because a trines person is fundamentally and profoundly different to a squares person regardless of any other factor in the... Continue Reading →
There is a consistent thread running through much of the new age spiritualism of our times, it is most easily rendered apparent through the understanding of the dichotomy between the head and the heart, the measurable of rational science and the immeasurable of non-rational wisdom; I have more than a passing familiarity with both; and... Continue Reading →
Today I would like to discuss a somewhat more subtle insight of the astrology; one which really questions the tendency to try and break down the experience of interpretation in a clearly Virgoan manner; this as much as anything else creates (for myself) a sense that Mercury cannot approach the astrologer's craft fully, and certainly... Continue Reading →
As I have discussed in many articles previously, there is no better way to gain perspective on a planetary focus than to find an instance where it is overexpressed due to peregrination; usually this works very well, but in the case of Pluto, and to a lesser extent with Uranus and Neptune as well, the... Continue Reading →
So then adepts, here is a question that my grandfather would have asked when he wanted to make the most important point in the entire philosophy of the astrology. What is the difference between Venus in Virgo in the 12th and Venus in Pisces in the 6th? You can say that the former induces a... Continue Reading →
One of the least understood factors in astrology is that there is no such thing as a good Pluto aspect; there is only a less bad one, but even this rather sidesteps the reality of all applications of Pluto, Pluto is an imperative to transform, most especially in the mode of configured signs and houses,... Continue Reading →
7th House: Here our sense that our needs are rendered insignificant by our marriage or life-partner, or even a business partner come to the fore. We may also feel that we suffer inordinately at the hands of those with whom we are competing for position, or those with whom we are openly opposed in some... Continue Reading →
