One of the key functions of the solar principle in the astrology is to provide a facility by which we dignify ourselves, it creates an ideal self-awareness, an aspiration or desirable benchmark of selfhood and thus, we are given cause to strive to attain that sense of ourselves. A badly placed, stressed or underpowered Sun... Continue Reading →
Today, I would like to look a little at the various manifestations of Neptune in the 3rd house. It is never kind to mock the afflicted. However, since I can speak entirely subjectively - I have Neptune in the first few degrees of the 3rd in Scorpio - I feel I am allowed some absolution.... Continue Reading →
Imagine this scenario: someone you know has come to see you and on their way over they have got stuck in traffic, had an argument with a co-worker on the phone and discovered that their husband spent the housekeeping on a hooker, then they call in at your house, and actually, they like you very... Continue Reading →
The Mars Pluto contact is characterised by Ebertin as 'Superhuman Force'. It is an entirely apt description, since one of the key understandings of Hadean energy is that, like the atomic power it rules, it creates an incredible reservoir of hidden power. Nuclear fusion is carried on in the deepest recesses of the power station,... Continue Reading →
Before I begin today I would like to thank everyone who has taken the trouble to comment or send an email over these last few days, it has been very sincerely appreciated. The Jupiter effect is a well-known shortcut to experiencing any given planetary contact; the theory being that as the expanding power of Jupiter... Continue Reading →
In about 400BC, a Sicyonian poet named Ariphron composed a paean to Hygeia, underlining the profound importance - to the Greeks - of this deity, an importance on a scale which is not remotely mirrored by the astrologer of today: Hygeia, best of the Blessed Ones to men, May I dwell with you for the... Continue Reading →
Today I wish to look in some detail at the two greatest Americans that ever lived. Of course, I make no objective claim on these personages' behalves, only one that, for my own part, rings profoundly true. I would happily include a close run third placing for that most gently predisposed of Presidents (Jed Bartlett... Continue Reading →
Transits are no big mystery. Even an arc or progression is simply a transit writ large on the life story and the transit itself, regardless of magnitude, is simply an opportunity to experience an ongoing evolution of nativity. Put another way, a transit is only an opportunity for experience, one that you weren't born with,... Continue Reading →
This weekend I conducted an experiment. It involved a trip to the outer reaches of our solar system and I travelled there in my car (a VolksWagen) and it makes a wonderful illustration of how astrology in the sky can connect so seamlessly with the small mechanics of our lives. One of the key understandings... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Kerrie asked: "I’m wondering if you could give an example of a chirotic awakening?" I would say that it is a difficult process to accurately describe and it will certainly be accompanied by considerable projected difficulty. If you understand the phrase "as above so below" and apply that to your understanding of astrology, you will... Continue Reading →
Wherever Chiron is found there is hypersensitivity and pain until there has been what I would call a Chirotic awakening, the compassionate self-awareness is then activated and it becomes possible to give up your pain, even to take it on board gladly because it is a reminder of the connectedness of you and I, that... Continue Reading →
My day is piling up with the synchronicities. I have been having a tough few days, maybe - arguably - a tough few weeks. I want everyone who reads this to understand though, that this is quite possibly more than just astro-vanity, it is quite possibly insightful. I have spent some time looking at this... Continue Reading →
Here's a short foray into the nature of time. I am no quantum physicist, but just like the rest of us, who aren't required to be qualified meteorologists to know that its raining, I've been having a few days where the synchronicities are just piling up. I am thinking a great deal about Chiron, ,... Continue Reading →
I have been transfixed this morning by the question of Chiron's rulership. I was reading some of Barbara Hand-Clow's 'Liquid Light of Sex' (another great discussion of astrology in disguise) and she referred to the fact of Chiron being struck by Achilles' poisoned arrow in his left foot. This immediately got me thinking about rulership.... Continue Reading →
Ceres, Pallas and Vesta are somewhat understood in the astrology, and all seem worthy of attention based upon size alone (for those who consider such factors significant!), but far less is understood about Hygeia, the fourth largest asteroid in the belt between Mars and Saturn. It is not a great deal smaller than either Vesta... Continue Reading →
