Category: Cosmology and Divination
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Solar Return 2017-18 – Happy Birthday SH
The solar return chart constructed for the place in which you currently live, gives a snapshot of your next 12 months. In reading this chart, we look only to the tightest (2-3 degrees at most) Ptolemaic aspects (i.e. trine, square, sextile, conjunction, and opposition). Naturally, we’re looking for angular planets – to the extent there…
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Will Obama-Care (Affordable Care Act) be repealed or significantly overhauled during 2017?
The short answer is no – ACA is strong and Congress is not – disharmony is the order of the day. 6th house = all matters of public health therefore with Gemini on the 6th house cusp, Mercury (at 0 Virgo 50 and in the 8th house) is the ruler of the Affordable Care Act…
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Star lore confirms trouble for Mr Trump as the result of the up-coming total solar eclipse
Yesterday I blogged about the effects of the upcoming solar eclipse using the Leo ingress chart set for Washington, DC. I would like to add two points based on associated star lore. Might you recall that flashy, dramatic Mercury that was too close for comfort with Mr Trump’s natal Mars? Well, the fixed stars associated with…
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Leo Ingress spells ‘communication’ problems for the USA?
Summary – During the next few weeks expect a flashy, hostile communication involving (or instigated by) Mr Trump which will cause serious concern to the US court system and/or Congress. Could this mean war? Astrologers love making predictions about how the upcoming total solar eclipse will affect the USA. There are many ways to look…
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Solar Returns – a clever way to snapshot your upcoming year – thanks Bernadette & Darrelyn!
According to Bernadette Brady and Darrelyn Gunzburg (AstroLogos), when looking at Solar Return (SR) charts, look only to the tightest (Ptolemaic) aspects (2-3 degrees at most) made by your SR planets to the four SR angles as well as any SR planets falling in the exact degree of the SR nodal axis. Not only that,…
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Hidden Dangers of The Hero’s (mythological) Journey
This weekend, I was privileged to participate in an academic conference, The Talking Sky, hosted by the University of Wales and The Sophia Centre. The purpose of the conference was to explore the cultural aspects of diverse myths inspired by the heavens. Whilst many important points were made, one surfaced time and time again –…
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UK General Election – Part II
Yesterday, I posted a horary chart suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn will not be the Prime Minister of the UK in 2017. Today, I look at the chart of the election itself and reach the same conclusion. CHART TWO – CLOSE OF POLLS ON ELECTION DAY SUMMARY – The key theme in play for…
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UK General Election – YIKES! Could Corbyn actually win?
With the UK general election coming up next week, folks are getting a bit nervous. Given the surprise results of both the BREXIT referendum and the US presidential elections, they are worrying that ‘anything’ could happen and so they should. Little wonder that I was asked to take a look at the astrology of the…
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Will his Russian Intrigue bring Trump Down?
Will the current ‘intrigue’ regarding Trump and Russia ‘bring him down’? _____________________ SUMMARY YES & NO – although clearly Mr Trump has ‘enemies’ (secret or otherwise) in regards to this ‘intrigue’ – enemies who are far stronger than is he – it remains unclear whether they will (or even whether they will try to) damage…
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Magazine launch – for Ms T
Electional astrology is ‘the art of the possible’ – i.e. choosing the perfect moment to launch a particular project or event so as to give it the best chance of success. The idea is that the chart of the launch moment should symbolically reflect the nature and goals of the project as well as those of the person(s) responsible…