I recently read a couple books on Karl Marx and found that his chart very vividly reflected his life. In my own personal opinion Marx was a great economist who is too often overlooked and helped to inspire many important… Read more ›
I recently had the pleasure of seeing two of Peter Weir’s beautiful early films. Weir is an Australian director who is probably best known today for “Dead Poet’s Society” and “The Truman Show”. His film “The Last Wave” is an… Read more ›
Note: It is my belief, given my years of studying astrology and meeting astrologers, that no one could have predicted that a horrible school shooting would occur at Sandy Hook in Connecticut on the morning of December 14th. Whether we… Read more ›
Industrial Symphony No. 1 is a very ethereal musical play created by David Lynch with music by Angelo Badalamenti and singing by Julee Cruise, which was performed in 1989, after Wild At Heart and foreshadowing, musically and thematically, the Twin… Read more ›
Secondary progressions are a popular predictive technique in modern astrology in which the transits of each day following the birth are symbolic of important events in each year of life (i.e. a day symbolizes a year). They are called “secondary”… Read more ›
So far in this series I’ve discussed a bit about the origins of astrology and the significations of the planets in the first installment, and then elaborated upon the material on planets by introducing some of the most important methods… Read more ›
Introduction In the first post, I introduced the general rules or guidelines of electional astrology as laid out by Dorotheus in the first century of the common era. We found that the most important factors in choosing times and the… Read more ›
Introduction In the first post of this series, I presented the general rules for electional astrology as laid out by Dorotheus and explained how they contrast with the rules of the later tradition. Namely, while electional astrology is typically conceived… Read more ›
Introduction In the first post of this series, we discussed the origins and fundamentals of electional astrology which find their root in Book V of the Carmen Astrologicum or Pentateuch of Dorotheus (1st Century CE). In this post we find… Read more ›
Introduction Electional astrology is one of the four distinct major uses or categories of astrology. Electional astrology is the art of choosing the right time for the start of something important in order to facilitate success. The other three major… Read more ›