There is so much talk about the Sun: wesay “What Sign are you? Where’s your Sun? There’s nothing new under theSun” and more. The answer to those first questions, a really good answer,would be “everywhere”; after all, the Sun shines throughout theplanetary system and, indeed, throughout our lives. It’s everywhere. It’sthe energy of being, isn’t it? We…
View detailsRecently, a client contacted me with the news that, out of the blue, he had received news that his mother had died. “Paul” and I are in regular contact, and we had done a comprehensive update of his horoscope recently. He is on the verge of a new business operation, and we had mapped out…
View detailsA recent inquiry into the discussion Forum of this website focused on peregrination. In my reply, I spoke how -after some 30 years of study and observation- I have started to push the envelope, so to speak, about peregrination, to give us an analytical tool and concomitant guidelines that make it easier and faster to…
View detailsThe development of MidPoints as a dimension of sophisticated astrological analysis is a most creative effort to extend the innate symbolism of the astrological portrait. With MidPoints, we are compounding synthesis: one planet is related to the essence of two others. For example, the essence of the Sun and the Moon , related to each other, is “relationship”…
View detailsThe Maze of Description As we learn astrology, it is a liability that we are taught in fragmentary style, in terms and terms and terms of description. As a result, we learn too many hypothetical details, we learn about the trees and overlook the forest. There is so much “this means that” in what we read…
View detailsClients come to astrologers for insight and for news about change. Most clients are eager for the former and afraid of the latter: while insight usually resurrects insecurity as one works to improve a life situation, change can threaten the status quo with transient insecurity within the development process. As a result, what is already…
View detailsCusp Concepts, Interception Insights The two great axes (circles) with which we work so importantly in astrology are, of course, the MC-IC and the ASC-DSC. The former is determined by the time of our birth, and the latter is determined by the place of our birth. Together they define our mundane orientation in life, and they are vital -indispensable-…
View detailsCusp Concepts, Interception Insights The two great axes (circles) with which we work so importantly in astrology are, of course, the MC-IC and the ASC-DSC. The former is determined by the time of our birth, and the latter is determined by the place of our birth. Together they define our mundane orientation in life, and they are vital -indispensable-…
View detailsTertiary Progressions Tertiary Progressions have nothing to do with Solar Arcs in terms of calculation or theory, but they are part of the family of symbolic measurement of time. Where Primary Directions were based upon the movement of one degree at the Midheaven, i.e., four minutes of time after birth, as an equation for one…
View detailsTransit Considerations Transits are ‘real-time’ considerations, of course: they denote planetary positions in the Now. Make special note: reading transits from a printed Ephemeris Table, in relation to a horoscope under study, is infinitely faster and clearer than accessing a transit program on the computer and creating a double or triple-ring chart to show the positions…
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