The Sun is your CEO – The Moon your Customer Relations by Vanessa Couto
When you are starting a business, or you already have an established one, defining what is your brand is something that may be on your mind. Where is your YOU in your business? If you are an entrepreneur that’s even more true, because your business is your brainchild, carrying forth your ‘Astro DNA’. As I […]
The Transiting Oriental Planet by Alison Price
“Oh, it’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with you” – Lou Reid Introduction Over time many aspects of astrology have piqued my interest. In the early years the house systems kept me busy for months and at one time antiscia became an obsession. During the past few years I have turned […]
A Little Contemplation on Astrology by Irene Maandi
It is a too early to say that I am able to grasp the idea of astrology or that I am ready to formulate any specific definition concerning astrology, as this Universal Art involves so wide realms and so many different layers that it would evidently take a number of lifetimes to feel at home […]
Surf’s Up! Astrology, Fate and Free Will by Clair Bentley
Empowerment. With my traditional chart ruler, Mars, involved in all sorts of astrological shenanigans right through this year, including a major Neptune transit, significant progressions and assorted return activity, I seem to have become keenly sensitised to the concept and to encounter it wherever I turn. I notice it has become a modern watchword for […]
Nu-metal and Astrology by Hiroko Oshida
Nu-metal is one of the genres in the metal music scene. It emerged in the mid 90s and conquered the scene until the very early 2000s. As its name “nu” indicates, nu-metal is admitted as a new style of metal which evolved from the old-school. Nu-metal keeps aggressive and loud sounds as the old-school, but […]
A Practical Guide Line to Bringing the Spiritual in to Your Reading by Daliah Roth
Let’s start off with this fundamental question: What makes us truly happy? “Happy” may not even be what we are looking for, and be totally over-rated for that matter. How about content then? I am not talking about those exceptional moments on that wedding day, birth of a child or having won, inherited or awarded […]
Extract from the Astrology of the Family part Module: An Astrological Overview of the Family
If we were to observe the soul in the family by honouring its stories and by not running away from its shadow, then we might not feel so inescapably determined by family influences. Strongly influenced by developmental psychology, we assume we are ineluctably who we are because of the family in which we grew up. […]
Extract from The Astrology of the Family part Module: An Overview of the Family Through Time
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable[i] – T.S. Eliot From an outer perspective time is experienced in a linear fashion, moving from the present into the future, having come from the past […]
Seamus Heaney by Julia Savage
When I was asked to write an article for the Writing Corner I wondered what I would write as I did not feel particularly inspired to write about any particular person at that time. Then on Friday 30th August I was shocked and saddened to hear of Seamus Heaney’s death. I felt intrigued by this man […]
The Virtues of Debility by Martin Lipson
The table of dignities and debilities is a technique which allows astrologers to assess the strength or performance of planets in signs. It has been around for a very long time. Its origins even predate Claudius Ptolemy (90 AD – 168 AD) but the version of the table he proposed in his landmark text Tetrabiblos […]
The Artifice of Duality: Venus in Gemini by Anne Stuecker
I’ve started wearing a lot of dresses and skirts lately, which is new for me. My own body-image has not always allowed me to wear clothes that attract attention and make me look particularly feminine (Venus). I wear dresses and skirts that are, above all, comfortable. Today I wore my most comfortable dress, a stretchy […]
The Sign of Cancer and Biological Karma by Ana Paula Pestana
THE SIGN OF CANCER AND BIOLOGICAL KARMA Undoubtedly we all have the Sign of Cancer in our natal chart; we all have a Moon and an IC. Regardless of being more or less a “Cancer type of person” we all have a family history, a past background, a mother image, a set of memories indexed […]
Water Grand Trine: A Chance to Heal by Lorna Blake
Grand Trine in Water Signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces: An Opportunity for Healing – June/July 2013 During the last few years we have experienced turmoil and unrest with many unexpected and deep changes taking place in society and within our personal lives, courtesy of the on-going Uranus – Pluto Square providing a backdrop for unexpected […]
Oscar, Astrology and Vocation
Whenever I think about astrology and vocation my mind always goes to Oscar. He was a young Swedish man in his mid-twenties whom I met a few years ago in Stockholm and with whom, as it often happens when travelling, we shared a brief conversation and a coffee while sitting in adjacent tables in the […]
Pope Francis 1st
7th Century Churches on Skellig Michael in County Kerry, Ireland. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― St. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi When I first heard that there was to be a new Pope, I admit, it […]
Astrology for the Masses – Hitting Fertile Ground
Over the years of studying astrology one key theme for me has been how to take astrology’s mass popular appeal to the next level, so that it becomes more meaningful and thought provoking to a wider audience. The Faculty and other astrological groups provide the education for those already seriously interested in the subject to […]
Who’s Knocking At The Door?
When we talk about transits to the Ascendant, we usually think of the conjunction as being the most powerful. And indeed it is, for it generally heralds a process of rebirth, anything from a radical change in our appearance to a complete revision of how we see the world, and therefore act in it. Planets […]
Surrender and Liminality in Crossing Boundaries – Mercury and Saturn as Travel Companions
Traveling is a great way to experience Mercury’s field of action, especially when it is retrograde. I just returned from a long trip to Brazil. My entire journey happened during Mercury’s retrograde phase and what a lesson that was in RE-learning, RE-viewing, RE-imagining, and RE-connecting. After many hours of flying and waiting at various airports, […]
You Can Choose Your Friends…
The recent addition of a new optional half-module – The Astrology of the Family – to the Faculty’s course material has prompted me to look once again at my own family’s charts. One of the most important moments for me as a student of astrology was when I realised that no matter how familiar I […]
Spirituality and Illusory Reality: Neptune in the City of Angels by Anne Stuecker
Ever since I first learned that Neptune symbolizes both glamour and spirituality, I’ve been trying to reconcile these two concepts as one archetype. My perspective has been shaped by a background that includes the practice of religions espousing a doctrine of asceticism, whereby glamour is seen as something “worldly” or “unspiritual”. One of the problems […]
The Anti-Pluto by Amy Elliot
I have been fascinated by Orcus since the time of its discovery in 2004. The plutinos as a group appear to be of increasing interest, but Orcus immediately captures the astrological imagination thanks to one specific fact: its orbital period is virtually identical to that of Pluto, and it is always constrained to be at […]
Saturn – The Icing On The Cake by Leslee Griffiths
Having a broad awareness of Astrology since my twenties I have spent the last thirty odd years (and they have been very odd at times!) being totally fed up that I have a Moon-Saturn opposition combining with Neptune conjunct Venus to form what I always considered to be a ‘nasty little T-Square’, the bane of […]