Innovation and experimentation are the life blood of our work. We cannot “see” the cycles and energies and symbolic connections of an astrology chart, so it is important to explore possibilities and potentialities. One recent innovation is the composite chart, discovered by John Townley in the early 1970s. The composite chart is a unique chart …
A strange thing happened to me on March 7, 2025. For a Friday, there was not anything necessarily spectacular about it other than it was the end of the work week. I was busy. Had a handful errands to wrap up and variety of tasks related to my astrological work that needed to be completed. …
It has been a wild year and even wilder couple of weeks. Many in the United States are reeling from the recent presidential election and still mentally processing everything. I would like to address this from an astrological perspective, but some of it is going to be pretty heavy and ominous. If you need to …
For those of you who may not be aware, there is an obscure little asteroid called “Astro Wizard.” Asteroid 24626 was discovered in 1980 and named after a science and astronomy educator who performed at public events wearing a wizard costume and named “The Astro Wizard.” This naming is interesting because if we have learned …
This is a tense time right now. As usual, many astrological predictions have focused on the upcoming election in the United States, but I am more concerned with the post-election period. Why? Because it coincides with the upcoming Mars retrograde cycle. The main retrograde period is from 12/7 until 2/24, but if we include the …
About a year and a half ago I posted an article analyzing the part (or lot) of fortune (POF). That lengthy analysis dove deep into the impact that this all-important calculated point had on the lives of some of the most famously wealthy individuals. I promised a follow up to that article, so this addendum …
Continue reading Winning & Losing: Analyzing the Part of Victory
Astrological timing can be mind-blowing and really make one question the nature of reality. What I am talking about is the precision between the manifestation of an event and the planetary movements that correlated with it. Sometimes that correlation is literally within minutes of each other. There is a great example of this. Are you …
Sequential Topic Theory: Tracing America’s Story Through its Presidents In a previous article, I offered an introduction to derived house methodology. There is a unique rule connected to this methodology that many within the astrological community have been applying for years. There is not a name for this rule so I will refer to it …
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Over the past decade, the country of Venezuela has devolved into one of biggest humanitarian dumpster fires in the world. From 2017 - 2021, over 90% of the population was living in poverty. As of 2023, there are almost 8 million refugees in exodus. It is a total economic disaster and nothing short than a …
Continue reading Venezuela in Crisis: The Intersection of Economic Theory & Astrology
“Bohemian Rhapsody” is the epic rock opera masterpiece by the rock band, Queen. At the time, this song redefined what a rock song could be. It is not only on most short lists of greatest rock songs ever created, but also the short lists of greatest songs ever created, period. For a song with this …
Fables, stories, and fairy tales offer extremely vivid expressions of archetypes. There is something about the timeless nature of these stories that seems to resonate with something eternal in us. One of the most enduring of these is the fairy tale, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” I probably do not need to provide the …
Continue reading Snow White Reflected Through the Mirror of Astrology
Persona charts are an astrological technique developed by German astrologers Peter Orban and Ingrid Zinnel. It is a chart that is constructed for the moment when the Sun makes it initial transiting conjunction to a natal planet. For example, when the transiting Sun reaches Mars for the first time after birth that chart is known …
Believe it or not, there are historians out here doing astrological work without knowing they are doing it. Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe published a book entitled, “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy.” Its basic premise is that modern history moves in specific cycles called saeculums, which represent 80 - 100 years …
Continue reading The Rise of Modernity, the Arrival of Uranus & the 4th Turning Crisis
Once you have been studying astrology long enough you discover that you possess all 12 zodiacal signs in some combination. And we are not just talking about the standard natal chart here. There is a myriad of various charts (i.e. harmonic, progressed, composite, solar arc, etc) that correspond to our energies. When all charts are …
Continue reading Draconic Astrology & the Synastry of the Soul
Secondary progressions are a standard method of timing in astrology, but also a system that operates very different from transits. The positions of planets by secondary progression do not correlate to their actual, current positions in the sky but instead in the past. With this system, each year of life equates to one day of …
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