By now I am confident that everyone is familiar with the infamous “Slap Heard Round the World” (which we will refer to as The Slap). Back in 2022, during the 94th Academy Awards, Will Smith lost his cool on national TV, walked on stage, and slapped the host, Chris Rock, in response to a joke …
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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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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“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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
On August 29th, 1949, an astronomer in South Africa discovered asteroid 2651. This asteroid was later named “Karen” by a member of an astronomical society in the United States after his sister-in-law and fellow physics major from college. From an astronomical perspective, there is nothing particularly spectacular about this asteroid. But its name has gained …
There have been many Spider-Man movies over the years and different actors to portray this super hero. Tobey Maguire was the first actor to portray this character in a major motion picture. Because he is the original, he is often viewed as the first true Spider-Man by fans.[i] As a result, his natal chart may …
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The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, but 20% of its incarcerated population. Almost 1 out of every 100 individuals in this country is in prison. These statistics are absolutely insane and not arbitrary. To stand out as such an extreme outlier is an indication that something is clearly wrong. This …
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