Ancient astrology was good at predicting. Back in the days before psychology, astrology was perfected as a predictive art. I won’t go into the reasons for its demise here, but thankfully, many of the older philosophies and techniques have been being recovered by skilled astrologer-linguists in recent decades. Two of Read more…
A Facebook friend posted earlier today about how people are being jerks all around and you would think that Mercury is still retrograde. Excuse me for harping on this issue, but there is a lot going on astrologically, all the time, that has nothing to do with Mercury. Or retrogrades. Read more…
I was recently catching up on one of my favorite blogs, Christopher Warnock’s Renaissance Astrology Blog (we pre-Enlightenment types have to stick together, you know). Reading the post on retrogrades, I had to agree with him wholeheartedly. If you haven’t read my own posts on retrogrades, go here to find Read more…
Retrogrades 2010 All events are given for Midnight at Greenwich Mean Time If you’re not sure what the “Stationary” refers to, please see the prior post. StationaryRetrograde Retro StationaryDirect Direct Mercury 24 Dec (’09) 27 Dec (’09) 27º Cap 14 Jan 16 Jan 5º Read more…
Modern astrology posits that when a planet that goes retrograde and then direct, it also passes through a “shadow” connected to that cycle. The idea is that, for example, if Mercury goes retrograde at, say, 12º Taurus, and then travels back to 2º Taurus, then the “pre-shadow” period is from the Read more…
In the previous post, I outlined a few ways in which a retrograde planet might affect someone personally: the person is heavily ruled by the planet that is retrograde the person is in a planetary period ruled by the retrograde planet the retrograde planet is aspecting a person’s chart directly Read more…
Before listing the actual dates (in a later post), let me make a few comments about retrograde cycles in general and what to do with them. Retrograde Cycles Outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) spend almost half the year retrograde, and they don’t rule zodiacal signs, so for most purposes, one Read more…
Click here for Part 1. Picking up where Part 2 left off… Dignity So then what exactly is “dignity”? The simplest explanation is that a planet that is essentially dignified (that is, which has dignity based primarily on what sign it is in), gets to work the way it wants Read more…
Click here for Part 1. When I first learned astrology, I learned from the astrologer who first read my chart. She and her business partner taught some introductory courses, and I was fascinated. I started to read everything I could on the subject. I learned, for example, that Venus “rules” Read more…
This is the first of what will undoubtedly be many posts on this subject. I’ll try to keep each one on the short side. I don’t really like reading long blog posts myself, but occasionally they are necessary to elucidate a point. Astrology from the Classical through the Medieval period Read more…