Ten years ago, I wrote a post pointing out that this expression is an astrological one. We use it at someone’s birthday to wish them well. At a person’s birthday, give or take a day, the Sun returns to the same place it was in the zodiac as when the Read more…
This year, Jupiter and Saturn conjoined in Aquarius. It’s a meeting that happens every 20 years, but rotating through signs. In another post, I wrote about what these conjunctions mean in general for world events and the direction that “things” might go.But what does it mean for you this year? Read more…
Today’s Solar Eclipse occurs just after midnight Dec 26 EST (still Dec 25 in other US time zones). It’s annular (meaning ring-like) which means that the Moon’s apparent diameter will be a bit smaller than the Sun’s, making the light of the Sun appear as a ring around the Moon. Read more…
It’s been too long since my last rant about the utter lack of philosophical underpinnings of modern astrology. So here goes.I was reading an astrology blog today that points out that Venus is moving into the sign of Leo on Thursday of this coming week. It mentions parenthetically that Venus Read more…
One of my ongoing complaints is the lack of clarity in Modern Astrology. Nowhere is this more manifest in the technique that is referred to as the 12-letter alphabet. This is a thoroughly modern concept which was first introduced in 1973 in Finding the Person in the Horoscope by Zipporah Read more…
… and Many Happy ReturnsWe’ve all heard the expression: “Happy Birthday, and Many Happy Returns!” But did you know that this is an astrological expression?“Happy Returns” refers to Solar Returns. The Solar Return was formerly known as a “Revolution.” Not the violent, government-overthrowing type, but in the original sense of Read more…
I was recently at a meeting of about thirty-five people, where a few of the folks on the team didn’t know each other very well. One of the leaders of the group suggested that while going around and introducing ourselves and which piece of the project we were working on Read more…
In the past few years, the career of Betty White, veteran actor, has seen a huge boost once again. Her work has spanned over 7 decades, since she began modeling at age 17. Although investigating overall fame is beyond the scope of this post, I thought that it might be 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…
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…