Venus in retrograde motion is comparatively rare: it is retrograde for 40-43 days every 18 months; that means Venus is retrograde about 7% of the time, in an unbroken period of time, every year-and-a-half. –We are surprised, startled to see Venus-Rx in a horoscope; we don’t know quite what to make of it. We are…
View detailsLet’s take –hopefully– a sophisticated look at Pluto by House, not to memorize any excitingly apt specific, but to appreciate the feel, the reasoning of the positions, supporting rich analytical awareness. [Much of this overview is drawn from Synthesis & Counseling in Astrologybeginning on page 191.] I have long presented the planetary archetype of Pluto as “perspective.” It symbolizes our…
View detailsI have long presented publicly the astrological projection that Charles, Prince of Wales, would never be King of England. I announced the projection first in a Seminar for the Arizona Society of Astrologers in Mid-1993 in Phoenix, and then I published a reinforcement of it through my statistical research of British ascendancy to the throne…
View detailsThe Moon symbolizes all of memory. Just as it collects the light of the Sun, it collects symbolically the experiences of our life, pointedly aligned around the reigning need of our life development process. -This is not just recalling a phone number or a movie from a few years back, but the experiential imprints of who and why…
View detailsSome 30 years ago, a businessman client (who is still active with me) and I were conferring on the telephone. He was reporting/confirming that he had just received a major job offer that would require a relocation etc. We had explored this potential in an earlier consultation: [tr Uranus conjunct his Midheaven] I asked him if…
View detailsKathy Rose is a Highest Honors Graduate of Noel Tyl’s Master’s Degree Certification Program. She has enjoyed a thriving astrological practice for over 20 years, with clients around the world. Her articles have been published by The Mountain Astrologer magazine, and she produces a monthly New Moon Video available at www.roseastrology.com. Kathy can be reached at roseastrology@yahoo.com…
View details–The one YOU make!– Think of the first impression you had about each person you met/dealt with yesterday, this morning! Really; give it some detailed thought. –Be aware of the value judgments involved! The day before yesterday, I was involved with three other people in a difficult situation: a City Construction Inspector was answering a…
View detailsby guest astrologer James Kenneth Williams James Kenneth Williams has practiced Western astrology for over 20 years and Eastern astrology (Jyotish) for over 15 years. His education and experience include certification from the state of California as a school counselor and clinical hypnotherapist. He has also worked with hospice, and as a social worker within…
View detailsby guest astrologer Alice McDermott Alice McDermott is an eminent Australian astrologer who, as Alice Portman, has consulted and taught astrology professionally for 35 years. In 1984, she received her Professional Member of the Federation of Australian Astrologers (PMFAA) qualification and became Examiner of the FAA in 1986-88 Duads or Dwads are both correct ways…
View detailsTo begin Das Rheingold, the first opera of Wagner’s incomparable four-opera music drama, Der Ring des Niebelungen, the composer wrote 136 consecutive measures in unchanging presentation of an E-flat chordal arpeggio!Unrelenting, unceasing: the sound of E-flat. His purpose here is to bring us deep into the Rhein river . and the lush tonality repeated for so long…
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