Bringing Big Conjunctions down to Earth Before you read this essay, I suggest strongly that you draw the following chart: “Jupiter-Saturn conjunction,” January 01, 1981 at 00:19 AM, BGT at Mecca, Saudi Arabia (-03:00; Ascendant 9 Libra 19). This chart shows the extraordinarily symbolically powerful Grand Mutation conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn focused at the…
View detailsThe Astrological Symbolism of the Apogee and empty Focus of the Lunar Orbit –The Black Moon by guest essayist Juan Antonio Revilla of Cosa Rica Juan Antonio Revilla is a professional astrologer from San José, Costa Rica. He started with Astrology in 1974, first inspired by Dane Rudhyar but later by Marc Edmund Jones, whom…
View detailsTo get away from Abjecta Descriptionitis (the disease that plagues most learning astrologers), to avoid the resigned reliance this virus puts on cataloguing meanings in a horoscope, I prescribe two brain pills that will help bring analysis out of the doldrums and put it forward in consultations with on-the-job radiant good health. We shouldn’t look at a…
View detailsFinancial Astrological Techniques For Investingby Jeffrey SpringerJeffrey Springer of Norwood, New Jersey is a graduate of Noel Tyl’s “Master’s Degree Certification Program” (August, 2002). During his work in the Course, Jeffrey began studying in earnest financial astrology and the financial markets in general. Jeffrey passed the Series 65 exam in early 2003 to become a…
View detailsConsideration of this quantitative choice, Too Much or Too Little, is an analytical technique because it is a mind-set within which the analyst frames “gulps” of synthesis. –Just as the presentation about “Why? and To What Extent?” was similarly a guide to analysis preparation [Analytical Techniques, April 28, 2004]. In the opera world, there’s a saying –a…
View detailsRetrogradation Review and Rx Patterning As we devour our learning of astrology, our appetites tend to demand that everything we observe and measure must mean something, have analytical substance. In the sense that the whole is the some of its parts, and in the sense that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, everything in the horoscope does mean…
View detailsWe all know that contradictory measurements in astrology are not easy. There are no rules to guide us, but there is a state of mind that can help. Does night contradict day? Or is there a complementation between the two, one making the other clearer, more manageable? Does sound negate silence? Or is one making the…
View detailsSeeing Vocational Confusion Please erect this chart: Hector Berlioz, December 11, 1803 at 5:00 PM LMT in La Cote Saint Andre, France. [This data is extremely reliably rated; 00 Cancer 29 Ascendant.] Berlioz was an opera and symphonic composer who affected music dramatically throughout the 19th century and certainly beyond. He was regarded as a…
View detailsToo Many Measurements Spoil the Astro-Brothby Guest Astrologer, Basil Fearrington Basil Fearrington is a premiere astrologer in our world. His thoughts are presented strongly at BasilFearrington.com, in his several other “Analytical Techniques” essays and frequent Forum appearances on this website (see Archives), and at TheMetaArts.com site. He is the self-published author of the extremely helpfulMidpoint…
View detailsThe Sabian Symbols & Astrological Analysis”Every word was once a poem”: Ralph Waldo EmersonBy guest astrologer, Blain Bovee Blain Bovee was prominent on the Discussion Forum of this website for some six months of daily analysis commentary of the Sabian Symbols in Astrology. His insights were crystal sharp, remarkable, and valuable. His sensitivity and skill…
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