Breaking Routing Blocks in MH Extension The routing of the Midheaven throughout the horoscope in the Midheaven Extension Process can run into apparent dead-ends. This will happen when, working with dispositor dynamics, we fall into a repetitive loop usually involved with a mutual reception, or when we encounter a planet in its own Sign, a…
View detailsSolar Return Interpretation InsightsBy guest astrologer Mary Fortier SheaMary Shea (PMAFA since 1980) has made a lifelong study of mysticism and metaphysics, which she integrates with psychological concepts in her astrology. She has her M.A. in Counseling Psychology. Her book Planets in Solar Returns is probably the most celebrated treatise on Solar Returns extant. She resides in…
View detailsOften, as we organize analysis structures in the horoscope, we can feel certain specific components “getting together” in the client’s reality, in his or her persona. It is very real that different parts of personality make-up work together: Sun-Jupiter in Leo in the 7th will work very hard in relation to, say, Saturn-rx phenomenology in the horoscope;…
View detailsMaking the Deduction Leap; Opening up to Inspiration We astrologers are mediums. That doesn’t mean we commune with spirits and translate arcane messages from another dimension, but it does mean that we facilitate into being our personal creativity, our individual intuition: that goes through some conditioning and modification process inside us and is brought from…
View detailsEmpty Houses and Those Planets in the 12th! All beginning astrologers come up with these two questions: what about those Houses that are empty? And “Yikes, what about those planets in the 12th House I’ve heard such awful things about?” Untenanted (empty) Houses are assimilated in analysis through the planet ruling the cusp on the particular…
View detailsThe Vertex Axis: A Special Doorwayby guest astrologer Alice McDermott Alice McDermott is an eminent Australian Astrologer who, as Alice Portman, has consulted and taught professionally for 35 years. In 1984, she received her Professional Member of the Federation of Australian Astrologers (PMFAA) qualification and became an Examiner for the FAA in 1986-1988. She first…
View detailsThe Sabian Symbol Analytical Weave The Analytical Techniques essay for November 30, 2004 [see Archives following this essay] was written by guest astrologer-author Blain Bovee, whose splendid book, The Sabian Symbols & Astrological Analysis had just been published. –I would like to echo his Symbols interpretation essay with this one, six months later, focusing on the practical…
View detailsPivotal Understandings of the Mind-Set 3rd When we remove the planets from our view of the horoscope, we see the stark, dramatic inter-relationship among the Houses, the fields of experience through which we traffic in our growth and development. The 3rd House is pivotal to our understanding of life experience and our expression of it.…
View detailsHouse Sale: the AstroPlan, the Prediction, the Success To set the scene, we go back twelve years. In 1993, I was determined to move to the Phoenix, Arizona area. The weather there had attracted me for years and during many visits. I wanted my dream house to be there. My wife and I decided to…
View detailsWhy We Need to Study Hellenistic Astrologyby guest astrologer, Robert H. Schmidt Robert was educated at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, the original “great books” school. For the past 15 years, he has dedicated his training in classical languages, the history of science, and the history of philosophy to the problem of astrology. Robert…
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