The planets can also be grouped according to the areas of the psyche or the human experience that they govern. Besides the luminaries, the classical pairing of the Sun and Moon, there are three categories: Personal planets, interpersonal planets, and transpersonal planets. Luminaries: The Sun and the Moon, the two basic facets of the personality. [...]
Archive | May, 2010
Mutable Energy and Making Connections (audio)
Every Thursday I get together in the KKNW studios with Melanie Farmer and Keesha Ewers, ARNP, to talk about astrology and ways to incorporate knowledge into your health and everyday life. This week, we read charts live, on the air, for Keesha the host and Valerie, our board engineer. During the first part of the [...]
Planetary Sect: Super-Fast Edition
There are descriptions out there about planetary sect that are way, way more detailed. This is the quick and dirty version. There are a huge number of ways to categorize a chart and the planets in it, and to calculate how strong or weak those planets are. Categorization by sect divides the planets into diurnal [...]
Transits 101
There are two main types of transits: Aspects being made between planets at a given point in time. This is a bit like a weather report- these transits describe the factors affecting society and mundane events. For example, “Venus conjoins Mars at 29 Pisces today”, “The Moon squares Mercury at 8:15pm EST tonight”, or “tomorrow [...]
Prenatal Eclipses
At the last WSAA meeting Mark Dodich gave a great talk on the use of prenatal eclipses in the horoscope. I had run across this technique before, in Jan Spiller’s writing and in a couple other places, but this was the first time I was able to grasp it thoroughly. The quick and dirty version: [...]
Books are Hot.
Last summer I went on a used-astrology-book-buying spree over several weeks, and wrote a series of posts documenting the massive haul. Now that it’s been the better part of a year, I can safely say I don’t regret buying any of them. Therefore, they are all at least mildly recommended. So if you just can’t [...]
Ask the Astrologer #5 – Learning to Deal
On Thursdays I answer astrology questions I’ve received through email or the search bar. If you have a question, contact me and yours might be answered next! How can a Pisces learn not to be emotional? The old saw about the leopard not changing its spots springs to mind here. The objective is really to [...]
A Bit of Vedic Astrology, and Taurus Talk (audio)
Last Thursday Melanie Farmer and I got together in the T-Mobile building again with Keesha Ewers, ARNP, to bring you half an hour of practical astrology on KKNW 1150AM. During the first fifteen minutes of the program, Melanie gives a terrific overview of the planets in the Vedic tradition and how they relate to body [...]
5 Very Nerdy Astrology Links
I don’t do link posts very often. However, as an unabashed nerd I am growing a collection of areas that I find interesting but are terribly obscure, involve a painful amount of calculation, or both. Here are a few articles on various nerdy astrological topics: Why Are So Many Computer Geniuses Born in 1955? This [...]
On the Ascendant: Transiting Mars Redux
This post is part of an occasional series about the Ascendant in your horoscope. Today Mars finally leaves the retrograde shadow after being stationary, Rx, or shadowed in some way since last October. All my chart angles—ascendant, midheaven, descendant, and nadir—are in fixed signs. My ascendant is at 14.48 Leo. Back in late November of [...]
