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Venus returning
Since around the year 2000 I've been keeping an eye out for significant events occurring around the heliacal rising of Venus, when she returns to the morning sky. According to Bruce Scofield in Signs...
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Venus and Transformation
The nineteen month cycle of Venus involves a very elegant dance between four partners: Venus, Sun, Earth and Moon. At inferior conjunction, Venus is between the Sun and the Earth, and at her closest...
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Ukraine Independence Chart
I don't know enough about the history or culture of Ukraine to do an in-depth analysis of it, but it strikes me that the shape of its Independence chart says a lot about where it finds itself today.If...
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Chariklo has rings!
I've just discovered that Chariklo - my favourite Centaur - has rings. Two very thin ones. And when there are rings, there are often 'shepherd' moons so astronomers are now looking out for them, too....
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The Centaurs and Longevity
These thoughts arose from a comment Melanie Reinhart made at our Spring Seminar on 'Ancestral Healing: Chiron and the Centaurs' yesterday. She made the observation that Pholus – the second Centaur to...
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Vocation, Daimon and Destiny
'If you have a vocation, you work to support it– not the other way round.' This came up in our seminar last week and I've been pondering it ever since. 'Vocation' literally means a calling – it's that...
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Nessus – revenge from beyond the grave
When I heard that Gerry Adams had been arrested and was being questioned about the abduction and murder of Jean McConville yesterday, my immediate thought was that there must be a Nessus connection. If...
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Pholus: lid on, lid off and in the Underworld
The Centaur Pholus has a very elliptical orbit which takes him from the realm of Saturn to that of Pluto, crossing the orbits of Uranus and Neptune as he goes. So he covers a lot of territory and has...
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Pholus in the nineteenth century
I've been looking at, and musing over, the last two cycles of Pholus – which conveniently span two centuries. But they're so different, I've been asking myself where does Pholus fit in all this, if at...
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Pholus in the twentieth century and beyond
Pholus was next at perihelion at the start of the twentieth century, on 4 February 1901. The period he was in Saturn's realm – and the lid was on the jar – stretched from 1897 to early 1904. I'd found...
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Titanic - a personal quest
When I arrived at the Astrological Association's Library Open Day last Saturday, the Librarian was holding a book in her hand. 'I think you'll find this interesting,' she said. How right she was!The...
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Into Neptune's Realm
When the Titanic left Queenstown, County Cork, at 13:30 on 11th April 1912, it left behind the safe haven of land and entered the realm of Neptune, Lord of the Sea. If the chart is turned to put...
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Life goes on
Do the dead remain active after they've left us? They live on in our memories, of course, but what if one of those major forks in the road – like the return of one of the slow-moving planets – presents...
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The October Lunar Eclipse and Ebola
The recent lunar eclipse, although not visible in West Africa, has Mars rising through Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. This country is currently struggling to contain the disease and has experienced...
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Venus and the Eclipse
As many of you will know, there's a solar eclipse on 23rd October at the very beginning of Scorpio – 00o 24'. However, there are a couple of other events around the same time involving Venus. The first...
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Solar Fire 8 on Linux Mint 13
Linux and AstrologyOne of the major barriers that astrologers face in adopting the Linux operating system is the limited choice of astrological software available on the platform. If you wish to...
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Charles Carter's Forgotten House System - Poli Equatorial Houses
p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { }Charles Carter was one of the great English astrologers of the twentieth century. With Alan Leo, John Addey and Charles Harvey, Carter transformed astrology in...
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FORTHCOMING UK GENERAL ELECTION (7 MAY 2015) by Richard Burch. Though the effects of the current 3-year long Uranus-Pluto square may be starting to wane, the last of seven...
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The Definition of the Midheaven
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }The midheaven, or MC (from Medium Coeli), is one of the angles of the horoscope. The other principal angle is the ascendant. The identification of the...
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Some thoughts on the Greek General Election
Belatedly, I decided to take a look at the chart for Greece as the people prepare to vote in what could be a ground-shifting election tomorrow. I've used the chart drawn up for the swearing-in of...
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