Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the great couturier , was born on August 19, 1883 in Saumur France at 4 PM. Her ascendant is 30 Sagittarius, a secret business meeting, apropos for someone who held court with the Nazi SS during the Second World War. It is also conjunct the Galactic Center (26 Sagittarius), that imaginary point... Continue Reading →
The Bodhan Krusinski of Poland system starts us off on this cycle, as we being our tour around the 50 states. His method uses the hypothetical Zenith as the dividing point into his great circle. He then divides the Arc into equal 30 degree sectors that are projected onto the ecliptic to get the cups... Continue Reading →
Our header picture is of Bill and Diana Roche, a casualty of the Blood Eclipse. But it may have been a rough week for many, with the after effects of the Blood Eclipse, highlighting many a fatality. Even deaths that were expected from old age or illness, are always a shock to the system --... Continue Reading →
We mentioned previously that Elbert Hubbard was the first horoscope in How to Learn Astrology with a full complement of astrological symbology. Sigmund Freud is part of the earlier lessons where Marc Jones uses his "piano key" to highlight what the student should focus on. In a B&W publishing word, the piano keys were a... Continue Reading →
In calculating the planetary hours for Sunday, for example, first you look up the time of Sunrise in the newspaper. Then you designate the first hour to the Sun, the ruler of Sundays. The rest of the hours follow a set sequence – Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars. Historically a planetary hour is... Continue Reading →
Our header picture is Mel Colm-Cille Gerard and Robyn Denise Gibson way back in 1981 when they newly married. He seems to favour that look: tall and dark haired, as all three mothers of his cumulative nine children resemble each other. This is a Midpoint Tree produced by Kepler software. Lots of other software... Continue Reading →
Marc Jones looked at the Dial and decided against it, preferring to use the semi-sextile, sesquiquadrate and semi-square. Indeed now with modern software one can divvy up the whole chart into 22.5 - 45 or 135 degree angles very easily and ignore the dial, so it is a preference. Others go with John Addey and... Continue Reading →
by Johan Elverskog* This week for Chinese New Year we bring you a scholastic paper from Medieval history Journal on the Chinese and Mongolian contributions to medieval astrology. The original paper, in toto, is below. Astrology in pre-modern Eurasia, was fundamentally about orienting oneself—and one’s realm—in time and space and, as such, by bringing order... Continue Reading →
The wheel or map is the basic structure that a horoscope is fitted into. It is a 360º circle -- all circles are 360º, a simple round sphere. This circle is then divided into twelve parts, one part for each sign of the zodiac. There are twelve signs. Depending upon the house method you use,... Continue Reading →
I originally submitted this only to members of the Sabian Assembly, but as sixty days have passed since the initial release, the newsletter is now freely available. We will post the Notables from pages 3-4 in the next several months. Download the Sabian Earth Newsletter here.pdf
