Category: Astro Basics
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A Different Type of Time Lord- Profections and the Solar Return Chart
Warning: technical astro faffing about is below. Where the last 2 posts are intended for astro peeps/students, this one is even more technical & potentially confusing. You have been warned… I’ll be back to my usual irreverent self tomorrow. Another traditional method of predictive astrology, profections is one of those techniques which is difficult to…
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Solar Returns Pt 2
To finish off from yesterday, before looking at the natal chart, check out also: Much as you would a normal chart, are the planets scattered or concentrated in one hemisphere of the chart. Eg mine are concentrated under the horizon. It’s all about me. Much as you would a natal chart check out the position…
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Solar Return Charts Pt 1
Warning: This is one for Astro peeps/students/whatever. Happy to field any questions. It’s blackboard & chalk time. Astro 102- how to read a Solar Return chart. The Solar Return is a really old predictive astrology tool. It’s not great from a timing viewpoint, but is great when combined with transits & progressions at looking at…
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Look…a book…
I get a lot of questions from people wanting to know some good books to learn from. Astrology is one of those subjects that you never stop learning from. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on the credit card debt) there are plenty of great authors and publications out there. I tend to not be a real scholarly…
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Part of Fortune
OK, one for the astro peeps. I have popped this onto the astro basics page as well. If you want further info on the Arabic Parts (you might be interested in knowing the strength of your barley crop this year and possibly need to calculate the Part of Barley), check out Robert Zoller’s book The…
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A Horse Race and a Horary
The race that stops a nation has been run and won…but not by anything I had my money on. Is Australia the only country in the world where everything- Parliament, normal business, everything stops for a few minutes at 3pm Daylight Davings Time on the first Tuesday in November to watch a horse race? But…
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Another Horary- St Kilda Can Bust
Warning- this is one for the astro-peeps- technical warning ahead. WTF? In being unable to do anything constructive except groan, faint and look pale & interesting over the last 24 hours, I had to get my daughter to update a friends’ Facebook page with my prediction for todays AFL Grand Final replay. My message was…
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Elementally Speaking
This is a post for the Astro Basics page…so for non Astro peeps, this comes with a long post and technical post warning! Every Sunday night I cast an experienced eye over the height of my ironing basket and make a judgement regarding the approximate number of glasses of wine required to get to the bottom…
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But Why? Part 1
I love Google. When the goldfish on my desk at work was recently ill, I googled the symptoms and got a wealth of forum information…ok, not all of it was perfectly reliable. My Gemini friend took it one step further and googled “how do you perform swim bladder surgery on a goldfish?” Surprisingly there were…