In jyotish astrology, there are two important systems for electional astrology, based on the moon. The Nakshatras and the thitis The nakshatras are the equivalent of the moon mansions in western astrology. They are equal in size and regular, starting at the 0º of the jyotish zodiac (despite of what many people argue, the lunar… [Read more…]
July 7, 2011
I was seeing some videos and got into total “Fantasia” mode. So, a question to the readers: which video of Fantasia better captures the essence of each planet? This is my list. If you have opinions about it, please, give your list on the comments. I am using both the music and the animation as… [Read more…]
May 29, 2011
The Dawr is a very important technique in Abu Mashar historic astrology. “Dawr” means “time” or “period”, and is a technique used in mundane astrology similar to the more known firdar. Curiosly, although the dawr would be the “mighty firdar” (one of the four scales of mundane firdar), the word “firdar” is never used for this context.… [Read more…]
May 22, 2011
Those of us who work in our homes, in front of the computer, have a great friend and the most vicious enemy created by humanity against ourselves: the internet. Yes, you have the world in your fingertips, but you also have the most vicious destroyer of productivity since the invention of the manager! Besides regular… [Read more…]
May 7, 2011
Recently I traveled to Europe: Berlim, Paris and Geneve. A very beautiful travel and very good memories to carry. In Berlin, in the neues museum, there was this interesting object: The picture is not good, so you can´t see that this is a hat! This one I copied from the site of the neuesmuseum: This interesting… [Read more…]
April 9, 2011
A year ago, I was thinking about writing a book about electional astrology, but of course, life got on the way. Today I am glad I did. For the last few weeks, I have seen time and again that astrologers don´t care about elections or think they are simple. One of the most obvious reasons… [Read more…]
February 13, 2011
I found this lovely picture of Mubarak watching the 2006 eclipse. Don´t dictators learn in mundane astrology 101 class in dictatorship school that presidents never should attend a solar eclipse?! For eclipses funs, it is interesting that the mars of 2006 eclipse is opposing mercury of the January 2011 eclipse (right in the MC of… [Read more…]
February 6, 2011
In the last few weeks, we have seen the whole stupid Ophiucus meme around the net. What this show is not anything new about astrology, as anybody who would visit this blog already knows (I don´t think I will get many hits from sun-sign advice seekers). What this show is the ridiculous standards that “journalism”… [Read more…]
January 25, 2011
Oscar season is again upon us. Last time I bet on the wrong horse. Let´s see if I have better luck this year. (Of course, every astrologer bet on the wrong horse now and then… but is worse when we use the wrong time! I used the time of the beginning of the oscar 8… [Read more…]
August 12, 2011
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