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…]
September 6, 2010
Most astrologers and students of astrology always heard that astrology was a millennial art, but in fact they didn´t know much about all those millenia. In fact, most of us only had access to the psycho babble thing, “does my sign combine with his?” until 10-20 years ago. Many people complain against Alan Leo and other 19th century astrologers,… [Read more…]
October 2, 2009
Strength and weakness in astrology. There are two concepts that are important in western astrology: essencial dignity and accidental dignity. This is the renaissance vocabulary and it is not the best, but is probably the best known version of the concept, so I will stick with it (no need to every astrologer to adopt their… [Read more…]
July 28, 2009
Inspired by Letterman, I tried to put the ten top signs that you are troll astrologer. Most of them are inspired by my recent experiences as an moderator on several forums, as we always have lots of them. While trolls usually are trying just to create disruption on an internet community, troll astrologers are usually… [Read more…]
July 21, 2009
Where there´s smoke, there is always also fire? In the last few years, in our thinking and in the culture it seems that the “scientific method” is starting to get very mixed with “statistical method”. There is a lot of mistakes in this thinking, of course. And as people feel that “only what is scientific… [Read more…]
June 7, 2009
I was reading “electional astrology – the art of timing” by Joann Hampar, and I was wondering how many of electional astrology greatest results are ” Bear Alarm”. I took the “bear alarm” from an episode of The Simpsons: Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm! Lisa:… [Read more…]
March 15, 2009
I was watching House the other day. Thirteen was beginning her clinical trial with a new medication, and Cartman discovers that she is taking the Placebo and not the real medicine. One day I will do a comparation between the methods of CSI and House, but for now, let´s focus on this example The Experimental… [Read more…]
February 3, 2009
One of the things that writers of Sci-Fi like the most are the travels through time. There are several plot lines that are very common and I would like to discuss them. Later I will get back to astrology, I promise. The Paradox history line. Well, if you can go back in time, the obvious… [Read more…]
January 24, 2009
As everybody already know, Obama already took a second oath, because of a minor technicality. So, we have two oaths, a great hit for the modern astrologers, which disregard the noon as the beginning of the presidential term, and think that the oath is the only important moment. I said in my previous post about… [Read more…]
January 20, 2009
I still am thinking about the chart of the inauguration of Obama, so this post is not my final analysis. What bothers with our understanding of event charts is that, although we have a lot of traditional sources with advices for electional astrology, the fact is that few astrologers use them in an “everyday basis”,… [Read more…]
February 6, 2011
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