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 own [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Analysis and Critics’
October 2, 2009
Weakness and Strength in astrology
July 28, 2009
Top 11 signs you are a troll astrologer
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 [...]
July 21, 2009
A little bit of association
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 is [...]
June 7, 2009
Electional astrology and “Bear alarm” systems
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: That’s specious [...]
March 15, 2009
House and double blind
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 [...]
February 3, 2009
Time traveling
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 consequence is [...]
January 24, 2009
Obama oath… again ?
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 Obama´s Inauguration:
The [...]
January 20, 2009
Obama´s Inauguration
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”, so [...]
January 12, 2009
5 Differences between modern and traditional astrology
I don´t think that the real difference of modern astrology from traditional is the use of outer planets of that modern astrologers don´t know their terms anymore. I think that the principal difference lies on non technical aspects.
Modern astrology is sometimes seens as a “development” of traditional astrology. This is not true. Traditional occidental astrology [...]
January 8, 2009
Considerations before judgement
One of the most important branches of traditional astrology is called Horary Astrology. Is the chart casted for a question made, in a concrete way, by the querent to the astrologer. Good blogs on horary astrology are Gryphonastrology and Ask Cristine. Examples of these questions are things like “will I marry X ?”, “where is [...]
