Deluge

Mundane astrology is an all but forgotten art. For instance, every time we have an air crash, like the AirFrance accident, we see astrologers running to find the correct event chart of departure. “See? Pluto was on the ascendant!”. “oh, the sabian symbols tells the whole story”.
Well, if you could use electional astrology this way, [...]

Firdar

I was answering a question about Firdar, and because of the problems in space, I thought that it would better to transform my answer into an proper post.
The Firdar is a method of “time lords”. What it does is to cut your life into little “slices” of time, each of these slices are ruled by [...]

What is the house of…?

I have noticed a trend of asking “What is the house of …” in several forums, for example:

What is the house for the ex-wife?
What is the house of redundancy?
What is the house of diets?
What house rules secrets?
What is the house of Mantras?
What house rules jealously?

Notice that there is not anything wrong in asking this questions. [...]

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 [...]

Reception and aspects in horary

Many articles were written about reception. The ones I recommend are from skyscript:

Lilly´s use of reception in horary
A brief comparison of the use of reception in history
Mashalah – what is reception ?
Steven Birchfield – Reception (the original article was in english but disappeared, god knows why, so I am using an translation to portuguese, and [...]

Air crashes

Every time a plane crashes, astrologers go out from their caves, go down from their trees, and took a chart from the plane´s take off to honor their hindsight muscles:
“OH, see how troubled this chart is ? That plane was FATED to crash. If at least astrologers would be hired to run airports…”
But in practice, [...]