Weakness and Strength in astrology

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 [...]

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 [...]

Zombies vs Vampires

In the last presidential election, astrologers from all around the world got out of their caves and made one thing that they rarely do: predictions. So, it is not to wander why only 50% of them got it right…
First of all, as Deborah Houlding commented, there was no need of astrology at all. Good and [...]

Notes about Ptolemy on Carreer

1 -Ptolemy discuss “carreer” in chapter IV-04, of the “quality of action“. Other astrologers usually called it the significators of profession, or things like that
” The lord of action is apprehended by two methods, from the sun and from the culminating sign. For it will be needful to look both for the planet that has [...]

Horary Test – Will I get the job

This is a horary “mystery chart”. You can put your answer in the comments. I will give the result friday at night.
Question – Will I get the job?
Background – A colleague from my course said that there was an opening in their department at the university. I had an interview with a few coordinators booked [...]

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 [...]

Oscar season

This sunday, 22 February, we will have again the Oscars, with the 81st Academy Awards.
Astrology is always working. All the time. Even during the Oscars, or football´s games. So, if we look at the heavens, we can look at what is bring to our attention.
It is always an interesting exercise to look for correlations between [...]

What is traditional astrology ?

It seems likethat there should exist a very simple and straightforward answer to that question. But I am not so sure there is.
The history of astrology
In a very, very brief abstract of the history of astrology, we could say that there are four great periods in western astrology.
1- Babilonic origins.
Everything in the period babilonic is [...]

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 [...]

Beginning of the blog

Hi, this is the electional chart to this blog. The purpose of this blog is to teach and discuss ideas about traditional astrology.
Most people think that astrology is just about sun-sign astrology. Nothing is more far from the truth. There are several branches and applications of astrology that most people never heard of.
One of this [...]