How To Use Fixed Stars

How does one use fixed stars in the birthchart? There are two methods nowadays. 1) The fixed stars longitude method on the ecliptic or 2) The visual astrology of parans. The ecliptic is the path the Sun takes to travel around the earth, and it comprises the 360 degrees of the zodiac. The use of fixed stars in astrology goes back thousands of years, but since many of the important books were probably burnt in the fire of the great library in Alexandra we will never really know how fixed stars in astrology were really used astrologically as opposed to astronomically.

Jupiter Meets Uranus while Typing on a Weekend!

Typing on the Weekend of June 22–24, 2012

by Jude Cowell

Since this weekend is the last for composing and setting up my new subscription newsletter Stars Over Washington Monthly by early July, you can imagine that typing is keeping me tres busy and I won’t be hanging out much here on my SO’W blog until Monday or Tuesday–crazy events in Washington DC notwithstanding. No, it isn’t a weekend

Close To The Finish Line With Saturn Direct

Time for some good news; Saturn in Libra goes direct on June 25th! Some of you (especially those with planets between 22-29 degrees Libra) may barely be able to muster a grimace. It’s been a looong, painful journey that won’t … Contin…

Whose Dreams Are You Dreaming?

Like all things numinous and mysterious, the point of astrology is not always something that can be put into words. It’s poetic, it’s slantwise, it’s a feeling, an image, a fleeting thing. And just when you think you have it all pinned down and neatly …

Weekend Love Forecast

“Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro, not fast, not slow… and if you think you can’t swing high, swing low!”
–The Ink Spots

Weekend Love Forecast

“Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro, not fast, not slow… and if you think you can’t swing high, swing low!”
–The Ink Spots