OK. After watching this, I am slightly tempted to erase everything I have ever written about sun sign astrologers. Because it is such a wicked response to this skeptic.
(hat tip: The facebook horoscopic astrology forum)
astrology and foolish wisdom and oracles and tom foolery aquarius, aries, benloka, bill nye, cancer, capricorn, gemini, leo, libra, pisces, sagitarrius, scorpio, taurus, virgo 1:22 am
OK. After watching this, I am slightly tempted to erase everything I have ever written about sun sign astrologers. Because it is such a wicked response to this skeptic.
(hat tip: The facebook horoscopic astrology forum)
astro-gossip and astrologers and astrology and debbie frank and ethics in astrology and general knavery and penny thornton and princess diana and skullduggery d.f.astrol.s, debbie frank, ethics in astrology, faculty of astrological studies, penny thornton, princess diana 12:32 am
I am going to London in March for a week and a friend, who was awarded a Certificate from the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London last year, sent me the link to the Faculty’s Annual Open Day in case I might like to purchase a ticket and attend.
While scrolling down the program page, I noticed at the very bottom that yet another Faculty Diploma holder has been stripped of her D.F.Astrol.S. This would make Debbie Frank the second astrologer to late Princess Diana to be stripped of her Faculty Diploma–the first being Penny Thornton in 1995–for violating several clauses in the Faculty’s code of ethics(pdf), the most serious, of course, being the violation of client confidentiality by speaking and writing publicly about their work as astrologers to the princess.
astrology fidaria, Jupiter, saturn, sunrunner 4:23 pm
A year ago, when I posted a video of Fred Mittle of Young@Heart singing Fix You by Cold Play, I was aware that I was entering a crucial Saturnian period in my life. Not only was I in the midst of a 2 year Saturn period via Fidaria, but transiting Saturn in its detriment, was hanging out in one of my angular houses and hitting a number of personal planets by hard aspect. Etc. But I did not expect that a whole year would go by without a single post, even though Saturn is about slowness, halting and yes, even reversals.
But all that is over, I am now in a Jupiter Fidaria (woo hoo!), transiting Saturn is in a Succedent house, and well, the world out there seems a lot more interesting…as I scroll the astrological ‘net, I notice a few things out there that I am looking forward to having some fun with.
Fun being the operative word! To that Jupiterian end, I have taken the liberty of “rectifying” my nome de Blog from daimones to Sunrunner.
(Photo credit: Foundations of Alter to Zeus at Pergamon from Sacred Destinations)
aries and Around the Blogoverse and astrology and foolish wisdom and liz greene and mars and scorpio clyde tombaugh, liz greene, madalyn hillis-dineen, mars, pluto, scorpio 11:27 pm
Okay. I just have to say a few words about this. My Scorpio friends are beginning to suspect that there is a plot afoot to cut them adrift, to cast then into exile with no planet to call home.
All over the globe this week, charts were redrawn to reflect the change. Unlike astronomers, astrologers seem to have no problem contradicting each other, so there was no need for a convention.
Last weekend in the Miami Herald, Madalyn Tillis-Dineen, president of the dubiously-named Massachusetts-based National Council for Geocosmic Research reassured us, “You could argue that [Pluto’s] demotion would cause a problem for people whose charts prominently feature Pluto, but I don’t see those people suddenly losing their jobs or falling on hard times.”
Around the Blogoverse and astrologers and astrology and oracles 7:05 pm
astrological prediction and astrology and general knavery and media and planets and pluto and rob hand afa, astrologers, astrology, ethics in astrology, isar, ncgr, pluto, rob hand, saturn 3:42 pm
As a whole (except when privately kvetching between themselves behind another’s back), astrologers are quite allergic to criticism; whether providing it thoughtfully or accepting it. It is just not done, constructively or otherwise.
My personal theory is that since the word “astrology” is synonymous with pariah, most astrologers find themselves operating as a kind of functional outlaw, living somewhere on a continuum between a healthy capacity to question authority and a pathological disdain for accountability of any kind.
astro-gossip and astrology and booknotes and chiron and general knavery and melanie reinhart and planets 5:10 pm
That’s right, $1,955.89 (And .89!) making it perhaps the world’s most expensive contemporary astrology book.
I do own a copy of Melanie Reinhart’s Chiron and the Healing Journey. Slightly yellowed due to the oxidation of the bad Penguin paper, but otherwise in pristine condition.
I would be willing to part with it for only $977.60. At just half of the Amazon.com price, a phenomenal bargain, doncha’ think?
Update (Sep 3, 2006): The price has now increased to $2,121.54! My offer to sell my personal copy for only $977.60 still stands.
Update (Sept 14, 2006): the 2,121.54 copy has presumably been sold.
archetypal astrology and archetypes and astrologers and astrology and booknotes and charles harvey and cosmology and cosmos and psyche and general knavery and james hillman and marsilio ficino and richard tarnas and thomas moore c.g. jung, cosmos and psyche, dane rudyar, james hillman, marcilio ficino, mundane astrology, passion of the western mind, rick tarnas, thomas moore 4:34 am
Cosmos and Psyche is hefty book, and it presents many interesting ideas which I am sure many people — those with some prior astrological understanding and those without — will chew on for some time. From an astrological perspective, one of the more exciting things about the book could’ve, should’ve been new access to a comprehensive collection of historical data which could in turn be cross-referenced with astrological data. I have been using Passion of the Western Mind in this precisely this manner for years.
For example in the chronology after the epilogue in my copy of Passion, I noted on page 463 that in 1925, the year Yeat’s Vision, Thomas Dewey’s Experience and Nature, and Alfred Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World were published, Pluto stationed retrograde at 12 Cancer. I did this because I was examining relationships between specific degrees which appeared to be intensified by stations of the outer planets, eclipses and partile aspects between planets, and notable events in art and science. Many of the margins within my copy of the text itself are filled with such notations indicating possible correspondences (only in my case, I used exact aspects) between various historical periods and astrological significators, as are many other books I have studied, particularly history and biographies. This is typically how many modern western astrologers begin to study mundane astrology, before moving on to the complexity of ingress and lunation charts. And Tarnas’s Passion was a godsend in terms of this kind of work and study.
age of aquarius and astrologers and astrology and general stupidity and media and michael lutin and tom foolery and virgo age of aquarius, astrologers, birth time, michael lutin 5:33 pm
Update: more on Lutin’s astrological views here.
Some tidbits from a Q & A with famous astrologer Michael Lutin courtesy of The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY):
Q. I’ve heard this is supposed to be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which is a time of peace, acceptance and love. Why does it seem like nothing’s getting better?
People always think things are going to be better. They’re never better; they’re just different. We’re moving from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius, but it’s neurotic to think things are going to get better.
I have my birth certificate here. Can you do my chart super quick or tell me something I don’t know about myself?
You know everything about yourself. The client always knows more about him or herself than the astrologer ever could.
If I gave you my birth date and time, could you give me a fast read?
I would give you that. I couldn’t do anything real for you.
When did you start getting interested in astrology?
I was a teenager. … I didn’t really believe it. I studied it for years and … eventually, after studying chart after chart after chart and seeing the correlations come and be so accurate, I had to either accept it or stop doing it.
What’s your sign?
I never tell. It’s not good for my practice. I try to be neutral in my practice, and people have prejudices against certain signs, so that’s why. People have all kinds of crazy notions, based upon their childhood, mostly. They’ll say, “Oh, I hate Geminis,” and I’ll say, “Is your mother a Gemini?” “Yeah, how’d you know?”
(ed: very badly kept secret at that. Hint, hint – famous for being cheap, nit picking, and according to Forbes Magazine attributed to the highest number of billionaires.)
astrology and general stupidity and tom foolery aquarius, aries, cancer, capricorn, gemini, leo, libra, sagitarrius, scorpio, taurus, virgo 7:31 pm
ARIES You have a wild imagination and often think you are being followed by the FBI or CIA. You have minor influence on your friends and people resent you for flaunting your power. You lack confidence and are a general dipshit.
TAURUS You are practical and persistent. You have a dogged determination and work like hell. Most people think you are stubborn and bullheaded. You’re nothing but a damned communist.
GEMINI You are a quick and intelligent thinker. People like you because you are bisexual. You are inclined to expect too much for too little. This means you are a cheap bastard. Geminis are notorious for thriving on incest.
CANCER You are sympathetic and understanding to other people’s problems, which makes you a sucker. You are always putting things off. That is why you will always be on welfare and won’t be worth a shit. Everyone in prison is a Cancer.