A bundle plantary pattern has all of its 10 planets within the span of a trine thus it has no oppositions or “rim” in its makeup. Bowls are often confused with Bundles, but the major distinction is bowls are a larger formation and spread out within the hemisphere whereas bundles are more concentrated. President William McKinley is a bundle, and from what I can tell, the only one ever elected president. But then I’ve only rectified up to James Garfield, and he, btw, is a Moon Bucket as are many 19th century born presidents. Looking at McKinley’s chart one maybe…
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Mutual Receptions are hidden aspects in a chart that unlock a lot of meaning. Let Lewis Carroll just show you how.
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Bestial came up as the WOTD from the OED today. I am not sure if you can access it so I copied the record. The original is here and a printable version below. Reading the entry I realized the renowned dictionary did not mention signs bestial — those signs that are animal-like who stand on four feet or are quadrupeds: Aries (Ram) Taurus (Bull) Leo (Lion), Sagittarian (Centaur), and Capricorn (Goat) but neither Cancer (Crab) Scorpio (Insect) nor Pisces (Fish) as they crawl; it seemed to me quite an “errata” as Benjamin Franklin would say.
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According to the late Nicholas DeVore, a famous astrologer who wrote the Encyclopedia of Astrology, while “Hayz” in Arabic means just “Space,” astrologically it takes on a special meaning for Horary charts. In Horary Questions, a masculine diurnal planet above the Earth in a Day Figure, and a feminine nocturnal planet under the Earth in a Night Figure is a Dignity of 1�, and is reckoned fortunate. The Arabians did not conceive it a perfect Hayz except when the masculine planet was in a male Sign, or the feminine planet in a female Sign. Instead, a masculine planet in a…
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The Arcturan system is one I discovered via Prometheus Software. Michael Mukasey in his book “An Astrological House Formulary,” writes the “horizon is cut at thirty degree intervals starting at the east point and projected onto the ecliptic.” How different that is from the Koch, Equal and Placidus house system? Keith Rupert Murdoch is the son of Australian a successful news correspondent who married very well, becoming a dominant force in Australian news, along with the late Kerry Packer. Between the two, they are Australian News, outside of the ABC, the State News Agency that dictates the television and radio…
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The apparent orbit of the earth around the sun is the called ecliptic. Total eclipses of the sun or moon are only possibly when the moon in on the same plane as the earth’s position there and thus called an “eclipse.” This does not happen often, about twice a year, because the orbit of the moon is inclined at an angle of 5 degrees off to the earth. . Where the two intersect is called the Nodes, that was depicted on antique clocks with the same symbol as in astrology.
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The introductory Book Marc E. Jones published this and almost all of his with the Sabian Publishing Society, which under its charter can only publish his works. Typically, this is called “How to Learn,.” but technically its title is “How to Learn Astrology” published in 1941. The cover of the book is our header image and my personal copy. How to Learn is out of print and has been for a long time, but you can pick up the paperback version of the book from Shambala Press, rather cheaply on eBay for under $15.00. Almost all the charts are from…
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Asteroid Eros may upset your routine and wake you up to your real life's goal. Where's yours?
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Marc Jones introduces the idea of Mental Chemistry in his book How and Why it works, Celestiology discusses why its useful.
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Regiomontanus House System
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Software Check for New Year’s Eve 2050 AD As the followup post to the January 1, 1 AD essay, as expected Kepler could do that. This time since we are in the modern era I included the asteroids as I think they matter in this set. For January 1, 2050 midnight, London, England Ascendant 7 Libra 32 Sun 10 Capricorn 45 Moon 18 Aries 41 Mercury 0 Capricorn 4 R Venus 11 Capricorn 15 Mars 17 Scorpio 43 Jupiter 1 Leo 41:30 R Saturn 27 Capricorn 34 Uranus 20 Virgo 44 R Neptune 23 Taurus 36 R Pluto 7 Pisces…
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Hank Friedman on his Learn Astrology Free site. has this general check of software based on information he obtained from Dr. Myles Standish of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. This became an issue for me recently because of the poet Dante Alighieri’s chart, mentioned by Dr. Marc Jones in his Guide to Horoscope Interpretation, that created disparate charts in Janus & Kepler. That really bothered me, and I remembered Hank had something on it when I trying out Janus 5.0 as a test for astrology software, so I dug up the post. I will post the Dante issue under Dante’s…



