Whenever the Beatles’ personal characteristics are mentioned, Ringo always seems to get bottom billing – Ringo Starr’s Horoscope will tell us why. John is (typically) the aggressive intellectual; Paul the cute diplomat, whilst George is the ‘quiet one’ or the ‘mystic’. Commentators then run out of adjectives and pause, because Ringo is just … well […]
The Moon on Your Birth Chart – Echoes of the Great Mother
The name Astarte was variously identified with the moon, as distinguished from the sun, or with air and water, as opposed in their qualities to fire. The name of this goddess represented to the worshipper the great female parent of all animated things, variously conceived of as the moon, the earth, the watery element, primeval […]
The Sun on the Birth Chart – The Self You Were Meant to Be
In the modern day, we have done away with the ancient gods, resplendent in their heavenly or subterranean abodes. We do, however, still experience their numinous (sometimes terrifying) power and, instead, refer to ‘complexes’ – or content belonging to the Unconscious mind. Truly, then, it can be said that the gods live within us. This […]
The Astrological Mars – Your Inner Warrior
Just what does the astrological Mars truly symbolise? He is, of course, the old Roman god of War – but there are two very different ways of looking at him: Under the influence of Greek culture, Mars was identified with the Greek god Ares, whose myths were reinterpreted in Roman literature and art under the […]
The Four Elements -Which Type are You?
The Four Elements, as we find them in astrology, are a legacy from Ancient Greece. Hence, there are four groups of three signs, and each group shares some common characteristics. The great genius Plato had this to say about them: ‘Before the heavens there existed fire, air, water, earth, which we suppose men to know […]
Venus on the Birth Chart – The Power of Attraction
When astrologers use the word ‘planet’ in their interpretations, they know full well they’re not referring to those huge rocks in the heavens. Rather, they are discussing an archetype, a timeless aspect of reality. Venus on a birth chart, likewise, is not really the Venus in the sky – it is the power, or principle, […]
The Sunshine House System
Here is a guide to the Sunshine House System, by my friend, astrologer, programmer and magician, Bob Makransky. Most of us astrologers have at one time or another wondered why astrology doesn’t work as well as it’s “supposed” to. Although adamant in defense of astrology when confronted by skeptics, we nonetheless agonize in our innermost souls […]
Uranus on the Birth Chart – The Modern Prometheus
How should we interpret Uranus on the birth chart? Often associated with disruption, revolt, instability and unwelcome change it often has a negative connotation – especially with the more conservative elements of society. Its discovery in 1781 coincided with two major violent revolutions, the first in America and the second in France, which nevertheless redrew […]
What is Donald Trump Really Like? (Here’s His Birth Chart)
The first thing one notices about President Donald Trump is how divisive is his effect on Americans. According to a recent Washington Post article Donald Trump is described as someone: ‘given to vulgarities and gauche behavior, boastful, thin-skinned, politically amoral, vengeful, unforgiving …’ This description, of course, is from one of his professional rivals (Georgia […]
Saturn on the Birth Chart – Wise Teacher or Inner Scrooge?
‘The nature of Saturn is far more evil than that of Herschel [Uranus]: he is called the Greater Infortune, and he is undoubtedly the cause (subservient to the will of Providence) of the greater portion of human suffering. When he is rising or setting at birth, the person born will suffer much lingering sickness, and […]
