How to Find Your Rising Sign or Ascendant Your rising sign is the sector of the sky that was on the horizon at the moment you were born, as such it is probably the most sensitive point in your chart. We astrologers just love getting things exact and the ascendant moves every four minutes, so Read More …
Category: Learning Astrology
Tempest in a Teapot
As January closes, I thought I’d address the recent tempest in a teapot surrounding astrology. On January 13, 2011, the Minnesota Star Tribune interviewed astronomer Paul Kunkle. The gist of the article was the sun and moon’s gravitational force on the earth’s axis causes the earth to wobble, which over time makes the position of Read More …
Nakshatras
Though I’m a western astrologer, I frequently use the nakshatras from the Hindu system of astrology. Just as sun signs can describe the basic temperament of a person, in the eastern tradition, the nakshatras do much the same. The nakshatras divide the sky into 27 sections of 13 degrees 20 minutes, based on the sidereal Read More …
Venus in the Elements
The Aphrodite Within Given that most people’s exposure to astrology is to the sun sign horoscope in the local newspaper, it’s easy to forget that astrology is one of our richest repositories of myth and symbol. Our understanding of basic archetypes can deepen profoundly by studying this ancient cosmology, and, what’s more, astrology can allow Read More …