An anthology of articles edited by CF Perez

Astrologer, writer, Webmaster
Deborah Parker, Astrologer, poet, essayist and humorist
Mavis Mathews, Astrologer, writer
For the decidedly non-astrological who want to understand the Quest for Love, Entreaties to Venus reveals the basic goal of the Quest: to Alchemically turn the Lead of depression into the Gold of Love's Fulfillment.

The Quest For Authentic Love has been a theme for many years. The following represent writings which may be included in the final draft of this manuscript:

Dreams, the Royal Road:
Kill The Dream Lover

The Eros & Psyche Myth, Retold:

When confronted with an overwhelming situation, which way do we turn? Peace requires more than the survival of just "the fittest."

The Quest for Love and Redemption: the case study which began the road to Kill the Dream Lover:
The Runaway Savior

The Return of Amigo! How a little dog signified by Mercury played the chord of Venus, took protection from Jupiter, and returned home by noon. Whew!

Whenever the blues take over and libido swings low, remind yourself
On Winter: There is Always a Light. Somewhere.

Second Saturn Return:
They're Changing Shifts Here at the Sanitarium

But Siriusly, Folks (A Dog Lover Speaks Her Astrological Mind)

Mercury's Retrograde: a Fork in the Road in the Yellow Wood

Star Catcher...She danced with that Light, poetry by Deborah Smith Parker
A remarkable Hawaiian sunset, same sky as observed by the ancients, taken by  Fritz Hoddick; more on his work from the link below.

 

Is Abortion Fatal?
Astrologers are always seeking the moment of birth, but what if an abortion terminates the life? Mavis Mathews walks through the difficult question of abortion, asking spiritual questions from the astrological point of view.
Horary, the art of  the Hour
a few Horary stories...
Horary Astrology
by Gilbert Navarro

Cuts and Stings from
the Old Bruiser, Mars

Horary Question:
When Will He Propose?
Some Beginning Steps in Horary
Various ways to enter into the Horary Chart discuss the Question of Love

Horary: Strictures Against or, Considerations Before?

How did the seasons become "Fixed," "Mutable" or "Cardinal," according to the ancients. The short answer comes from Guido Bonatti,
"On the Signs,
Moveable, Fixed and Common"

Consciousness

To imagine the world as "enchanted" renders to astrology a whole intuition about nature, the psyche and our current historic period.

Roger S. Jones, physicist and author of "Physics as Metaphor"
Physicist Roger S. Jones
of the University of Minnesota takes us into the perception of Medieval consciousness, allowing us to reconsider our own...
Astrology, Space and Consciousness

Star-gazer extraordinaire, Wendy is Queen of the Naked-Eye tradition of the ancients; build a paleolithic observatory on your balcony! Astrologer Wendy Z. Ashley
offers an ancient secret of astrology with a
Sky Exercise For the
Summer Solstice

Ashley brings a Paleolithic Observatory to Modern Astrology, demonstrating how naked-eye astronomy develops the imagination of the astrologer.


Naked Eye Sky Observation Links
If you like mystery and word play, this article takes you to the stars. Astrologer Darby Costello's
Desire and the Stars
CG Jung called etymology the "unconscious of language." In a detective's track down of "sid"ereal con"sid"erations, Darby speelunks into con"temp"lating, then "desire" as being lost.  Each word leads to another clue, until our bliss in being found again (and thank god for the astrologer who is), in our own sacred ("templo") space.
gue bestseller,"  The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian

From an issue of OMNI magazine, 1982
Columnist Kenneth Brower wonders, "How a smart, hot-blooded animal can amuse itself for millions of years without burning the place up."
In Warm Blood

Hawaiian sky images provided by Petaluma, California photographer,
Fritz Hoddick

Journal

Tropical or Sidereal Astrology?
Sidereal Astrologers have argued the differences in their system of astrology, claiming that Tropicalists are "off" by 15-16 degrees in their "observation" of the stars. Scientists berating the value of our traditional astrology use this very question to humble astrology "as bunk," to the public. How does the Tropicalist answer?

The Arabic Parts:
A Whole New Ascendant
Rob Hand traveled to Northern California where I reviewed his seminar on the use of the calculations of the late Princess Diana's Part of Fortune, to discover there is a difference between Night and Day.

Book review:
Temples of the Sky
Deborah Houlding (see also, the tutorial) dedicated to this work)

Upstairs, downstairs:
Seeking soul after 09/11

Why Astrology Endures

The Re-Enchantment of the World; A case for naming a rock, and making it stick.

From the Astrologer's Casebook:
When choosing a date for a single man to have another child, what's the astrologer to do?
Babies May Come From the Stars

The Lunar Tick-Tock
Why does the moon's transit in any one sign give a different result every time?

How did the seasons become "Fixed," "Mutable" or "Cardinal," according to the ancients. The short answer comes from Guido Bonatti, "On the Signs, Moveable, Fixed and Common."

A historic view from the ancient world by this era's first travel writer, Marco Polo
Author of the world's first best-seller, world traveler, Marco Polo, observes
The Astrologers
of the City of Kanbalu

Written while the author languished a productive year in a Genoese jail, a prisoner-of-war with a scribe and sufficient paper and ink to describe the court and government of the grand kahn and the 5,000 astrologers supported by his government; from a chapter in the world's first "travelogue".

 

Mars Archetypes

The "Besieged" Planet
When the civilizing influences of culture are crowding down --Where to go?

Mars: Addiction and Instinct, an astrological story of a besieged planet

The Horary Tradition and Mars: Cuts and Stings from an ol' Bruiser

The Mars Woman:
Rough Stuff

McVeigh: The Abandoned Soldier Within (description, below in the section on Notoriety)

 

Sometimes evil leads us into the temptation of writing.
Tracking the "Most Wanted Man in the World," (how can anyone deny he is ruled by Venus?) a few of the articles available on the 'Net gives up the problem of the Muslim calendar: the lunar symbol on the flag ought to be a big hint.
Osama bin Laden
,
I fully expected the story of the Anti-Christ, and expected a "resurrection" between March First and Easter of 2002; no signs of life--yet. In March of 2003 his main man was picked up. Who wkill be the winner of the $25 million-dollar reward, I wonder?

The fact that this boy's mother left him at the tender age of 10 gives us an example of what happens with the archetype of the Mother when she is so far away she becomes a twinkling star in the soul, cold and distant ... McVeigh: The Abandoned Soldier Within

World Trade Center: "The astrologers didn't predict this one," came the comment, too soon after the horror of September 11th. Comments on the inadequacy of prediction, and on the human condition.

Nostradamus, a hoax: In the year nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven months... The quatrains of Nostradamus are problematic in French, say nothing of how sloppily translated.

 

 

 
 
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