TRINES, DARK HOUSES AND A TRAIN WRECK – analyzing the Tempi train crash tragedy through the lenses of Hellenistic and Indian astrology
My friend Levi Cosijn and myself join in astrological analysis of the recent tragic train crash in Tempi, Greece which took place on February 28 at 23:21 East European Time. The horoscope of this unfortunate event can make us re-think our understanding of trines and...
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE – A conceptual approach to the house systems controversy
Recently many heated discussions took place on social media and astrology forums regarding Deborah Houlding’s video where she challenges the validity of whole-sign houses and their use in traditional astrology. I’ve watched her video carefully two times and mostly...
AT THE TURNING OF YEARS – book corrections
TO ERR IS HUMAN! When I finally got the printed version of my book two technical errors jumped at me and a reader also pointed at one. In Example 5 of Chapter 7 the Solar return chart was calculated for one year later. This was due to a bug in Morinus software, which...
AT THE TURNING OF YEARS – example charts
PEN AND PAPER FUN! in order to make the study of my book AT THE TURNING OF YEARS easier and more flowing I've prepared a PDF with all example charts. Simply print it and follow along. AT THE TURNING OF YEARS - EXAMPLE CHARTS - download here
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How can there be a pandemic without Pluto?
Normally I don't write articles about mundane events, but the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected us all and I've seen many different explanations about astrological factors pointing at it with some astrologers arguing about the importance of Pluto, some even...
The special aspects of Jyotish – a mystique or an error?
Aspects are found in all systems of zodiacal astrology and it is difficult to imagine a practice of astrology without them. They show us the dynamics between planets, relationship of planets to houses and they can be simply thought of as a pre-defined network of...
Timing the love bomb
Of all things in astrology, timing that which is promised in the birth chart is the most difficult task and astrologers throughout history have aimed for accurate timing and came up with many different timing methods. In this example we'll take a look at how marriage...
A heart gone out of whack
On Monday, 26th of March 2007 at around 8AM I finished my breakfast, got up from the table, went to pick something from the floor when it happened; severe pain as if someone would stab a knife into my chest, I could no longer breathe normally and could not straighten...
Microscopic analysis with 12th parts and bounds
There are many arguments against astrology that are age old. Firmicus Maternus, a 4th century CE Roman astrologer from Sicily begins his Mathesis by dealing with such arguments and among these is the issue of twins; how come twins, which are sometimes born just a few...
CHART ANALYSIS: King Olav the 5th of Norway
A SHORT SUMMARY OF KING OLAV'S LIFE Olav the 5th, also known as »Folkekongen« or The People's King was a very popular and influential King of Norway, voted a Norwegian of a century. He was crowned King on September 21st, 1957 . During the World War II he was...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 7
VARGA FAMILIES In my investigation of vargas I realized that there seem to be four families of vargas. As we have seen, not all vargas are constructed according to the same principle, but there are vargas that share the rationale and I've grouped them into families...
Blank charts for varga techniques
PEN AND PAPER FUN! Here you can download PDFs with blank square and diamond charts that enable you to superimpose a varga onto the main chart. Most astrology software programs don't allow you to do this, therefore I made these blank charts, so you can experiment on...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 6
DVADASHAMSHA or DODEKATEMORIA None of the divisions of the Zodiac comes to mind as naturally and intuitively as the 12th division called dvadashamsha in India and dodekatemoria in the Hellenistic tradition. Henceforward I will call them the 12th parts. If I was told...
ASTROLOGY OF DEVOTION or Did Maharishi Jaimini use the tropical zodiac?
In my article about navamsha I've shown four examples of bhakti-yogis and how a particular navamsha yoga for bhakti and liberation can be seen nicely in their navamsha charts. Since I enjoy looking at charts of spiritualists this made me curious and I wanted to check...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 5
NAVAMSHA – THE 9th DIVISION Of all the vargas used in Indian astrology the navamsha is the most important and most commonly used one. If one should use only one varga, the navamsha would be the one. There is no classical text of Indian astrology that doesn't emphasize...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 4
A NOTE OF CAUTION: After I wrote this article I have put the type of saptamsha which uses signs in natural order (the most common saptamsha) under scrutiny, because mathematically it does not comply with the primary 12-fold division, the zodiac. It might be an invalid...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 3
TRIMSAMSHAS AND BOUNDS In the previous two articles we've covered the division of a sign in two parts called hora and division of a sign into three parts called drekkana, dreshkana or decan. We've also briefly touched upon the navamsha and dvadashamsha, the ninth and...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 2
DECANS OR DREKKANAS In the first article of this series we looked at the basics of sign division and looked closely at the 2nd division or hora. Today we will continue to divide the zodiac and our next division is the 3rd division called drekkana, dreshkana, dekanoi,...
The secret meeting of East and West – Understanding divisional and/or harmonic charts – Part 1
INTRODUCTION The purpose of this series of articles is to critically examine the doctrine of sign divisions, different methods of constructing them and their practical application in delineation of a horoscope. The articles will be of a technical nature, discussing...