The Player of Games

What you can see here is a diagram of my devising which places the planets in the context of human consciousness. They are calibrated in this way using a specific methodology which has been checked against a number of spiritual perspectives and which (ultimately) feels correct, intuitively at least. I do not wish to make too much noise about where this diagram came from, but I can explain it quite easily. This is especially useful because I have had a few people ask me recently about the Chirotic Awakening, and of course Orcus and Pluto are important topics for any initiate of the astrological mystery school.

We can see here that the path from Pluto – base compulsion – to the Sun – true solar consciousness, is interspersed by various levels or stages of self-awareness. Perhaps we should say, rather than levels, that what we are looking at here are the gradations of self-awareness, from none, to a completion, wherein the completion contains no compulsion at all. Mercury and Uranus are the only planets which are ‘difficult’ to place and I am uncertain as to why this should be so at this time.

In any case, it is possible to deduce that the progress of the soul is dependent upon a series of enlightenments, each progressively more conscious and progressively less compulsive than its predecessor. It’s interesting too that we talk about the transformation of Pluto, because this is in fact only the first transformation, and it therefore becomes the benchmark or mould for all transformation, which is why we learn the principle associated with the Crucible of Hades before we learn anything else. Once we understand this, in principle, we can apply the Plutonic energy to higher and higher paradigms of human consciousness. So while we begin with a Plutonic transformation, the seed transformation of base compulsion, we are only beginning the spiritual journey at this time and we have much work to do. The Plutonic transformation requires that we master our compulsions and immediately we have done that we are in the field for learning the Orcan paradigm. Let us call that integrity. For most people, integrity is just a word that is interchangeable with a phrase: let us call that phrase “the appearance of integrity”. I will not say too much on that because I have written a book on it and I don’t want to spoil the “plot”. Once we have mastered Orcus, we are into the various archetypes of human life and on we go.

So, the first important question must be: why do most people not understand what integrity means? I estimate 85% of all people alive today do not understand what integrity is, although they assume they do. This is because they have no soul. That is not to say that their soul is missing, everyone has a soul, but the majority have no access to it. It is too oppressed by ego. They effectively do not understand that they exist and instead believe that are acting under their own volition in all things. But they cannot see the puppetmaster, the ego, pulling the strings in the shadows. Once you are able to accept the simple truth that you cannot control anything in the entire Universe other than yourself, you have begun to transform Pluto. Then, when you have actually stopped trying to control anyone or anything else, you have done it.

Is that not incredibly simple? It is the easiest thing in the world to do, but nobody is very keen to do it. We can make it even simpler than that. If you’re serious about waking up, if you’re serious about wanting to be happy, if you are totally, starkly and unconditionally committed to becoming a truly spiritual being then you only have to do one thing, and it’s so incredibly easy that you can start today and have mastered it by tomorrow. Here it is:

Stop playing games.

Well, it sounds easy doesn’t it? The only obstacle to this objective is that most people believe that they are not playing games; they believe that the game is life, not that the game is what is preventing them from living their life. They think that without the game, they would not have anything, that it would all be taken away and they would be destitute, homeless, unloved. They worry. You probably believe that everyone worries, about everything, all the time, but it isn’t so. Only people that play games worry, because the game is a worrying game. When you stop playing, the worry fades and very soon, you have no worries. It is really tough for people to get it, because they are always concerning themselves with the game, and especially with the other players. This is because the ego is the gameplayer, and you are therefore competing with other gameplayers to win. But the great trick is, that since there is no game – it’s just a goad that the ego uses, your anxiety about losing something to keep you hooked on playing – there is nothing to win, or to lose.

Once you realise that the game is meaningless, you can stop playing, you can develop material integrity (the precept of taking nothing that is not freely given) and that in itself is liberating, then you can work through Saturn, that materialism is only another part of the game, and on you go.

So why is Chiron there, on the threshold of self-realisation? This is the Chirotic Awakening and as you can see, it is a fairly advanced stage of human consciousness. Individually speaking, the clue will be in your Chiron placement, so if you have Chiron in Aries and the 1st house then you will know that the one thing you cannot easily do is interact. When you do, you are prone to feeling irrelevant, talked over, talked down. People with this placement (I watch them) do one of two things: they either fade awkwardly into silence and allow themselves to be sidelined in an exchange, or they push too hard, force their statements out and create tension. Either way, they end up feeling awkward and self-conscious. At the point of the Chirotic Awakening, they quickly come to understand that all along, they had no need to be heard. That nobody has anything to say. Most of all, people with this Chiron, upon awakening, realise the truth of the maxim that while speech might be silver, silence is certainly golden.

Does it detract anything from you if nobody listens to you? Of course not, although it will be very damaging to your ego. Then you are into the game again. It is for this reason that Chiron is the point of true self-realisation, because our most vulnerable nature is the final and most compelling trigger to the avoidance of nothingness. Nobody wants to be nobody, right? That is true enough, at least until you reach the threshold of self-realisation, because then you realise that everybody is nobody, and nobody is all we ever can be. In truth, nobody is all we ever were, and having got past that, we become free to be exactly who we are!

Then you stop worrying and move increasingly into present time. Now you’re happy and life simply unfolds, without your having to do anything, not even having to express a view, a reservation, because you know that you cannot change anything anyway.

There is no game, so why play?

Orcan Dialogues

My book on Orcus is nearing completion and I have to say it’s been a really incredible journey, I am so very much looking forward to sharing this important discovery and its many insights with the astrological community. I have no hesitation in proclaiming my belief that Orcus is not a minor planet, indeed, I am firmly of the view that he is indeed as important as Pluto, albeit with a more impersonal focus. I realise that this is a bold claim, but in the many hundreds of nativities I have studied in my research for the book, there is no question that many fundamental aspects of character and life-orientation could simply have not been properly understood without the inclusion of Orcan principles. Indeed in many cases, the nativity is simply undecipherable without it; it is an understanding to astrology not unlike the Rosetta Stone was to Egyptology. I hope it does not come across as altogether too bold to say that some of the conclusions that I have arrived at are so startling that they will undoubtedly revolutionise the study of astrology, in much the same way as the evidence of Pluto did in the latter part of the 20th Century.

Of course, the writing of a work such as this has altered my priorities a great deal. I have struggled especially to keep up with correspondence (an occupational hazard at the best of times for a professional astrologer), and this journal has suffered most of all. I look forward to the day (in the not too distant future) when the book is published and I can get back to writing articles on this journal with greater regularity.

In order to minimise some of the fallout from the change in priorities I have created a Facebook page for this journal where I will be writing daily updates and insights and I hope to be able to communicate more directly with everyone. I would be delighted to see you there.

Earlier…

…there was a post here in which I discussed astrological etiquette. I have removed it because I’d momentarily forgotten that only a fool tries to direct the world and the other people in it. On that precise subject I’ll be publishing the second article in the current series on Pluto early next week.

Have a great weekend.

On Blame…

My apologies, in passing, for not posting an article here for quite some time; for not, if you like, fulfilling my contract on this journal, but here I am, and I intend to discuss contracts today, in a round-about manner. In large part I am writing this simply because I have Pluto in the 12th and a Jupiter – Neptune square, thus I am required to transcend the treacle that is living life rather than trying to wade through it: I also have to find a way to justify my philosophy, and that has been the story of my entire life; the fact that I’ve been so bad at it is more than a testament to the ongoing state of existential anguish that I’ve lived the vast majority of my life suffering in, indeed, it is a hulking, menacing cliff-face that has surrounded me on all sides for as long as I can remember. The imperative of Pluto tells me that I am required to float above those looming walls, rather than shouting my despair into the heavens, and at long last I am beginning to understand how that might be possible. Insofar as justifying my stance goes (Jupiter – Neptune remember? Which says something about defending (square) the perceived impracticality (Neptune) of one’s philosophy(Jupiter)) then I can claim that it is simply not simple enough to explain simply, Alan Watts put it a little better when he explained that nobody’s mouth is big enough to say the whole thing. This is not due to the fact – as you might suspect – that there is so very much to understand, but rather because there is so much that we typically understand which is flawed, and we have to un-understand that first. In truth, the un-understanding is pretty much the whole nine yards (and having Mercury peregrine in Scorpio I always delighted as a child in the knowledge that the machine gun belt of the P51 Mustang, a most beautiful and graceful machine of death incidentally, was exactly 9 yards in length).

I wrote a book. Not necessarily to have it published (although I am sending it off anyway), but actually just to say it. Now I feel much better and I start to feel that lightness of being which is the precursor to flight. So, by addressing Jupiter and Neptune the path to Pluto is illuminated, at least a little. But this is all technical talk, and there is little sense in making a circuit diagram of philosophy when we all have our astrology. I love philosophy, and perhaps even more than that, psychology, but since you cannot very well doodle with a 12-tonne pencil, I cannot love it as a pastime. Astrology on the other hand is the most profound explanatory device, it sits at the opposite end of the spectrum from psychology which seeks to posit universal truths, and delivers individual truth instead, a truth which is – and I really cannot love this word since it is a plaything of kitchen and web-designers both – bespoke. What use is there for psychology in the face of that understanding? It is like treating your indigestion by throwing lumps of chalk into the local reservoir.Yes, psychology is fun, let’s say that, and psychotherapy is a lot of fun; invented by the Pluto in Leo generation so they can talk about themselves legitimately and as exhaustively as they’d like to be able to do for free. I mostly jest.

When you understand this (and this is an astrological truth, not a philosophical one, so it does not need to be remotely as rigorous for the aforementioned reason) then you are quickly able to grasp the reality that if your astrology is exactly who you are – in the sense that it is your contract with the Universe – then you need to stop feeling hard done by right about now. Now don’t worry, I feel hard done by all the time, so I am not claiming any superiority here, but I also realise, usually fairly shortly after, that I really have no grounds for feeling that way, because I chose this life, so there’s no use complaining about it.

Now, annoying as this understanding is, it’s also profoundly liberating. Sure you don’t get to blame everyone else for your crappy life (sorry Mum), and you don’t get to let yourself off the hook for behaving like an arse because somebody else made you do it, and of course you also have to stop complaining that everyone else is behaving like an idiot too, because really, they haven’t woken up (literally in most cases) to their astrology, actually to themselves or their free will, which self-evidently cannot exist when we are compelled by our astrology – you know, compulsively compelled… Free will is the most prevalent myth of our times, and ironically, usually it is nothing more than a nom-de-guerre we apply to our inability to behave differently! Free will is the lip-service we pay to the manacles of our astrology, not this vaunted and exalted state of enlightened self-determination that we so admire in ourselves and don’t actually have in the first place.

I know for example one man who blames me because of his Saturn – Pluto conjunction. I also know a woman who blames me because of her Venus – Chiron opposition. I have a brother who blames me because he has a Mars – Saturn quindecile. The list goes on, but what these people fail to see is that even had I never existed at all, they would have found somebody else to fulfil the necessities of their contract with the Universe, I am – quite frankly – irrelevant.

This realisation has led me to discard blame. I mean that in principle of course, because I blame people all the time (with Mars in Sagittarius in the 3rd I’d be as well to just accept that and take a soapbox with me wherever I go, just in case), but importantly, when it comes to a deeper understanding of myself, my motivations and my purpose, I’m the only person who makes things happen. The only nuance of this entire discussion that requires examination is the other side of the blame coin. I can stop blaming, but if I do that, then the gift, the silver lining of that release is the awareness that I no longer am required to accept blame. Simply put, your problems are not my fault.

Move on.

Astrology Interactive

I have today completed work on the first lesson for my astrological course which I have been contemplating for some time. My own methods have been developed from a base which I learned at an early age from my own grandfather but which have of course evolved considerably in keeping with the development in astrological theory and the experience of many years of working in astrological practice.

I am also in a position to once again offer an interpretation and counseling service. Both of these aims are catered for on my new web-site Astrology Hour, please do take a look, and I hope that many of the readers of this journal will sign up for the first lesson. The lessons are being designed to focus on a specific topic whilst conveying the core methodology that I have developed over the years and they are an opportunity to work with me on specific themes and case studies and learn the approaches that I utilise in my daily work.

The first lesson is designed for intermediate astrologers: I would say that if you are comfortable with the level of insight required to read this journal then you should be well-equipped to participate. If you are interested and would like to be involved then please go here and try the first lesson. There is a £10 fee for each lesson which simply covers my time spent responding to your comments, questions and answers and ensuring that all aspects of the topic in hand are understood: this takes the form of an email discussion, one to one.

I will be adding further lessons in the near future, focusing on a wide range of topics, so hopefully there will soon be something available for everyone and if anyone has any queries about the lessons please send along an email and I will respond promptly.

I very much look forward to working with you.

Radio Silence

This is a very brief housekeeping post, I have been without telephone and therefore Internet too for almost two weeks after the phone company disconnected us “by accident”. They promised to have it back in 4 days and somehow “forgot”, then when they finally did manage to put it back on they gave us a new number instead of our old one so that our Internet still would not work and now they have disconnected it again. I would try to get it fixed but since we are moving house next week there seems little point in bothering with it any more. It will of course be several days before the new phone can be up and running in the new house too, so I will not be able to post anything for a short while at least.

In the meantime I find myself with plenty of time to work on astrology. For anyone awaiting feedback, please rest assured that I am making good progress. For those who might be interested in my insights into their astrology, I would suggest that this is a good time to contact me!

Advanced Rectification using Solar Arcs

(I should like to apologise before I begin today’s article for not posting on Friday, I have been feeling under the weather the last few days.)

One of the abiding joys of my astrological life is the infinitely subtle art of rectification. Some of us are lucky in that we are somehow aware of the exact moment of naissance, but even the most observant of parents might be amiss by some minutes and in fact, often by even more than that if they are not so observant of the exact timings.

So when actually are we born? This ought to be the first question and when you consider the actual prosecution of a birthing there are a few likely candidates. Is it the moment the head pops out? When the whole body is free of the mother? When the cord is cut? These are all possibilities, however, in my view, it is the moment of the first independent breath, which is almost certainly the child’s first cry. It is this very announcement of oneself as a distinct and independent entity that is most crucial.

The reality of childbirth, especially for those of us who are less concerned with astrological issues rarely lends proceedings a great deal of exactitude; indeed, it can often be many minutes after the birth when somebody thinks to look up at the clock, and assuming in all the commotion that the birth happened some 15 minutes ago and rounding it to the nearest quarter hour a time is decided upon that seems more or less accurate and that is noted down. Often, this is a best case scenario: some parents can only recall that it was sometime before lunch and therein lies an entire mountain of uncertainty.

And too there is no question but that the timing of a birth is absolutely crucial, and even an apparently astonishingly accurate time can be considerably off the mark. I have rarely found a case where the purported birth time is especially accurate, and usually this amounts to at least a few degrees of arc in the actual astrology. This might not even be a problem except where one finds an Ascendant in the final or first degrees of a sign, in which case rectification is absolutely necessary since so many factors might otherwise be affected by the outcome. Consider the dilemma of being uncertain as to whether Gemini or Cancer were on the 7th cusp! The likely story would be dangerously different were that to be read incorrectly.

It is for this reason that I would usually ask for a few major event timings from any prospective client before I embarked upon any serious exploration of their astrology, most especially if the time supplied suggested more than one sign on the 1st or the 10th; and of course, for the purpose of accurate prediction an accurate time is beyond essential.

I have worked a great deal with Solar Arcs, and they are powerful and insightful beyond measure. Unquestionably, if the birth time is accurate all manner of events are able to be brought to light with very precise timing indeed. I intend today to delineate a broad methodology of rectification by Solar Arc; there are fine-tuning methods which are a little too advanced for this discussion, however, the expectation of pinpointing a birth time within 3 minutes is absolutely reasonable using this approach.

What it should also demonstrate is that you should not take your own time for granted even if it appears to be very accurate. I will use my own astrology to demonstrate the principles involved and I am sure that if you were to follow these same principles then you would quickly be assured of its veracity in your own case, however, this is a rather advanced method and you will struggle to manage it without the benefit of a computer software package which can calculate the very accurate timings required.

First then, a little about Solar Arcs. These are based upon a development of Ptolemy’s primary directions (wherein the beautiful and arcane day for a year system was first espoused) which he devised in the 2nd Century AD. These formed the basis for Antonius Maginus’ secondary progressions (in around 1600) and this theory was further developed by the great Johannes Kepler in the same period. Refinement after refinement was made, including Naibod’s contribution: the mean motion of the diurnal Solar movement (59°08″) which opened the way for the possibility of a Solar Arc theory. Of course, Solar Arcs only became possible once the accuracy of both mathematical theory and an understanding of orbital mechanics could catch up: the Sun does not move at the same speed every day of the year, so it requires a progression based upon the precise and individual daily movement of the Sun dependent upon which time of year you are born rather than a progression based upon Naibod’s mean daily motion. The system becomes unusable otherwise, unless you happen to be born on the one or two days of the year where the Sun’s daily motion happens to be exactly equal to the Naibod mean.

Fortunately, we do not ever have to worry about this potential discrepancy because our software allows us to be absolutely precise, but put simply, Solar Arc theory rests upon the premise that the year for a day system is absolutely defintive providing it is based upon the solar movement for that particular day, not some generalised constant. Once we have this understanding, we are in business.

Now, before we begin a word about broad strokes. With the rising sign, appearance is invariably pertinent and I have been caught out by this significantly in the past. Receiving an at-first-glance distinctly accurate time should not stop you having a look at that person to ensure that their appearance is a good fit with their rising sign. This is not always helpful with the presence of stressful aspects, tightly configured rising planets and so forth, but it is a good bet that there will be considerable strength lent to this or that candidate sign should two possibilities arise on the basis of appearances alone. Libra and Scorpio rising give entirely different looks of course and invariably Libra has a propensity for pastels while Scorpio likes burgundy and purple in their dress so you will normally be able to tell at a glance which of the two signs is the best bet. Then you can begin on the work of rectification.

This is how it transpired (broadly) in my own case.

I was told by my mother that I was born around 6 am. That’s the best information I had been given and no amount of haranguing her would evince a more accurate response, so I was prepared for a time anywhere between 5.30 and 6.30 with a probability that a time nearer to 6 would be more believable. Immediately I was faced with a dilemma since any time before 6:07 am on the day of my birth gives a Virgo Ascendant, Libra follows that time, so potentially I have both. Of course, my Sun is in Libra, so that might explain my Libran looks while the ruler of my Ascendant were it to be in Libra would be Venus in the first degree of Virgo and conjunct Jupiter in Leo (explaining my propensity for growing long hair), so I was not easily swayed to one sign or the other.

So I employed Solar Arc theory.

First I took a number of significant events in my life and determined to look for these based upon the Arc system. This is not especially easy because we are invariably event-driven in our grasp of this life, rather than feeling-driven which says rather more about the experiential nature of the Solar Arc. Thus we might consider that the day our father died to be profoundly significant (and it is), but perhaps we had known it was coming for a long time and we were shocked by it and actually maybe we did not mourn him all at once and thus the process of losing our father happened over a 2 or 3 year period, so it is never easy to assume that an event, simply because we think it ought to be important, is going to show up in the Arc. I settled in my own case on 3 specific happenings, and these were:

1. The day I was sent to boarding school in September 1979.
2. The birth of my daughter in May 1996.
3. The occasion where my business partner stole £100,000 of my money and left me facing bankruptcy and ruin in late 2005.

These were all profoundly powerful occurences in my life and there was no question about the vagaries of timing in each case. Events 1 and 3 were profoundly traumatic: when I was sent to school it was whilst my parents were getting a divorce – which was a difficult transition for me . The birth of my daughter by contrast was one of the happiest and most positive occasions of my entire life thus far, she was a beautiful, sunny, healthy child who enriched my world no end. The last event caused an incredible crisis in my life of course: I had spent 10 years working on creating software for Nortel only to have the whole lot stolen by my business partner (who was the “sales and marketing guy” of the operation) and who then used the money that was rightfully mine to fund a legal defence of his actions which I simply did not have the money to fight, and in fact I spent my savings on attempting to see some justice done to no avail when spurious technicality after spurious technicality was brought to bear to use all my resources. It was a very depressing time and a hard lesson in trust for me too, and it was at that point that I decided to go back to my previous vocation of astrology.

So, to the Solar Arc theory once more. There is really only one key understanding that is required and this is that major upheavals and events in life are determined by Solar Arc directions to the angles. That really is it and you should work primarily with 4th harmonic aspects too, since they appear to be far and away the most effective in predictive matters.

Here then is the biwheel depicting the natal and SA correspondences for Sept/Oct 1979 with my birthtime set at 6am:

In the diagram the outer circle are the Solar Arc directions and the inner circle the radix (natal) positions).Now the arcing planet will always have a profound impact upon the resultant experience and since my Mars is in the 3rd (school) and with the aforementioned birth time is only a degree and a half from the IC, I was quite confident that the 6am time I had been given was close. Now crucially, one degree of arc is equal to 4 minutes of time (the Ascendant moves fully through the zodiac in a day, 1440 minutes in a day: 1440/360=4) so a degree and a half suggests that my timing was around about 6 or 7 minutes off exact. So next, I look at the birth of my daughter:

Here then is the arc corresponding to the birth of my daughter, and rather suspiciously you can see yet again that it has overshot the mark (in this case the Ascendant) by a similar margin. Now Venus applying to the Ascendant very often signifes a birth, so I knew that here again, the same measure was being mooted by the arc differential. Here the discrepancy was almost exactly the same – in the case of Mars and school 1°17″ and here with the birth of my daughter 1°13″, a mere 4 minutes of difference for two of the biggest events of my life some 17 years apart!

The last example was marginally more problematical since it was rather an insidious process. The point at which I learned that my business partner had been setting me up was quite considerably after the point at which he had started actually planning it, and this seemed to me very in keeping with the nature of Neptune: deception, duplicity and disappointment and certainly all these themes featured very heavily in the process and the result of course forced me to reevaluate my life in rather less materialistic terms, another key tenet of Neptunian understanding, so the arc was wider in this case, but undoubtedly the deceit had begun long before. I was not at all put off by this, in fact it fit the guise of Neptune perfectly!

Just a little more than 2 degrees at the point which I became aware of the problem, and it all fits. I needed to rectify my chart by a few minutes forwards in time dependent – of course – upon the unique Solar movement of the day that I was born. I rectified my chart accordingly to place all these events on their respective angles and came up with a time of 6:10am. Now this is only 10 minutes off the time my mother gave me so it seems accurate enough, but of course my Ascendant sign changed from 28°Vi47″ to 00°Li32.

And what’s more I was then able to move back and forth through the months of my life and see a “hit” occur on one of the angles. Pluto conjunct Ascendant? My grandmother died and I was utterly devastated. Uranus conjunct Ascendant in 1971? My father adopted me (a complete change of life direction and meaning). Jupiter conjunct Ascendant? I was offered a prominent research position at Cambridge University. Everything fits: perfectly.

Now, what’s more intriguing is that I can scan forwards in time and see when the next major hit will occur. December 2012 Moon = MC by SA. Might be interesting!

Now there are methods of refinement since invariably the Secondary Progressed Moon or a major outer planet transit will trigger a Solar Arc event and this should enable you – particularly by using the SP lunar motion of a degree a month to pinpoint with fair accuracy the timings of the SA events thus refining things further, but usually this is not necessary.

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

(A final reflection upon my now forever passed Neptune square: the 5th application began separating some 72 hours ago. It has been wholly enlightening, and at times profoundly disconcerting.)

One of the most challenging scenarios in life is to find that you are no longer sure why you are here. On a very specific level, you can make all sorts of observations about existential definitions of purpose and ultimately, they must remain unverbalised, or you risk a very real diminution in the eyes of your closest allies that is the inevitable conclusion of allowing yourself to appear to be so implausibly adolescent in your views. There is nothing remotely naive about adolescence of course, but we make it that way because the alternative is almost heinous; that our adultness is an ever-strengthening lens that distorts reality until we possess only an entirely abstract understanding of our place within the Universe. Like all constructs of the human mind (and the logic within that observation is more than ironically self-referential) it posits the possibility that all we have managed with our allotted span is to rationalise our increasingly tragic and desperate descent into madness and propped it up into a state of prominence with Saturnine epithets of maturity, responsibility and practicality. Like a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

I almost envy those who can accept the world prima facie; and have no needs beyond the mundanely relevant and the beautiful, but such a state of introspective equilibrium is rather dependent upon a condition approaching egoless equanimity, or the more likely alternative that life is good and that it remains so. I believe that is the wisdom of crocodiles; which self-evidently is astonishingly relevant to crocodiles.

For me, I have to accept that the maelstrom in my heart that is threatening to overwhelm my personality – not consistently, but on occasion – has a real and true purpose and if that makes me appear ridiculous then it is only so because it is so unfashionable, because we cannot all be crocodiles. If that were even possible – never mind laudable – then the crocodiles would very quickly be forced to turn on each other or starve.

Oh wait…

The Chirotic journey continues…

This is a housekeeping post!

I have determined to stop posting articles on Tuesdays for the forseeable future: I am currently writing a book based entirely on Chiron in the astrology. Whilst I very much enjoy writing my twice-weekly articles on this journal it is often extremely time-consuming and therefore, expediently I will post new articles only on Fridays. This will allow me to focus on writing (which I enjoy immensely) about a subject other than Chiron at least one day out of the working week and will also make space in my schedule for me to work with other astrologers and students and to devote more time to the actual job of astrology: I have quite a backlog of clients to catch up on after the difficult Christmas break. I feel very positive about the challenge of writing an astrology text and it will allow me the opportunity to explore the Chirotic principle in depth.

My regular readers will know that I have written several articles on Chiron, namely:

• an exploration of Chiron in Pisces (through houses 1 to 6 and houses 7 to 12)
• an article covering Chiron in Aries (again in 2 parts covering houses 1 to 6 and 7 to 12)
• The Chiron-Pluto contact
• The Chirotic awakening
• An article on Chirotic time
• A general discussion of Chiron in Pisces
• An article featured on the excellent Sasstrology website about Chiron as an influence on romantic matters.

I will (almost certainly) resume my twice-weekly posts once the book is complete.

Please remember that I am currently available to look at your astrology, please email me in the first instance if you are interested.

Time Out

Once again I find myself unable to compose my thoughts coherently enough to write my planned article on Jupiter – Neptune. Life is extremely tough, as reflected by my various directions, arcs and transits which I include here for anyone with a mind for such things to wonder at, it is not an especially pretty picture, it hasn’t been easy for the last few weeks and the next few are not improving considerably.

I am not complaining, only explaining. I believe that it is not what happens to you in life but the manner in which you deal with it which has most bearing on your prospects and I try to meet each day’s challenges calmly and evenly, but even with that intention, I am fair amazed at the tone of many of the interactions I have been subjected to by certain people of late. Long story short, we’re not even into the New Year yet and I’m already looking forward to seeing the back of 2009.

Just kidding.

Mostly.

So, my article will have to wait until my mind is more composed. Hopefully Friday. Be well.