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Chris Brennan
A weekly podcast on the history, philosophy, and techniques of astrology, hosted by professional astrologer Chris Brennan.
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Apr 29, 2020 • 1h 57min
What is the Birth Chart of the United States?
In episode 252 astrologer Nina Gryphon joins the show to talk about question of what is the correct birth chart for the United States, and to review some of the different possible charts that are available.
While this sounds like a simple question, there are actually a number of different birth dates and birth times that are possible candidates for the founding of the United States as country, and each of these options yield slightly or sometimes extremely different planetary placements.
The purpose of this episode was to provide a broad overview of the the issue, and to review some of the different charts that have been used or proposed by astrologers at different points in time.
Most of the research for this episode was compiled by Nina, and we also wanted to give a special shout-out to astrologer Gary Lorentzen for his contributions and advice (update 4/29/2020: see his article The Astrology of American Independence), as well as the AstroDatabank entry on the chart of the US, and Nicholas Campion's Book of World Horoscopes.
For more information about Nina, check out her website:
NinaGryphon.com
Below you will find some of the show notes that we prepared as the outline for this discussion, followed by links to listen to the episode at the bottom of the page.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Show Notes and Episode Outline
Introduction of the topic.
National horoscopes
New concept compared to traditional approach of assignment of signs to nations, regions, and cities.
Prior approach focused on single signs assigned to cities, regions, countries.
As first set down in book 2 of Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
Also, lunation and cardinal ingress charts for particular locations such as the capital.
Became common in the early Medieval tradition.
Really problematic when nation-states and hard national boundaries were established in 19th century.
Ingress chart for capitals not too far apart, say, Paris and London, or Bonn and Brussels might be almost identical.
Earlier reliance on sign assignments circumvented this problem.
Also sometimes foundation charts for cities. E.g. Baghdad.
Bagdhdad elected by a group of astrologers.
For most cities though the foundations were deep in the past.
Astrologers would sometimes resort to rectification to try to figure out the chart.
Rectified charts like Constantinople or Rome.
Maybe this acts as a transition point. Elections and inceptions.
The 20th century saw a real shift in emphasis towards natal astrology.
Emphasis in predictive techniques such as transits and progressions.
These techniques all require a timed natal chart to use.
In many cases, the original national charts are impossible to obtain.
There is often a question about when is a nation officially born?
Astrologers often work with a significant chart from that nation’s history.
Recognizing that it’s one in a chain of charts representing key moments in the long lifespan of a nation.
Ideally, such charts have been shown to be useful for predictive purposes.
Often these charts relate to a transfer of power or bestowing legitimacy on a person or group as leaders. In the life of a nation, many such moments may exist.
United States’ chart of particular interest to astrologers worldwide.
Well-documented history around the founding of the US, and founded in the modern era rather than antiquity, so a timed chart is at least theoretically obtainable.
There is something decisive about the founding of the US, with a clear demarcation of when it broke away from England.
The earliest national chart. Ebenezer Sibly published in 1787. May have kicked off increasing interest in national charts and a certain desire to demonstrate a preferred chart to be true and all others false.
So what is the birth chart of the United States?

Apr 25, 2020 • 2h 24min
Becca Tarnas on Outer Planet Cycles and Jung’s Red Book
Episode 251 features an interview with astrologer Becca Tarnas where we talk about her work on the Red Book of Carl Jung, as well as the connection between outer planet cycles and recent world events.
Becca practices archetypal astrology, and is the current editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology, which recently released its seventh issue in January, titled Historical Roots and Current Flowerings.
During the course of the interview we talk about her background in archetypal astrology, what it is like to be a second generation astrologer, why Jung's Red Book is important and relevant to astrologers, and how the recent Saturn-Pluto conjunction relates to events happening in the world now.
Becca received her PhD in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, with a dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien.
For those who were interested in the discussion about Jung's Red Book in this episode, I'd recommend checking out the longer lecture on her YouTube channel on The Astrology of Jung's Red Book.
You can find out more information about Becca through her website:
BeccaTarnas.com
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Timestamps
Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:50 Becca's background
00:02:08 Archetype definition
00:08:16 Becca's astrology journey
00:11:00 Did she rebel against astrology?
00:17:00 Her astrology education
00:21:17 Archai Journal
00:24:56 Archetypal astrology
00:28:00 Technical disputes?
00:30:40 Archai Journal issue 7
00:36:25 Jung's Red Book
00:44:50 Archetypes and the Red Book
00:50:37 Uranus Neptune and the Red Book
00:54:38 Why Red Book wasn't published sooner
00:58:21 Jung's break with Freud
01:00:00 WWI
01:01:13 Jung's chart
01:02:27 1913-15 Saturn Pluto conjunction
01:07:18 Outer planet cycles
01:09:50 Obama and Uranus Pluto
01:12:30 Mary Wollstonecraft and Uranus Pluto
01:17:27 Saturn Pluto cycles
01:25:06 2020 Saturn Pluto conjunctions
01:32:33 Generational gifts
01:33:58 Jupiter Saturn 1980's
01:36:04 2020 presidential primary
01:37:45 Saturn Pluto stress test
01:39:10 Late 1980's chart
01:40:28 9/11 Saturn Pluto
01:44:19 More about Saturn Pluto
01:53:00 Saturn return orbs
01:57:23 Saturn Pluto future dates
02:19:16 Becca's work and contact info
Watch the Video Version of This Episode
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ZalvvEID4
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Transcript
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Apr 21, 2020 • 2h 49min
Alan White: Intro to Hellenistic Astrology
Episode 250 features a lecture by the late astrologer Alan White on an introduction to Hellenistic astrology, followed by an audio interview with Alan about his life and work from 2010.
Alan began studying astrology seriously in the 1980s, and then in the mid-1990s he discovered Project Hindsight and developed a deep interest in ancient astrology.
He created an introductory lecture on Hellenistic astrology using a flip chart that he presented at a number of astrological meetings in the 2000s, and one of these presentations in 2001 led to Demetra George teaching a course on the subject at Kepler College.
Alan died at the age of 69 on August 18, 2011 after a long battle with cancer. I visited him a few months before he died, and asked him to record a version of his intro to Hellenistic astrology lecture, to have it on the historical record.
The first 90 minutes of this episode after the intro consists of Alan's intro to Hellenistic astrology lecture, while the second half is an interview I did with Alan for my old podcast called Traditional Astrology Radio that was recorded and aired on December 7, 2010.
Below I'm going to include the obituary I wrote for Alan after he died, since the old astrologers memorial website that used to have it has disappeared.
You can also find high resolution images of Alan's flip chart in a gallery below.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Alan White (1942-2011)
Born on January 1, 1942 at 11:37 AM in Washington, D.C. Alan White's birth chart
Died on August 18, 2011 at 1:36 PM in Edenton, North Carolina.
Astrologer Alan White passed away on Thursday, August 18th in Edenton, North Carolina after a long illness. He was 69 years old. He is survived by his wife, Jaan Stephens-White, and his three children, Jeanette, Christopher and Virginia.
A native of Washington, D.C. Alan joined the Army in 1961 shortly after graduating from high school, and served in Vietnam from 1963-64 as a green beret with the 5th Special Forces Group. After completing his service in the military, he spent time focusing on his education, and held a series of jobs prior to retiring which included work as a mechanic, a travelling salesman and an astrologer.
Alan’s interest in astrology began in 1963 when he bought a Zodiac watch in Saigon which depicted the phases of the Moon. Initially skeptical about the subject, he began studying it seriously in the 1970s, eventually attending his first astrological conference in the 1980s. Disappointed that many of the approaches to astrology that he had been exposed to at that point came off as too “airy-fairy,” he longed for a more concrete take on the subject. He found what he was looking for in 1995 when he discovered traditional astrology through Project Hindsight by attending the second PHASE Conclave in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Alan subsequently became an ardent supporter and eventually a close associate of the Project.
He began giving introductory lectures on Hellenistic astrology in the late 1990s, and was an active member of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the NCGR in the early 2000s. In summarizing his philosophy of astrology, he was particularly fond of a statement by the Medieval astrologer Guido Bonatti that the purpose of astrology is to reconstruct the past, understand the present, and predict the future.
In May of 2001 he was sent to Seattle to run a trade show booth for Project Hindsight at the annual Northwest Astrological Conference. The first class of students from the newly opened Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences had just completed its first year, and the entire class was in attendance at the conference. One night at the conference Alan was sitting in the lounge talking with a group of Kepler students and regaling them with stories about Hellenistic astrology, and they became intrigued enough to encourage him to put on an impromptu lecture on the subject in an empty conferenc...

Mar 29, 2020 • 1h 41min
Robert Zoller, Pioneer in Reviving Medieval Astrology
Episode 249 features a tribute to the astrologer Robert Zoller, who passed away in January, and was a pioneer in the revival of the study and practice of medieval astrology.
Zoller's book The Arabic Parts in Astrology: A Lost Key to Prediction (1980) was one of the first books which helped to contribute to the revival of traditional astrology in the 1980s and 90s.
Later he was one of the principal founders of Project Hindsight in 1992, alongside Robert Schmidt and Robert Hand, and he produced several translations from Latin under the auspices of that project, including parts of Guido Bonatti, Al Kindi’s On Stellar Rays, and the Liber Hermetis.
He left Hindsight due to creative differences relatively early in the project, but continued teaching and promoting medieval astrology.
He began offering a written certification course in medieval astrology, which a number of high profile astrologers graduated from, including Benjamin Dykes and Christopher Warnock.
He later received some recognition for his predictions about the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, and was featured in a 2005 History Channel episode on the topic.
He struggled with Parkinson's Disease, which developed in the 1990s and left him debilitated much of the time by the 2000s, thus slowing his creative output in later years. He passed away on January 24, 2020.
The first part of this podcast episode features a discussion with Benjamin Dykes about Zoller's life and work. Ben studied and attained certification with Zoller, and since then has gone on to continue much of what Zoller started in terms of recovering the medieval tradition.
The second half of the episode features an hour long interview that I conducted with Zoller on my old podcast called Traditional Astrology Radio on January 9, 2011. The audio quality is not very good, but the content of the interview does a pretty good job of covering the full range of Zoller's life and work.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
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Mar 27, 2020 • 2h 41min
April 2020 Astrology Forecast + Coronavirus Discussion
In episode 248 astrologers Kelly Surtees, Austin Coppock, and Chris Brennan discuss the astrology of the recent coronavirus pandemic, and later provide a general astrological forecast for April of 2020.
This is our first episode together since we recorded the last forecast in mid-February, and the world has changed a lot since that time.
We decided to focus on talking about the pandemic in the first half of the episode, and then eventually transition into the monthly forecast later on.
A lot of our discussion about the coronavirus focuses on the Saturn-Pluto conjunction that went exact in early January when the pandemic was just ramping up, as well as the Mars-Saturn conjunction that is happening in the sky now.
Later we briefly touched on some things like the doctrine of subsumption in mundane astrology, and the discovery of a new comet that may be visible soon.
Honestly we covered so much in this episode that it is hard to summarize it all here, so you'll have to listen in.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Our Websites
KellysAstrology.com
AustinCoppock.com
ChrisBrennanAstrologer.com
Planetary Alignments for April 2020
Venus moves into Gemini April 3
Enters shadow from April 9/10.
Jupiter conjunct Pluto exact April 4
Full Moon in Libra April 7
Mars square Uranus same day
Mercury into Aries April 11
Sun into Taurus April 19
New Moon in Taurus April 22
Pluto stations retrograde April 25
Mercury moves into Taurus April 27
Auspicious Astrological Date for April
April is not a great month this year for good elections, and the best chart we could find was:
🪐 April 18, at 8:45 AM, Gemini rising
We will present a few other elections for April on our private subscriber-only podcast on auspicious elections in the next few days.
We also have a full year-ahead electional astrology report for 2020, which highlights some better charts for later in the year.
Watch the Video Version of Our April Astrology Forecast
Here is the video version of our April astrology forecast episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL399uI8cgk
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Transcript
A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 248 transcript
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Mar 23, 2020 • 2h 9min
Mythic Astrology and Venus Retrogrades with Arielle Guttman
Episode 247 features an interview with astrologer Arielle Guttman about her work on using myth as an interpretive device in astrology, as well as the importance of the synodic cycle of Venus, providing insight into the upcoming Venus retrograde.
Arielle is the author of the books Mythic Astrology and Mythic Astrology Applied, as well as Venus Star Rising: A New Cosmology for the Twenty-First Century.
During the course of the interview we talk about Arielle's background in astrology and how she got into it, her work with Jim Lewis on relocational astrology, the use of myth as a tool to help explicate archetypes in astrology, and her work on what she calls the Venus Star Point.
The Venus Star Point in natal astrology is the conjunction between Venus and the Sun that occurred prior to your birth, which creates a sensitive degree in your chart, and also locks in a resonance between that phase of Venus whenever it reoccurs later in your life.
Here is a handout from Arielle's website for calculating your Venus Star Point:
Find your Venus Star Point PDF Handout
You can find out more information about Arielle's work through her website:
SophiaVenus.com
Arielle came out to Denver to give a talk for our local astrology group during the second week of March, but this was just as the COVID-19 pandemic was breaking out in the US, so we switched her talk to a webinar on Saturday, March 14, and then recorded this podcast the following day.
If you enjoy this episode of the podcast, the webinar the previous day went into a bit more detail about her work on Venus, and the recording is available as an episode of the Casual Astrology Podcast for patrons.
This episode was co-hosted by astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Timestamps
Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:11 Arielle's books and background
00:10:46 Astrocartography
00:20:12 Asteroids
00:24:38 How myth is used in astrology
00:33:38 Using mythic astrology with clients
00:35:30 Myth of Ceres and Persephone
00:40:13 Stories of planets that aren't prominent
00:41:56 Transit of Pluto to Ceres
00:43:13 Hermes story
00:45:47 How mythic stories help clients
00:48:55 Archetypes
00:52:19 Mythology of Venus
00:55:00 The two sides of Venus
00:58:00 Two Venus statues
00:58:56 Complexity of Venus in astrology
01:02:20 2012 Mayan astrology Venus transit
01:04:15 Venus as evening and morning star
01:07:38 Importance of Venus kazimi
01:10:06 Mayan fascination with Venus
01:12:30 Masons and Venus pentagram
01:13:28 Rosary beads and Venus cycles
01:14:26 Meanings of Venus morning and evening star phases
01:21:09 Venus pentagram
01:23:53 Relationships on the Venus star
01:26:52 Venus retrograde pattern
01:30:54 Venus passing across the face of the Sun
01:31:35 The Venus Sun conjunction prior to your birth
01:32:00 Additional point for evening star Venus people
01:33:27 Venus Star Point 2020 in Gemini
01:34:40 Impact of Venus Star Point on your chart
01:35:33 People with same Venus Star Point as yours
01:40:25 When a person outshines their partner
01:42:30 Venus Star Point at the mundane level
01:52:09 What Venus retrograde means
01:58:50 Arielle's Venus Star Rising book
01:59:10 How to find your Venus Star Point link
02:04:30 Arielle's website and how to get a signed book
02:06:56 Her Mythic Astrology books
02:07:51 Closing remarks
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Mar 9, 2020 • 2h 11min
The Four Elements in Astrology, with Darby Costello
Episode 246 features a discussion with astrologer Darby Costello about the four elements in astrology, and the way their archetypal meanings are applied to the signs of the zodiac.
The four classical elements in the western tradition are: fire, air, water, and earth.
The concept of the four elements originated in the Greek tradition with the pre-Socratic philosophers, and especially Empedocles in the 5th century BCE, with additional contributions later by Plato and Aristotle.
The four elements have been applied to the triplicities since at least the 1st century BCE, and Chris published a paper in 2013 showing how the assignment of the elements to the signs of the zodiac was based on the planetary joys scheme.
Darby wrote two books on the elements, titled Water and Fire: The Astrological Elements Book 1, and Earth and Air: The Astrological Elements Book 2.
During the course of this episode we talk about how Darby got into astrology, the history and philosophy behind the elements, and how they are applied to the signs of the zodiac to create pairs of signs with antithetical elemental qualities.
For more information about Darby's work visit her website:
https://www.darbycostello.co.uk
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Timestamps
Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:43 Darby's books
00:03:10 Darby's background
00:14:10 Sources of the elements
00:20:49 Plato, elements, triplicities
00:30:50 Aristotle and natural place
00:34:56 Archetypal qualities
00:43:40 Hot, cold, wet, dry qualities
00:54:29 Water signs
01:02:17 Air and fire signs
01:18:15 Element imbalances
01:24:15 Cancer Capricorn
01:30:35 Virgo Pisces
01:39:30 Taurus Scorpio
01:57:26 Aries Libra
02:07:30 Closing remarks
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Transcript
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Feb 29, 2020 • 2h 39min
March 2020 Astrology Forecast: Mars Conjunct Saturn in Aquarius
Episode 245 features the astrology forecast for March of 2020, with astrologers Kelly Surtees, Austin Coppock, and Chris Brennan.
The astrology of March features the tail end of the Mercury retrograde in Pisces and Aquarius, a Full Moon in Virgo, New Moon in Aries, and then ends with Saturn and Mars moving into Aquarius and forming a conjunction.
We spend the first hour and a half of the episode on the astrology forecast for March, and then in the final hour we transition into talking about a recent discussion about the concept of essential dignity in the astrological community.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions at the bottom of this page.
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News, Announcements, and Links to Stuff Mentioned
Here are links to some of the stuff mentioned in this episode:
Kelly's website
Austin's website
Chris' online astrology courses
#DignityBabes on Twitter
#DignityBabes on Instagram
Friend of Dorotheus T-shirt by @PhosphorAstro on Twitter
Planetary Alignments for March 2020
Mercury retrogrades back into Aquarius March 4
Venus moves into Taurus on March 4
Full Moon in Virgo March 9
Mercury stations direct in late Aquarius March 9
Mercury moves back into Pisces March 16
Sun moves into Aries March 19
Saturn moves into Aquarius March 21
New Moon in Aries March 24
Mars moves into Aquarius March 30
Auspicious Astrological Date for March
The auspicious election for March that was chosen by Leisa Schaim is set for:
🪐 March 22, 2020, starting at 9:10 AM, with Taurus rising
There are a three more electional charts that we found for March, which are available in our private subscriber-only podcast on auspicious elections that was just released a few days ago.
We also have a full year-ahead electional astrology report for 2020, which highlights one auspicious electional chart for each month this year.
Watch the Video Version of Our March Astrology Forecast
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOnzAJPHL0k
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Feb 24, 2020 • 1h 44min
How Did Placidus Become the Most Popular House System?
Episode 244 features an interview with Anthony Louis about the history of how Placidus became the most popular system of quadrant house division used in western astrology in modern times.
In late 20th and early 21st century astrology Placidus is the most popular house system, and it is usually the default house system in most software programs, which makes it the system that most people begin their studies of astrology with.
The question is: how did this come to be the case? Especially since there are other forms of quadrant house division that are available, such as Porphyry or Alcabitius houses, what led to the widespread acceptance of Placidus?
It turns out, the origins of the Placidus house system and its popularization lie in the 17th century, and it was partially based on an an attempt to reinterpret a controversial passage from the work of the 2nd century astrologer Claudius Ptolemy.
The genesis of this discussion was an article on Anthony's blog titled Why are Placidus Houses so Popular?
Our goal here was to talk about some of the arguments outlined in that post, and go into some areas in greater detail, to understand the history of house division.
While our previous episode on the origins of the different forms of house division in ancient astrology covered the early history of house division, the purpose of this episode is to fill in some missing pieces about the later history from the Renaissance era forward into modern times.
You can find out more information about Anthony on his website:
TonyLouis.wordpress.com
Below you will find an extensive set of show notes that we used as the outline for our discussion.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions at the bottom of the page.
Episode Outline and Show Notes
Here is part of the outline we created in preparation for this episode:
Based on Anthony’s November 2019 blog article Why are Placidus Houses so Popular?
Follow-up to original article: “Placidus: The Default Darling of Domification”, in Federation of Australian Astrologers Journal, Vol 49, No 2 (June 2019), pp. 21-26.
Premise of the discussion:
In late 20th and early 21st century astrology Placidus is the most popular house system
In modern western astrology.
It is the default house system in most software programs, like Astro.com
As a result of that it is the system that people usually start with
One of the questions that comes up is why is Placidus the default quadrant system?
Holden makes a passing remark that Placidus became the default due to availability:
“It has become a cliche in the 20th century that the Placidus system later became the 19th and 20th century standard because it was the only one for which affordable tables were readily available. This is partially true, but the same thing could be said for the initial success of the Regiomantanus system.” Holden, A History of Horoscopic Astrology, p. 150.
Anthony took some issue with this because Placidus had been popularized earlier.
While it was the primary system available by the 20th century, this was because it had been promoted widely since the 17th century.
So how did this get started?
Placidus published his book in 1650.
Focused on primary directions and house division.
He was interested in reconstructing Ptolemy’s approach.
Part of the general back to Ptolemy movement.
Also evident in Lilly and others.
Ptolemy was the oldest Greek author available
Viewed as the most authoritative.
Ptolemy has a discussion of house division in his length of life chapter (3, 11).
This is also where he introduces primary directions.
The method of house division he advocates here has long been the subject of dispute.
“This one chapter has occasioned more astrological controversy than any other ever written.” Holden, A History, p. 47.
Ptolemy was like the Einstein of his day

Feb 12, 2020 • 1h 57min
Relationship Placements in the Birth Chart
Episode 243 is a recording of a workshop led by astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim about interpreting relationship indicators in the birth chart.
This is a recording of a local meeting of the Denver Astrology Group, and it was meant to be an introductory overview to some of the techniques that astrologers employ when looking at relationships through the lens of natal astrology.
There are three primary areas that we focus on for relationships in the birth chart:
Planets in the 7th house
The ruler of the 7th house
The condition of Venus
During the course of the meeting we demonstrate the techniques by sharing some celebrity and client example charts from our private files, and several members of the audience also shared their personal birth charts so that we could hear how certain placements have worked out in the lives of individuals directly.
This episode of the podcast acts as sort of a companion to other episodes we've done on relationships in the past, such as:
🪐 The Outer Planets and Relationships with Kay Taylor
🪐 Synastry: The Astrology of Relationships with John Green
🪐 Composite Charts, with Originator John Townley
🪐 Sexual Orientation and Astrology with Christopher Renstrom
🪐 Lynn Bell on the Astrology of Family Dynamics
🪐 Relationship Astrology for Modern Times, with Jessica Lanyadoo
There are some concepts that we only mention in passing in this episode, since they have been touched on in other episodes, and also since this was just meant to be a more basic technical introduction.
We would also recommend checking out some of the previous workshops we've done recently, such as the one on the annual profections timing technique, or the workshop on interpreting where transiting eclipses fall in your birth chart.
To learn more about the approach to astrology demonstrated in this workshop, check out Chris' online course on ancient astrology, or Leisa's lectures on annual profections and sect.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Timestamps
Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:
00:00:00 Intro
00:05:00 Relationships and the 7th House
00:12:35 Chart examples of positive 7th House placements
00:16:15 Carl Sagan - ascendant ruler in 7th
00:20:29 Joe Biden - Saturn in 7th, Ruler of 7th in 12th
00:25:18 Richard Nixon - Venus in 7th
00:27:11 Audience chart example - death of partner
00:33:56 Audience chart example - end of relationship
00:36:41 Saturn in 2nd ruling the 7th
00:40:50 Annual Profections
00:44:23 Ruler of 7th in 9th
00:47:53 Emmanuel Macron - Ruler of 7th in 5th
00:50:50 Venus as relationship significator
00:52:15 Venus Saturn
00:53:44 Venus Uranus
00:57:04 Venus Neptune
01:00:35 Venus Pluto
01:02:40 Lot of Eros
01:04:36 Audience chart example - Jupiter Mars in 7th
01:16:25 Audience chart example - Venus Saturn Pluto
01:21:28 Synastry
01:22:22 Audience chart example - 7th house profection
01:28:47 Meghan Markle - Ruler of 7th in 4th
01:31:15 Prince Harry - Profection example
01:33:41 Monica Lewinsky - Mars in 7th
01:34:22 Bill Gates - Ruler of 7th Saturn mitigations
01:36:58 Amanda Knox - Saturn in 7th ruling 8th and 9th
01:38:39 Prince William - Ruler of 7th in 7th
01:40:00 The Macrons' synastry
01:40:57 Audience example - Venus Neptune
01:45:12 Hitler - Ruler of 7th in 8th
01:46:08 Eva Braun - Saturn in 7th
01:47:25 Aretha Franklin - Saturn in 7th
01:49:06 Common relationship questions
01:51:20 Signs and relationships
01:52:20 Ruler of 7th in 1st
01:53:30 Placements aren't static
01:56:00 Closing remarks
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