“In his book, The Secret Architecture of our Nation’s Capital, David Ovason describes in great detail the astrological underpinnings of Washington, D.C. and its connection to the sign of Virgo and the ancient Goddess mysteries. Ovason stresses that the Masons, who were among the city’s architects and planners and who were present at the groundbreaking foundation ceremonies, were knowledgeable about astrology. In the tradition of ancient astrologers, they would have recognized the link between the stars and the destiny of cities…”

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“While doing research for a lecture on the American Election - I happened across an article on how information on Wikipedia concerning the company Diebold had been changed. Diebold you might recall is the group that produces the voting machines most people in the US will be using for voting in november’s election. I felt suddenly aware of the parallel that exists between the internet and George Orwell’s book: 1984…”

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“Today I’m pleased to have a guest post from, Paul Kiritsis. He has just released a very interesting book called Hermetica: Myths, Legends, and Poems and his website contains a bunch of fascinating stuff concerning his astrology work. I asked him to share some thoughts on his writing process, and especially on how astrology plays a role in his work.

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“Stephen Arroyo is the author of best selling ‘Astrology, Karma and Transformation’, and ‘Relationships and Life Cycles’, as well as five other books that have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Arroyo sees everyone as an energetic combination of Earth, Air, Water and Fire. Knowing the elemental makeup of yourself and others gives you insight into your own unconscious biases as well as the unconscious biases of those you relate to.

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“When several (non-astrologer) friends and family members noticed this book in my office — and it does have attention-grabbing red ink on the cover — they all more or less raised their eyebrows. What use could such a topic possibly have? Is there no end to what these astrologers will speculate upon? For outsiders, this may seem like an outlandish application of our craft, but for astrologers, Jamie Macphail’s book is a masterpiece worthy of endless interest and study…”

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“They say that Astrology is the mother of all Sciences. You should know then that Mundane Astrology is the first Astrology that was practiced. In Mesopotamia where the astrologer priests went up in there ziggurats every night to see the night stars and the dance of the planets they would stand in wonder at the night sky and behold the movements of the heavens…”

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“Gemini rising gives a slim, pretty, appearance, a restless or nervous disposition, and an intellectual approach to life. Sun conjunct Midheaven in Aquarius with Mercury close by gives Virginia Woolf her powerful influence and status as a modern writer. Moon in Aries gives a quick, impatient, and often aggressive personality. Mercury in Aquarius is idealistic, altruistic, and concerned with humanitarian issues…”

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“Sometimes it takes an event like the Autumnal Full Moon that was so startlingly bright it outshone any earthly light to remind us how visible the planets were before electric lights changed our civilized world.

Our lost connection to the stars remains agelessly alive in our cultural myths, dreams, and in the case of Venus as Anne Massey explains in her book, the planet’s patterns described by the ancients are repeated in all the forms we call beautiful’. Ancient stories we hold dear, the petals on roses, the divine proportions symmetry of a face that attracts attention, the entwining DNA strand, or the origin of the pentagram which is a very real symbol transcribed by Venus’ cycle continuously in our sky…”

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Yes, I admit it. My partner and I took turns reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows aloud to each other the weekend of its release. It seemed both fairer, not to mention more fun, to savor that last piece of the story together.

I do not propose to justify my particular interests from a feminist perspective: frankly, I’m long past that dubious exercise. What I would like to address is the Harry Potter phenomenon, and what it can tell us about the status of women in the 90’s and ‘00’s, when these Books were written, and in which they are also set…”

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“Last month, Ben Dykes published a new translation of the works of 8-9^th century Persian astrologers Sahl and Masha’allah. The book is a compilation of 16 shorter astrological works. As Dykes pointed out in his interview with GA, this is not an exhaustive collection of Sahl and Masha’allah’s works...”

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