Patrick Watson

Hey everyone, I’ve got a few quick exciting updates to share – some upcoming conferences, a software launch, and a quick note about my services and consultations. NORWAC 2025 I’m thrilled to be presenting at NORWAC 2025. It’ll be my first one I’ve ever attended, and my first time visiting the Pacific Northwest! I wasn’t

A new astrology-centered social media website now exists: Third House at thirdhousesocial.com. Like you, my enthusiasm for Twitter definitely fell off a cliff after the Great Muskening, and a suitable alternative had not yet emerged. Along with my collaborators Nick Dagan Best and John Streaker, we figured we might just have to make one ourselves.

As you may know from my last post, I’ve been hard at work trying to bring the next gen AI-powered astrology software Nechepso to life alongside my collaborators Nick Dagan Best and John Streaker. We are getting closer everyday, and as of yesterday, Nechepso is now available to pre-order! The software will be out by

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. First, I lost time for articles and videos when my client schedule picked up in 2020, and then I lost time for clients and The Astrology Livestream when my work on a secret project picked up in early 2024. As of this week, the cat is finally

I remember vividly the first time I ever cried in school. It was the ’93-’94 school year and I was 6 or 7 years old. I could not wrap my head around multiplication. “If you have three sets of two apples, how many apples do you have?” my teacher kept asking. “Five” I kept responding,

What is the ruler of a sign? Typically astrologers default to the domicile ruler of a sign, and while that is usually sufficient, there is some fine print we’re overlooking most of the time. There are not just domicile rulers, there are also exaltation rulers, trigon lords (triplicity rulers), decan rulers, bound rulers, etc. Depending

[UPDATE April 25th 2022 – Emmanuel Macron won re-election. I got it right! Maybe you could say it’s not very impressive because there was a 50/50 chance of being correct, or that Macron was always favored to win, but my prediction was only based on astrological considerations.] In this article I’m going to try to

I should probably preface everything I’m about to say with the emphatic statement that I am not giving financial advice here, I am merely noting correlations. I started dipping my toes into financial astrology a couple of years ago, and it’s been a pretty steep learning curve, both for learning more about how markets work

When you ask a horary question, it should ideally be asked about a specific, developing, urgent concern. It shouldn’t just be a question borne out of idle curiosity, it should be spurred by the emergence of some pressing matter or event that is imminent or unfolding. I wrote about how to ask good horary questions