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Do Whole Sign Houses Explain Gauquelin’s Mars Effect?

Do Whole Sign Houses explain Gauquelin’s “Mars Effect”? First we should understand what it is. Michel Gauquelin was a French dude who got a lot of birth times of eminent sports stars together. When he calculated all their astrological charts he noticed that Mars kept showing up in certain areas. To investigate further, Gauquelin basically

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What Hellenistic Astrologer Vettius Valens Has to Say About Love and Romance in Your Natal Chart

Hellenistic astrology can be super intimidating, and even once you sit down and actually decide to read some of these ~2000 year old books, it can be a bit confusing. So I wanted to basically translate into plain English what 2nd-century astrologer Vettius Valens had to say about “Marriage, Wedlock and Happiness: Various Theorems and

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Your Astrology Guide to the 2016 Presidential Debates: Round 2

UPDATE: Yep, I failed to correctly predict the 2016 election outcome. Keep reading though. The second presidential debate takes place from 8-9:30 pm (CDT) on Sunday October 9th 2016 in St. Louis Missouri. The Ascendant at 8 pm is 8 Gemini. At 9:23:13 pm, the Ascendant switches to Cancer and at the end of the debate, 1

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Your Astrology Guide to the 2016 Presidential Debates: VP Edition

UPDATE: Yep, I failed to correctly predict the 2016 election outcome. Keep reading though. The 2016 Vice Presidential debate will take place between Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence on Tuesday October 4th 2016, starting at 9 pm in Farmville, Virginia. Wait, wait, there’s an actual Farmville? It’s not just a

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5 Ways to Deal With Having a Chart That Sucks

Across your adventures in astrological navel gazing, you may have pored over the concepts of essential dignity and rationalized away your chart’s clear shortcomings until you could no longer ignore the inexorable truth: Your chart sucks. My mum was an astrology enthusiast who tried to elect my birth for maximum astrological advantage. Instead, I decided to

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Numbers and Natures: A Theoretical Basis for the Astrological Qualities of the Planets

Over the course of my studies in astrology, I learned as one does about the organizing principles behind signs, houses, rulerships, exaltations, joys, aspects, sect, etc. The internal logic is remarkably consistent and each part relates to the other in one cohesive, elegant whole. However, it began to nag at me that in one particular

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