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Michael Baigent

Placidus and the Rosicrucian Connection

John Ball

Papillon and the Soul of Republican France

Oliva Barclay

Horary: Will this be a permanent relationship?

Lynn Bell

Virgo's Wings; and Other Musings on the Mutable Signs

Steven Birchfield

Review:
Shlomo Sela: Abraham Ibn Ezra’s The Book of Reasons (2007)

Lesley-Ann Bowles

The Art and Science of Reflexology and Astrology

Kenneth Bowser

For & Against: The Zodiac Debate

Bernadette Brady

		Fixed Stars: Why Bother?
		An Interview with Bernadette Brady

Thomas Callanan

		The Astrology of Jean Baptiste Morin
		Patton: Swiftly Running Waters
		Ingresses: An Introduction to Mundane Astrology
		Reviews: Davis: From Here to There (2008) Elwell: Cosmic Loom (1999 revised, expanded and updated edition of original: 1987) Ramesey: Astrologiae Restaurata (2006 CD presentation of 17th century text) Regulus: A Rectification Manual: The American Presidency (2008)

Nicholas Campion

An Introduction to Aspects and Chart Shapes

Karen Christino

		Evangeline Adams' Decumbitures
		A Brief Biography of Evangeline Adams

Robert Corre

Nativity of John Allen Muhammad (Washington Sniper)

Joseph Crane

Five Issues in Astrological Counseling

Patrick Curry

Astrology, Divination & Enchantment

Martin Davis

An Introduction to Astro*Carto*Graphy

Benjamin Dykes

		MASHA’ALLAH: What is reception?
		Roots-being-God-freedom
		The Life of Guido Bonatti
		Translation of Guido Bonatti's treatise on 4th House Elections
		Happiness in Medieval Astrology
		An Interview with Benjamin Dykes
		Review: Greenbaum: Temperament - Astrology's Forgotten Key (2005)

Bernard Eccles

		Astrological Physiognomy: From Ptolemy to the Present Day
		An Interview with Bernard Eccles

Mike Edwards

The Art of Horoscopy

Jean Elliott

The Lunar Standstill Season

Dennis Elwell

		Astrology is a Foreign Language
		An Interview with Dennis Elwell
		Fate - and how to avoid it
		A Modern Art of Horary
		An Astrological Warning of Trouble at Sea
		Eclipses: The Kings Cross Eclipse
		When Charts Expand Horizons (review of Diana crash chart)
		The Alma Revisited... was it an Accident?

Kim Farnell

		A Brief Biography of Alan Leo
		An Interview with Kim Farnell
		Everyone talks about the weather, nobody does anything about it
		A Basic Guide to Astro-Meteorology
		The Seven Faces of Raphael
		When and why did Uranus become associated with Aquarius?
		Astrology, Sex & Great Lovers
		Life & Horoscope of Casanova
		Sepharial: That Terrible Iconoclast
		Astro-Profile of Johhny Depp
		Glossary of Archaic Terms

Nancy R. Fenn

Venus Transits and Powerful Women

Jonathan Flanery

Unexpected Visitors: The Theory of the Influence of Comets

John Frawley

		Horary Astrology - chapter from Real Astrology
		Electional Astrology - chapter from Real Astrology
		How to Beat Time - predicting the timing of events in horary
		An Interview with John Frawley

Ken Gilman

		Marriage Elections: Comparing Different Rules
		Bombs & Floods (pdf file)

Philip Graves

		Significations of Uranus
		Significations of Neptune
		Significations of Pluto
		Reviews: Farnell: Flirting with the Zodiac (2007)

Dorian Greenbaum

		Excerpts from Temperament: Astrology's Forgotten Key
		An Interview with Dorian Greenbaum

Liz Greene

The Eternal Triangle

Darrelyn Gunzburg

		An Interview with Garry Phillipson
		An Interview with Darrelyn Gunzburg

Robert Hand

An Interview with Robert Hand

Charles Harvey

Sun & Neptune through the Aspect Cycle

Robin Heath

		The Moon & Ancient Calendars
		Astronomy & Astrology of the Solar Hero Myth

Garrry Heaton

Clues in the Cosmos: The case of the Black Panther and Lesley Whittle

Deborah Houlding

Charts & symbols in early astrology: a study of chart form L 497

The Moon as transmitter of Influences

Prediction, Providence & the Power of the 'Self' in Horary

The Classical Basis of Antiscia and Contra-antiscia

Lilly's use of Reception in Horary

A Brief Comparison of the Use of Reception by Historical Authors

The Classical Origin & Traditional Use of Aspects

Table to Show Traditional Orbs for Aspectual Contact

The Immortal Genius of Beethoven

Hour Agreement and Radical Questions

Comets in history

The Irrepressible Galileo Galilei

The Life & Work of Ptolemy

Sun: The Roaring Sun

Sun: Astrological Attributes

Mars: Astrological Attributes

Mars: Astronomical Data

Mars: Life on Mars?

Mars: Solar Hero or Deadly Villain?

Moon: Astrological Attributes

Moon: in Folklore and Statistics

Moon: Tables of New & Full Moons: 2003-2004

Venus: the Two-Faced Goddess

Venus: Astrological Attributes

Mercury: Astrological Attributes

Jupiter: Astrological Attributes

Jupiter: The Lord of Plenty

Saturn: Astrological Attributes

Saturn: Saturn the Great Teacher

Understanding Planetary Dignity and Debility

The Philosophy of Sign Rulership

Judge Not Upon Every Slight Motion - Study in the Considerations Before Judgement

Questioning our Horaries

Relationship Horaries (introduction)

Will she leave her husband for me?

Will he marry me?

Is there a future in this relationship?

Lost Object Horaries (introduction)

Where is my ring?

Where are my glasses?

Where are my credit cards?

Is the scorpion still around? - example horary

Learning Horary, Part 1 - By Deborah Houlding

Introducing horary

Identifying Significators

Traditional Sign Rulerships

Houses in Horary | House Cusps and Orbs | Test 1

Angular, Succeedent, Cadent | ‘Public and Private’ | Colours | Test 2

Planetary Joys | Turning the Chart |

Example Horary: Will my parents be OK this year?

The problem | Approach to Judgement | Judgement and Outcome

Summary and Final Test

Shelley: A Tragic Romantic - Study in the Fixed Stars

The Zodiac Signs: Modern Views & Old Associations

Scorpio | Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius |Pisces

Famous sun-sign proiles

The Twenty Brightest Stars

Star Influences & Constellation Mythology

Heavenly Imprints: Development of the Zodiac

How to read an ephemeris (for beginners)

Attention all Shipping | Aphorisms for Travel at Sea

Traditional Rules for Judgement of Eclipses

Traditional Aphorisms for Judging Wealth in the Nativity

Traditional Aphorisms for Pregnancy Charts

Will I Get There? (example horary on modern travel)

Glossary of Traditional Terms

The Classical Use of Triplicities

A Century of Reform: The Rise and Demise of Astrology in 17th Century England

Time, the Egyptians and the Calendar

Ingresses: An Introduction to Mundane Astrology

Electing for Financial Gain

Paraphrased extract from Lilly - wealth in the nativity

An Interview with Garry Phillipson

Reviews:
Beck: A Brief History of Ancient Astrology (2006)
Bonatti: Book of Astronomy (2007 translation of 13th century treatise)
Campion: Book of World Horoscopes (2004 revised, expanded and updated edition of original: 1988)
Ezra: The Book of Nativities and Revolutions (translated by M.B. Epstein, 2008)
Farnell: Astrology of Sex (2004)
Gunzburg: Life after Grief (2004)
Hampar: Electional Astrology (2005)
Lewicki: Astrolabe Companion CD (2004)
Thabit Ibn Qurra: De Imaginibus (2005 translation of 9th century treatise)
Warnock: Mansions of the Moon (2006) & Renaissance Astrology CD Library (2004)
Watters: Astrology for Today (2003)

Maggie Hyde

		Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson's Sick Boy
		Synchronicty - extract from 'Jung & Astrology'
		Derek Appleby and Horary Astrology

Felix Jay

The Louis de Wohl I knew

Nick Kollerstrom

		The Jupiter Cycles of Lady Diana
		Kepler's Belief in Astrology
		The Horror-Scope of Algol
		Galileo's Astrology
		Astral Portraits of the Seven METALS
		Venus, the Rose and the Heart

Sharon Knight

		Horary: Where is the money?
		Horary: Where is my earring?

Denis Labouré

The Seven Bodies of Man in Hermetic Astrology

Jonathan Ledbury

The Bickerstaff Papers

David McCann

		Progressing the Angles: A Comment on Directing
		Regiomontanus Cusps from Placidus Tables
		Asteroids and Comets
		Astrology of Colour
		For & Against: The Zodiac Debate
		The Sun in Myth and Occult Philosophy
		Mercury in Myth & Occult Philosophy
		Venus in Myth & Occult Philosophy
		Mars in Myth and Occult Philosophy
		Jupiter in Myth and Occult Philosophy
		Saturn in Myth and Occult Philosophy
		Neptune - Discovery and naming (Birth of the Outer Planets)
		Pluto - Discovery and naming (Birth of the Outer Planets)
		Uranus - Discovery and naming (Birth of the Outer Planets)
		Mercury's Orbit & Phases
		The Life & Work of Abraham ibn Ezra
		Julius Firmicus Maternus: Profile of a Roman Astrologer
		The Parts in Action

Maurice McCann

		William Lilly's Prediction of the Fire of London
		An Interview with Maurice McCann

Michael McClain

		Sun aspects - natal interpretations
		Moon aspects - natal interpretations
		Mercury aspects - natal interpretations
		Venus aspects - natal interpretations
		Mars aspects - natal interpretations
		Jupiter aspects - natal interpretations
		Saturn aspects - natal interpretations
		Uranus aspects - natal interpretations
		Neptune aspects - natal interpretations
		Pluto aspects - natal interpretations

Derek Parker

The Rise and Fall of the Astrological Almanac

Garry Phillipson

		An Interview with Dorian Greenbaum
		An Interview with Benjamin Dykes
		An Interview with Maurice McCann
		An Interview with Robert Hand
		An Interview with Bernadette Brady
		An Interview with Kim Farnell
		An Interview with Robert Zoller
		An Interview with Darby Costello
		An Interview with Bernard Eccles
		An Interview with Dennis Elwell
		An Interview with John Frawley
		An Interview with Darrelyn Gunzburg
		An Interview with Mike Harding
		An Interview with Warren Kenton
		An Interview with Christine Skinner
		An Interview with Shelley von Strunckel
		An Interview with Komilla Sutton
		An Interview with Graeme Tobyn
		I am Garry's Mars in Pisces
		Mercury: Astrology's Natural Significator
		An Interview with Garry Phillipson
		Reviews: Brady: Astrology: A Place in Chaos (2006) Campion: The Dawn of Astrology (2008) Crane: Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy (2008) Krissdóttir: Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys (2008) McGillion: Blinded by Starlight (2002) Roberts:The Star of the Magi (2007) Skafte: When Oracles Speak (2006) Tarnas: Cosmos & Psyche (2006) Tompkins: The Contemporary Astrologer's Handbook (2006) Westran: When Stars Collide (2006)

David Plant

		Lilly's War Charts: If Prince Rupert should gain honour by our wars?
		Lilly's War Charts: If his Majesty should procure Forces out of Ireland to harm the Parliament?
		Fortune, Spirit and the Lunation Cycle
		Albion Rising: Reflections on the Nativity of William Blake
		Lilly and the Alchemist
		Johannes Kepler and the Music of the Spheres
		The Central Sun: The Copernican Revolution
		The Life & Work of William Lilly
		Tycho Brahe - A King Amongst Astronomers
		Al Biruni & Arabic Astrology
		John Gadbury: Politics & the Decline of Astrology
		Cromwell's Nativity: Gadbury versus Partridge
		The Sub-lunar Sphere
		Eclipses: Darkening of the Light
		Electing by the Moon
		Vettius Valens: an Ancient Judgement of Wealth
		J. Paul Getty's Phenomenal Wealth
		The Star of Bethlehem

Linda Reid

		Mars: Archetypal Mars
		Mercury: Transformation, Transformation & Transcendence
		Starting out in a Professional practice and Setting Fees

Wanda Sellar

Mind, Body & Spirit: A Case History

Jackie Slevin

The Winds of Dodona - Zeus, the Greek Jupiter

Komilla Sutton

		Astrology and Gemmology
		An Interview with Komilla Sutton

Cynthea Tasker

		Event judgement: The Disaster of the Braer
		Horary judgement: Will they get back together?

Graeme Tobyn

		A review of the astrological tradition concerning the perfection of significators and its denial (part I)
		A review of the astrological tradition concerning the perfection of significators and its denial (part II)
		An Interview with Graeme Tobyn

Sue Toohey

		The Individual and the Cosmos
		Albertus Magnus and Prognostication by the Stars
		The Influence of Marsilio Ficino
		More than Just a Footnote (History of women in astrology)
		Hypatia: Life is an Unfoldment
		Tolkien: Heir to the Grand Tradition
		Ingresses: An Introduction to Mundane Astrology
		Isaac Newton and the Ocean of Truth
		Elizabeth I: the Virgin Queen
		John Dee - The Inspired Melancholic
		Review: Rochberg: Heavenly Writing (2004)

Michael Wackford

		I: The Polar Horoscope
		II: Polar Houses
		III: The Polar Arcs
		IV: Polar Meridians
		V: Global Horoscopes
		V: Global Horoscopes II
		It's the Oblique Sphere Stupid!
		Placido and the semi-arc method of house division

Christopher Warnock

Traditional Astrology & Criminal Law

Dylan Warren-Davis

		Intro to Decumbiture I: Defining the Moment
		Intro to Decumbiture II: Decumbiture and Humoral Physiology
		Intro to Decumbiture III: House Rulership in Decumbiture
		Intro to Decumbiture IV: The First House: Health & Vitality
		Intro to Decumbiture V: The Sixth House and Disease
		Intro to Decumbiture VI: The Seventh House and the Physician
		Intro to Decumbiture VII: The Tenth House: The Medicine
		Intro to Decumbiture VIII: A Case History - A Study in Infertility
		Intro to Decumbiture IX: Supplementary Significations of Disease
		Intro to Decumbiture X: The Eighth House - Death
		Made in the Image of the Heavens: The Cosmology of the Hand
		Nicholas Culpeper: Herbalist of the People
		Valerian & Fennel: Two Contrasting Mercurial Herbs
		Garlic - the Embodiment of a Martian Herb
		Dandelion - the Embodiment of a Jovial Herb
		Comfrey - the Embodiment of a Saturnine Herb
		St John's Wort - A Solar Herb

Joanna Watters

Scott Whitters

		Melancholy: The Saturnine Temperament
		Sanguine: The Jupiterian Temperament

Lars Widding

The Race for the South Pole (Natal analysis of Scott & Amundsen)

Wilhelm Wulff

Zodiac and Swastika

Angela Voss

From Allegory to Anagoge: the Question of Symbolic Perception in a Literal World

Reproductions of historical chart judgements (dates refer to the year of the event of the chart)
	Valens	A Judgement of Wealth	(105 AD)
	Palchus	Safety of a Ship at Sea	(479 AD)
	Eutocius	An early Greek Horoscope	(497 AD)
	Galileo	Notes on his own Horoscope	(1564)
		Nativity of Giovanni Sagredo	(1571)
	Gadbury & Partridge	Oliver Cromwell's Nativity	(1599)
	Placidus	Nativity of an eminent Physician	(1603)
	Lilly	Nativity of an English Merchant	(1616)
		The Gentlewoman and the Aged Man	(1644)
		An Example of a Ship at Sea	(1644)
		If Attaine the Philosopher's Stone?	(1647)
	Raphael	Nativity of Mr Blake	(1757)

General Reproductions

Al Biruni

Al Biruni's List of Parts (v. 476-479, Book of Instruction)

Guido Bonatti

Guido Bonatti's 4th House Elections

Henry Coley

		Henry Coley's English translation of Ptolemy's Centiloquium
		Henry Coley's English translation of the Centiloquium of Bethem
		Henry Coley's English translation of the Centiloquium of Hermes Trismegistus