Articles

Each of these takes one technique and works it through on a chart. That is deliberate: a technique described in the abstract can always be made to sound convincing, and only comes apart when it meets a real nativity with conflicting testimonies in it.

The files are free to download and free to use in teaching. They are written here, for this school, and each is also published in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Natal technique

• The burning question: how combustion works in a natal chart — the distinction between combustion, the beams and cazimi, and what each does to a significator.
• Facing royalty: almugea, or proper face — a minor dignity that repays attention.

Planets in signs

• Jupiter in Sagittarius
• Saturn in Leo — the ingress, and the period it opens.

Mundane astrology

• Searching for the horoscope of Portugal — the problem of dating a nation, and what the candidates each imply.

Our own writing on these subjects is on the blog: besiegement and aid, the marks of a violent death, the mundane techniques, and how a judgement is built. The documents index lists every file on the site, reference tables included.