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Danger in a horary: reading the eighth house without frightening anyone
Sooner or later a horary arrives with an eighth-house testimony in it, and the astrologer has to decide what to say. This is the hardest thing in the practice, and it is technical before it is ethical. The technical part: danger is not outcome An eighth-house testimony describes…
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Judging a public scandal: derived houses and the discipline of not naming
Political scandals attract astrological commentary, and most of it is indefensible: a chart for a living person, cast from an uncertain time, read to support a conclusion the author already held about their guilt. The technique can do something more modest and more interesting.…
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Comets in mundane astrology: what the sources claim and how to test it
Comets occupy an odd place in the tradition. They are outside the ordered system — they belong to no sign permanently, rule nothing, and were long held to be sublunary. And yet the mundane authors treat them with great seriousness and make unusually specific claims about them.…
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Political violence in mundane charts: what the technique describes
The mundane tradition has a developed doctrine for violent public events, and it is worth setting out carefully — partly because the technique is real, and partly because it is so often used in a way the technique does not support. What the sources give The testimonies are…