Historical event

• Reading an event as it unfolds: charts for the hours of a single day

  Most astrology is practised on a scale of years. Event work is different: the chart of a moment, and then the charts of the hours that follow, which show a situation turning while it is still happening. The technique is best learned on historical events, where the times are…

• Alfarrobeira, 1449: what a chart can say about a disputed death

  Medieval chronicles occasionally record a birth to the hour. When they do, they hand the historian of astrology something rare: a chart for a documented life, cast from a source with no astrological interest in the outcome. One such case is the Portuguese Infante Dom Pedro, Duke…