Mundane Astrology

• Two new years: the ingress and the solar revolution

  Astrology has two new years, and confusing them is a common source of nonsense. The ingress: the year of a place The Sun's entry into Aries opens the year for a country , and the chart is cast for its capital. It describes the condition of the place and its government over the…

• Mars and Saturn in conjunction: the tradition's least ambiguous aspect

  The tradition qualifies almost everything. Aspects are read through dignity, reception, sect and house, and a configuration that looks severe in isolation may be harmless in place. There are a few exceptions, and the conjunction of the two malefics is the clearest of them. Why…

• Reading a head of state's term: ingresses, profections and the limits of the method

  Mundane astrology is the oldest branch of the subject and the one most often practised badly. Predictions about governments are easy to make, hard to falsify, and attract a kind of confidence that the technique does not support. It is worth setting out how the judgement is…

• 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.…