Astrology in Culture

A Change in Meaning – Complexity in Astrology

In modern astrology as compared to traditional there is a change in the number of planets – you go from the seven in traditional to nine (or ten if you still count Pluto) modern planets. In addition, many modern astrologers also include various asteroids, dwarf planets and other significant points. This is not just a simple adding of a couple of points to a set. Changing the number of points changes how we perceive the whole set, how we work with it.

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Paradigm Within a Paradigm

Attempts to translate astrological symbolism into forms acceptable to Christians began in the early centuries of the Christian era. Leonardo Da Vinci painted his work “The Last Supper” in a time when correspondences between apostles and zodiac signs had been in circulation for well over a thousand years.

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Contemporary Astrology and Archetypal Motifs: The Whole-System Approach

Increasing numbers of people now are using astrology to better understand themselves and their relationships, their place in the world, their deep inner self and their ancestral legacy through family dynamics. Typically, a client does want to maximize their potential and realize their goals, but most importantly, they want to know what is going to happen to them and when. To what degree can astrology address these natural concerns?

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Astrology’s Orderly Chaos

By: Joseph Crane Over the past few decades, “chaos theory” and “complexity theory” have emerged as new scientific models for understanding chaotic and/or complex systems.

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Dracula: Quite a Card

By: Walter Cambra The character of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s enduring classic has occult associations with the astrological zodiac as well as the Tarot deck

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