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Read MoreDorothy Parker: At Wit’s End
Author, poet, critic, screenwriter and one of the wittiest Americans published in the twentieth century, Dorothy Parker’s many witticisms and life’s difficulties still live with us. An astrological analysis reveals much about the woman and the times in which she lived.
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Read MoreProfiles: Seventeen Exemplary Persons I’d like to meet in Heaven
“In these times when human nature seems darker and weaker than we know it to be, we should remind ourselves of qualities we admire and those people who exemplify them. It seems timely that my profiles now focus on individuals who hold us to a higher standard of decency, who may inspire us.”
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Read MoreAstrology, Deeper and Wider: Eleven Years of Book Reviews
Even astrologers have tribal tendencies, and only talk to people in their own “bubble”. Yet many astrologers have written books that have gone beyond convention into new areas of astrological possibility. I have reviewed many of them over the past decade.
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Read MoreAstrology and the Stoics: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Contentment
The development of astrology in the West owes a great debt to the philosophy of the Stoics. Their depictions of human bondage and freedom, their quest for serenity and their emphasis on nobility of character continues to influence astrology’s techniques and astrology’s underlying understanding of the human condition.
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Read MoreSimone Weil (1909-1943): Sublimity and Affliction
Depictions of this women have ranged from the hagiographic to the clinical: to some she was saintly and brilliant and prophetic, to others she was emotionally tortured, self-destructive and made life difficult for those around her. In fact, she possessed all these qualities.
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Read MoreAstrologers Should Study Their History
Beginning Thursday September 17, with the International Academy of Astrology, there’s a course that takes astrology from the Bronze Age to the Islamic Golden Age.
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Read MoreJoseph Crane Astrology Consultations
I provide an array of astrological consulting services, including full natal sessions or a series of sessions that explores personal and life issues in depth. I also provide horary and electional astrology for specific situations.
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Edward Snowden and the Triumph of Mercury
It’s been over three years since Edward Snowden was stranded at the airport in Moscow, and his story will be retold for the third time on film. Here’s a return look at his astrology, the bizarre course his life has taken, and his prospects for the near future.
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Hillary Clinton: Three Faces and Two Charts
This enigmatic and complex woman is at the center of the US Presidential campaign and she has at least two astrology charts with different times! This article explores the similarities and differences between the two charts and the different images of Hillary Clinton.
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Untying the Knots of the Twelve-Letter Alphabet
First published in 2014, this article argues against bringing together signs, houses, and planets into twelve “letters” that distort the fundamental symbol systems of astrology.
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Event: The Recurring and Evolving Soul in Astrology
My next course for Kepler College, a discerning look at the trends of spiritual astrology since the theosophical movements, begins Thursday April 27. Put it on your calendar!
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The Recurring and Evolving Soul in Astrology
Soul as karma explores what incarnates from lifetime to lifetime. Ideas of rebirth had some traction in the ancient western world has recent expressions in the modern era in different types of spiritual astrology.
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David Bowie: Outsider in the Mainstream
David Bowie appears to have qualities astrologers associate with the planet Uranus. Yet his natal chart reveals a strong presence of Saturn. This allows us to look at the man and his work in a different way.
Read MoreAbout Joseph Crane
Joseph Crane is a teacher and writer of astrology and an astrological consultant with decades of experience in the field. “I teach and write about astrology with reverence for its culture and traditions and as part of the wisdom traditions of the West. As an astrological consultant, I help people understand their current life situations in context and provide paths of activity that help resolve immediate issues and forward their life purpose.” 