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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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Dorothy Day – A Saint for the “Occupy Era”?
Political activist, humanitarian, and possibly the next person to become an American Catholic saint, Dorothy Day merits a detailed astrological profile. Her views appear quite similar to that of Pope Francis who will visit the United States in September 2015.
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Hell and Causation in Astrology: In-Person Workshop 9/27
11 AM – 5 PM in Wayland, Mass. — For thousands of years some of our culture’s greatest writers and thinkers have explored the role of the astrologer and the nature of astrology, and there is much to be mined from Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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Mark Twain – Novelist and Humanitarian
Mark Twain (1835-1910), born Samuel Clemens, was a uniquely American...
Read MoreAngela Merkel and 2015
In late 2014 I wrote a profile “Angela Merkel and ‘This Wall” (PDF) that...
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Probing Pluto and Scorpio, Clarifying Neptune and Pisces
Completing the job of severing outer planets and the signs they allegedly rule, we attain a more profound understanding of both the signs Scorpio and Pisces and the planets Pluto and Neptune.
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.” 