Do you know this feeling when you've got too much work on your plate and your eyes are bigger than your belly? Time flies and people don’t help you, just slow you down? Don’t panic, this is Mars in transit! He brings a big portion of energy, but many astrologers do not follow these transits seriously. Can we use this energy for effective work in everyday life and how do we do this? This lecture examines Mars in natal charts and in transits to avoid getting into conflicts and accidents.
From the ancient world we find the roots of many of our modern astrological predictive techniques: transits, progressions and directions, solar returns. Planetary period (or chronocrator) systems, however, fell by the wayside, and that’s unfortunate, for they look at human time within a different...
The synodic cycles of Venus and Mars can be applied to any style of astrology. The symmetrical eight-year Venus cycle repeats its retrogrades in the same five areas of the zodiac, while Mars emphasizes its asymmetrical fifteen-year retrograde cycle more on one end of the zodiac than the other. Th...
Mercury’s thoroughfare through the heavens forms an extraordinary cycle with the Sun. In this presentation, Brian considers Mercury’s synodic cycle as a timing technique for writing a thesis, organizing a road trip, preparing an event, planning the next semester of teaching, researching a present...
