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Do the markets rise and fall with the cosmic tides? We’re starting to probe this question with Claude AI (armed with the Swiss Ephemeris for accurate calculations), and some of the initial findings are intriguing! As a point of departure we took inspiration from some of David Cochrane’s research on cyclic factors affecting the gold…

Eclipses have inspired awe, wonder, and fear in cultures across the world for thousands of years. In ancient Mesopotamia, for example, kings were ritually replaced by surrogate rulers during eclipses in an attempt to shield them from the dangers these celestial events were believed to herald. In astrology, eclipses are among the most significant and…

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. -William Blake Secondary and Solar Arc Progressions are among the most potent and reliable timing techniques used by Western astrologers. The theory is relatively simple: with…

Intensive Course presented by Richard Alwin Fidler 6 Consecutive Sundays: 5 April – 10 May 2026 18:00 – 20:00 London Time People consult astrologers for a myriad of different reasons. Sometimes clients will seek guidance on relatively simple and straightforward issues, such as strategies for business ventures or the timing of important actions, such as marriage,…

“This charming book records a conversation that takes place on a train trip in Italy between Milan and Rome. The narrator of the tale is a 1000-year-old monkey, Bhakta, who can identify the stars and constellations and who regales a passenger, Vaya – a much younger female dragon – with a discourse on the history…

In September of this year we had a solar eclipse on the 21st and then an equinox on the 22nd. Eclipses and equinoxes are both important events in Mundane Astrology and they have one thing in common- both amplify the general astrological “energy” that is active at the moment they occur for at least some…

In July 2026 Jupiter will form a strikingly exact geometric pattern with all three outer planets- Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They will all be located at 4 degrees of various signs. The “spine” of this combination is the opposition of Jupiter and Pluto. This is the half-way mark in the Jupiter-Pluto cycle that started with…

The total Lunar Eclipse of 7 September 2025 was on the Ascendant in Paris and on the Midheaven in Kathmandu (and in Kathmandu, where the finance minister was manhandled and thrown into a river, Saturn in Pisces was also square the Ascendant). Both countries have in recent days replaced their Prime Ministers.