Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Anthony Louis, author of several books, including the new Horary Astrology. On December 21, 2020, the planets Jupiter and Saturn conjoined in the heavens. Such "great conjunctions" happen about every 20 years, but this one was special. Not only did the planets coincide as measured along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth, but they also came together in declination—that is, in their angular distance north or south of the equator. In fact, these two giants of our solar system got so close, within 0.1 degrees of each other, that to the naked eye they looked like a single, extremely bright planet. The last time

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Wendell C. Perry, author of the new Behind the Horoscpe. I never thought of myself as a political person, but looking over my blog (at goodgollyastrology.com), I have to admit that in recent years the subject matter has become increasingly political. This got me wondering about what factors in the horoscope are most likely to be the source of an interest in politics. Since I recently completed a book of the astrological houses (Behind the Horoscope: How the Placement of the Sun and Moon Tells a Story About You), I was particularly interested in what is the most "political" house. My first nominee for most political house in the horoscope

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Wendell C. Perry, author of the new Behind the Horoscpe. A lot of astrologers are looking at the chart for Election Day 2020 (Nov. 3) with trepidation, mostly because Mercury will be retrograde for much of the day. (It goes direct at 12:50 PM EST.) They remember the Mercury retrograde election of 2000 and that long, exhausting recount. However, we've had elections with Mercury retrograde in which the mechanism of voting worked without a hitch. The most recent was the 1980 election. What has me worried about the 2020 election is not so much what Mercury is doing, it's what I see in the chart for the Full Moon on Oct. 31. On my website

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Glenn Mitchell, author of the new Discover the Aspect Pattern in Your Birth Chart. Most of my clients have read at least one book on astrology. They also follow astrology topics on social media. Both have reinforced the notion that "this is good" and "this is bad." The terms "benefic" and "malefic" are used. I resist this sort of astrology. I reject the determinism behind such thinking. The idea that this chart feature is "good" and that that one is "bad" comes from astrology's past. Some astrologers today use astrology to scare people. If all squares are "bad," then the wise client will want periodic sessions to identify when challenging