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Modes of Relating: Leadership and Love in Astrology
One-day Workshop September 21, 10-4 58-60 Medford St, Arlington Ma. (up front stairs on the left) The astrological chart contains information about many features of our lives: work and calling, outlook toward the...
Read MoreAstrology and Family Patterns: Critical but Largely Ignored
How important is an understanding of family culture to interpreting your own astrological chart, or, if you are an astrological consultant, that of your client?
Read MoreAstrology and Family Patterns: New Course for the Summer
Practical guidance for astrologers working with their own and clients’ family...
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.
Read MoreEvent: 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!
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.
Read MoreWhy Should We Astrologers (and Astrology Students) Study Our History?
“Astrology is one of the great adventures of human civilization and has contributed greatly to people’s lives and to culture over time. This noble enterprise has spanned different cultures and historical periods and has had times of flowering and times of being on the fringes. Yet astrology has remained with us, always adapting to new conditions.”
Read MoreWalt Whitman: America’s Homer
Walt Whitman found in America’s promise a manifestation of human potential, and his age disappointed him as our age disappoints us. I’d like to dine with him in Heaven and he may wear his hat anywhere he likes, inside or out.
Read MoreMary Ann Evans (a.k.a. George Eliot) and the Harvest of Experience
This is the first of two presentations of literary masters from the nineteenth century whose bicentennials are this year. Eliot’s work displays moral vision with a keen sense of the drama of ordinary life.
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