Book Review: Demetra George, Astrology and the Authentic Self.  Lake Worth, Fl. Ibis Press (2008) By Joseph Crane (October 2011)
Seldom do we see a book-length work that shows how to bring together traditional and modern natal astrology, chart analysis and the nuts and bolts of an astrology consultation session.  Read more......

Planetary Symbolism and Medieval Literature
Currently the field of astrology is in a time of self-reflection and many astrologers are reviewing the foundations, applications, and values implicit in their work.  This article argues for a fully multidimensional focus of astrological symbolism. Read more..........

Power Lines and Fault Lines in the Astrology World
Review: NCGR Research Journal Vol. 1 #1 (ed. Brennan, C. and Mann, A.T.) Summer, 2010. By Joseph Crane  Read more........

The Winter Solstice Season and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
I write this in the midst of the “holiday season” where so many people are navigating the complexities of personal and family relationships. This is a time where our aloneness hurts more and we take more joy in our connectedness.   It’s often wrenching. Read more.........

Practical Introduction to Hellenistic Astrology
The purpose of this article is to let the reader dip into the Hellenistic tradition to get a sense of its style. Read more..........

Ptolemy's Digression: Astrology’s Aspects and Musical Intervals.
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Hellenistic stars: Table of Fixed Stars in Hellenistic Astrology
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George Bush’s Terrible Year: December 1, 2005.
This essay uses techniques of transits and profections from the Hellenistic tradition to help us understand the abysmally bad streak that has currently bedeviled President Bush. Read More.............

The Peculiar Development of the Modern Professional Astrologer
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The French version Le cheminement particulier de l’astrologue professionnel moderne

The Moon, Saturn and Boundaries: We begin with questions of personal integrity, solidity, and the inescapable fact that we all live in interconnected worlds - we do not exist as individual beings, although there is an individual pole to our experience. Read more...................

Five Issues in Astrological Counseling, I have always been interested in how today's psychological insights can help our counseling roles as astrologers. In this essay I describe some factors that are present in all good astrological counseling. Read more.............

The Structure of Cycles: Ptolemy and Rudhyar Revisited
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‘The Well-Tempered Astrololger: Using an Ancient System in Modern Astrology’, The Mountain Astrologer, April/May 2006 Read more............

(with co-author Micah Ross) ‘The Role of Egypt in the Development of the Horoscope’, in Proceedings of the Conference ‘Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE’, Prague forthcoming 2011

‘Thrasyllus’; ‘Vettius Valens’; ‘Paulus of Alexandria’; ‘Antiochos of Athens’; ‘Chaldaeans’; ‘Decans’ (six entries in toto), in Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds Roger Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige Champion, Andrew Erskine and Sabine Huebner, Oxford (Wiley-Blackwell), forthcoming 2010

‘Kepler’s Personal Astrology: Two Letters to Michael Maestlin’, in From Masha’allah to Kepler: The Theory and Practice of Astrology in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London forthcoming

‘Manilius and Dorotheus: Two First Century Astrological Poets on Lots’ in Poètes, poésie et astrologie (working title), eds Josèphe-Henriette Abry, Isabelle Boehm and Wolfgang Hübner, Lyon forthcoming

‘Arrows, Aiming and Divination: Astrology as a Stochastic Art’, in Divination – Perspectives for a New Millennium, ed. Patrick Curry, London (Ashgate) forthcoming

‘From Lilly to Steiner and Jung: Temperament in Astrology and Psychology, Seventeeth and Twentieth Centuries’, in Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West, Micrologus’ Library 25, eds Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Florence 2008, pp. 237-258

‘The Lots of Fortune and Daemon in Extant Charts from Antiquity (First Century BCE to Seventh Century CE)’, MHNH, 8, 2008, pp. 173-190

‘Calculating the Lots of Fortune and Daemon in Hellenistic Astrology’, Culture and Cosmos, 11, 2007, pp. 163-187
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‘The Winding Courses of the Stars: Essays in Ancient Astrology’ - Edited by Charles Burnett and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum.
Special Double Issue of Culture and Cosmos: A Journal of the History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy, Vol. 11 no. 1 and 2, Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2007 Reviewed by Kirk Little http://www.skyscript.co.uk/rev_wind.html

‘Rising to the Occasion: Appearance, Emergence, Light and Divination in Hellenistic Astrology’, in The Imaginal Cosmos: Astrology, Divination and the Sacred, eds Angela Voss and Jean Hinson Lall, Canterbury, Kent 2007, pp. 9-24

‘How Ancient Astrology Viewed the Lunar Cycle’, in Llewellyn’s 2004 Moon Sign Book, St. Paul, MN 2003, pp. 129-139

As Mars approaches: Here are some thoughts on the Mars approach.
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A Vision:  Key to Yeats as Poet and Magician: In 1925 the Anglo-Irish poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) published the book which he called A Vision. Read more...........