Some rooms in the horoscope have locked doors.The ancient astrologers didn't soften their language. They looked at the birth chart and named certain houses with brutal honesty: Bad Fortune. Bad Spirit. Death. The Idle Place. They understood that life contains genuine hardship—and they built a system willing to say so.Modern astrology filed down those sharp edges. The 8th house became "transformation." The 12th became "the unconscious." The 6th became "health routines." Thes...

Can traditional astrology see alcoholism in a birth chart?After forty years of reading charts and two years of sobriety, astrologer Ken Saunders turned the lens on himself — and then on 884 charts of documented alcoholics from the Astro-Databank. What he found challenged some of his deepest assumptions and confirmed others.Nearly seven in ten alcoholic charts are night charts. The out-of-sect malefic is stronger, not weaker. Mars swings to extremes of dignity and debility. ...

In 1628, Pope Urban VIII sealed himself in a Vatican chamber with aDominican friar to perform a ritual of astral magic. Three years later,he issued the harshest papal condemnation of astrology in Church history.This is not a contradiction. This is the story almost no one has beentold. For more than a thousand years, the Catholic Church did not merelytolerate astrology -- it used it. Popes consulted astrologers for thetiming of coronations. Cardinal...

A working handbook of horary rules — the technique that lets a chart cast for the moment of a question delivera clear, specific answer.The Little Book of Horary Rules distills the judgment principles of classical horary astrology — the methodcodified by William Lilly and the masters who came before him — into a focused reference. Horary doesn't askyou to interpret a personality or speculate about a year ahead. It asks one question, examines the chart drawn

Two thousand years of astrological wisdom, distilled into a working handbook.The Little Book of Traditional Astrology is a complete, practical guide to the classical method — the wayastrology was practiced for centuries before the modern psychological turn. Built around the seven classicalplanets — the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — this book walks you through how theancients read signs, houses, and aspects to deliver clear, concrete ans...

Move over Shaun Micallef ... a work of comic genius that takes the mickey out of anything and everything to do with Australian politics.'I've found the Australian Douglas Adams!' - Tom Gleeson'Hilarious.' - Wendy Harmer'It's awesome.' - H.G. Nelson'Absurdly funny.' - Sami Shah'The revolution is coming.' - Cathy Wilcox'Highly amusing.' - John Doyle'Fizzing with ideas.' - Dominic KnightPrime Ministe...

It ain't easy being artificially intelligent . . .The first autobiography by a computer program! And who else to write this Artificial Intelligence epic but Zenith, the interactive virtual personal trainer now turned Chief Influencer of the World? Having cajoled millions of us to do (albeit grudgingly) our daily workout routines, Zenith knows us better than we know ourselves. His memoirs promise to offer insights on topics as wide ranging as human consciousness to children's trombo...