Recently, I posted a blog entry delineation of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and others in Tucson, AZ, focusing on the angle that the shooting could be used specifically as a decumbiture for Giffords, as the target of the shooting. I had posted the link up on my Facebook page, and one of my friends, who is not an astrologer, but is…

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In the latest issue of the ISAR Journal, Vol. 36, Number 2, I published an article entitled “A lot has happened while you have been asleep… Education and Professionalism in the Age of Pluto in Capricorn.”

I have to admit that I don’t like my conclusions in this article, but they have profound implications for the future of astrology as a whole.

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Here is a list of the station points for the planet Mercury by date in the Gregorian (NS) calendar system. Zodiacal position by longitude and time of day of the station point in the US Eastern Time Zone is shown for one-hundred-fifty years: ad 1900 to 2050. The calculations were performed by the Solar Fire Gold (version 7) computer program using the Swiss Ephemeris.

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©2003 J. Lee Lehman

The void-of-course Moon has been listed as a debility (weakened) since Arabic times. However, listing it as debilitated is one thing: coming up with a cogent meaning is another. What did the ancients mean by believing it weakened? What continuity is there with modern astrology thinking? And, how can we use these ideas in application? These are the issues…

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©2002 J. Lee Lehman

As astrologers, what can we learn…

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Copyright 1997 J. Lee Lehman
I have a friend who has a multiple murderer as an astro-twin. This is exactly the sort of story which goes over big in the bar at an astrological conference. However, bragging rights aside, our normal inclination would be to find lessons in the differential house placements, and then hum a few bars of “There but for fortune, go…

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Copyright 1995, 1997 J. Lee Lehman

One of the major lifestyle changes of the 20th Century has been the considerable increase in voluntary relocation. Of course, war, famine and plague have historically resulted in massive relocations of entire populations. However, as the technology of transportation has improved, many individuals and small family units relocate frequently, often on a whim. Until recently, it was…

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Copyright 1991 J. Lee Lehman, Ph.D.

The concept of rulerships, as we have inherited it, has actually included two discrete elements:

• sign rulerships, including the five essential dignities of rulership, exaltation, triplicity, term and face, as well as mutual reception,

• natural rulerships, the attribution of a thing to rulership by a sign, planet, or house.

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