Author: Charlie Obert

This post is part of an experiment that I am doing where I am looking at the astrology of the entire world. I am working with charts of the Cardinal Ingresses where I leave off any local Ascendant or Midheaven, and place the wheel so that the Sun is right at the top of the chart. So, at Spring Equinox Aries is at the top, at the Summer Solstice Cancer is at the top, and so on. That visually highlights the four cardinal ingress points as the axes of the world chart. It also shows the positions of all the planets and the nodes, which are the same everywhere in the world.

I am concentrating on planets aligned with the four cardinal axes, and with major planetary aspects, especially to those axes. I am not doing anything with house meanings since they are measured off an Ascendant and Midheaven. I am confident that the cardinal points do act like world angles, but I am not confident in assigning them to particular points – e.g., is the Sun on an Ingress to be assigned to the first house cusp, or the tenth, or some other – or, does it vary by season? That is why I am not confident in assigning house meanings – I think it takes a specific location to do that.

I want to look at some of the Cardinal Ingresses in the series from April 2024 through June 2026, and I am highlighting major shifts here. I am experimenting with viewing these as a series, leading up to some major changes that surface in mid-2025 and culminate and clarify in 2026. I sketched out the series of planets all changing signs in a short space of time in my previous post on A Graphic View of the Coming Changes.

My comments and interpretation here are very tentative, and I am trying to leave them open-ended, but I will share my own conjectures as to where things are going. Continue reading “The Shape of Ingresses to Come”

We have some major astrological shifts coming up in the space of the next two years. Rather than just print out a transit listing which would show all the important dates, I want to use a graphic ephemeris to show all the changes in an economical and easy to scan form. The opening image shows the graph of planetary movements of 2024 through 2026, and we will read the graph here. Continue reading “A Graphic View of the Coming Changes”

After all these years practicing astrology I am still not sure quite what to make of that little Beastie.

This post was triggered by a discussion on John Michael Greer’s ‘Magic Monday’ blog on ecosophia.net, where he fields questions in the area of occultism.

Here is the thread I’d like to quote:

Q: Why do so many astrologers still use Pluto as a planet when astronomers voted in 2006 to demote Pluto to dwarf planet status? Continue reading “Pluto’s Swan Song”

The Feast of the Transfiguration was yesterday (August 6), and while I was at Mass it gave me plenty of time to think about the Solar symbolism of the day.

I mentioned in my previous post, Astrology and the Catholic Church Calendar, that this Feast coincides with the Sun being at 15 degrees Leo, right in Midsummer at the center of the sign the Sun rules. The revealing of the shining glory of the Sun of God on a Solar holiday is too obvious a connection to ignore.

While I was reciting the Lord’s Prayer with that in mind, it occurred to me that I should just pay attention to what that prayer says in ordinary English. Continue reading “Our Father in the Sky”

In this essay I am picking up on some concepts that I first began exploring in this piece I wrote back in 2021 – World Angles and the World Chart.

The key idea is that the four cardinal ingresses mark the axis points of the world, that are defined by the relation between the Earth and Sun. The are the four critical points on the Ecliptic, the circle marking the Sun’s apparent path of rotation around the earth.

The cardinal ingresses, especially the Aries Ingress at the Spring Equinox, are traditionally used as points for Mundane astrology.

What I want to explore is not just the Ingresses as four points in time, but as four points in space, power points connecting us to the world. Continue reading “World Angles in the Personal Chart”

The first part of this essay is a very brief piece I did yesterday, and I am leaving it as originally posted. I decided today that it may be a bit too brief and cryptic, so I am adding a second part where I expand on the symbolism.

Part One

I am writing this Tuesday morning July 16, 2024, one day after the Mars/Uranus conjunction perfected, and three days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

I noticed a curious piece of astrology symbolism at work here.

Not surprisingly, the past few days I have seen a couple of repostings of the meme of the comedienne holding up the bloody severed head of Trump. It looks really, really tacky and bad just now, in the light of this weekend’s events.

Do you know what that bloody severed head is an image of? Continue reading “The Bloodied Head”

Some years back I worked on a book project on the Western spiritual basis of our astrology. It made more sense to me to look to our own traditions rather than following the fashion that goes back to the influence of Theosophy in the early 1900’s, and look to the East for spiritual guidance. Much as I love Eastern philosophy, and as much as I have personally been influenced by Theosophy, especially Blavatsky, it still seems to me to be more appropriate to look to our Western tradition for our Western spiritual roots.

I took my book project as far as a finished first draft and then had to just let it sit, as it felt incomplete, fragmentary. I think I understand why now.

I was searching for a system of ideas, a philosophical system, for the base, and I have now think that is inadequate. The philosophical underpinning is very important, but by itself it lacks roots. It isn’t deep enough.

A spiritual underpinning needs to be rooted in spiritual practice and realization. It needs to be alive. Continue reading “Aligning with the Cycles of Astrology”