Multi-Cultural Astrology

I grew up in New York City, in a kind of run-down, lower middle class neighborhood. From the time I could be outside and relating to other kids, I was surrounded by people with different cultural backgrounds – German, Mexican, Irish, Italian, Chinese, and some others I didn’t know how to pronounce. We had different values, different religions, different family models, so part of our job as kids was to figure out a way to find common ground despite those differences.

I grew up surrounded by multiple models of reality interacting together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes not.

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A Multi Map Reality

I’m in the process of writing a book on traditional natal astrology, and I was fininshing up a chapter which was a lengthy analysis of a single natal chart, using an outline I drew up.

I use the Whole Sign house system, which is probably the oldest house system extant in the West, going back to the Hellenistic era.

It went well, and as I approached the end of the chapter I saw that the interpretation was accurate, powerful, specific, grounded, detailed – and incomplete.

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