THE

ASTROLOGER'S APPRENTICE

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ISSUE 1 (now sold out)

What is Prediction? - what is happening when we predict? is destiny negotiable?

She Loves Me: She Loves Me Not - analysis of relationships by traditional techniques

Czech This: The Astrology of Events - judging sporting contests

The Battle to Own Truth - Swift's attack on the astrologers and the critics' attacks on John Keats were battles in the same war

The Malefic Sun - the traditional rules explained and clarified

The Acid Test - Orson Welles was wrong: Switzerland has produced something more interesting than the cuckoo-clock. The Astrology of LSD, part 1.

AND MUCH MORE

 

ISSUE 2

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Apprentice investigates the outer planets

The Joys of the Planets - so who said astrology and Christianity don't mix?

The Astrology of the Fall - John Milton and how astrology began

The Operation - medical horaries

The Acid Test - the Astrology of LSD, part 2

The Considerations before Judgement - re-evaluated and demystified

AND MUCH MORE

 

ISSUE 3

Warts and All - finding bodily blemishes by astrology, and what happens when the witchfinder finds them first

What Happened to Time? - how changing attitudes to time have transformed both astrology and our daily lives, and what we can do about it

It Really Works! - accurate public predictions by horary astrology, recorded before the event

Astrology on the Barricades - The Apprentice looks at two radical astrologers

The Ethics of Prediction - two differing views

AND MUCH MORE

 

ISSUE 4

A Man's Gotta Do - High Noon, McCarthyism and the Salem Witchtrials

The Smell of a Comet - Lilly's rival, George Wharton, on comets and their effects

Astrology and Magic - Should astrologers pick up their wands once again?

Different Strokes - What happens when astrologer and client hold fundamentally opposing beliefs?

 

ISSUE 5

The William Hill Astrology Awards - Bursaries for astrologers, and how to claim them

Neptune, the Short Version - Life too short for Liz Greene's? The Apprentice tells you all you need to know

Zulu! - An Empire shaken as Zulus massacre a British army during an eclipse of the Sun

The Most Beautiful Music - How cultural changes have shaped the astrology we use today

 

ISSUE 6

The St Lilly's Day Massacre - Blood flows as astrologers debate the very foundations of our art

Onmyoji - Astrologers to the Emperor - An introduction to ancient Japanese astrology

In Search of Shakespeare - The Apprentice tracks down the Bard's true chart, rectifying through his works

The Trial - Three separate charts confirm the same judgement

Will Mandy & Beth Go Down? - Predicting the soaps

 

ISSUE 7

Richard Dawkins Proves Astrology - The Apprentice administers discipline to Astrology's wayward child, Science

World Cup Fever - Looking ahead to France '98

Stars & Drugs & Rock & Roll - An Astrological Mystery Tour around the Birth-chart of Rock

You'll be a Man, My Son - The ancient teaching behind the exaltations of the planets

Epiphany - We consider the feast of the Astrologers

 

ISSUE 8

Death and the Devil Issue, including:

Selling Ones Soul, with Doctor Faustus and Robert Johnson

Predicting Death from the Nativity - A worked example in detail

Death and the Dead - Tracing Jerry Garcia's death in the birthchart of the band

The Nostradamus Tapes - At last: the Truth!

 

ISSUE 9

Are You Receiving Me? - The definite guide to receptions

The Warsaw Uprising - Plotting its exact course, using day-to-a-week progressions

Pluto Problems - Simple, accurate, specific prediction from the birthchart

New Old Techniques - Antiscia, Arabian parts, and how to cook them

Venus in Japanese Astrology - The dire consequences of Venus visible by day

 

ISSUE 10

You Must Remember This - The plot for Casablanca, written in the stars

Sepharial and Horses - From Kim Farnell's forthcoming biography

Pegasus Rising - A tried and tested method of picking winners

Time is Money - We trace the connection between money, time and thought

My Kingdom for a Horse! - Catherine the Great meets a sticky end. 

 

ISSUE 11

The Moon as Mind - The vital, but neglected, role of the Moon in mental function

The Ancient Mariner - The quest for the Moon in Coleridge's masterpiece

The William Hill Awards - Further advice on sound, verifiable prediction

Galileo and the Fall - We examine the structure of the chart in the light of tradition, and consider the implications of Galileo's work 

 

ISSUE 12

Pictures of Lilly - We separate truth and fiction in the image of England's greatest astrologer

The Lost Leader - Poetry, revolution and betrayal in the nativity of William Wordsworth

The Default Option - The problem of what happens when nothing happens

Why It Goes Wrong - An analysis of why we get it wrong sometimes, in the light of the psychology of incompetence

 

ISSUE 13

A Time for Love - Our guide to choosing a mate, and to electing times for venerial sports

Let's Get This Straight - Sit up and pay attention as we clarify some important points of traditional technique

Will the Witches be Set Free? - A Twentieth-Century horary

Decreasing in Light - An exploration of the astrology of power-cuts, and how to predict them

 

ISSUE 14

Chief of Organic Numbers - A detailed consideration of the nativity of John Milton

On the Heavens - A clear and concise account of the cosmology within which astrology works

Astrology in Action - Electing for an unusual event

Astrology in Action - Using horary to track down a rare guitar

 

ISSUE 15

Pearl - We go partying with Janis Joplin

Let's Get This Straight - Light, the nodes, the Full Moon, degrees of precision

Rebel Without a Cause - Teenage tantrums in the nativity of James Dean

If His Mrs Should Live - An unpublished judgment from William Lilly

 

ISSUE 16

Some Soothfast Cunning - Two texts of medieval English lunar astrology

Let's Get This Straight - The seasons, antiscia, Uranus, the sixth house

Sexing the Cat - Two medical charts

Born to be Bad - What makes a malefic malefic?

 

ISSUE 17

The Devil Went Down to Genoa - Paganini, Mercury and an elongated thumb

Come Blow that Horn - The astrological history of the saxophone

Barbie Girl - The truth about Barbie and Ken

Did He Love Me? - A three-tissue horary

 

ISSUE 18 (now sold out)

The Assessment of Temperament - The vital first step in natal judgment

What Goes Around... - Death and retribution at the court of King Charles

Johnny B. Accidentally Dignified - Why did Chuck Berry shift his birth-place to New Orleans?

Going Down? - The horary judgment of criminal cases

AND ALWAYS MUCH MORE

including, of course, the lovely Neptunia, The Apprentice's very own agony aunt for all those intimate problems of astrological technique.

 

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London N10 1JB

England

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