Mary English Astrologer Blog

Discussing the Sun in the 8th. As we are now into Capricorn you can always learn more about this sign in my book How to Cheer up a Capricorn This week we are using the charts of Jack London (great author)   ...and Janis Joplin (fantastic singer)   ...to demonstrate why 'being famous' is NOT a comfortable place for people with Sun in 8th or 12th.

This week I'm covering the three planets that are in their 'natural homes'...and what this means for YOUR chart and YOUR sign. My Amazon Author Page with YOUR Sign's Book! https://www.amazon.com/Mary-English/e/B002T5OG4A/ And if you're in the UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mary-English/e/B002T5OG4A Here's my Webinar about #Pisces https://youtu.be/31S8NsLujjI PDF for 2019's transits http://www.maryenglish.com/ae_2019.pdf And a blank chart with house meanings http://www.maryenglish.com/blank-chart-with-house-meanings.pdf  ...with big thanx to Donna Cunningham RIP xxx https://skywriter.wordpress.com/

This week we are looking at the natal chart of Shawn Achor who is a happiness researcher.  Here is the link to his video https://youtu.be/GXy__kBVq1M   Here is his natal chart using the Whole Sign System. Doule Pisces Sun and Moon. No birth time hence using Whole Sign.   Here is Shawn and his wife Michelle Gielan's Synastry chart   Here is the year they set-up their company showing Shawn's chart's transits for 2007

This week I am chatting with Holly Poole a wonderful Astrologer based in Canada. You'll find her thoughts on the Moon's Nodes very interesting! Go back to Episode 32 for Moon's Nodes http://astromary.libsyn.com/episode-thirty-two-0 Here are Holly's contact details  https://www.facebook.com/HollyPooleAstrology/ http://www.hollypoole.com/   And you can email her holly@hollypoole.com

This week 'Aqua' has very kindly agreed to share her chart so we can look at her health issues and how/why they might have started. Leo Ascendant (ruled by The Sun) Sun Aquarius, Moon Capricorn with a very clustered chart. I have also made a YouTube video so you can see the transits in action that might have sparked things Here's the link https://youtu.be/lcelXnO4018

This is my 100th Episode! Woop Woop! Special Episode Offer links at bottom of these show-notes so do scroll down! Here is the chart of the creation of the first Episode MP3 Leo Asc, Sun in Capricorn 5th, Moon in Sag in 4th Fab!   This is the second uploading of the Episodes coz of me accidently deleting ALL my Episodes :( so ALL the Episodes were rebroadcast. This is the chart for Episode One being re-uploaded. Now Pisces (wobbly) Ascendant, Sun in Libra in 8th, Moon in Scorpio in 8th. Beginner Counselling Course To get the Udemy Counselling Skills at £9.99 (instead of £199) go here ASAP https://www.udemy.com/online-counselling-practitioner-course-counselling-skills/ the offer expires in 5 days  Special One Hundred Episode Reading Discount with Mary  To have a One Hour Psychic Skype Session with me go here https://maryenglish.as.me/?appointmentType=301759 Get Your Special Offer Discount by clicking Redeem Coupon Or Gift Certificate   and adding the code PODCAST25% Please note Coupon expires 7th December 201

As we are commemorating the end of the First World War in the U.K. today I thought I'd share with you the chart of the actual treaty and the correct time it was agreed upon (as opposed to the time it was signed, or actually came into force) PLEASE NOTE at 19 minutes 20 seconds I am also sharing a Hypno track called Your Wise Self....so do turn this off if you're listening while driving or operating any sort of machinery...and then re-listen when you're seated or relaxed. So, here is the chart itself, with the actual location of the agreement. How fitting, Libra is rising... However a LOT of squares (internal conflict) in this chart.   And here is the chart of one of the signatures to the agreement. A Libra Sun but with Cancer rising and Mars on the Ascendant/first house. A mostly Cardinal chart. Big oppositions in there.

I made a visit to the British Museum a few weeks ago having seen this video https://youtu.be/N8oWGwcdFmA about the Astrolabes that were going to be included in the exhibition. At the bottom of this post is the link to make your own:) Here are the photos I took. Aren't they beautiful pieces of work?   These are the parts of an Astrolabe   Here you can learn more about the ones in Oxford https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/students/03to04/Astrolabes/Starholder_society.html Here is the Astrolabe App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/astrolabe-clock/id421777015?mt=8 And here you can make your own! https://in-the-sky.org/astrolabe/index.php

This week I'm covering the Whole Sign Method. It's slightly different to the Equal House System I've been teaching you. Here is the link to Robert Hand's excellent text on the subject https://www.arhatmedia.com/whole_sign.html You can make your own chart up using this system on http://www.astro.com/  Go to the Extended Chart Selection under FREE Horoscopes and when you've entered your data, under where it says 'options for zodiac and houses' choose 'whole signs'. Here's a screenshot.    This is also where you can get your chart to be Equal House, which is what I've been teaching you... Here's Queen Elizabeth in Equal House    Compared to Queen Elizabeth Whole Sign   Here's the cheat sheet for the ancient Greek system: Twelve Places.

This week I am discussing charts with Sun square Moon. Quite a common aspect and one that can work well as it gives inner motivation or not so well if no self-reflection. Remember The Sun is conscious The Moon is unconscious    Kayne West-Rapper https://www.kanyewest.com/ Sun Gemini, Moon Pisces Splash-ish chart   Marjorie Orr- Astrologer http://star4cast.ca/ Sun Virgo, Moon Gemini.  The whole chart is a Square!  Bowl chart. Tony Hancock-Radio (mostly) comedian- famous for Hancock's Half Hour https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19lzif Leo Asc, Sun Taurus, Moon Leo Aldous Huxley-Author Sun Leo, Moon Taurus Bucket Chart Anita Moorjani- Author https://anitamoorjani.com/ Sun Pisces, Moon Gemini Splash Chart Charlie Brooker- Screenwriter https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker The episode I mentioned is called Nosedive https://youtu.be/R32qWdOWrTo Sun Pisces, Moon Gemini Bucket Chart  

This week I'm sharing with you my Family Tree. Here are the charts. John English born 6th Jan 1783   Sun, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus in Capricorn Moon Aquarius...Bucket Shape Chart Died age 71 His 4th child was Alban Huddleston English Born 15th March 1815  Sun, Pluto & Mercury in Pisces. Moon in Taurus. Again a Bucket Chart Died age 68 His 7th child was William Joseph English Born 18th September 1855. Sun Virgo, Moon Sagittarius... Splash Chart Died age 34 of T.B. = Tuberculosis His 3rd child was Reginald Edgar Richard Egerton English (my Grandfather)  Born 6th October 1883  Sun, Mercury and Venus in Libra, Moon in Sagittarius...Bowl Chart Died age 62 of T.B. His oldest child was my Dad Asc, Sun, Mercury, Venus in Sagittarius. Moon in Libra. Locomotive Shape Chart. (bit like a See saw but not quite) Died age 60 bowel cancer His oldest child was my brother. Capricorn Ascendant, Sun conjunct Jupiter in Virgo. Moon in Sagittarius. Bucket chart (again) Died age 58 bowel cancer  

This week we are covering giving birth and the dynamics involved. First chart is me on inside, my son on outside. His Ascendant is exactly conjunct my Sun in Pisces. His Moon is in my 5th. A very emotional time (nice emotions!) Second chart is my mother giving birth to me. Nothing special with 5 house. Dynamic didn't happen until I gave birth and again much later when my Mum was very old. Moon in same sign.   My Mum and first born my brother. No 5th house birth dynamic, other than Neptune (drugs). A bigger story with 7th house Bruv's Moon.   My Dad and first born my brother. Bruv's Moon to Dad's Sun conjunction and Bruv's Moon also conjuncts Dad's Ascendant. Both charts are Bucket charts. Bruv's Mercury to Dad's Moon/Saturn/Jupiter in 10th.

This week is all about Saturn in the sign of Capricorn (where it is at the moment 2018-2020) Here is Mother Meera's chart. She now lives in Germany and still gives Darshan https://www.mothermeera.com/ Here is Gustav Holst's chart. Notice Saturn in the first. He got interested in Astrology during his Saturn return and then he started to write The Planets. So these pieces of music are influenced by the Astrology (not Astronomy) of the planets. DO listen to his wonderful composition of Saturn~The Bringer of Old Age  https://youtu.be/OYPg8H5LtCI (great conducting by Susanna Mälkki who is a #Pisces)

Just a little discussion about the first day of Libra= Also called The Autumn (or Autumnal) Equinox Here's the piccie of the other Equinox's and Solstices which are our seasons: Spring-Aries, Summer-Cancer, Autumn-Libra, Winter-Capricorn. The other Pagan Festivals are when the Sun is (approx) halfway through the Fixed signs of Aquarius-Imbolc, Taurus-Beltane, Leo-Lammas and Scorpio-Samhain  These are the lovely diaries that I use, aren't they fab!  https://www.astrocal.co.uk/

This week we are discussing 'live' 'Nina's' chart and her boyfriend 'Chap'. Here are the charts with the Synastry below Nina= Indigo, Bucket, Cap Asc, Sun Leo (in 8th) Moon conjunct Pluto Born 1992 Chap: Sag Asc, Sun Cap, Moon Gemini, Bucket chart but more importantly Yod (see Episode 25) Born 1993   Synastry Chart: Clustered Asc, Mars/Moon conjunction in Gemini= Past Life?

This week we are learning about how to read for friends (or yourself) and what's important in a reading. The things to take into consideration are: is the present problem something natal or to do with a transit? We are using an Indigo Person's chart. More info on Indigos is here http://www.maryenglish.com/old/indigo1.htm  

An interesting way to find out the meaning of a significant dream is to record the time it happened and make a chart. Linda Reid talks about how to do this in her book Crossing the Threshold, The Astrology of Dreaming https://bit.ly/2CajP3V Nice Sleep Track here http://www.maryenglish.com/old/Sound%20Sleep.mp3 DO get in touch if you'd like me to use your Sleep Chart in a future episode maryATmaryenglishDOTcom Sign-up for my monthly Newsletter here http://eepurl.com/bCSDz

This week I'm talking about a news item about the sea. A thing called Red Tide is happening in Florida Here's the video I saw yesterday https://www.facebook.com/DMLdaily/videos/2146192858726554/ Most other news coverage is a little less urgent. Maybe the present planet's positions explain this a bit more? You can follow me on Twitter @maryenglish Or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maryenglish.author/

Astronomy is a much needed necessity to make accurate charts. However, with computer programmes making this easier it does mean we are not learning about the real planet's actual movements. This is the app I mentioned that will help you spot planets (and some stars) https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/astrolabe-clock/id421777015?mt=8 This is a good video from the British Museum showing a real ancient Astrolabe https://youtu.be/N8oWGwcdFmA Here is Jeff Mayo's book The Astrologer's Astronomical Handbook https://amzn.to/2nOl9PX

This week I am talking about Event Charts. Making a chart for a forthcoming event, or one that might have already happened. These can be used for weddings, interviews, starting a project, maybe creating something or dates in the future. In the creation of Tempesta Chart, we have Virgo Ascendant, Sun Taurus in the 9th, Moon in Leo in the 11th and Mars in Libra in the first....great chart as it turned out! Info on how the proving took place and what happened: http://homeopathicpacifist.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-homeopathic-proving-of-tempesta.html