Australia: Understanding a Nation

Australia is a young nation, celebrating 100 years in January 2001. In that time we have been involved in many conflicts. The majority of these conflicts have not been on our shores however, they form the basis of a singular Australian image: the Anzac....

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Advocating Fate: why I believe in it

Fate and Free Will as they are inseparable for if you consider one you must, by necessity consider the other....

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Myth and the Water Signs: The Descent of Inanna

If you study astrology for any length of time, you are bound to come across the term “collective unconscious”, and the name C.G. Jung will also come to your attention before too long. Carl Gustav Jung, was not an astrologer. He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, born in 1875, who devoted much of his work to dream analysis, the study of mythical symbols, and the introduction of ‘archetypes’ (derived from Greek, archien -beginning, typos - form). All of these unconscious images, he believed, had a direct and meaningful relationship to man’s physical and emotional wellbeing....

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Seven Lots of Vice and Virtue

Humanity has always had a fascination with numbers, and even before Pythagoras revolutionised their concept, we have been using numbers and attaching spiritual and mystical significance to them. By the time Pythagoras linked the number 7 to religion because it was controlled by the seven celestial spirits (the seven planets revolving in their heavenly spheres), it was a foregone conclusion that 7 was ‘worthy of veneration’....

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Mars and Myth: A Case for Old Rulerships

The Australis ‘97 Congress theme, “An Ancient Art in a Modern World” was designed to incorporate two themes : those of medieval and mythical astrology. These two streams, although superficially so different from one another, form the cornerstones of our modern astrology. Both contain the wisdom of Antiquity, and in truth, we could not operate effectively in astrology today without either. Medieval astrology gave us the order of the twelve signs, the house systems, the essential dignitaries, and all the technical equipment found in an astrologer’s kit-bag, whilst mythology provided a psychological blueprint by which we identify archetypes in order to understand ourselves and those around us....

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Treasures & Pleasures: The Fifth House

Modern astrology pays scant attention to the fifth house. A host of meanings is attributed to this house and they include creativity and children as well as those things which give us pleasure such as holidays, play and courtship, romance and lovers. In addition, it is also associated with risktaking, gambling and speculative investments....

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