

ORIGINS OF WESTERN ASTROLOGY
Assyrian star chart circa 650 BCE The earliest surviving birth chart was drawn for a child born in the region of modern Iraq, just south of Baghdad on April 29, 410 BC— “when Socrates was about sixty and Plato seventeen years old.” All in all, some 205 individual horoscopes, most of them Greek, have been preserved from ancient times. As early as 1300 years before Christ there is a Hittite translation of a Babylonian omen text offering personal predictions according to the mon


PLUTO IN CAPRICORN
Scientists may have downgraded it to “dwarf” status, but in Astrology Pluto remains a formidable energy. Discovered in 1930, the small planet was named for the Roman god of the underworld. The 1930s saw the Great Depression and a global economic downturn; the rise of fascism, and dictators, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin; and Einstein’s development of the atomic bomb. Pluto has therefore become associated with obsession and power. Like the god of the underworld, Pluto probes de