Editor's Note: This article, previously published in The Astrological Journal (vol 39. n. 4, 1997), completes the first one, published in Réalta and then by C.U.R.A. My thanks to Patrice Guinard of C.U.R.A for his kind permission to republish this article - http://cura.free.fr/xv/13ellis2.html.  

The Celtic 'tree zodiac' fabrications, the direct result of Robert Graves' invention of a tree calendar', have become an almost insurmountable barrier to any serious study of the forms of astrology that were practised by pre-Christian Celtic society. For fifty years, from the time Graves' published his book The White Goddess (1946), a veritable industry has been built up among his acolytes, which preach artificial astrological ideas based on Graves' spurious arguments. Some have even published books on what they fondly term 'Celtic Astrology', manufacturing a completely artificial 'astrological system'.

Editor's Note: Originally published in the Astrological Journal Vol 42, No.6 - Nov/Dec 2000. Thanks to Robin for permission to publish it here.

Mundane astrology remains somewhat of a Cinderella within the astrological community. Natal charting and interpretation reflects the egotism of the current age, psychological astrology providing a remarkably coherent account of the major characteristics of a person's personality. However, we all inter-react with the outside world in ways which astrologers have tried to understand since time immemorial.

Her dissertation compares a sample of 1023 injured California workers with a small sample of 55 seriously injured individuals whose birth and injury dates were listed in C.E.O.Carter’s book on accidents, and with the birth and death dates of 206 suicides who were studied by an east coast psychologist. Carter’s accident cases showed the same patterns as Sara's samples.

Through countless centuries a living connection between the earth and heavens was taken for granted. The metals were considered to have an inherent affinity with their parent planets, and represented a material expression of living cosmic energies. This article is extracted from Nick Kollerstrom's book The Metal-Planet Relationship, an extremely important work which, through scientific analysis and metaphysical reflection, ties the prosaic realm of rational science to the qualitative realm of essence and being. The book explores the natural correspondences that exist between the traditional planet-metal associations and, more importantly, details how modern experiment only serves to vindicate the relationships.