The Gentle Nazarene

Cynthia Thorburn tackles the perennial question of the real birth date of Jesus Christ. With scholarly aplomb she shares with her reader a personal quest that has spanned many, many years – and turned up some serendipitous information – which has guided her to a chart destination for this most auspicious of births.

Jupiter’s Grace

Pat Matthews, a second year student at the Thorburn School of Astrology, delineates a bi-wheel of her son’s natal chart and his near-fatal accident of February 2003. A chilling tale - and a very insightful and courageous interpretation from a ‘rookie’ astrologer – makes this a compulsive read.

In Defence of Astrology

Cindy Lubner puts forward a strong case for the outer planets, picking up on her recent attendance at the April 2009 Argo conference in Cape Town, where she was privileged to learn from international luminaries such as Bernadette Brady, Darrylyn Gunzberg and Nick Campion.

A Relocated Chart

Harry Waldauer shares an interesting delineation of a (SA) relocated chart, comparing it to the options presented by the client’s natal (UK) chart. A valuable exercise for any astrologer asked to examine the relative potentials presented by emigration / immigration.

What happened to the Air France airbus?

Tutor and Horary Astrologer, Laurie Naughtin asks the question and casts a horary chart for the doomed airbus which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean en-route from Brazil to France. Her horary chart gives us a glimpse into the conditions that prevailed.

Eclipse: Cancer / Capricorn

Well-known, Johannesburg-based astrologer, Lee Weller Ferns, gives us the conditions and issues to examine by house axis in our charts, as highlighted by the total solar eclipse at 29 degrees of Cancer, on 22nd July.

The whales stranded at Kommetjie

Animal communicator, Wynter Worsthorne, tunes in to the 55 whales that beached at Kommetjie in the Cape recently, causing a furore amongst Animal rights activists and Conservation officials, who ultimately had the unfortunate task of euthenasing them. Wynter tells the tale from the whales’ perspective.

Sedna: Uniqueness in Perspective

Discovered in 2004, Sedna is a planetoid (dwarf planet) orbiting our sun every 10 500 years, in the vastness of space beyond Pluto. Named for an Inuit (Canadian Eskimo) goddess, the American astrologer, Boots Hart, explores the myth of Sedna, building an archetypal profile which could be relevant in chart interpretation.