Astrology Articles – Skyscript
This list focuses on site articles. For details of principles and the use of techniques, remember that we have hundreds of entries in our site glossary, many of which include examples, tables and additional resources.
Aspects — articles
Aspects; their calculation, orbs, patterns, combinations, and interpretation; also includes historical development, intergation of minor aspects and theories of aspectual reception.
Biographies — articles
Biographies of illustrious astrologers/contributors to astrology (see historical and natal for more natal studies and related articles)
| Baigent, Michael | Placidus and the Rosicrucian Connection | Placidus | 17th | 1994 |
| Callanan, Thomas | The Astrology of Jean Baptiste Morin | Morin | 16th-17th | 2008 |
| Christino, Karen | A Brief Biography of Evangeline Adams | Adams | 19th-20th | 1997 |
| Crossley, M. & Houlding, D. | Marcus Manilius: Life & Work | Manilius | 1st | 2024 |
| Dykes, Benjamin | The Life of Guido Bonatti | Bonatti | 13th | 2007 |
| Farnell, Kim | A Brief Biography of Alan Leo | Leo | 19th-20th | 2006 |
| Farnell, Kim | The Seven Faces of Raphael | Raphael | 19th | 2005 |
| Farnell, Kim | Sepharial: That Terrible Iconoclast | Sepharial | 19th-20th | 2006 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An Introduction to Abu Ma’shar | Abu Ma’Sher | 8th-9th | 2012 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An introduction to Al Kindi | Al Kindi | 9th | 2013 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An introduction to Charles Carter | Carter | 19th-20th | 2013 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An introduction to Ibn Ezra | Ezra | 11th-12th | 2012 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An introduction to Dane Rudhyar | Rudhyar | 19th-20th | 2012 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An introduction to Johannes Schoener | Schoener | 15th-16th | 2012 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An introduction to Lois Rodden | Rodden | 20th | 2013 |
| Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | An Introduction to Vettius Valens | Valens | 2nd | 2012 |
| Holden, James | A Brief Biography of Vivian Robson | Robson | 19th-20th | 2013 |
| Houlding, Deborah | About Al Qabisi, a.k.a. Alcabitius. | Al Qabisi | 10th | 2023 |
| Houlding, Deborah | The Life & Work of Vettius Valens | Valens | 2nd | 2023 |
| Houlding, Deborah | The Irrepressible Galileo Galilei | Galileo | 16th-17th | 1997/2003 |
| Houlding, Deborah | The Life & Work of Ptolemy | Ptolemy | 2nd | 1993/2003 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Fritz Brunhubner’s Pluto | Brunhubner | 19th-20th | 2023 |
| Jay, Felix | The Louis de Wohl I Knew | de Wohl | 20th | 2006 |
| McCann, David | Julius Firmicus Maternus: Profile of a Roman Astrologer | Firmicus | 4th | 1994 |
| McCann, David | The Life & Work of Abraham ibn Ezra | Ezra | 11th-12th | 1995 |
| Plant, David | Al Biruni & Arabic Astrology | Al Biruni | 10th-11th | 2004 |
| Plant, David | Tycho Brahe – A King Amongst Astronomers | Brahe | 16th | 1995 |
| Plant, David | The Central Sun: The Copernican Revolution | Copernicus | 15th-16th | 2003 |
| Plant, David | John Gadbury: Politics & the Decline of Astrology | Gadbury | 17th | 1996/2004 |
| Plant, David | Johannes Kepler and the Music of the Spheres | Kepler | 16th-17th | 1995 |
| Plant, David | The Life & Work of William Lilly | Lilly | 17th | 1997 |
| Slevin, Jackie | Pythagoras: Father of Numbers | Pythagoras | 6th BCE | 2009 |
| Toohey, Sue | Albertus Magnus and Prognostication by the Stars | Magnus | 13th | 2007 |
| Toohey, Sue | John Dee – The Inspired Melancholic | Dee | 16th | 2004 |
| Toohey, Sue | The Influence of Marsilio Ficino | Ficino | 15th | 2005 |
| Toohey, Sue | Hypatia : Life is an Unfoldment | Hypatia | 5th | 2003 |
| Toohey, Sue | Isaac Newton and the Ocean of Truth | Newton | 17th-18th | 2003 |
| Toohey, Sue | More than Just a Footnote (History of women in astrology) | Misc. women | 5th BCE - 20th | 2005 |
| Warren-Davis, Dylan | Nicholas Culpeper: Herbalist of the People | Culpeper | 17th | 2005 |
Decumbiture — articles
Decumbiture, Health, Humours, Herbs and the principles of Medical Astrology
Elections — articles
Articles related to Electional Astrology
| Dykes, Benjamin | Guido Bonatti’s 4th House Elections | 2007 |
| Frawley, John | Electional Astrology – chapter from John Frawley’s Real Astrology | 2004 |
| Gillman, Ken | Marriage Elections: Comparing Different Rules | 2000/2006 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Electing for Financial Gain | 1993/2004 |
| Plant, David | Electing by the Moon | 1993/2004 |
Horary — articles
Horary (interrogational) astrology articles – also chart examples [*ce] and general judicial astrology principles
Articles related to systems of house division, principles of angularity and house meanings
Articles explaining general symbolic principles & other miscellaneous topics
| Houlding, Deborah | Planetary Hours | 2004/2005 |
| Sutton, Komilla | Astrology and Gemmology | 2004/2005 |
| Eccles, Bernard | Astrological Physiognomy: From Ptolemy to the Present Day | 2002/2003 |
| Plant, David | The Star of Bethlehem | 1993/2004 |
| McCann, David | Astrology of Colour | 2003 |
| Farnell, Kim | Astrology, Sex & Great Lovers | 2003 |
| Schoener, Johannes | Johannes Schoener's table of dignity scores trans. Deborah Houlding (PDF) | 1539/2012 |
| Edwards, Mike | The Art of Horoscopy | 1539/2012 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Ophiuchus puts his foot in it, but its Cox who sticks the Boot in (13th sign controversy) | 2011 |
| Houlding, Deborah | A Brief Comparison of the Use of Reception by Historical Authors | 2005 |
Articles related to Mundane Astrology & world events
Charts of interest to mundane astrology featured on this site (some with commentaries) include:
- Tony Blair
- Napoleon Bonaparte I
- George Bush
- Prince Charles
- Winston Churchill
- Bill Clinton
- Oliver Cromwell
- Princess Diana
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Prince Edward
- King Henry II of France
- Abraham Lincoln
- Martin Luther
- Nelson Mandela
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Eva Peron
- Joseph Stalin
- Margaret Thatcher
- George Washington
- Prince William
-
Duke of Windsor
- Bastille (fall of - solar chart)
- Braer (oil disaster)
- UK national chart (1801)
Articles related to Natal Astrology & horoscope studies
Other nativities on this site (many with commentaries) include:
- Evangeline Adams
- Albiruni
- Muhammad Ali
- Tony Blair
- Napoleon Bonaparte I
- Tycho Brahe
- Marlon Brando
- George Bush
- Prince Charles
- Agatha Christie
- Winston Churchill
- Bill Clinton
- Sean Connery
- Nicholas Copernicus
- Joan Crawford
- Oliver Cromwell
- Charles Darwin
- Richard Dawkins
- Michael Douglas
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Prince Edward
- Albert Einstein
- Marsilio Ficino
- Jane Fonda
- John Gadbury
- Galileo
- Gauquelin
- George Galloway
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Bill Gates
- Germaine Greer
- Darrelyn Gunzburg
- George Harrison
- King Henry II of France
- Howard Hughes
- Michael Jackson
- Mick Jagger
- Warren Kenton
- Johannes Kepler
- Martin Luther King
- Rudyard Kipling
- Bruce Lee
- John Lennon
- William Lilly
- Abraham Lincoln
- Charles Lindbergh
- Martin Luther
- Madonna
- Nelson Mandela
- Bob Marley
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Marilyn Monroe
- Jean Baptiste Morin
- Wolfgang Mozart
- Isaac Newton
- Nostradamus
- John Partridge
- Eva Peron
- Edith Piaf
- Brad Pitt
- Raphael
- Christopher Reeve
- Dane Rudhyar
- Winona Ryder
- George C. Scott.
- Carl Sagan
- Sepharial
- Frank Sinatra
- Christeen Skinner
- Steven Spielberg
- Mark Spitz
- Joseph Stalin
- Sylvester Stallone
- Shelley von Strunckel
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Margaret Thatcher
- Alan M. Turing
- Tina Turner
- Mark Twain
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- George Washington
- Orson Welles
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Oscar Wilde
- Prince William
- Duke of Windsor
- Oprah Winfrey
- Wilbur Wright
- Catherine Zeta Jones
Articles related to the Arabic Parts (Greek Lots), Antiscia, Nodes, and
miscellaneous elements used in traditional Astrology
| Crane, Joseph | Lunar Nodes, Bendings, and the Moon’s Planets | 2026 |
| Caves, Wade | Finding Fortuna: Should the Lot of Fortune calculation be reversed? | 2025 | Caves, Wade | The Baltimore bridge collapse (concerns the nodes) | 2024 |
| Houlding, Deborah | The Classical Basis of Antiscia and Contra-antiscia | 2005 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Notes on Dorotheus III: the haylāj, Kadhkhudāh, and terms of life (PDF) | 2014 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Ptolemy's Terms & Conditions | 2010 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Al Biruni's List of Parts | 2004 |
| Bellizia, Lucia | Of Judgments on the Lunar Nodes | 2010 |
| Plant, David | Fortune, Spirit and the Lunation Cycle | 1995/2004 |
| McCann, David | The Astrological 'Parts' in Action | 1995/2004 |
Articles of a more philosophical, psychological or mythological slant
Articles related to the planets
Articles related to predictive techniques & the use of prediction in astrology
Articles related to working as a professional astrologer
Reprints or modern reproductions of historical texts or charts
Reviews of astrology-related texts
| Phillipson, Garry | The Astrologer’s Universe | Cornelius & Hyde | 2026 |
| Little, Kirk | Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England | Curry, Patrick | 2025 |
| Little, Kirk | A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East | Terziani, Tiziano | 2025 |
| Little, Kirk | A Scheme of Heaven | Boxer, Alexander | 2023 |
| Olliver, Victor | The Moon & its Nodes in Evolutionary Astrology | Green, Deva | 2023 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Pluto | Brunhubner, Fritz | 2022 |
| Little, Kirk | Can Assassinations be prevented? | Ebertin, Elsbeth; ed. Zahrt, Jenn | 2017 |
| Little, Kirk | Under One Sky | Nasser, Rafael | 2015 |
| Little, Kirk | Pictures of Lilly: a review of three recently published texts focusing on the life and work of William Lilly | Stockinger & Ward / Blackledge / Caves | 2015 |
| Zukovskis, Gill | Three books: Babylonian Star-Lore (revised), The Queen of Heaven, Queen of the Night | White, Gavin | 2015 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Godfather of Modernity: The Alan Leo Legacy Vol. I; Early Astrological Journals | Graves, Philip | 2014 |
| Little, Kirk | From Sibly to Simmonite: Source texts of the English Astrological Revival | Graves, Philip | 2014 |
| Zukovskis, Gill | The Babylonian Astrolabe: the Calendar of Creation | Kolev, Rumen | 2014 |
| Zukovskis, Gill | Astrology and Cosmology in Early China: Conforming Earth to Heaven | Pankenier, David | 2014 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Biographical Dictionary of Western Astrologers | Holden, James | 2013 |
| Little, Kirk | Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West | Campion, Nicholas | 2013 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Using Astrology to Create a Vocational Profile | Cossar, Fay | 2013 |
| Dembowski, Eve | The Book of the Nine Judges | Dykes, Benjamin | 2012 |
| Gryphon, Nina | The Art and Practice of Geomancy | Greer, John Michael | 2012 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Scala Coeli: Collection of Astrological Essays | Garcia, Mari & Usher, Joy | 2012 |
| Crane, Joseph | Astrology and the authentic self | George, Demetra | 2011 |
| Crane, Joseph | NCGR Research Journal Vol. 1 #1: Moving Forward, Looking Back | Brennan, C. & Mann, A.T. | 2011 |
| Callanan, Thomas | One after Another | Gillman, Ken | 2010 |
| Fuhro, Sarah | Declination in Astrology - The Steps of the Sun | Newman, Paul F. | 2010 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Gardening & Planting the Moon | Kollerstrom, Nicholas | 2010 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Cosmologies: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Sophia Centre Conference | Campion, Nicholas | 2010 |
| Stockinger, Peter | On the Heavenly Spheres | Avelar, Helena & Ribeiro, Luis | 2010 |
| Buckley, Siobhaugn | Sports Astrology | Frawley, John | 2009 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Primary Directions: Astrology's Old Master Technique | Gansten, Martin | 2009 |
| Houlding, Deborah | An Introduction to Medical Astrology | Sellar, Wanda | 2009 |
| Little, Kirk | The Winding Courses of the Stars: Essays in Ancient Astrology | Burnett, Charles & Greenbaum, Dorian | 2009 |
| Little, Kirk | A History Of Western Astrology, Volume II | Campion, Nicholas | 2009 |
| Callanan, Thomas | The Art of Forecasting using Solar Returns | Louis, Anthony | 2009 |
| Crane, Joseph | Definitions and Foundations | Schmidt, Robert | 2009 |
| Schnitzer, Helene | The Great Ages and Other Astrological Cycles | Wright, Paul | 2009 |
| White, Gavin | The Chinese Sky during the Han | Sun, Xiaochun & Kistemaker, Jacob | 2009 |
| Callanan, Thomas | From Here to There | Davis, Martin | 2008 |
| Callanan, Thomas | A Rectification Manual: The American Presidency | Regulus Astrology | 2008 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Babylonian Star-Lore | White, Gavin | 2008 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Ibn Ezra's Book of Nativities and Revolutions | Epstein, Meira | 2008 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Works of Sahl and Masha'allah | Dykes, Benjamin | 2008 |
| Phillipson, Garry | The Dawn of Astrology | Campion, Nicholas | 2008 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy | Crane, Joseph | 2008 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys | Krissdttir, Morine | 2008 |
| Little, Kirk | Seeing with Different Eyes | Curry, Patrick & Voss, Angela | 2008 |
| Birchfield, Stephen | Abraham Ibn Ezra's The Book of Reasons | Sela, Shlomo | 2007 |
| Graves, Philip | Flirting with the Zodiac | Farnell, Kim | 2007 |
| Houlding, Deborah | A Brief History of Ancient Astrology | Beck, Roger | 2007 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Book of Astronomy: Guido Bonatti | Dykes, Benjamin | 2007 |
| Phillipson, Garry | The Star of the Magi | Roberts, Courtney | 2007 |
| Phillipson, Garry | When Oracles Speak | Skafte, Dianne | 2007 |
| Callanan, Thomas | Astrologiae Restaurata | Ramesey, William; annot. Farnell, K | 2006 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Mansions of the Moon | Warnock, Christopher | 2006 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Astrology: A Place in Chaos | Brady, Bernadette | 2006 |
| Phillipson, Garry | When Stars Collide | Westran, Paul | 2006 |
| Phillipson, Garry | The Contemporary Astrologer's Handbook | Tompkins, Sue | 2006 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Cosmos & Psyche | Tarnas, Richard | 2006 |
| Dykes, Ben | Temperament - Astrology's Forgotten Key | Greenbaum, Dorian | 2005 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Electional Astrology | Hampar, Joan | 2005 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Thabit Ibn Qurra's De Imaginibus | Warnock, David | 2005 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Renaissance Astrology Library | Warnock, Christopher | 2005 |
| Phillipson, Garry | Blinded by Starlight | McGillion, Frank | 2005 |
| Toohey, Sue | Heavenly Writing | Rochberg, Francesca | 2005 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Book of World Horoscopes | Campion, Nicholas | 2004 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Life after Grief | Gunzburg, Darrelyn | 2004 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Star Crossed: A Complete Manual to the Astrology of Love and Relationships | Farnell, Kim | 2004 |
| Callanan, Thomas | Cosmic Loom | Elwell, Dennis | 2003 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Astrology for Today | Watters, Joanna | 2003 |
Articles related to the Fixed Stars and Constellations
Articles related to the Zodiac and its divisions and signs
| Houlding, Deborah | The Zodiac Signs | 2003/2004 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Charts of Famous... | |
| Hamilton, Therese | Understanding Sidereal Signs: Triplicities and the Zodiac (research paper / PDF) | 2025 |
| McCann, David | For and Against: the Zodiac Debate, I: The Tropical Argument | 1994 |
| Bowser, Kenneth | For and Against: the Zodiac Debate, II: The Sidereal Argument | 1994 |
| Houlding, Deborah | The Classical Use of Triplicities | 1994 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Heavenly Imprints: Development of the Zodiac | 1997 |
| Bell, Lynn | Virgo's Wings; and Other Musings on the Mutable Signs | 2004/2008 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Understanding the Zodiac - why there really are 12 zodiac signs, not 13! | 2015 |
| Houlding, Deborah | (13th sign?) Ophiuchus puts his foot in it, but its Cox who sticks the Boot in | 2011 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Letters to the BBC (13th sign controversy) | 2011 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Time Magazine Exposes NASA's LIES! (Satire: 13th sign controversy) | 2011 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Ptolemy's Terms & Conditions | 2010 |
| Houlding, Deborah | Understanding Planetary Dignity and Debility | 1993 |
| Houlding, Deborah | The Philosophy of Sign Rulership | 1993 |
