Mary English Astrologer Blog

This week I am discussing Arabic Parts: Their history and use in a chart. (Refer back to Episode 57 for discussion on the Part of Fortune.) Here is the website you can use to find your parts: http://libracentre.com/arabic_parts_chart.php You will need to start with your own chart and use your Ascendant sign and degree and the planet's signs and degrees. There is always some sort of calculation like Asc-Sun+Moon or whatever. Astro.com will only provide you with the Part of Fortune, which is extremely useful. The libra website will give you the calculation, it's your job to make sense of it and what it might mean for you. Experiment and let me know how you get on! My Part of Fortune is 29 Scorpio 22'41" ...nothing is happening with that until Nov and Dec this year. Find your Parts or Lots and use this years Ephemeris to find out what might be transiting yours. Links below piccie   2019 Ephemeris  https://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/2000/ae_2019d.pdf 2010 Ephemeris https://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/2000/ae_2020d.

This week Dee has asked me to talk about their chart. However, what is really interesting is the time they chose to do that! Link to YouTube video below. Here's Dee's natal chart  Scorpio Ascendant, Sun Capricorn in the 2nd, Moon Virgo in the 10th. Here's the chart showing the exact time and location that the email was pinged to me: Notice Scorpio Ascendant (again!) AND now Moon in Scorpio!! = Emotions, also Jupiter is once again into their natal sign of Sagittarius. I've also made a short YouTube video here so you can see how that worked in action  https://youtu.be/_XQe2mUwHyc          

This week I am discussing marriage as I was asked by two clients this week 'Will I Marry'...so here is some information for you that might help. My natal. Leo Ascendant, Sun Pisces in 7th, Moon Gemini in the 10th Ruler to Leo Asc=The Sun.  Ruler of Aqua Descendant= Uranus  Ruler of my Ascendant is the Sun and my Sun is located in my 7th house! Woop Woop! My 5th house starts in the sign of Sagittarius, and the Ruler is Jupiter and Jupiter is located in my 5th. Woop Woop! My 7th house starts in the sign of Aquarius, which is Ruled by Uranus, which is located in my 12th house. Booo :( not so fab! Now using the ephemeris for the year I was born. I was first married at age 26. The ruler to my Asc=Sun The Ruler to my Des= Uranus 26 days after I was born (representing when I was 26 years old) the Sun was 10 degrees into the sign of Aries and Uranus was 17 degrees into Leo Those two planets are now forming a nice trine to each other. 48 days after I was born  (representing when I was 48 years old) the Sun was 1 degr

This week I am discussing the birth chart of Marianne Williamson Here's her chatting with Oprah about forgiveness https://youtu.be/a4tl_AAxQao Birth chart Gemini Ascendant, Sun Cancer in the first house conjunct Uranus and Venus, Moon Capricorn in the 8th. Transits  In 2014 Neptune conjunted her MC This is when she ran, as an Independent, for the seat of California's 33rd congressional district (in westernmost Los Angeles County) in the United States House of Representatives elections. This would have been her 'motivation' to add spirituality to politics. In December 2020 Saturn will conjunct her Moon in Capricorn in the 8th In 2022 Pluto will conjunct her Moon in Capricorn in the 8th.      

This week I'm sharing with you the audio of my book The Astrology of Lovers,How Astrology Can Help You Love Better Here's the E-Book https://books2read.com/u/bwqBGY It's also a physical book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Astrology-Lovers-Help-Love-Better/dp/1542972981/ Here is the Audio to the Introduction and Chapter One. I will be releasing the whole (audio) book later this year, so this is a taster of the book. There might/will be some strange noises where I've said a wrong word, that will be edited out later, as this is a first draft. If you have any comments about it do pop me an email mary@maryenglish.co.uk I'd love to know your thoughts:) Back next week with more Astrology of Poets.

Kate Tempest: performance poet. Scorpio Asc, Sun Capricorn in 2nd, Moon Taurus in 6th. Cluster, Bowl chart. Indigo. Sun conjunct Neptune.   Chart for when her career took off: The specific dates were from 4th-22nd Sept of this first performance that got her nominate for the Ted Hughes prize. The Moon started in Taurus (her own Moon sign) and transited into Sagittarius, so went all the way round through the part of her chart that's empty and ended conjunct her cluster in the 1st. Uranus as you'll see is now in her 5th house of creativity. https://youtu.be/QdE0BkP95Ng In this clip she is performing in London live to 120 prisons in London and Wales. Watch how she picks herself up when she momentarily gets overwhelmed with what she's actually doing and almost forgets the words and makes a wonderful recovery. This is a (short) part of the poem Brand New Ancients she performed in Sept 2012 at The Battersea Arts Centre in London.

Bit of a hippy episode this week (might be bcoz I've just got back from Glastonbury Festival) It was sparked by this article which I read while I was researching for my Newsletter  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/01/why-the-hippy-message-of-glastonbury-healing-field-sounds-like-common-sense This is my Newsletter article, it's all about Feeling Overwhelmed https://mailchi.mp/03c093fb1686/how-overwhelm-needs-to-be-resolved?e=b9890df028 If you're learning Astrology and also other practices such as Yoga or Transcendental Meditation, you'll need to check your chart and find out where Neptune is in your chart, where it's transiting now and if Pluto might be aspecting your natal Neptune....something will be going on, so check it out! Here is Gwyneth's chart; Pisces Asc, Sun Libra (conjunct Pluto)  Moon Gemini, Locomotive chart shape. She was taught T.M by David Lynch see article and charts below... So, she  'got into' TM in 2013 and as you'll see Neptune is now exactly conjunct her Ascendant! (and squar

Continuing on from last weeks podcast with the question about houses...I am now covering Alice's spiritual purpose. Using the North Node in Gemini in the 4th house. More info on Moon's Node is in Episode 32 http://astromary.libsyn.com/episode-thirty-two-0 Also her chart ruler is Uranus as she has an Aquarius Ascendant and is located in the 10th house of career. Rulerships is in Episode 62 http://astromary.libsyn.com/episode-sixty-two  

This week I am responding to a valuable question from 'Alice' who has asked about if I could: help me understand more about the choice between equal house and placidus This actually isn't such an easy question to answer, without explaining about the two systems and how they differ and why I prefer the Equal House System (which is the oldest system)...Placidus came about in the seventeenth century....he died in 1688 (according to Margaret E Hone in her The Modern Text Book of Astrology 1980) First off, you need to understand that if you were born higher-up the World as in Greenland, Placidus doesn't work because it uses time, and is based on an artificially equalised subdivision of the naturally unequal amounts of time a degree of the zodiac spends in each quadrant. Here is the chart I tried to create on Astro.com. for Doris  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_J._Jensen   Astro.com automatically converted my request into the Porphyry System (second oldest system) you can see that written in red at the top of

This week I am talking about my Dad's chart. I have discussed him before in Episode 95 re our Family Tree. In this Episode we are looking in more detail at his chart shape and planet placements. We will also hear a clip of what someone with Mercury so near the Ascendant sounds like! Sag Ascendant, Sun in 1st, Moon in Libra in the 10th conjunct Saturn...and Mercury in Sag near the Ascendant. Birth date is on the day that the Sun changes sign into Capricorn. As he was born in the morning the Sun was still in Sagittarius 29 degrees in that year 1921.

This week we are covering the Moon moving signs and how they might affect us, or plants or our general domestic or work life. Quotes from The Art of Timing, The Application of Lunar Cycles in Daily Life by Johanna Paungger & Thomas Poppe  https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/johanna-paungger/the-art-of-timing-the-application-of-lunar-cycles-in-daily-life/GOR001545732?keyword=&gclid=COmiwPru2eICFUlB0wodiEQBJA   This year's Ephemeris 2019 https://www.astro.com/swisseph/ae/2000/ae_2020.pdf

This week I am discussing how to cope with a negative transit The flower essences are listed on my blog here  https://ukastrologer.wordpress.com/2019/06/02/ways-to-cope-during-a-negative-transit/ Mr Assange's chart and the Mars transit he is under. (at the moment but I expect he's had a few other transits in the past few years see secrecy post below...)   I wrote about secrecy and his chart and Edward Snowdon and Chelsea (Bradley) Manning  here https://ukastrologer.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/the-astrology-of-secrets-espionage-wikileaks-3/

This week we are working with Nat's chart. She is a new, first-time Mum/Mom and needs to go back to work. She has asked for what type of work would be good and also how to look after her young daughter too... Cancer Ascendant, Sun Aquarius in the 8th, Moon Taurus in the 11th

This week I am quoting from Donna Cunningham's fab book The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook on how to talk with people. Her (wonderful) book is still available here https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/consulting-astrologers-guidebook/author/donna-cunningham/ She calls it: 'talking to various planetary types.' If you want to, you can find out if you're an Uranian type by taking her 'test' here on her blog  https://skywriter.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/how-strong-is-your-uranus-heres-the-score/   Please note Donna died in 2017 :(

This week I am discussing two charts: 'Julie' and Salvador Dali. If you switch over to YouTube at 4 mins https://youtu.be/GlrmV4-yh_U into this podcast episode you will continue to hear the audio and you'll also be able to see me demonstrate the planets moving and 'triggering' certain planets and angles of their charts.  Come back to the podcast at 19 mins... Julie's natal chart: Leo Ascendant, Sun Aquarius in the 7th, Moon in Sagittarius in the 5th The transits are shown in green on the outside of the circle... (with transiting Jupiter retrograding in Sagi) and he question about Saturn and Pluto conjuncting her Stellium in the 6th.   Salvador Dali: Cancer Ascendant, Sun in Taurus in the 10th, Moon in Aries in the 9th 

Carrying on from last week we are going all around the houses (!) showing various Astrologers that have their Sun in each house. This week is the Sun from 7th-12th   Bil Teirney Sun in Scorpio in the 7th. Taurus Ascendant. Moon in Taurus in the 12th. Splash chart. Sun in Aquarius in the 8th Jodie Forrest. Cancer Ascendant. Moon in Capricorn in the 7th . Locomotive chart. Chris Brennan Sun in Scorpio in the 9th. Aquarius Ascendant, Moon in Aquarius in the 1st. Bowl/Cluster chart.                                   Tracy Marks Sun in Libra in the 1th. Sagittarius Ascendant. Moon in Aries in the 4th. Locomotive chart.   Liz Greene Sun in Virgo in the 11th. Moon in Sagittarius in the 2nd. Scorpio Ascendant. Bowl chart.     Donna Cunningham Sun in Cancer in the 12th. Moon in Aries in the 9th. Leo Ascendant. Bowl chart.   Marjorie Orr Sun in Virgo in the 12th. Moon in Gemini in the 9th. Libra Ascendant. Bowl chart....VERY clustered 12th house!!  

This week and next I am discussing the charts of famous Astrologers...so you can have a think about what type of Astrologer you might want to be... I have categorised them into Sun-in-the-houses. This week is Houses 1-6 Next week Houses 7-12 Sun in the 1st Joan McEvers.   Sun in the 2nd Marcia Starck   Sun in the 3rd Howard Sasportas   Sun in the 4th Lois Rodden   Sun in the 5th Carol A Peel   Sun in the 6th  Barbara Hand Clow

This week I am discussing the core of my professional business: relationships. We have three wonderful volunteers who have offered to share their charts, which I am eternally grateful for. So you can learn about their charts and the problems/issues that they're working through. Here is discounted the link to my book The Astrology of Lovers, How Astrology Can Help You Love Better  https://books2read.com/u/bwqBGY First we have Gina's natal chart with the transits for the day she came to see me. Jupiter transiting the 7th house of relationships. Mars in Gemini transiting natal Moon in Gemini in 12th house. Lots of planets transiting the 10th house of career.   Here is her (ex) chap's chart and transits. Sun/Venus in 12th. Planets transiting the 5th house of romance and 7th house of relationships...maybe he needs this relationship to end so he can find 'The One'? Gina and her (ex) chap's Synastry   Laura's natal chart~ Moon conjunct Pluto.   Laura's chap natal~stellium in the first!   Their Synastry- note th

This week I am answering Lisa's question about the difference between a house and a sign. A sign is the way a planet operates. The house is where all the action takes place and where the focus is. If you think about the Element of the house:Earth, Air, Fire, Water it will help... And the Ruling Planet  http://astromary.libsyn.com/episode-sixty-two that will help too ... The three example charts ALL have Sun in the 7th. They're all focused on close/personal relationships in some way.... Hugh Hefner : "I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married."                                 Martina Navratilova:  "I'm 58 years old. I got married for the first time - it's about time, right? Growing up as a gay woman, you just don't ever think about that, and then I thought, about 10 years ago, 'You know, I think within 10 years gay marriage will be legal.' And here we are, 10 years later, making it legal."   Lisa Marie Presley: "I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm

Here's info on Lilith https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Lilith   Here's my Astrolabe reverse side..you can just see the dates and the signs of the Zodiac. Front side of my Astrolabe. The pointer is used to line-up the degree of the Zodiac sign with the smaller inner wheel that represents the path the Sun makes during the year. On the outside of the Astrolabe is written the times of day. 12pm at the top and 12am at the bottom.  The pointy bits on the bigger wheel are stars. The background of the device has a semi-circle showing the horizon line. There's lots of other info an Astrolabe can give, I've just described one use that's Astrological.   I've made two videos to go with this podcast. The first one shows you me using my Astrolabe to make the Ascendant for someone born in London at 4pm (3pm GMT) on the 5th June  https://www.facebook.com/1503637256632823/posts/2205231263140082?sfns=mo My second video shows me using my computer programme to confirm those birth dates https://www.facebook.com/maryenglish.