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YOUR 2013 HOROSCOPE

ZODIAC SIGN COMPATIBILITY

FAMOUS HOROSCOPES

PREDICTIONS

HOROSCOPE BASICS


MISC


Books by Stefan Stenudd:

Your 2013 Horoscope

Your 2013 Horoscope

Astrological 2013 Predictions for the World and the Zodiac Signs. This book explains how forecasting with the horoscope is done, and includes extensive predictions for the coming year.
Click to see the book at Amazon.

Your Health in Your Horoscope, by Stefan Stenudd.

Your Health in Your Horoscope

This book by Stefan Stenudd explains what your horoscope says about your health, according to the old tradition of medical astrology.
     You learn what the Zodiac signs, the planets, and the other ingredients of the horoscope reveal about many health issues and different types of illnesses. Also, celebrity horoscope charts are used to show how a health reading is made.
     The book contains a quick introduction to astrology, as well, and instructions on how to read a birth chart in general.
Click to see the book (and Kindle ebook) at Amazon.

Tarot Unfolded, by Stefan Stenudd.

Tarot Unfolded

This book presents an imaginative reading of the divination cards, which is the most appropriate for the Tarot, consisting of symbolic images. Several spreads are introduced, as well as the meanings of all the 78 cards and their pictures.
Click to see the book at Amazon.


The Houses of the horoscope.

Horoscope Charts

Readings of Famous Horoscopes


The foremost instrument of astrology is the horoscope. The word is Greek and simply means "picture of the hour", i.e. picture of the sky at the hour in question, for example the birth of someone or something. Here are some celebrity horoscopes and their readings, both for entertainment and for learning how astrology works.


Famous Horoscopes

Here are links to horoscope readings of some celebrities. I will add more eventually, so please come back.

Obama in the 2012 election
Anders Behring Breivik
Michael Jackson
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Hillary Clinton
Brad Pitt
John McCain
Joe Biden
Sanjaya Malakar
USA Horoscope


Ancient Astrology

Western astrology is rooted in Tetrabiblos, the astrological classic by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy (Ptolemaios), c.90-168 AD. Astrology was wide-spread long before his time. The oldest proof of astrological thinking is Mesopotamian, from about 2400 BC, in the writing of king Sargon the Old, who mainly commented on the relation between human (mostly royal) life and the sun and moon. For example:

    If the moon is visible on the first day of the month, then the country will be peaceful and its heart will delight. If the moon is surrounded by a halo, the king will rule solely.

     If the sun when it sets is twice its normal size, and three of its rays are bluish, then the country has lost its king.

     Astrology is also ancient in other cultures of the world. It is hard to find a culture where there is no fragment of astrological thinking, dating back to ancient times. It is easy to understand why, considering the world of ancient man. We have to be aware of the marvel of the world, as it was perceived by prehistoric man: celestial phenomena were mysterious and spectacular, needing to be explained in metaphysical terms. A solstice, a comet, the phases of the moon, the movement of the visible planets as opposed to the fixed stars - what could be their reason and meaning, prehistoric man wondered.

     Surely, it is out of this bewilderment that astrology was born.

     To ancient man, everything in the world had to be connected. There was one world, with man in the middle of it. The stars had to relate to man, or they just would not be there. The nature of the heavenly bodies was usually described in divine terms - they represented gods of one kind or other, or they were in some other way marks of divine influence. Therefore, it was reasonable that the stars and their movements should reveal something about the schemes of the gods.


The horoscope

The movement of the heavenly bodies was followed daily, already in antiquity. The horoscope chart, the concept of noting planetary positions at a certain point in time, and using it to predict future developments, is so old that we do not know of its beginning.

     It was usually applied to kings and such nobles, rarely commoners. That was done in the perspective of mundane astrology, the astrological method to predict worldly events of importance to a whole country, not just an individual - and there, of course, the king was of primary importance.

     In Europe, up until recent times, the most common way of drawing the horoscope chart was the so called envelope design, where each triangle of the figure represents an astrological House. See the horoscope of Martin Luther (1483-1546) below.

Martin Luther's horoscope.
Martin Luther's horoscope in envelope design.

     Nowadays, the circular horoscope chart is used by most astrologers. In it, the outer circle marks the Zodiac, which is simply a coordinate system for the ecliptic plane - not a picture of the star configurations with the same names. Each of the twelve Zodiac signs is 30° of the total 360° circle. Inside of that circle, the positions of the planets are marked. Also, there is a twelve part division of the astrological Houses.

     There are several ways of dividing the horoscope chart into Houses. The oldest one is called equal house, where each House is the same 30° size. This was used by Ptolemy. Later systems, such as Placidus, Regiomontanus, Koch and Campanus, use differing sizes of the Houses.

     Inside the circle, aspects are marked by lines between planets. Ptolemy used five aspects - con­junction 0°, opposition 180°, trine 120°, square 90°, and sextile 60°. I use the same, whereas many other astrologers use additional aspects, such as the semi-sextile 30° and the quincunx 150°.

     Below is a modern style circular horoscope chart.

Circular horscope chart.
Circular horoscope chart.

Horoscope charts interpreted

On this website, I have included some horoscope charts, and written interpretations of them. There are some mundane horoscopes - of countries or insti­tutions - but also horoscopes of famous persons. Check the links above for a list of those horoscopes. I will add new horoscopes from time to time, so please return to my website.

© Stefan Stenudd

Stefan Stenudd

Stefan Stenudd

About me

I'm a Swedish writer and astrologer. Apart from fiction, I've written several books about astrology and spirituality. I'm also a historian of ideas, researching the thought patterns in creation myths. Google Profile. Here's my personal website: stenudd.com




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About This Website

Welcome to the world of astrology and horoscopes! Here you find an introduction to the basics of astrology, in-depth presentations of the Zodiac and your sun sign, astrological predictions based on the outer planets, famous horoscopes and elaborate forecasts.

Mundane Astrology

Here are also several examples of mundane astrology - astrological principles applied to institutions, countries and the whole world. This way of using astrology was in the past much more common than personal horoscopes.

Astrology Basics

The astrology basics present the astrological components and their significance in the personal horoscope. They are the twelve Zodiac signs, the twelve planets, the twelve Houses, and the five aspects.


Tetrabiblos, by Ptolemy.

Tetrabiblos

There are astrologers who use additional celestial bodies, as well as additional aspects. I stick to the horoscope fundamentals specified by Ptolemy, the Greek mathematician of the 2nd century CE, in his classic on astrology: Tetrabiblos. It's the primary source to western astrology.


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