The Evolving Astrologer, by OPA
Astrodienst is pleased to present its cooperation with The Evolving Astrologer (until 2022 The Career Astrologer), the magazine published by the Organization for Professional Astrology. The magazine is directed at all those interested in Astrology, newcomers and professionals alike.
We will publish articles from The Evolving Astrologer in about 6-weekly intervals. A new issue appears four times a year, at the March equinox, June solstice, September equinox, and December solstice.
March 2025
Gemini can correspond to splitting, doubling, and multiple points of view, but it is also a sign of ingenuity, invention, humor, and intelligence. Uranus enters Gemini on July 7, 2025, returns to Taurus briefly on November 8, then re-enters Gemini on April 26, 2026. Uranus departs Gemini in May 2033. During its stay, Uranus will be part of an important emphasis on air and fire signs and an exciting minor grand trine with Pluto in Aquarius and Neptune and Saturn in early Aries.
February 2025
On April 18, 2025, the long journey of visionary, mystical, dreamy Neptune in Pisces ends, traveling into Aries's cardinal territory of initiatory, action-based courage. As the energy moves from Neptune's mystical egolessness in Pisces into the bold realm of Aries, it is an opportune time to decide what dreams and visions are worthy of action.
January 2025
The transiting Nodal Axis of the Moon ingresses into Virgo/Pisces on January 11, 2025. It will remain in these signs for 18 months and egresses on July 26, 2026. The Nodal Axis moves in a retrograde fashion through the zodiacal wheel and so the South Node will move from Libra to Virgo and the North Node from Aries to Pisces. In Evolutionary Astrology, the transiting Nodes are the leading edge of soul growth in the present incarnation.
June 2024
Every 36 years, Saturn and Neptune come back together. As they swim the Piscean depths today, we find them at the end of their last 36-year cycle and the beginning of a new one in 2026. In speaking with astrologers, whenever the subject of Saturn and Neptune comes up, there is an ominous overtone of dread. But is there an upside to their fearsome associations with lack and loss?April 2024
Welcome to the third installment of Artful Counsel for Modern Times. Here, we turn to a zodiacal council of savvy elders and young wizards for pithy revelation, punchy wit, and inspired art that can make you happier and wiser when all else fails.
February 2024
Forty-six years ago, Chiron was discovered by Astronomer Charles Kowal on November 1, 1977. Kowal timed the discovery to “A few minutes before 10 am." The chart was rectified by astrologers Zane Stein and Al H. Morrison to 9:56 am in Pasadena, California. Chiron is in mid-Aries at the 2023 December Solstice, about 7° from the True North Node, a conjunction that perfects on Feb 19, 2024.
December 2023
There are a few basic inquiries that comprise an astrologer’s bread and butter. One of the top three questions must be “Is this a good relationship?” Honestly, my eyebrows furrow when I hear this question. Don’t get me wrong. I am always inquisitive to find the answer and excited to evaluate the charts. The furrow forms because the client usually has an agenda and wants a “Yes.” Unfortunately, the answer may not be what the client wants to hear.
November 2023
On October 10, 2019, Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature, noted by the Swedish Academy for her “narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” Olga is an important figure for the astrological community to be aware of.
October 2023
Rock-pop singing legend Tina Turner passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 83. Tina was born with Uranus retrograde at 19° Taurus 12’, and on the day of her death Uranus was at 19° Taurus 46’. She died one week into her Uranus Return, just following the first of what would be three conjunctions total. To take a brief look at the life of this extraordinary woman from an astrological perspective, what does her birth chart reveal?
August 2023
In Medical Astrology, there are two main charts to assess when consulting with a client. We can create a decumbiture (horary) chart for the moment the person falls ill or asks for help. This chart gives us a better sense of the present medical situation and can offer clues that help with diagnosis and possible courses of treatment. We also look to the natal chart as a blueprint of a person’s core strengths and weaknesses and the lessons that may help them navigate their health issues over their lifetime.
July 2023
The planet Venus is the brightest object shining in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. Venus is attractive and alluring. When you see her in the sky, notice if she speaks to you softly or invites you to pay attention to something new. Learn the value of the Venus cycle and explore personal astrology affirmations for each zodiac sign.
May 2023
As Saturn brings boundary to the boundless, form to the formless, and limit to the limitless, it is a most suitable vessel for navigating the expansive Piscean ocean. Artists and designers sail the Piscean seas of creative potential, not always guaranteed to make landfall, yet with Saturnian discipline and dedication, this wealth of possibilities can, in time, be brought into form. One such Piscean sailor is the legendary haute couture (“high fashion”) designer Yves Saint Laurent
April 2023
On a glorious spring day in Sydney, I met with a friend and esteemed astrologer for lunch. The conversation flowed from what was happening in our lives to astrology. “How are you tracking with your midlife transits?” “Don't ask,” she began. “I have lost all respect for Pluto. He turned my life upside down this year. I’m not the same as I was before.”
February 2023
Most of us are familiar with the three phases or archetypes of the Divine Feminine known as Maiden, Mother, and Crone (MMC). These “faces” of the feminine have passed to us through the years as representing the Triple Goddess and the Moon’s three phases. In this article, I will explore why we need to retire this triune and work instead with a tetrad of Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone.
January 2023
In Pisces, Saturn loses its footing, its certainty. The maps we formerly used to navigate the world may no longer apply. Our guidance system becomes erratic. As Saturn leaves Aquarius on March 7, 2023, the last of its ‘home’ signs, the old rules crumble, and the new ones may be hard to grasp. We are asked to take a leap of faith and develop other forms of perception as the boundaries of the world shift and change.
December 2022
The impact of family relationships and history is inescapable. In my practice, I combine the knowledge system of astrology with the therapeutic technique of systemic or family constellations to analyze client issues and support their personal development and goal attainment.
October 2022
Mars symbolizes a power and a daemon essential for living with vitality, passion, and purpose. Yet, the God of War doesn’t always get the respect he merits. Indeed, we often–individually or collectively—try to stuff Mars into a closet. But he’s everywhere, of course, not only at traditional Mars-ruled turfs like sporting events and wars but also in drive-by shootings and online trolling. And let’s face it, he’s often not at his best.
August 2022
The origin myth of Uranus brings us to ancient Greece, where at the beginning of time, there was nothing but a void. Out of that void came chaos, and out of the chaos emerged Gaia—the Earth. Gaia then realized she was lonely, and so out of her own body—out of the Earth, she molded, created, and gave life to Uranus.
July 2022
It’s May 25th, 2022, and I’m exhausted. I realize I need to apply the Astro-therapy I’ve cultivated for many years to myself. I call it Universal Healing Protocol, a fusion of shiatsu (Asian finger pressure) with the precepts of astrological wisdom.
May 2022
For thousands of years, the Moon has captivated people. Our ancestors called La Luna the “Great Mother.” The words “measure” and “Moon” have the same root. Meanwhile, the word horoscope originated from the ancient Greek words hora, or “hour,” and skopéin, “to observe.” The term Moonscope is a reference to it and describes nothing less than that: to observe the Moon.
April 2022
We’ve all had those face-palm moments: misjudgements, overreactions, lousy timing, crossed wires…our poised sense of self inverted. In a culture of perfectionism, one mistake can feel like a significant ego-death. Luckily, astrology loves mistakes. Training to be an astrologer means training your eye for where a chart gets stuck. Thus, astrology has many techniques for finding the “whoops”…one of those being Essential Dignity.
February 2022
Due his extraordinarily original works, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), is considered one of the most important authors of the 20th century, known for his bizarre and absurd stories and novels. In this article, we explore the value of the AGE POINT (AP) to explore the different milestones of Kafka’s life.
January 2022
The planet Venus is the brightest object shining in the sky after the Sun and the Moon. If you look up and listen to her, you might notice she is speaking to you softly, or maybe radically raging for you to pay attention to what is important.
November 2021
On a frosty morning in winter last year, I stood on top of a hill on my property before dawn, waiting to see Venus as she made her first appearance in the morning sky after being invisible for the past couple of weeks. As I shivered and waited patiently among the birdsongs, my imagination brought me back to a time 5000 years ago when the ancient Sumerian peoples were looking at this same star.
October 2021
I was born with the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Gemini, so naturally, I’ve got to start out by telling you a story. It begins on a hot, sweaty Saturday afternoon in August 1961. Dee was 8 ½ months pregnant. At the age of 27, she’d already had three children and hadn’t wanted another; after this one was born, she told her friend Helen, she was definitely going on the Pill.
August 2021
“Your Palm is God’s road map to your Soul”, said my Palmistry Teacher, Ellen Goldberg during an introductory lecture. Following her lecture, I went up to compliment her on the quality of information conveyed. She said “Stick ‘em up!”. So, I raised my hands!! Ellen made a few amazing and very pithy observations from a 4 second observation. I was hooked!!
July 2021
In recent years there has been a great resurgence of interest in astrological magic. Magic practitioners, astrologers, and academic scholars have been gradually rekindling the ancient art and are just beginning to grasp its importance in the history and development of philosophy, religion, and science. In the astrological community, this was a direct follow-up to the fairly recent, and still ongoing, renaissance of ancient traditional astrology.
May 2021
Vienna 1918. In that intensely crisis-ridden time of change – like today, with Pluto-Eris and other major squares – Dr. Oskar Adler, a then 42-year-old Austrian medical doctor and musician, connects his philosophical musings, astrological insights and experiences as concert violinist and lecturer in a script that explores the essence and source of music: The Critique of Pure Music.
April 2021
The art of addressing difficult issues shown in the chart may be one of the most challenging issues that consulting astrologers face. Astrology is a symbolic language. We learn through study or personal and client experience what these symbols may mean, yet there is a range of possibilities for each planet and sign to manifest in actual reality.
March 2021
My personal relationship with the 12th house began… well at birth, when my Moon, ruler of my Ascendant, rose from the horizon into my 12th house. I can imagine its powerful light rising a couple of fists above the eastern horizon. When I first got into astrology, I was excited to get a reading from the prominent astrologer, a published author who was the big name on radio shows. He spent the two hours of the reading warning me of the perils of my self-sabotaging tendencies ...
January 2021
Throughout most of the year 2021, Saturn and Uranus will be battling it out with the final three squares of their cycle, from the signs of Taurus and Aquarius. The understanding of these two zodiac signs, Taurus, and Aquarius, can be understood within the Maori creation myth and where the attention to all things earth and all things sky become entrenched in the collective consciousness.
November 2020
The past few months in quarantine has seen an exponential increase in online meetings (including astrological consultations) as well as contactless opportunities for learning. The medical profession, online companies with the resources to provide delivery, and technology companies such as Zoom and gaming platforms are booming. These developments appear to be the good news.
October 2020
For the third column in OPA's forensic astrology series, I was presented with five mystery charts pertaining to a single violent event. It was revealed that the victim had been beaten to death at the time indicated by the event chart, but no other details were provided. This exercise aims to help demonstrate how astrological charts could be interpreted in a real-life situation with very little background information to go on.
August 2020
With Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto transiting in Capricorn in 2020 this is an appropriate time to focus on vocational astrology—the art of skillfully guiding ourselves and our clients in the world of work, to aid career decision making, but also to cope with career setbacks and defeats, workplace stress, burnout, unemployment, changes of occupation, and retirement.
July 2020
One of the biggest challenges of reading natal charts is understanding how a person sees themselves, whether they are a client or public figure. Astrologers know that without the context of knowing a person well, it can be very difficult to discern their self-image. How one views and relates to themselves is a critical element in understanding behavior, but it is information not often revealed to others except close friends, partners, or therapists. One way to gain some insights into a person’s self-image is to use a personal name asteroid in the birth chart.
May 2020
Dane Rudhyar is a towering figure in modern astrology. Long after his passing in 1985 he continues to have a pervasive influence on much of modern astrology, especially evolutionary and psychological forms. Many of his later works are relatively unknown and there are many treasures for coming generations of astrologers to discover in them. Here we'll be taking a look at his first astrology book, one of the craft's most ground-breaking and enduring classics, The Astrology of Personality.
April 2020
Mythologically, Jupiter and Pluto are polar opposites. Jupiter is a sky god whose position in the heavens gave him the ability to be omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. He was in charge of laws and higher-order. Pluto was the god of the Underworld, powerful and wealthy in his own right. Together, it would make sense that they could create something big out of something small.
February 2020
The third decade of this millennium begins with conjunctions between Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto. When Saturn and Pluto conjoin, not only do they close one 36 year cycle to start another, they serve to link our inner and outer spheres of experience. When Saturnian limitations are exploded by Plutonic force, who would you call but the Centaurs?
January 2020
To have four of the five outer planets in earth signs is rare. To have Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, while Uranus is in Taurus has happened only one other year, in the 10,000-year period 4999 BCE to 4999 CE. 3838 BCE was the time of the Bronze Age and when there are first records of writing.
November 2019
When looking at a natal chart for the first time my attention is always drawn to the distribution of planets. In my opinion this factor is nearly as important as the signs of Sun, Moon, Ascendant and their rulers. The main aim of this article is to show that much information can be gained about the basic inclination of a person by examination of hemispheres, quadrants and aspect pictures.
October 2019
Knowing what we want in a relationship takes time and experience. We sometimes get confused about what we need in a relationship and demand more than what one person can provide. Astrology can give us an entryway to understanding our needs, desires, and tendencies in relationships. There are some indicators in the natal chart that tell us specifically about relationships. Asteroid Juno shows what we want from a partner and long-term relationships.
August 2019
"Kings and queens are born and die during eclipses" – the ancient saying says. An eclipse consists of a Sun/Moon/Nodes conjunction or opposition (New or Full Moon on the Nodes). Since the Lunar Nodes themselves are the intersection point between the Solar and Lunar orbit as seen from the earth, an eclipse occurs when they indeed align exactly on those points. The Sun and Moon can only be eclipsed because from our earth perspective they appear to be exactly the same size.
July 2019
We are approaching an imminent turning point in our lives collectively and personally. With global crises awaiting at our doorstep, the knocks get louder and louder as we approach the infamous 2020 Pluto-Saturn conjunction. The pressure to rise up to the expectations of our worldly concerns is leaving us very little room and time to fool around with our life.
OPA’s (Organization For Professional Astrology) quarterly magazine, the Evolving Astrologer (formerly Career Astrologer), includes articles, interviews, reviews, and columns accessible to astrology enthusiasts or seasoned practitioners. From in-depth transit analyses to thought provoking essays, the magazine offers a platform for writers from all over the world and all schools of practice.
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