Fabienne Many of the concepts in this series are based on Stephen Arroyo’s book “Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements” and Richard Idemon’s book “The Magic Thread”. Creativity and the 4 Elements A couple a weeks ago, I wrote a series about the intersection of creativity and the 4 astrological elements (Fire, Earth, Air and Water). …
This is a two part post. First part deals with the first six houses of the horoscope. The remaining houses and the effect of the Aries stellium on them will be published tomorrow. The April Aries Stellium As reported in my previous post, April will see the configuration of a stellium of planets in Aries. A …
April 2011 Sky Pile Up The entry of Uranus in Aries on March 12 will signal the beginning of a long duration stellium in Aries. A stellium is a group of three or more planets in conjunction or grouped together in one sign. Basically, from March 21 to May 15, there will be 4 to …
The posts in this series were inspired by notes taken from Claudia Bader’s lecture for the San Francisco Astrological Society, entitled Astrology, Art, and the Chart. Today, we conclude this series on Creativity and the 4 Elements with some considerations about the role of Feeling in art and how it relates to the element of …
Continuing our series on Creativity and the 4 Elements, we will focus on Composition and the Fire element. Here are the links for the previous posts on Earth and Air in case you missed them. Fire and Composition: Definitions According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, composition is the act or process of arranging into artistic form …
Art and the 4 Astrological Elements Continuing our series on Creativity and the 4 Elements, we will discuss today technique and its correlation with the Air element in your chart. We started yesterday with the connection between materials and Earth. What do you see? Air and Technique: Definitions In astrology, people with a predominance of …
Art and the 4 Astrological Elements What is good art? As I was having this discussion with a friend, I came across this blog post from Franklin Einspruch at ArtBlog.net – The Four Elements of Art. In his article, Einspruch defines good art as “…a successful alignment of materials, technique, composition, and feeling. Materials, of …
Saturn Disguised as Greed So far, I covered Lust and Gluttony. Traditionally, Greed in the 7 sins stood for the excessive or rapacious desire for copious amounts of wealth and or possessions. The person influenced by greed would stop at nothing to acquire more than one’s proper share of that wealth. So, what does creativity has to do …
Last week, I started my 7 sins of creativity with lust. Today, it’s sin #2, Gluttony. The dictionary traditionally defines gluttony as excessive eating or drinking. Throughout time, the definition has evolved to include anything done to an extreme. In creativity, gluttony can show up in different forms. It can be describing an idea in 500 …
The 7 Sins and their Astrological Correlation Over the next 2 weeks, I will be covering the 7 signs of creativity, the big no’s no’s that you just can’t do if you want your ideas to be powerful and your creative juices to stay strong. The idea was given to me by Eric Maisel’s book “Deep …
Personal empowerment. Taking on new challenges and initiate action. Pioneer spirit. Forging ahead. Being an innovator in a chosen field. Improving oneself through confident and self-assertive activity. Lust for life. Catalyst of change. Can-do attitude. Wide open opportunities. Overconfidence. Total faith in Self. Careless with money. Me-first attitude. Feeing like a dare-devil. Trail-blazing events. Attracting …
