They mistakenly assume, for example, that the Sun is the ‘natural ruler’ of the 5th house because Leo is the 5th sign of the zodiac. This oversimplified approach equates houses, signs and planets as if they all signified the same thing.ĭespite the eloquent writings of such modern astrological giants as Dane Rudhyar, many modern astrologers can’t tell the difference between a zodiac sign and an astrological house. One glaring example is the inaccurate use of the term ‘peregrine’ by the Tyl school of modern astrology, as if two thousand years of history and tradition do not matter.Įven more egregious than the misuse of ‘peregrine’ is such incessantly repeated nonsense as “Mars is the ‘natural’ ruler of the 1st house, Venus of the 2nd, Mercury of the 3rd, Moon of the 4th,” and so on around the wheel - the so-called ’12 letter alphabet’ of astrology popularized by the late Zip Dobbins. Pick up almost any modern text and you will likely read distortions and misunderstandings of the historical traditions of astrology, as if our past was irrelevant in the present. I have a few pet peeves about astrology that center mostly on the sloppy use of language rooted in a lack of awareness of the history of the art.
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