Hellenistic Astrology Introduction, with Alan White

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Episode 250 of the podcast features a lecture by the late astrologer Alan White on an introduction to Hellenistic astrology, followed by an audio interview with Alan about his life and work from 2010. Alan began studying astrology seriously in the 1980s, and then in the mid-1990s he discovered Project Hindsight and developed a deep interest in ancient astrology. He created an introductory lecture on Hellenistic astrology using a flip chart that he presented at a number of astrological meetings in the 2000s, and one of these presentations in 2001 led to Demetra George teaching a course on the subject at Kepler College. Alan died at the age of 69 on August 18, 2011. I visited him a few months before he died, and asked him to record a version of his intro to Hellenistic astrology lecture, to have it on the historical record. The first 90 minutes of this episode after the intro consists of Alan's intro to Hellenistic astrology lecture, while the second half is an interview I did with Alan for my old podcast called Traditional Astrology Radio that was recorded and aired on December 7, 2010. Be sure to check out the description page for high resolution images of the flip chart, an obituary for Alan, or to download the audio version of this episode: https://theastrologypodcast.com/2020/04/20/alan-white-intro-to-hellenistic-astrology/ #TheAstrologyPodcast 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:22 Alan's birth chart 00:04:35 The impact of Alan's lecture 00:09:00 Robert Schmidt and Project Hindsight 00:12:00 Alan's obituary 00:17:56 Part 1 of lecture 00:21:00 Astrology definition 00:22:10 Project Hindsight 00:23:10 Restoration of the Astrology of the West 00:24:13 History of astrology 00:29:04 Planets 00:31:20 Sun 00:32:19 Mercury 00:33:05 Venus 00:33:29 Mars 00:34:00 Jupiter 00:34:30 Saturn 00:34:56 Moon 00:36:24 Detriment 00:37:05 Sect 00:38:18 Houses 00:40:17 Part 2 00:40:27 Signs 00:48:21 Aspects 00:52:20 Mitigating Sympathies 00:53:35 Rulership 00:59:08 Solar phase 01:04:24 Lunar Concepts 01:10:25 7 Hermetic Lots 01:15:04 3 Grand Approaches 01:16:15 7 Hellenistic Techniques 01:17:22 7 Topical Methods 01:19:34 Time Lords 01:24:05 Transits 01:28:38 Thema Mundi 01:35:01 Ages of Pisces and Aries 01:36:37 Age of Aquarius 01:37:07 Outer Planets 01:51:39 Start of Chris' interview with Alan 01:52:42 Alan's background 02:02:00 Influence of Alan's military background 02:04:40 Alan and Robert Schmidt 02:05:20 Sun ruling Cancer 02:07:05 Modern astrology 02:09:45 Discovery degrees and outer planets 02:16:50 July 6, 1775 Chart of the US 02:28:18 Politics in astrology 02:30:55 Definition of astrology 02:32:22 Astrology and academics 02:38:30 Criticism of evolutionary astrology 02:41:30 Purpose of Sect 02:43:20 Lots 02:43:50 Planets and causation 02:46:18 Fate and Free Will 02:47:40 Closing remarks