Visual Astrology
Visual Astrology is a way of working with the whole sky on the day you were born. Its roots lie in the very origins of astrology when the sky was mapped and the movement of stars and planets were watched for signs of change and information about births. With the translation of some of the Mesopotamian clay tablets now in modern language, the Visual Astrology Newsletter (VAN) explores how these visual indications continue to inform the world around us today.
Visual Astrology is made up of three parts: firstly, learning to look at the whole sky on the day you were born; secondly, learning the meaning of how the planets move amongst the stars; and thirdly, the mythological meanings of the individual fixed stars. All of this information sits under your horoscope and informs the way you read a chart.
It may sound complicated. However, to put it simply, you are going to add a lot more images to your chart along with their myths, both ancient neolithic stories along with more modern themes.
You can learn more about Visual Astrology by checking out what is free on the web listed below. You can also buy software, books and studyshops all focused on visual astrology.
Free on the web - what you can explore
The monthly Visual Astrology Newsletter, plus access to over 100 articles in the archives.
The Visual Astrology Newsletter (VAN) is a free electronic publication dedicated to bringing awareness of this new subject to the attention of the astrological global community. It is a venture of Bernadette Brady and Darrelyn Gunzburg through Zyntara Publications. The newsletter is published monthly and sent to all those on our email list or that of our company Astro Logos Ltd. All past issues are posted to this web page.
Fixed Star Articles by Bernadette Brady
Your natal fixed star parans with meanings emailed to you.
Introductory flash presentation lecture by Bernadette Brady on Visual Astrology - 90 minutes in length, downloadable in three parts. A "must watch" if you are new to Visual Astrology.
What are Fixed Star Natal Parans?
A question which we are often asked is: What are parans?
Parans are a way of combining the meanings of the fixed stars with the planets as they were originally combined which is visually. Due to the rotation of the earth on its axis, the stars and planets will appear to move in the sky travelling from rising, to culminating, to setting, and then to rising again. This movement is called diurnal movement, and one complete circle gives us, of course, one day. Certain stars during the course of a day will also rise over the horizon and, at some stage of their diurnal movement later in the day, will culminate, set, and then travel over the nadir. Planets that rise at the same time as a star rises, so that both are on the line of the horizon at the same time, are considered to be connected. They are called parans and are said to influence the meaning of each other. So a star is said to be in paran with a planet when the planet is on any of the four points of rising, culminating, setting, or on the nadir, and at the same moment in time, for that location, the star is also on ANY of the same four angles or points.
Here is a brief animation of the celestial sphere showing how this works:
Books and Starlight sofware
Starlight is the program that has bought Visual Astrology to astrology from 2004. If you do not own Starlight and you wish to purschase it, then let us know for, as delegates, you are entitled to a discount price.
The Star and Planet Combinations and Brady's Book of Fixed Stars both by Bernadette Brady are available from Amazon as well as Wessex Astrologer, UK.
