{"id":3315,"date":"2011-10-18T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2011-10-18T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:14:05","slug":"astrology-conference-book-available-for-preorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"Astrology Conference Book Available for Preorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u2018Astrologies\u2019 conference, organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk\/en\/sophia\/\">Sophia Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David,<\/a> at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on 24-25 July 2010 was the first gathering of academics working in the history and culture of modern astrology. The range of topics explored in the publication of the conference proceedings is broad, and reflects the strik ing diversity of techniques and underlying philosophies which underlie the enduring human perception of meaningful relationships between the heavenly bodies and life on earth. Although astrology has been treated in many scholarly works as a monolithic entity, all of the papers in this book demonstrate one of the paradoxes of astrological thought and practice: the existence of a relative ly stable tradition of cosmological and astral representations and ideas combined with a adaptability that has enabled astrologies to meld with different\u00a0 spheres of human endeavour in a variety of cultures. The papers are grouped into three basic themes: the symbolism of astrologies, the history of astrologies within different cultural con texts, and the practice of various astrologies from both \u2018insider\u2019 and \u2018outsider\u2019 perspectives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophiacentrepress.com\/publications.html\">Contents and ordering information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the announcement: The \u2018Astrologies\u2019 conference, organised by the Sophia Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on 24-25 July 2010 was the first gathering of academics working in the history and culture of modern astrology. The range of topics explored in the publication of the conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,4,162],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrology","tag-scholarship","tag-wales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Rt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5759,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5759","url_meta":{"origin":3315,"position":0},"title":"Spica, Online Cultural Astrology Journal, Launched","author":"Chas S. 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I checked with Dr. Google and discovered that Steinbrecher, an astrologer and occult teacher, had passed away in 2002 \u2014\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"astrology\"","block_context":{"text":"astrology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=astrology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/steinbrecher.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13269,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13269","url_meta":{"origin":3315,"position":4},"title":"Astrology and Big Data","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Stephanie Shea's Rejected Religion((\"Rejected\" here meaning esoteric or occult.)) recently offered an episode, \"Astrology and Data Science,\"\u00a0 on the The Ratio Project and its founder, Katy Bohinc.((Not to be confused with Microsoft's Project Ratio, which is some attempt to categorize and cross-reference All That Is Known.)) 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