In episode 492 Professor A. Tun en joins the podcast to discuss his book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, which is on astrologers working in the Ottoman court in the 15th and 16th centuries.The

In episode 491 astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim look at the astrological forecast for June of 2025!We spend the first hour of the episode talking about the astrology of news and events that have occurred since our last forecast, and then in th

In episode 490 professor M. Willis Monroe joins the podcast to discuss the history of astrology in ancient Mesopotamia.Willis is a historian of the ancient Near East and scholar of Cuneiform Studies with a focus on the science and scholarship of first m

In episode 489 astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim discuss their views on astrology, fate, and destiny.This is part of a new series exploring our personal view on the philosophy of astrology, and in particular exploring the relevance of some anci

In episode 488 astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock look at the astrological forecast for May of 2025!May opens with the tense Mars-Pluto opposition separating but still in close alignment, and this gets reactivated when Pluto stations in Aquari

In episode 487 astrologers Chris Brennan, Lindsey Turner, and Nick Dagan Best review a number of stories in the news recently that coincided with the Venus retrograde.This is a followup to episodes 475 and 477 where we talked about what Venus retrograde

In episode 486 astrologer Chris Brennan interviews some listeners of the podcast to talk about the recent retrogrades of Venus and Mars and what changes they coincided with in their life.Mars is recently coming off of its retrograde in Cancer and Leo, w

In episode 485 astrologer Elly Higgins joins the show to discuss the 8-year repetitions of Venus retrograde in Aries and how they tie into queer history over the past century.In this episode we start with the Venus retrograde in Aries of 1905, and then

In episode 484 astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock look at the astrological forecast for April 2025.April see the continuation and eventual conclusion of many of the alignments that started in March, with the effective range of the Aries eclips

In episode 483 astrologers Chris Brennan and Nick Dagan Best discuss what happened in the past when the planets Saturn and Neptune form conjunctions every 36 years, and how these alignments often coincide with important turning points in history.We spen