We just finished a Mars-Saturn conjunction in the sign of Ares that was co-present for the last five weeks and culminated at an exact conjunction between Mars and Saturn on April 19th.

And today I want to talk with a group of different students of my Hellenistic astrology course as well as patrons of the astrology podcast to hear some stories about how the Mars-Saturn

conjunction went and what kind of events played out in their lives based on the whole

sign house that the conjunction was transiting over the course of the past several weeks.

So, yeah, so this is going to be probably an episode of the astrology podcast as well as a recording

for my Hellenistic Astrology course students where I do a live webinar every month to go through

things and look at charts and try to teach in practice how I've taken some of the ancient

techniques of Hellenistic astrology and incorporated them into astrology in a modern context and merged them with some of the

techniques that I still think are valid and relevant for modern astrology.

So one of those techniques that I realized and found early on is that the ancient astrologers

were paying attention to both sign-based conjunctions and sign-based

aspects as well as degree-based aspects, and they considered to be both important and relevant.

So in modern times, aspect theory had become pretty much exclusively or almost exclusively degree based,

where modern, I should say, astrologers in the 20th century primarily just focused on

when planets got close to an aspect by degree.

And in some instances, we're like only paying attention to the closest aspects, like ones

that were exact within

one degree of orb.

So while there is some valid side to that, there's some validity to that because when an

aspect is close within one degree, that does tend to be when it's at its most acute and

like visible and when the most pivotal events tend to take place, as I talked about

in a recent podcast episode that was also a webinar on exact transits, there's still something

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