Talking Hellenistic Astrology | Chris Brennan

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to professional astrologer, educator and fellow podcaster, Chris Brennan. Chris hosts The Astrology Podcast and is the author of the recently released book Hellenistic Astrology.

As you would expect, our wide ranging chat covers astrology's Babylonian and Egyptian origins, how it was used in the ancient world, how previous cultures conceived of it and how these conceptions changed over the intervening millennia.

We also talk about how one might use some of these recently-rediscovered methods and whether or not astrology is in another golden age.

Great stuff.

Show Notes

Hellenistic Astrology -Chris's website and book
The Astrology Podcast -Chris's show
The Astrology Podcast on Twitter
The Astrology Podcast on Facebook

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.
0:10.8	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.
0:13.0	This week we are speaking with Chris Brennan.
0:16.0	Chris is a professional astrologer, educator, and a fellow podcaster over at the
0:20.1	astrology podcast.
0:21.6	He is the author of the recently released and very
0:24.2	comprehensive book Hellenistic astrology which is the topic of our
0:27.9	conversation. Chris thank you very much for your time.
0:30.8	Hi thanks for having me on the show.
0:34.0	Oh, looking forward to it.
0:35.0	Congratulations on the book, by the way.
0:37.0	Thank you.
0:38.0	Yeah, this is my first book.
0:40.0	It was a huge undertaking and it seemed like it was never going to happen at one point and I'm really impressed
0:45.7	and all of people like yourself where you published like two books in the past few years, right?
0:51.2	It was, it was, yes, technically three, but I'm looking at your book here and it's you know it's
0:57.3	quite a it's quite a long document I mean usually people wait till the end of their lives to publish something like a life's work but I don't know are you dying Chris?
1:07.0	No, but it did feel like something that I had to do and then I had to get out, especially because there was a lot of people who had committed various research or money or supported me over the years in terms of some of the research that went into it and I felt after a long time even at times when I was when it was not coming together like I needed to get it out because I'd be letting down a lot of people who would contributed in that way in the past if I didn't so it felt sort of like a life work.
1:34.8	Yeah well I was chatting to our mutual friend Austin about this and it's sort of like your
1:41.2	version of book four like it's a Hellenistic astrology book 4 in a Crowley sense.
1:47.0	Yeah, I always had this, just this picture of wanting to write a comprehensive volume on the history and origins and the practice of ancient astrology and to make it as comprehensive and detailed as possible so that it would be like this authoritative work on the subject that would stand the
2:04.1	the test of time and that then led to you know a 10-year project of writing it I
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