The Four Elements in Astrology, with Darby Costello

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Episode 246 features a discussion with astrologer Darby Costello about the four elements in astrology, and the way their archetypal meanings are applied to the signs of the zodiac. The four classical elements in the western tradition are: fire, air, water, and earth. The concept of the four elements originated in the Greek tradition with the pre-Socratic philosophers, and especially Empedocles in the 5th century BCE, with additional contributions later by Plato and Aristotle. The four elements have been applied to the triplicities since at least the 1st century BCE, and Chris published a paper in 2013 showing how the assignment of the elements to the signs of the zodiac was based on the planetary joys scheme. Darby wrote two books on the elements, titled Water and Fire: The Astrological Elements Book 1, and Earth and Air: The Astrological Elements Book 2. During the course of this episode we talk about how Darby got into astrology, the history and philosophy behind the elements, and how they are applied to the signs of the zodiac to create pairs of signs with antithetical elemental qualities. For more information about Darby's work visit her website: https://www.darbycostello.co.uk This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Timestamps Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:43 Darby's books 00:03:10 Darby's background 00:14:10 Sources of the elements 00:20:49 Plato, elements, triplicities 00:30:50 Aristotle and natural place 00:34:56 Archetypal qualities 00:43:40 Hot, cold, wet, dry qualities 00:54:29 Water signs 01:02:17 Air and fire signs 01:18:15 Element imbalances 01:24:15 Cancer Capricorn 01:30:35 Virgo Pisces 01:39:30 Taurus Scorpio 01:57:26 Aries Libra 02:07:30 Closing remarks Watch the Video Version of This Episode Here is the video version of our discussion about the four elements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqfK1H0qtYw – Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 246 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode You can either play the audio version of this episode of the podcast directly from the website or download it as an MP3 to your device by using the buttons below:

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.
0:03.7	This is episode 246, and in this episode I'll be talking to astrologer Darby Costello
0:09.3	about the astrology of the Yeah, I'm excited to do this episode with you. I've been wanting to do an episode on the four elements for quite a while now, and last year I discovered that your books on the subject, or your book on the subject which was a
0:32.5	initially a series of lectures that you did in the mid 90s
0:35.9	on the four elements was recently republished just last year in 2019, right?
0:40.8	Yeah, yeah, it was.
0:42.2	Tony Howard did it. He republished them beautifully, I think. I love what he's done with them.
0:47.0	Yeah, I love the new covers.
0:50.0	So volume, volume one is titled, Water and Fire, The Astronological Elements Book 1.
0:57.0	And then the other one is Earth and Air,
1:00.4	The Astronological Elements Book 2 by Raven Dreams publication.
1:05.8	So this is originally though a publication that you did in the mid 1990s for this
1:10.3	Center for Psychological Astrology Press, right?
1:12.8	And that's what they looked like then, hardbound.
1:15.7	Brilliant.
1:16.7	With gold letters.
1:17.8	Yeah, Liz's publication, Liz's publishing house.
1:20.8	Yeah.
1:21.2	And you had an interesting story behind that because she kind of encouraged you to publish those books?
1:26.0	Yeah, because I tried. I'd been living in Africa and I came here and everybody had published books and I couldn't write. I just couldn't. I tried and tried and tried. And she said I'm starting a publishing company and I'd like you to write a book for me. And I said, can't you know I'm just I can't I don't know how and she just said oh oh do it for me and I really liked her so I said okay that was it it allowed me to step out of myself and then I said oh what am I going to do it and I don't and and the first one she said we're always talking about the progress moon do it on that and so that was the first one that I did and then I got
2:05.5	into it and I really enjoyed the fashioning of sentences slowly and and there were transcripts originally but again I said to her but I just
2:15.8	babble to talk and talk and talk as you can tell I don't have punctuation and
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