The Four Elements in Astrology, with Darby Costello

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K 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 […]

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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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