Category: People

  • It had to be them

    It had to be them

    This post was written by Pam Tyler, who was joint founder of APA in 1983. The Hubers rocked my world in 1978. The first time I heard them speak was in Atlanta at the American Federation of Astrologers Conference. I had come from London to sit for the AFA’s Teacher and Professional Certification exam. My…

  • Family message to friends of Louise Huber

    Family message to friends of Louise Huber

    The following message was sent by the Huber family to friends of Louise Huber, which will include many members of APA and other astrologers. “Everything must be in harmony with the whole.” Louise Huber, 2003 “We all need more devotion” Louise Huber, 2015 Dear Friends of Louise Huber On the 13th of January at 12:15,…

  • Louise Huber 1924-2016

    Louise Huber 1924-2016

    Sad news has reached us of the passing of Louise Huber co-founder, along with husband Bruno, of the Astrological Psychology Institute (API) in Adliswil, Switzerland. Louise was a driving force in the founding of API in 1968. She supported the research made by Bruno into astrological psychology and the development of what has become known…

  • The Land of Green Magic or Neptune’s Gift

    The Land of Green Magic or Neptune’s Gift

    This piece by former API tutor Wendy Oak first appeared in an early issue of Conjunction. When my Age Point crossed over Neptune shortly before my MC, I experienced a sublime dissolution of all that I thought I was, and became, briefly, part of a transpersonal understanding. It happened out of the blue when I…

  • David Bowie

    David Bowie

    Joyce looks at the chart of David Bowie, who passed away on 10th January. This item first appeared on Joyce’s blog in April 2013. Musician and style icon David Bowie was born on 8th January 1947 at 09.00 in Brixton, London. In 2013 he was the subject of an exhibition at the V and A…

  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump

    Joyce examines the chart of the controversial Donald Trump, and notes its significant ‘Megaphone’ aspect figure. If you’ll pardon the pun, this man has been trumpeting forth on a variety of controversial subjects for the past few months as he ramps up his bid to be nominated as the Republican Party candidate to become the…

  • Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

    Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

    The graphic artist, M. C. Escher, known to his friends as Mauk, was born on 17 June 1898, at 07:15, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Rodden Rating: AA). His chart resembles a paper aeroplane with green wings and has a vertical emphasis. Seven planets are in the fourth quadrant, and five are in airy Gemini, Sun with…

  • Victor Hugo

    Victor Hugo

    This post by Wanda Smit is the first part of an article available in full to members in the APA Members’ Area. Victor Hugo – Poet, Peer, Exile Par Excellence Victor Hugo’s chart image resembles a boat firmly anchored in the collective sphere where most of Hugo’s planets reside. Its two sails with Jupiter conjunct…

  • David Attenborough’s Dynamic Quadrants

    David Attenborough’s Dynamic Quadrants

    His Behaviour Pattern or Modus Operandi Marilyn Burnett adds a further perspective on David Attenborough’s chart to that given in Joyce’s previous post. Having enjoyed the re-look at David Attenborough’s chart by Joyce, I was inspired to look at it in the light of the Hubers’ Dynamic Quadrants. This shows the chart as a pattern…

  • Sir David Attenborough

    Sir David Attenborough

    I wrote about David Attenborough’s chart on my blog in 2012, when he was 86. No time of birth was available then so I set the chart for noon. Having watched him being interviewed on BBC television by President Obama, to mark his 89th birthday, I discovered that a rectified time of birth was now…

  • Sepp Blatter

    Sepp Blatter

    Sue Lewis discusses the chart of this man in the news. Blatter has ‘resigned’ since this post was written. [Reposted due to disappearance of the 3rd June original.] Sepp Blatter, aged 79, President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) since 1998, re-elected in 2002, 2007, 2011 and on 29 May 2015, has asserted…

  • Baby Princess of Cambridge

    Baby Princess of Cambridge

    Will’s and Kate’s second baby was born at 08.34 on May 2nd 2015 in London. Like her great-grandmother, the Queen, she has a Taurean Sun, an Efficiency triangle and a Search figure aspect pattern in her chart. She could grow up to be a very interesting young lady. Her chart image suggests a grand gesture,…