Welcome.

My purpose is to provide information about the practice of astrology, regardless of culture or historical period. I am also concerned with the history and cultural applications of astronomy. 

My own work is currently focused on teaching the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales, Lampeter, lecturing at Kepler College, and editing Culture and Cosmos, the journal of the history of astrology and cultural astronomy.

Most of my historical work is contained in my two-volume cultural history of western astrology, The Dawn of Astrology (Continuum 2008), and The Golden Age of Astrology (Continuum 2009). Read more about the book here

For the purposes of everything that follows on this site, I need to define astrology. I generally follow a loose definition of it, in which case Patrick Curry’s version is useful. He defined astrology as: 'the practice of relating the heavenly bodies to lives and events on earth, and the tradition that has thus been generated’.* Astrology includes  the attempt to locate significance and meaning in the cosmos, but also classical and medieval notions of celestial influence, as well as the rituals and behaviour which follow such concepts. There is therefore scarcely any culture which doesn’t have a set of beliefs, or behavioural systems which can be seen as astrological.

Nick Campion