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Welcome to Pass It On Astrology!
Give a person a fish and him feed him for a day. Teach a person to fish and feed him for a lifetime.1
Pass It On Astrology is my long-term vision for providing an astrology software program and comprehensive courses on all aspects of astrology. I envision astrologers who are competent not just in archetypal knowledge and astrological techniques used to read charts, both traditional and modern, but also in chart calculation, math and astronomy, and computer programming.
My vision arises from my personal experiences and desires. During a quest to resolve my uncertainties about astrology, I ended up designing my own astrology wheel. This wheel, which places the traditional zodiac within a phase wheel, provided me with the larger context I needed to make sense of what I was seeing in the chart.
Eager to see if its promise held up, I decided to make a practice of doing new and full moon readings. Since astrology programs didn’t generate charts within phase wheels, I needed to manually place the planets on my wheel. As I was reading through the terms of an online astrology software program, I learned that it wasn’t allowed to take the positions of planets shown on a chart that I generated and put them on my wheel. Makes perfect sense, but it put me in a jam. If I wanted to use my wheel, I needed to learn how to calculate charts by hand.
That experience awakened in me the awareness that knowlege is freedom: learning how to calculate charts allowed me to deepen my relationship with astrology. It also awakened me to more knowledge gaps and more frustrations in trying to fill those gaps. So much information is out there right now and freely available.
Yet, because it is there doesn’t mean we know how to make sense of it. NASA’s JPL Horizons app is a great example. It is an incredible source of raw planet data which can be extracted and used to calculate charts. But using it isn’t intuitive. I still haven’t figured it out.
In my view, we would serve young astrologers well by teaching them what we have had to scrabble to learn. In this way, each next generation starts off at a level that is a little deeper, a little wider, and a little more stable than what we started off on. Each then has more bandwidth for tackling new gaps and then passing those on to the next generation. In this way, we would create a stable, enduring, and endlessly evolving tradition, grounded in a strong grasp of the basics and amenable to new insights and innovations, just like life itself.
Thus, the idea of Pass It On Astrology is not to compete with established astrology software platforms. It is to champion the tradition of passing on what we learn, a tradition that ensured the survival of humanity itself.
Where Pass It On Astrology Is Right Now
Currently, I am in the process of broadening my knowledge beyond the archetypal basics, meaning I am focusing on learning math and programming. I am at the start of this process. At this stage, I’m sharing what I learn as I go, starting at the beginning. Doing so helps me nail down the basics. The more solid I am in the basics, the better I will be able to teach others.2
Down the road, I envision providing more robust courses and learning materials, possibly making those available for purchase. For now, sharing what I learn for free gives intrepid early followers access to the seeds of those future programs and a jump start on learning the basics.
Ways You Can Support Pass It On Astrology
If you would like to support Pass It On Astrology, the best way to do so right now is to subscribe and let others know about it. Down the road, I’ll be turning on paid subscriptions. For now, everything is free.
About the Name and Logo
My original name for this endeavor was Project Astrology. The logo I created, which I am still using, is a magnet shape filled with an image of the galaxy. That symbolism felt resonant. It brought up for me the idea of an attractor pulling all of us into coherence. And it seemed to match the grandeur of astrology and the magnitude of the project I had in mind.
I have since changed the name to Pass It On Astrology. I began to feel that Project Astrology was too close to the name of Robert Schmidt’s and Ellen Black’s epic translation project, which they called Project Hindsight when they were alive and which still exists. Pass It On Astrology avoids that conflation while also more accurately describing what this endeavor is truly about.
At some point, when the inspiration arises, I will probably change the logo. For now, it remains.
The image below is the galaxy image I used to fill the magnet shape in the logo. It is a public domain image from Wikimedia Commons. See the caption for the credit and link.
Housekeeping
Old Links Don’t Work
When I changed the name from Project Astrology to Pass It On Astrology, I also changed the subdomain. That means that old links won’t work. Since this endeavor is so new, my thinking was that the minor inconvenience now would be much better than if I waited until things got further along.
The upshot is that if an old link doesn’t work, just navigate to the Pass It On Astrology home page and you should be able to find what you’re looking for there.
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Notes
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I may make mistakes in my early gurgitations of the basics as I learn them. However, if you stick with me, you may find that the process of encountering mistakes and then seeing their resolutions leads to more clarity and groundedness in what has been learned. The key is to engage with what I share as active learners rather than passive receivers.
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