The Astrology Podcast Chris Brennan
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A weekly podcast on topics related to astrology, hosted by professional astrologer Chris Brennan. The purpose of the show is to provide discussions ranging from explorations of specific astrological techniques, to treatments of issues pertaining to the history and philosophy of astrology.
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Unshaming the Signs of the Zodiac
In episode 439 astrologer Britten LaRue joins the podcast to discuss unshaming the signs of the zodiac, which involves re-conceptualizing qualities that are viewed as negative, and radically accepting what we invalidate in each sign.
We open the episode by discussing the topic of shame in astrology, and some of the problems involved with treating certain qualities in the signs as problematic, and the effect that can have on people.
Then we proceed to go through each of the 12 signs of the zodiac and discuss at least two ways in which certain signs can be unshamed, starting with Aries and then going all the way through to Pisces.
Britten is the author of the new book Living Astrology: How to Weave the Wisdom of all 12 Signs into Your Everyday Life, which just came out on March 5!
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Britten’s Website
https://brittenlarue.com
Timestamps
* 00:00:00 Introduction
* 00:29:20 Aries
* 00:47:15 Taurus
* 01:02:15 Gemini
* 01:21:13 Cancer
* 01:42:00 Leo
* 02:02:55 Virgo
* 02:18:50 Libra
* 02:35:10 Scorpio
* 02:47:34 Sagittarius
* 03:09:13 Capricorn
* 03:24:02 Brief interruption I forgot to edit out (LOL)
* 03:29:04 Finishing Capricorn
* 03:30:15 Aquarius
* 03:44:12 Aquarius
* 04:04:03 Britten’s book and workshops
* 04:13:44 Credits
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Saturn Return in Aquarius Retrospective
In episode 438 astrologers Kirah Tabourn and Jo O’Neill join the podcast to do a retrospective on people who had their Saturn return in Aquarius over the past few years.
The Saturn return occurs when the planet Saturn returns back to the natal sign of the zodiac it was in when you were born, and for people who were born with Saturn in Aquarius it returned to that sign between March 2020 through March 2023.
In the first part of the episode we review some basic concepts about how to interpret Saturn returns, talk about how Kirah and Jo’s Saturn return in Aquarius went, and then look at some celebrity charts that were in the news who recently completed their Saturn return.
Then in the second half of the show we go through some Saturn return stories that were sent in by listeners of the podcast, and discuss how the events in their lives matched up with their chart placements.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Kirah and Jo’s Websites
https://www.thestrology.com
https://www.jomakerofways.com
Previous Saturn Return Episodes
* Understanding Your Saturn Return
* Saturn Return in Sagittarius Retrospective
* Saturn Return in Capricorn Retrospective
Timestamps
* 00:00:00 Introduction
* 00:04:03 Saturn return definition
* 00:07:35 Timeframe of Saturn in Aquarius
* 00:09:20 Interpretative principles
* 00:11:50 Jo’s Saturn Return experience
* 00:12:52 Kira’s Saturn return experience
* 00:17:19 Saturn return experiences across generations
* 00:18:50 Factors that mitigate a Saturn return
* 00:24:23 Aspects during Saturn return
* 00:30:00 Saturn return themes
* 00:51:30 Miley Cyrus
* 00:53:26 Princess Mako of Japan
* 00:55:49 Elvis Presley
* 00:56:48 Conan O’Brien
* 00:59:51 Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt
* 01:02:21 Michelle Yeoh
* 01:04:48 Tom Cruise
* 01:05:54 Jennette McCurdy
* 01:10:15 Michelle Obama
* 01:10:53 Jeff Bezos
* 01:13:01 Jon Stewart
* 01:14:44 Pete Davidson
* 01:17:02 Bob Odenkirk
* 01:19:08 MGK
* 01:21:29 Ronda Rousey
* 01:22:40 Listener charts
* 02:37:23 Concluding remarks
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Astrology Forecast March 2024
Episode 437 features an overview of the astrology forecast for March 2024, with astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock.
The astrology of March features a lunar eclipse in the sign of Libra, which connects back to events that occurred during the last eclipse in October, and Mercury also slows down and prepares to station retrograde in Aries.
We spend the first hour or so talking about the astrology of news and events that have occurred since our last forecast, and then we jump into the forecast for March in the second half of the episode.
This episode was recorded on Saturday, February 24, 2024.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
CHANI App
https://app.chani.com
Austin’s Website
https://austincoppock.com
Auspicious Election for March
🪐 March 17, 12:58 pm, with Cancer rising
For other fortunate dates this month see our Auspicious Elections podcast:
https://theastrologypodcast.com/elections/
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Timestamps
* 00:00:00 Introduction
* 00:00:45 March astrology quick overview
* 00:02:10 News segment begins
* 00:03:15 Apple VR headset released
* 00:05:30 Sora AI videos
* 00:18:44 Neuralink
* 00:25:44 Robots
* 00:31:20 Autonomous vehicle set on fire
* 00:35:06 Ancient scrolls recovered
* 00:37:28 King Charles cancer announcement
* 00:41:50 Pluto and mortality
* 00:45:35 Pluto and propaganda
* 00:53:50 Grammys and astrology
* 00:56:15 Worldbuilding
* 01:02:15 Posthumous astrology
* 01:05:59 Mars-Pluto news stories
* 01:11:45 Indian farmers + Moon landing
* 01:15:53 CHANI app
* 01:20:08 March forecast segment begins
* 01:20:50 Mercury-Sun-Saturn conj in Pisces
* 01:26:45 Venus & Mars square Uranus
* 01:32:00 New Moon in Pisces March 10
* 01:43:50 Mercury Neptune conjunction March 8
* 01:45:10 Mercury in Aries + Mercury retrograde
* 01:55:33 Venus in Pisces March 11
* 02:02:43 Eclipse season + Libra eclipse March 25
* 02:30:40 Mercury retrograde redux
* 02:35:31 Auspicious election for March
* 02:38:09 Wrapping up
* 02:42:25 Credits
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Origins of the Planetary Myths in Astrology
In episode 436 astrologer Demetra George joins me to discuss the origins of the myths associated with the planets in astrology, and how the Greek gods were assigned to the planets by the philosopher Plato and his students in the 4th century BCE.
Early in the Greek tradition the planets either didn’t have names or were given descriptive names that matched their appearance, and it wasn’t until later that they were given the names of gods.
It wasn’t until the time of the philosopher Plato and his students in the 4th century BCE that we see that Greek authors begin to give the planets specific names based on the gods of Greek religion and mythology ( i.e. Hermes/Mercury, Aphrodite/Venus, Ares/Mars, Zeus/Jupiter, Kronos/Saturn).
The names first appear in the works of philosophers surrounding Plato’s Academy in Athens: Plato, Philip of Opus, Eudoxus of Cnidus, and Aristotle.
The full set of names seems to first appear in a philosophical text called the Epinomis, which is thought to have been written by Plato’s student Philip of Opus.
The names appear to have been chosen deliberately partially based on matching them to the older names that the Mesopotamian astrologers had given the planets in their pantheon (e.g. the god Hermes was assigned to the planet Mercury because Hermes was the Greek god of writing, and this matches the god the Mesopotamians assigned to Mercury which was called Nabu who was also a god of writing).
Our goal with this episode was to talk about this process of naming the planets after the gods, compare the Mesopotamian and Greek myths for the planets, and discuss the impact this had on astrology.
We spend the first 52 minutes setting up the problem and talking about the historical context and the issues involved, and then for the next hour and a half we go through and compare the Mesopotamian and Greek myths for each of the planets to see the ways in which they are consistent or inconsistent with each other. Finally after that we have a 30 minute segment drawing some conclusions and wrapping things up.
In some ways this episode acts as the third in a trilogy of episodes I’ve done over the past month in exploring the impact of Platonism on astrology, with the Lots episode being the first and the Proclus episode the second, and in this one we take things even further by tracing things right back to Plato and his students in the 4th century BCE.
The episode is important then because it addresses some very core issues about what do the planets mean in astrology and how did those meanings develop, and it takes us back to the very roots of western astrology and helps us to get another step closer to understanding where this system came from and how it first came together.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Demetra’s Time-Lords Workshop
Demetra is doing an intensive on Hellenistic time-lord techniques in person in June, and you can find out more information about it here:
https://www.astrologyuniversity.com/shop/in-person/hellenistic-time-lords-retreat/
Resources
* The Epinomis
* Previous episode on the myth of Inanna and Venus
* Episode on the Lot of Fortune where Plato’s Republic was discussed
* Episode on Proclus where Plato’s Timaeus was discussed -
Proclus and Astrology in Platonism
In episode 435 Dr. José Manuel Redondo joins the show to discuss the life and work of the 5th century philosopher Proclus, and how he integrated astrology and theurgy with Platonism.
José is an astrologer from Mexico City who wrote a PhD dissertation on Proclus in 2015. We met at an astrology conference in 2010, and have been talking about doing an episode on Proclus for years now.
After last month’s episode on the Lots where I touched on Plato, the Myth of Er, and the concept of the guardian daimon, I thought it would be a great time to expand on some of those points by talking to José about Proclus and expanding the discussion of Platonism to include the Timaeus and other Platonic metaphysics.
During the course of the episode we talk about Proclus and how he used astrology together with theurgy as a tool for working with the gods and invoking them in his daily life, and we ended up touching on a bunch of other topics in the process, including:
* Plato’s creation myth called the Timaeus, and how it posits that the universe is a living creature and god that possesses a soul and intelligence, and how some later astrologers may have been influenced by this and shared a similar conceptualization of the cosmos.
* How Plato’s conceptualization of reincarnation in the Timaeus and the Myth of Er influenced later astrologers and philosophers such as Proclus.
* The Platonic idea of fate being a law that is conditional, and allows for choice.
* The role of the daimon in Proclus and other Platonists, and the question of whether it is an internal or external entity that guides the native to fulfill their destiny.
* Proclus’ birth chart that is preserved in the biography his student Marinus wrote for him, as well as how his student says that eclipses occurred around the time of Proclus’ death.
* How the integration of Platonic metaphysics with astrology is part of what led to its downfall once the Roman Empire became Christian, and how some of the Platonic notions about daimons or the cosmos being alive caused conflict with Christian theology.
And many other topics.
You can find out more about José on his website and Facebook page:
http://capulus.com.mx
https://www.facebook.com/Capulus7
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
* José Manuel Redondo, “Astrology is to Theurgy What Astronomy is to Theology in Late Antique Platonism: Remarks on Proclus’s Theurgy,” in Initiatic Religious Experience in Neoplatonism. From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, 2023. [PDF of article] [Academia link]
* Plato, Timaeus, excerpt
* Alexander Jones, “The Horoscope of Proclus“, Classical Philology, 93 (1999), pp. 81-88.
* Proclus’ birth chart
Timestamps
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Astrology Forecast February 2024
Episode 434 features an overview of the month ahead astrology forecast for February 2024, with astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock.
We spend the first 55 minutes talking about the astrology of recent events in the news, and then in the second hour we get into the forecast for February.
The main planetary alignment this month is that Mercury, Venus, and Mars all conjoin Pluto in Aquarius for the first time, giving us a preview of what those conjunctions will be like over the next 20 years that Pluto is in Aquarius.
This episode was recorded on Thursday, January 25, 2024.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
CHANI App
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2024 Electional Astrology Report
https://theastrologypodcast.com/2024report/
Austin’s Website
https://austincoppock.com
Auspicious Election for February
🪐 February 6 2025, 8:10 AM, Pisces rising
Patreon for Early Access + Bonus Content
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Timestamps
* 00:00:00 Introduction
* 00:01:24 Quick overview of February
* 00:02:50 Astrology in the news
* 00:04:25 Flying cars!!
* 00:13:29 Google’s AI Goals & Berkeley’s Robot
* 00:16:16 Micro-LED glass panels
* 00:18:10 Apple VR headset released
* 00:32:35 Political Misinformation
* 00:36:35 Global Sea Trade Slowed
* 00:43:10 Gypsy Rose Blanchard
* 00:53:14 Chani App
* 00:55:11 February astrology begins
* 01:02:05 Mercury conjunct Pluto
* 01:15:00 New Moon in Aquarius
* 01:21:30 Mars conjunct Pluto
* 01:28:40 Venus conjunct Pluto
* 01:48:25 Full Moon in Virgo
* 01:56:40 Sun-Mercury-Saturn conjunction in Pisces
* 02:01:00 Mars square Jupiter
* 02:11:35 Fortunate date for February
* 02:16:10 Wrapping up
* 02:26:02 Credits
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Customer Reviews
Thanks for your consistency!
Thanks so much for delivering so consistently with this podcast. I’ve learned a lot. I personally am an Austin Coppick enthusiast so have been overjoyed at the return of the Chris-Austin duo-analysis monthly. These give me so much to ponder, review, go back to during the month, and generally marvel at without feeling caught in an overbearing or too deterministic take on the astrological happenings.
Thank You
I’m so grateful for this podcast and the wide depth of astrology-related topics available for me to soak up. Chris thank you so much for sharing it with us! Your poise and grace and planning as a host really allows your guests to share their knowledge and open up great conversations.
i hate austin coppock
the way he speaks over everyone without even having his thoughts together. the way he acts like his life is miserable and then describes a beautiful and fulfilling life. i take long hard looks at my own behavior every time i have to listen to his obnoxious habits since we have so many pisces planets in common.
love the show, love the forecast, hate austin