Welcome to my web site.
My purpose is to provide information about the practice of astrology, regardless of culture or historical period. The main astrological resource linked to this site will be the Encyclopaedia of Astrology, which will be available through Culture and Cosmos, and which is, and probably always will be, a work in progress.
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
If you would like to know about the annual Sophia Centre conference in Bath, England, on 12-13 July 2008, with speakers including Liz Greene, Darby Costello, Bernadette Bray and Rob Hand, please click 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 as 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. 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
* Curry, Patrick, ‘Astrology’, in Boyd, Kelly (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Historians and Historical Writing, 2 Vols. London: Fitzroy Dearborn 1999, Vol. 1, pp 55-7 (p. 55).
