The astrologers who shaped how we read the sky — from the Hellenistic revival to psychological and evolutionary astrology — with portraits, books, podcasts, and schools.
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Hellenistic & Traditional Astrology
Host of The Astrology Podcast — a weekly show on the history, philosophy, and techniques of astrology. Author of Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune. One of the leading voices in the revival of Hellenistic astrology.
Traditional & Hellenistic Astrology
One of the most influential astrologers of the 20th century. Co-founder of Project Hindsight and founder of ARHAT (Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts), which recovered ancient Greek and Latin astrological texts and revived traditional Western astrology. His Planets in Transit remains the definitive reference for transit interpretation.
Where the chart meets the psyche
The Father of Modern Astrology
English astrologer and theosophist (1860–1917), widely called the father of modern astrology. Under legal pressure that treated event-prediction as fortune-telling, he turned the craft away from concrete prediction and toward character and inner growth — "character is destiny" — seeding the psychological astrology that followed. He founded Modern Astrology magazine and did more than anyone to bring the birth chart to a mass audience.
Psychological & Jungian Astrology
Co-founder of the Centre for Psychological Astrology (CPA) in London, established in 1983 with Howard Sasportas. Holds a doctorate in psychology and is a qualified Jungian analyst. Her books bridge astrology and Jungian depth psychology — Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil is among the most important astrology books ever written.
Psychological Astrology
Co-founder of the Centre for Psychological Astrology with Liz Greene (1948–1992). Author of The Twelve Houses and The Luminaries, he brought warmth, depth, and humanity to modern astrology — redefining it as a language of psychological insight and compassion.
Archetypal Cosmology
Philosopher and cultural historian (born 1950) who revived astrology as a serious discipline of meaning through The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche. Drawing on Jungian archetypes and planetary cycles, he describes a participatory cosmos where human consciousness and celestial patterns unfold together.
Humanistic Astrology
Composer, painter, and astrologer (1895–1985) who founded humanistic astrology — reading the birth chart not as a forecast of events but as a mandala of self-realization. His landmark The Astrology of Personality recast the craft in the language of modern psychology and philosophy, shaping the person-centred astrology that followed.
The chart as a map of the soul’s journey
Evolutionary Astrology
Founder of Evolutionary Astrology (1946–2016), who redefined the craft as the study of the soul’s evolution across lifetimes. His Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul reframed astrology as a sacred psychology of transformation.
Evolutionary Astrology
A pioneer of evolutionary astrology — an approach that reads the birth chart as a map of the soul's evolution, emphasising choice and personal agency. Author of The Inner Sky, Yesterday's Sky, The Book of Pluto, and many others. Winner of the 1985 PAI Award for Outstanding Contribution to Astrology.
Passing the craft to the next generation
London School of Astrology
Principal of the London School of Astrology (LSA) since 2004, with international branches in China and Japan. Astrologer, palmist, writer, and lecturer with over 35 years of experience. Winner of the Charles Harvey Award for Exceptional Service to Astrology (2012). Author of Getting to the Heart of Your Chart, The Solar Arc Handbook, and more.
Aspects & Technique
Co-founder of the London School of Astrology (2000). Practising astrologer and homeopath since 1981, and former Director of Schools at the Faculty of Astrological Studies for 19 years. Recipient of the Charles Harvey Award (2003). Her books include Aspects in Astrology — a widely regarded classic — and the comprehensive The Contemporary Astrologer's Handbook.
From the ancient sources to the scientific revolution
Hellenistic Astrology
The Alexandrian astronomer (c. 100–170 CE) whose Tetrabiblos became the standard textbook of Western astrology for over a thousand years. By explaining planetary influence through natural causes rather than divine will, he recast the craft as a branch of natural philosophy — the theoretical core every later tradition built on.
Ancient Hellenistic Astrology
A 2nd-century astrologer from Antioch whose Anthology (Anthologiae) is the single largest surviving text of Hellenistic astrology — and the richest trove of real example charts from the ancient world. More a working practitioner than a theorist, Valens is a primary foundation that today’s traditional revival reads and rebuilds from.
History of Astrology
The father of modern science (1564–1642), who united observation and faith at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Trained in astrology, he redefined the study of the heavens through measurement and mathematics — transforming astrology’s symbolic cosmos into astronomy’s precise universe.
Traditional & Horary Astrology
Seventeenth-century England’s most famous astrologer (1602–1681). His Christian Astrology (1647) — the first major astrology textbook in English — became the classic of the horary tradition, and his busy London practice and best-selling almanacs (including the forecast read as the Great Fire of London) turned the craft into a thriving profession.