Author: SUE MERLYN FAREBROTHER

  • Music to the ears – astrology and the planets

    Music to the ears – astrology and the planets

    Astrology is hard to define, being variously known as a science, an art form, a language, or divination, amongst other definitions. If we go back in history, it was once thought poetically that the cycles of the planets – the vital essence of astrological thought – moved in their orbits as ‘the music of the…

  • Learning astrology

    Learning astrology

    There are many choices nowadays for a person who is keen to start learning astrology. Unlike when I started to study – I’m talking about 30 odd years ago (before the internet!) I started my one to one learning with the Faculty of Astrological Studies with a tutor. In those times, I did my exercises,…

  • The four elements

    The four elements

    I recently watched a documentary about the history and development of chemistry. The content and presentation of this documentary was fascinating, and it included looking at alchemy and the efforts of the alchemists – these early ‘scientists’ – who were experimenting with all kinds of different substances to see what activities and combinations of substances…

  • Astrology – an introduction

    Astrology – an introduction

    ‘That which is above is like to that which is below and that which is below is like to that which is above’ Hermes Trismegistus Astrology is an ancient symbolical system which explores the correlations between the planetary cycles and the star patterns in the sky, and the inner consciousness and lives of human beings…