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Sunday inspiration: When bad planets happen to good people

This article was originally posted in 2019. I mean the title as a bit of a joke – an homage to the self-help book from the 1970s by Harold Kushner. But it’s no joke when tragic events happen in our own lives or to someone we love.

Over the past five years of such intense planetary drama these stories seem to occur more frequently, at least in my life. The bride-to-be whose fiance dies of a heart attack five days before the wedding. The […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-21T11:06:48-05:00January 29th, 2023|Favorite posts, Inspiration|8 Comments

The nature of Truth in the doorway between Pisces and Aquarius

This article was originally posted in 2013 and is reposted today in honor of Jupiter entering Pisces. As we transition into the Aquarian Age, we are leaving the traits of Pisces behind. We usually think of Pisces as being Neptune-ruled since Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces and explains the dreamy and imaginative nature of Pisces. Neptune is associated with magic and spirituality, but also with delusion and the negation of the Self – all characteristics of the 2000 year domination of the world by Christianity. Note the astrological cardinal […]

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By Bela Fridman|2022-04-15T09:17:58-04:00May 14th, 2021|Favorite posts, Religion|4 Comments

The astrological Hero’s Journey

A friend posted this article on Facebook, and since I use the archetype of the Hero’s Journey in my client consultations I found it quite interesting.

The great spiritual teachers, culture bringers, warriors, and saints: these are examples of Heroes who obey a Call to Adventure to descend into the depths of the time and of themselves, fight the dragon (whatever its form), obtain the great treasure it guards, and bring it back to the dayworld. This heroic Monomyth fleshes out the archetype of Initiation:

Separation > […]

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By Bela Fridman|2019-08-27T10:37:24-04:00June 20th, 2019|Consciousness, Favorite posts|4 Comments

“Don’t let astrology support a life of fear”

Many years ago I posted a link this article by astrologer Victoria Bazely that mirrors my feelings on this issue EXACTLY!! Unfortunately the original article has disappeared, but the truth remains.

I have a pet peeve, and like most pet peeves perhaps, it’s a bit hypocritical. My pet peeve is people who use astrology (or anything else really) to support a life run by fear. I’ve read that Nancy Reagan used to consult an astrologer before her husband did anything and wouldn’t let him do things like sign legislation […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-27T14:00:38-05:00April 8th, 2019|Favorite posts, Inspiration|1 Comment

Finding the power in anger: A Mars story co-starring Black Moon Lilith

I recently came across this article about female rage. As many of you know, the power of anger as expressed through Mars in the natal chart is a speciality of mine, probably because my own Mars is conjunct the little planet Chiron which deals with soul wounds, so I’ve had to do a lot of healing around this myself. Mars is of course named after the Roman God of War (Ares in Greek), and the astrological Mars presides over what I like to call the “continuum of […]

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By Bela Fridman|2019-02-03T08:40:56-05:00January 26th, 2019|Favorite posts, Life|2 Comments

What I believe: Making sense of tragedy

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. –Viktor Frankl

This week a friend of mine went to work and never came home. His car was hit by a joyrider driving over 100 mph and he died of his injuries in the hospital, leaving behind a beautiful family with two young boys and a loving wife. He was active in […]

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By Bela Fridman|2019-11-10T19:04:58-05:00January 20th, 2019|Fate, Favorite posts, Inspiration, Life|17 Comments

How the Christ surpassed Yahweh at the dawn of the Piscean age

yahweh I posted this a few years ago but it’s still my favorite post for this time of year. Because the earth orbits at a slight tilt, and the tilt of the orbit changes over time, the celestial equator is always moving and the vernal equinox is always moving along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth from our perspective. We call this the “Precession of the Equinoxes,” and that is what we mean when we talk about the Age of Aquarius, the Age of Pisces, […]

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By Bela Fridman|2019-11-10T19:26:52-05:00December 22nd, 2018|Favorite posts, Holidays|5 Comments

The real astrology chart for the US – 2017 edition

This post is updated from previous articles.

Any person, place or event with a date of origination has an astrological chart. Humans have birthdates, companies have incorporation dates, and countries have their own dates of origination (we call this “mundane” astrology). Mundane charts are not always easy to define since we must accurately pinpoint the exact time at which the current incarnation of the place began.

The chart for the United States that is most typically used is called the Sibly chart which uses a date of July 4, 1776 when the […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-18T19:09:26-05:00July 4th, 2017|Favorite posts, Featured posts, Politics|3 Comments

Sunday inspiration: Why me?

Art by NC Wyeth

I have two good friends with cancer, so this question is coming up a lot these days. And recently I did a reading for someone who was taken ill with pneumonia and since then suffered a seemingly never ending series of health problems and pain. I’ve had clients who have been in terrible car accidents that paralyzed them. Horrific abuse as children. Being fired from a job at which they excelled.

These events may seem terrible on the surface, and it would be […]

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By Bela Fridman|2023-11-21T18:36:44-05:00August 14th, 2016|Favorite posts, Inspiration|2 Comments

Sunday inspiration: when bad planets happen to good people

Art by Willow Arlenea

I mean the title as a bit of a joke – an homage to the self-help book from the 1970s by Harold Kushner. But it’s no joke when tragic events happen in our own lives or to someone we love.

Over the past five years of such intense planetary drama these stories seem to occur more frequently, at least in my life. The bride-to-be whose fiance dies of a heart attack five days before the wedding. The parents who lose two children in the […]

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By Bela Fridman|2019-11-10T19:39:07-05:00February 2nd, 2014|Favorite posts, Inspiration|9 Comments