This post evolved out of my conversation with Deborah Houlding about her new book, which is featured in the October 2026 bonus episode of the AstroInsights Podcast. Packed full of interesting insights, it is designed to supplement some of the themes around the nature of astrology, the art of prediction, and the influence of science, technique and technology on astrology raised during the main interview.
It also happens to dovetail rather nicely with my 2025 work around the Jupiter-Saturn cycles, which I covered extensively in Series I of the podcast, particularly the episodes about William Lilly and my interviews with Tobias Churton about Kepler and the Great Conjunctions of 1603 and 1623.
In many ways, this research is my attempt to widen the scope of the enquiry and fill in the gaps in the mundane astrology picture by looking more closely at the Tudor period that preceded Kepler’s work, which then helps to provide more context to Lilly’s continued work on the subject during the Stuart and English Civil War eras.
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