Symboline’s Secret Cheat Sheets for doing astrology

Rule 1: Understand the range and motion of a sign. I read a lot of online journals – yes, regular folks who write about their lives, or do blogs, or post pictures or just rant – but ONLY if I know the journalkeepers’ birthdays. Here are some earth sign folks who are often droll, regularly update, and show why Capricorn will always keep on keeping on.

Mimi Smartypants may not be her real name but she has a fairly lively blog and ruminates on everything from snack food, to literary theory to the weird people on the bus.

At this point, we're not putting up links to contemporary astrologers, though we have a very high opinion of Penny Thornton's work. (She was Princess Diana's advisor during the "sweeps" episodes of the royal soap opera). You will, however, find material about John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer. Think "the age of Gloriana" was an accident? Heh…

I love Sky & Telescope magazine, and if they say something's in the sky, it is: www.Skypub.com

Need to know when the solstices and equinoces happen? aa.usno.navy.mil

NASA has this wonderful page for kids about astronomy that's written in PLAIN ENGLISH, thankyouverymuch: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

A grand-old daddy of this craft: http://www.johndee.org/

An even grander older daddy: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html