The Astrologer's Podcast: Recent Episodes
Andrew Watt
Alternating between 'scripts' for memorizing astrological information about the Zodiac and interviews with memory-arts practitioners, the Astrologer's Palace provides high-quality opportunities to practice memory arts using the basic dichotomy in use since ancient times: memory of place, and memory of image.
Show Notes It was an awfully tricky day, but I managed to get the episode out the door. One of the things that’s been challenging around quarantine, or rather ‘social distancing’ is the vast number of things that genuinely need doing now that I’m at home all the time. And the podcast, while important, has […]
Walk through the moonlit hall of Virgo, the night domicile of Mercury the sovereign messenger.
Join us this week for a walk through the hall of Leo, the realm of the Sun by day and night.
It's time for another "art of memory" walk through the Astrologer's Palace, this time through the vestibule of the Summer Solstice, to the Hall of Cancer.
Time to walk through the Hall of Gemini, our third great hall in this palace of the Zodiac.
Taurus is the first of the nocturnal signs: fixed, earthy, cold, dry and melancholy. It’s comfortable (some might say lazy), and everything is bolted down (because once Venus makes up her mind, it stays where she’s put it). Enjoy this week’s walk through a sign of the Zodiac. Next week we’ll be walking through the […]
Well, it is time to start actually walking through the halls of the Palace of the Zodiac, and that means beginning with the Hall of Aries. Show Notes None for this episode. Other Episodes A Palace of Memory Interview With Erik Arneson Hall of Aries (This one) Hall of Taurus Hall of Gemini Interview with […]
When @arnemancy talks about Art of Memory ideas, people (should) sit up and take notice.
Memory is one of the oddest things about human beings. How do we remember what we’ve learned? Where does it go in our brains? How are we able to recall it? With an art form like astrology, which is dependent on accurately memorizing vast quantities of information that we did not ourselves create, the work […]