Welcome to the Urania Trust

The Urania Trust was founded as an educational charity on the 9th November 1970 to further the advancement of education regarding the relationship between man's knowledge and beliefs about the heavens and every aspect of art science, philosophy and religion. Our founding trustees were highly esteemed astrologers: James Russell, Ada Phillips, Charles Harvey, John Addey and Tom Fripp.    Read more about The Urania Trust...

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Bill Meridian describes Declination Arcs, a predictive tool developed by Charles Jayne and Eleanor Heseltine. These are calculated using the difference between the declination of the natal Sun and progressed Sun.

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What is the soul according to Plato and his tradition? Going back to the simplest terms: psyche in Greek means breath – our earthly life is traditionally measured from the first breath to our last. So for the Greeks, psyche is the life giver which makes otherwise inanimate matter live.

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Astrological symbolism shows up in Shakespeare’s works not only as single references but also as the archetypal basis for entire plays. Part of the profundity of his work is that he references specific astrological details, a model originating in ancient times.