Background
Nicholas Campion was born on March 4, 1953, in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Queens’ College
Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG, UK
London School of Oriental and African Studies
Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Bath Spa University
Nicholas Campion in 2010.
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In this comprehensive and immensely practical book, Nicholas Campion, well known for his internationally acclaimed astrological columns, applies his wealth of experience and substantial expertise as a teacher to the calculation and interpretation of birth charts. In straightforward language, he explains the predictive techniques and methods used for comparing two charts. The Ultimate Astrologer will teach you to become your own astrologer and work out horoscopes for your family, friends, and colleagues. However, the fascinating information in this book extends way beyond the study of birth charts; it includes both Eastern and Western systems of astrology, as well as the application of astrology to: the answering of specific questions (horary astrology); the selection of auspicious moments to begin new enterprises; health, healing, love, and relationships; and gardening, agriculture, business, and finance.
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2003
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This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas Campion considers astrology's relation to modernity and draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with leading modern astrologers to present an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins and nature of New Age ideology. This book challenges the notion that astrology is either 'marginal' or a feature of postmodernism. Concluding that astrology is more popular than the usual figures suggest, Campion argues that modern astrology is largely shaped by New Age thought, influenced by the European Millenarian tradition, that it can be seen as an heir to classical Gnosticism and is part of the vernacular religion of the modern west.
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When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth. Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world. Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics. When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth. Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world. Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics.
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Mundane Astrology was the first book of its kind - a comprehensive critical survey of mundane astrology past and present. It tackles the problems of formulating a practical and systematic approach to the much neglected area of astrology, relating it to the concept of cycles, the Collective Unconscious and mass psychology. Now revised and updated, this second edition continues to be the definitive work on the subject and among the many questions it explores are: * Do countries have a life of their own? * What governs the world's economy? * Is it possible to predict international conflict? * Can astrology encourage international understanding?
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The New Astrology is a masterly exploration of the myths, symbolism, history, beliefs, and current scientific thought surrounding the cosmos, from art and religion to quantum theory and cosmobiology. Myths and theories explaining the existence of the universe have embodied the deepest hopes and fears of cultures throughout the ages, and the profound meanings that mankind has attributed to the stars, constellations, and planets are all explored--their psychological and mystical characteristics, religious and mythical significance, and their astronomical basis. The authors also draw brilliant parallels among world views, from the creation myths of the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians to the most modern speculations of astronomers and physicists. And, for the first time, surprising new evidence is presented for real connections between our lives and the planetary cycles. Exquisitely illustrated with 225 photographs and works of art, The New Astrology will captivate all who seek a deeper understanding of our eternal bond with the heavens.
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The Sophia Centre Press is pleased to present in this volume a selection of papers from the 'Astrologies' conference, organised by the Sophia Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and held in Bath on 24-25 July 2010. The range of topics explored in these papers is broad, and reflects the striking diversity of techniques and underlying philosophies infusing an enduring human perception of meaningful relationships between the heavenly bodies and life on earth. The papers are grouped into three basic themes: the symbolism of astrologies, the history of astrologies within different cultural contexts, and the practice of various astrologies from both 'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives. Although astrology has been treated in many scholarly works as a monolithic entity, all of the papers in this book demonstrate one of the paradoxes of astrological thought and practice: the existence of a relatively stable tradition of cosmological and astral representations and ideas combined with an adaptability that has enabled astrologies to meld with different spheres of human endeavour in a variety of cultures.
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This is an account of astrological influence on historical theories, and especially on theories of historical cycles and millenarianism from the Middle East to Europe, and from Mesopotamia to the Renaissance, with a final chapter on the legacy of these ideas in more recent times. For many hundreds of years astrology was not a fringe science, but mainstream, and its influence has been enormous.
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The relationship between the human soul and the stars has been central to the spiritual and esoteric traditions of Western thought, and many other cultures, for thousands of years. Medieval Christians thought that heaven was located above the earth, beyond the stars. Our modern society, however, has largely severed the relationship between the human spirit and the sky. This book explores ideas, beliefs and practices which meet at the boundary of psychology and cosmology, the universe and human imagination. This book addresses this special relationship from a variety of challenging and inspiring approaches. The contributors include James Hillman, the founder of archetypal psychology and Jungian analyst; astrologer Liz Greene; Professor Neville Brown of Mansfield College, Oxford; Nicholas Pearson of the Temenos Academy; Professor Jarita Holbrook of the University of Arizona; Dr Angela Vos of the University of Kent; Bernadette Brady; Jules Cashford; Noel Cobb, the former editor of Sphinx; Cherry Gilchrist; Robert Hand; and Professor Richard Tarnas of the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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Human beings in all cultures have long used the sky to tell stories and weave myths that impart meaning to life on earth. The key to all such systems is symbolism, in which one thing is used to signify, imply, represent, or embody another. The papers included in this volume are all concerned, in one way or another, with various perceptions of the world of celestial phenomena as symbols. These explorations range from art history and analytical psychology to critiques and accounts of astrology, and roam from western to non-western cultures, as well as from the ancient world to the modern. The papers, most of which were given at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Sophia Centre Conference in Bath, UK, in 2011, provide a valuable addition to the scholarly literature on our understanding of the origins, function, and nature of symbols, especially their use in relation to cultural applications of astronomy, astrology, and the sky.
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Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the significance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky for past societies has been relegated to the fringes of archaeological discourse. Nevertheless archaeoastronomy has developed a new rigor in the last few decades and the evidence suggests that it can provide insights into the beliefs, practices and cosmologies of past societies. Skyscapes explores the current role of archaeoastronomical knowledge in archaeological discourse and how to integrate the two. It shows how it is not only possible but even desirable to look at the skyscape to shed further light on human societies. This is achieved by first exploring the historical relationship between archaeoastronomy and academia in general, and with archaeology in particular. The volume continues by presenting case-studies that either demonstrate how archaeoastronomical methodologies can add to our current understanding of past societies, their structures and beliefs, or how integrated approaches can raise new questions and even revolutionize current views of the past.
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educator historian writer astrologer
Nicholas Campion was born on March 4, 1953, in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Campion earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Queen’s College, in Cambridge, in 1974. Two years later he graduated from the London School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, as Master of Arts.
In addition, he attended Bath Spa University College, from 1998.
Campion has started to serve as an astrology teacher since 1980, first at London's Camden Institute, then at the Faculty of Astrological Studies and the Centre for Psychological Astrology, and currently at Kepler College in Seattle, Washington. He has also lectured on astrology to astrological, astronomical and literary societies across the UK and in the US, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia and Russia. In 1997 Campion founded the peer-reviewed journal Culture and Cosmos. In 2005, he held the position of a Principal Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University. In addition, Campion worked as a Daily Mail astrologer.
Nowadays Campion is a Director of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture Programme and a Director of the Master of Arts in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology and the Master of Arts in Ecology and Spirituality, taught jointly with Schumacher College, and Partnership Team Leader for the Master of Arts in Myth and Ecology, taught at Schumacher College. In addition, he is a director of the Harmony Initiative, working with Dr Jane Davidson and INSPIRE. He is the editor of Culture and Cosmos: A Journal of the History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy.
Campion published a lot of books on the practice of astrology between 1987 (The Practical Astrologer) and 2004 (The Book of World Horoscopes). Campion has researched and published on the history of astrology and cultural astronomy.
(This is an account of astrological influence on historica...)
(Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importanc...)
(In this comprehensive and immensely practical book, Nicho...)
2003(The Sophia Centre Press is pleased to present in this vol...)
(The New Astrology is a masterly exploration of the myths,...)
(This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spir...)
(The relationship between the human soul and the stars has...)
(When you think of astrology, you may think of the horosco...)
(Mundane Astrology was the first book of its kind - a comp...)
(Human beings in all cultures have long used the sky to te...)
Campion's own research interests include the nature of belief, the history and contemporary culture of astrology and astronomy, magic, pagan and New Age beliefs and practices, and how history is invented and structured by millenarian, apocalyptic, golden and utopian ideas.
He is concerned with the attribution of meaning to the sky, the mythical construction of cosmologies as meaning-systems, and their political and religious consequences and applications. He is also interested in ideological and mythical features of current space travel and exploration, especially their relationship with ancient traditions of the ascent to the stars.
Campion is a member of the Association Astroarchaeocaucasus, the British Sociological Association, the Historical Association, the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), the European Society for the Study of Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), the International Society for the Study of Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC), the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) and the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA).