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...

Featured Articles

Written in the Stars: The Language of Astrology, Part 1

In Part One of this two-part article, Mike Harding explores the intersection of philosophy and astrology, citing the works of philosophers Heidegger, Wittgenstein and more.

Mapping Down Good Luck

Can astrology increase your chances of good luck? What cycles, planets and asteroids may be used in electional astrology to boost your luck? Using the lottery as a research lab, Eskild Rasmussen employs research methods to find statistically significant patterns for successful electional charts.

Soul Flavours 1: Essential Dignity as a Tool for Remediation

William Morris explores culture and history relative to food, herbs, Soul, and astrology. This in-depth, 3-part article explores the concept of Soul from antiquity to the modern era in China and Europe, and weaves it together with astrological planetary dignity, history and culture.

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Platonic Philosophy, Part 3: Psychology

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.

Platonic Philosophy, Part 1: Introduction

It is said that when he was near death, Plato had a dream in which he saw himself changed into a swan that flew from tree to tree making it difficult to catch him. Of all the philosophers, Plato is perhaps the most difficult to feel that one has him and his meaning properly netted and secure.

A Philosophical View of Astrology

We orient ourselves within time and space that have pre-existed us by thousands of years. However remote this might seem from our ancestors, it draws on the same source to establish its accuracy: the position of the stars.