Episode 496 - An Astrological Controversy

Now this week we're not actually doing much in the way of astrology, but I just want to update you on one thing if you haven't already heard about it.

and it is the I suppose the way to describe it is the fiasco about somebody trademarking the word astro cartography now I covered astro cartography as a thing in episode 58 so that's 50 spelt 58 f-i-f-t-y and then dash eight but I'll put the links in the show notes to this episode and this episode is for some of your other I think we would be now 496 yeah And I covered how to do it on astro.com and to find out whether or not you're living in a location that suits you.

And then I covered it again in episode 328, that's numbers 328, and talked about Judy Hall, who is the author of the Crystal Bible and her chart and astrocardiography and how it And what is astro cartography? Astro cartography as a term was coined by a guy called Jim Lewis in the 1970s.

And basically what he was doing was imposing a map of the world.

on sort of imposing the planets on the map of the world so it was a method to align the two things as opposed to us as astrologers regularly we look up at the sky above our heads draw a little map to represent that this was the opposite way around anyway lots of people got fun out of it and it gets used a lot and people call themselves astro cartographers because they're working out using your chart, whether or not the location that you're in is suitable for yourself.

That's as much as I'm going to say about what astrocardiography is because now the word itself has been trademarked.

So I am walking on dodgy ground by using that word with you today.

Now, what I am going to do is I'm going to put into the show notes the links to the legal places where this is going on.

Who did it? Whatever you can find out for yourself.

And I also just want to talk a little bit about, you know, If we're talking about law, where does that turn up in astrology? We'll come on to that in a minute.