The 9th House

This is the new home for ‘The 9th House’ (formerly the9thhouse.org), a website set up by Patrick Curry to present recent academic research on astrology. We found that many of the texts on Patrick’s site were also on cosmocritic.com and so agreed to merge the sites. In the interests of completeness, this page presents texts that were on The 9th House but were not already on Cosmocritic. These comprise one PhD thesis from Angela Voss; the rest are MA dissertations, which are included mainly for their original and creative suggestions – whilst not necessarily adhering to the stricter scholarly standards required of work at doctoral level.

More information and most of Patrick’s own papers can be found on www.patrickcurry.co.uk

PhD Thesis

Voss, Angela: ‘Magic, Astrology and Music: The Astrological Music Therapy of Marsilio Ficino and his Role as a Renaissance Magus’ (1992). 391pp; 13.5 mb.

MA Dissertations

Brockbank, James: A Model_for_Astrology (2003). 72pp; 400 kb.

Costello, Darby: ‘Venus in Mytholology, Astrology and Poetry: What Does the Portrayal of Venus Reflect About the Experience of Love in Western Culture?’ (2006). 82pp; 615 kb.

Eccles, Bernard: ‘Astrology in England in the Twenty-First Century’ (2004). 69 pp; 200 kb.

Finn, Ralfee: ‘Are Horoscopes Relevant, Meaningful and Valuable for Those Who Read and Write Them?’ (2007). 122pp; 1 mb.

Greene, Liz: ‘The Celestial Ascent of the Soul: The Morphology of an Enduring Idea’ (2006) 118 pp; 1 mb.

Judd, Steve: ‘Can the Crop Circle Community Be Described as a Religion, Sect, Cult or UFO/ET Group? (2005). 94pp; 500 kb.

Philp, Chrissy: ‘Is There Anything In Astrology Independent of Culture? (2007). 105 pp; 17.5 mb.

Smuts-Allsop, Nicola: ‘Explanatory Fictions: A Reason to Believe’ (41 pp; 250 kb.

Wadsworth, John: ‘Towards an Embodied Astrology: Embodiment as a Paradigm for Astrological Practice’ (2006). 226 pp; 1.1 mb.

Wells, Vernon: ‘Tempering Heaven: A Commentary on the First Chapter of Marsilio Ficino’s De Vita Coelitus Comparanda‘ (2010). 54pp; 400 kb.