Robert Hand

Robert Hand is one of the great scholar-astrologers of our age, a man who treated the ancient art as both a discipline and a living archive. Born in New Jersey and raised on Cape Cod, he was reared partly on his father's charts, took a degree in intellectual history from Brandeis, then left Princeton to give himself wholly to astrology. He brought computing power to chart calculation in the 1970s, founded what became Astrolabe, and later created Arhat Media, the Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts, rescuing and translating the works of ancient and medieval masters.

His Sun blazes in Sagittarius, the Jupiterian sage, a walking mobile university born to shine through learning, philosophy and the gathering of wisdom, and it sits in the sixth house of diligent daily work, the Lion King of craft. His Moon lies deep in Scorpio in the fifth, an emotional volcano channelled into creation, the phoenix reborn through every project he made his own. Cancer rises as his mask, the nurturing matriarch, so this scholar meets the world softly, protecting and passing on what he loves.