BRADY, BERNADETTE
Bernadette Brady is a faculty member of the Astrological Guild of Educators Interna-
tional; a fellow of the Federation of Australian Astrologers (FAA); coprincipal of
Astro Logos, an astrological school dedicated to the education and qualification of
practicing astrologers; and is currently a student at Bath Spa University in the cultural
astronomy and astrology program.
Brady has published astrological software called Starlight as well as three
books: The Eagle and the Lark: A Textbook of Predictive Astrology; Brady’s Book of Fixed
Stars;and Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark.In 1992 Brady was awarded the
FAA’s Inaugural Southern Cross Award for excellence in the spoken and written
word. In 1996, she was awarded the FAA’s Southern Cross Award for research, for her
original work on Saros cycles, graphic rectification, and fixed stars. In 1998, along
with Darrelyn Gunzburg, she was awarded the FAA Southern Cross award for educa-
tion. In 1999, she was the recipient of the inaugural Spica Award from the United
Kingdom, for her book Predictive Astrology.The same year, she presented the Charles
Carter Memorial Lecture at the Astrological Association of Great Britain, on family
hereditary patterns, a work later published in Correlations.
Brady has also published many articles, in Australia, and in the United King-
dom, Ireland, United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Most years she lectures at
conferences in Europe and the United States.Sources:
Brady, Bernadette. Brady’s Book of Fixed Stars.York Beach, ME: S. Weiser, 1998.
———. The Eagle and the Lark: A Textbook of Predictive Astrology.York Beach, ME: S. Weiser, 1992.
———. Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark.York Beach, ME: S. Weiser, 1999.BRAHE, TYCHO
Tycho Brahe, an eminent Danish astronomer and astrologer, was born April 13, 1546,
in Kundstorp, Denmark. He taught astronomy at the University of Copenhagen and
established an observatory on the island of Hven under the patronage of King Freder-
ick II. Brahe moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia, after the king’s death, where he took
Johannes Kepler as his assistant.
Dissatisfied with inexactness of most existing observations of the celestial bod-
ies, Brahe designed instruments that enabled him to make the most precise observations
of the heavens to be recorded prior to the invention of the telescope, and he discovered
the phenomenon of exploding novas. (The accuracy of Brahe’s observations enabled
Kepler to discover some of the laws governing planetary motions.) Brahe was also a
mundane astrologer. He contributed to aspect theory and did work on the connection
between the natural cataclysms and conjunctions. He died October 21, 1601, in Prague.Sources:
Brau, Jean-Louis, Helen Weaver, and Allan Edmands. Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology.New
York: New American Library, 1980.
Kitson, Annabella, ed. History and Astrology: Clio and Urania Confer.London: Mandala, 1989.Brady, Bernadette
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