Robert Sterling Hand is an American astrologer, historian, and writer.
Early life
Robert Hand was born in
Plainfield, New Jersey
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. He began studying astrology at the age of 17. His father, Wilfred Hand, was a specialist in
cosmobiology
Historically, the term 'Kosmobiologie' was used by the German medical astrologer Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense "to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to t ...
and heliocentric astrology, and used astrological charts to forecast changes in the
stock market, and taught his son the basics of casting astrological charts. Hand went to Brandeis University, where he earned a B.A. in Intellectual History in 1965. He then went on to
Princeton University
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and left before receiving a degree to pursue astrology as a full-time profession in 1972.
Career
Hand began writing
programs
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for
microcomputers
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in 1977 with a desire to bring the benefits of fast and accurate calculations to the practice of astrology. Out of this effort, he founded Astro-Graphics Services in 1980 which later become Astrolabe, Inc.
Hand founded Arhat Media in 1997. Arhat, which is an acronym for "Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts", procures, protects and publishes translations of historical astrological works and secondary source material for serious astrologers and scholars. Some of this material has been integrated into the Robert Hand Library, which now houses the original texts and
translations
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of most of the ancient and medieval astrologers, as well as the history of science,
philosophy and mystical Judaism.
Hand gives chart readings and consultations in
Reston, Virginia
Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia and a principal city of the Washington metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, Reston's population was 63,226.
Founded in 1964, Reston was influenced by the Garden City move ...
, and
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Works
Books
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Interviews and lectures
* Transcript of a talk Hand presented at the Astrological Conference 2005 of the British Astrological Association in York, UK.
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References
External links
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1942 births
Living people
20th-century astrologers
21st-century astrologers
American astrologers
American astrological writers
American male non-fiction writers
American spiritual writers
Brandeis University alumni
Catholic University of America alumni
New Age writers