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The British astrologer and historian of astrology and Cultural

Astronomy[1] Nicholas Campion was born on 4 March 1953 at
0:10 GMT in Bristol, England.[2]

Biography
Astrology
Career
Awards
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Books
Notes and References

He began his astrological studies at 18, in 1971, turning Nick Campion in 2010
professional in 1975 after graduating Queens' College,
Cambridge University with a history degree.
He returned to London University to take post-graduate
courses in politics and international relations (School of
Oriental and African Studies)[3].
Since then, he became an acknowledged expert on mundane
astrology and the history of astrology.
In 1995 he returned to consulting after a leave of ten years.

Extensively traveled, Nick remembers with pleasure such sites

as Kabul in Afghanistan, the Shwedagon pagoda in Rangoon,
Australia and Egypt, Moscow, Budapest and Barcelona as well
as American tours. Campion's birth chart

Campion is a former Daily Mail astrologer, where he took over from John Naylor, the son of R.H. Naylor, the first Sun
Sign astrologer.
He was president of the Astrological Lodge of London from 1985–88 and again in 1992, and of the Astrological
Association of Great Britain from June 1994–99.[4][5]
He was editor of the British Astrology Journal 1992-94.[6]
In 1997 he founded the peer-reviewed journal Culture and Cosmos.

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In 2005, he became Principal Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University.[7] Campion is Senior Lecturer in the School
of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, director of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, and
course director of the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He also
taught the history of astrology at the unaccredited Kepler College, now located in Seattle, Washington.[8]

Marc Edmund Jones Award (1992)[9][10]

Prix Georges Antares (1994)[11]
Spica Award (1999)[11]
Charles Harvey Award (2002)[12]
Regulus Award (2002)[13]
Regulus Award (2012)[14]

Wikipedia: Nicholas Campion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Campion)

MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology (http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/ma-cultural-astronomy-astrology/) (University of
Wales Trinity Saint David (formerly Swansea Metropolitan University))

Sophia Centre (http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/sophia/); see also Sophia Centre (http://www.astrodienst.com

/edu/ed_soph2_e.htm) (Astrodienst)
An Interview with Nick Campion. (http://www.darrelyngunzburg.com/PDFs/InterviewNickCampion.pdf) (Darrelyn
Gunzburg in The Mountain Astrologer Issue #108 April/ May 2003)
An Introduction to Aspects and Chart Shaping in Natal Astrology (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/aspects2.html)
(Campion, 2003)
Astrology and History with Nicholas Campion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpjM0jiMytc) (video part 1 of 3;
9min36, 2010)
Astronomy and Psyche in the Classical World: Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Ptolemy (http://erenow.com/ancient/ancient-
astronomy/7.html) (Campion in the Journal of Cosmology, 2010)

Campion is the author of many books on the practice of astrology and its history, including:

The Book of World Horoscopes (1987) ISBN 0850305276, 2004 updated edition The Wessex Astrologer Ltd.
ISBN 1902405153

Review (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/bowh_rev.html) (Deborah Houlding, 2004)

Mundane Astrology (Co-Authors Michael Baigent and Charles Harvey, Thorsons 1992) ISBN 1855381400
An Introduction to the History of Astrology (1982) ISBN 095084120X
The Practical Astrologer (1987) ISBN 0600503046
The Great Year: Astrology, History and Millenarianism in the Western Tradition (1994)

This book was described by Daily Telegraph journalist, Damian Thompson, as ‘a

monumental study of historical schemes’.

Astrology, History and Apocalypse (2000).

Zodiac, Enhancing your Life with the Stars (2000).

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The Moment of Astrology, 2003, The Wessex Astrologer.

Cosmos: A Cultural History of Astrology (2006) ISBN 1852852577.
What do Astrologers Believe (2006).
The Dawn of Astrology - A Cultural History of Western Astrology Volume I: The Ancient and Classical Worlds.
Continuum 2008 ISBN 978-1847252142

Review (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/rev_campion.html) (Garry Phillipson, 2008)

Volume II: The Medieval And Modern Worlds. 392 Seiten. Continuum 2009 ISBN 9781441181299

Review (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/rev_c2.html) (Kirk Little, 2009)

Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement. 264
Seiten. Ashgate publications 2012 ISBN 9781409435143

Review (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/rev_campion2.html) (Kirk Little, 2013)

1. Helaine Selin (ed.), Astronomy Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western

Astronomy, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000, p. xiv.
2. 51n27, 2w35, Rodden Rating A; see AstroDatabank
(http://www.astrodienst.com/astro-databank/Campion%2C_Nick); information
from Lois Rodden in her Newsletter 4/ 1993.
3. Lewis, James, R. The astrology encyclopedia, p.105. Gale Research, 1994.
ISBN 978-0-8103-8900-7.
4. Centre for Psychological Astrology (http://www.cpalondon.com/nick.html)
Campion a few years ago. 5. The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/check-it-out-
hitech-alternatives-1077093.html)] (1/ 1999)
6. James R. Lewis: The Astrology Book. Visible Ink Press, 2003
books.google.de, p. 113 (http://books.google.de/books?id=lmv4930JbY0C&
pg=PA113&lpg=PA113)
7. Oestmann, Gunther, H.K. von Stuckrad, G. Oestmann and D. Rutkin (eds.),
(2005) Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology,
Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York, google.com/books p. 275
(http://books.google.com/books?id=VpjSpEWa9u4C&pg=PA275&
vq=campion&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=campion&f=false)
ISBN 9783110185454
8. Tebbs, Carol MA. President's Address, Kepler College, Seattle, WA (2004)
The Faculty – Lee Lehman and Dennis Harness, Deans. Nicholas Campion,
Demetra George, Georgia Stathis and Mark Urban-Lurain.
9. For scholarly and innovative work, Book of World Horoscopes.
10. Beyond Belief? James Langton interviews (http://www.astrologer.com
/news/sundaytelegraph230892.jpg) Nicholas Campion, Robert Currey and Liz
Greene,. (23 August 1992) Sunday Telegraph Review. "He (Campion) is
accepted as a "serious" astrologer, a winner of the prestigious Marc Edmund
Jones Award in Washington earlier this year for his work on "mundane
astrology"."
11. Lewis, James R. (2003) The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly
Influences, Visible Ink Press, MI, USA books.google.com
(http://books.google.com/books?id=nPMnUMhZzswC&pg=PT266&
dq=regulus+award+campion+2002&hl=en&sa=X&
ei=bWKWUKCTCrGN0wXx_IDIDQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&
q=Nicholas%20Campion%20born%20&f=false)
12. For Exceptional Service to Astrology, Charles Harvey Prize 2002
(http://www.astrologicalassociation.com/pages/about/harvey-award.php)
13. On 7/21/2002, for Professional Image at UAC, Orlando, FL.

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14. UAC 2012 in New Orleans, Regulus Award 2012 for theory and understanding (http://www.uacastrology.com/)

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