Nicholas Campion

Nicholas Campion (born 4 March 1953) is a British astrologer and historian of astrology and cultural astronomy. He is the author of a number of books and currently pursues an academic career.

Nicholas Campion
Campion in 2010
Born	(1953-03-04) 4 March 1953 Bristol, England
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge SOAS[1] University of the West of England[2]
Scientific career
Fields	History of astrology Cultural astronomy
Institutions	Bath Spa University University of Wales Trinity Saint David Kepler College
Website	www.nickcampion.com

Career

Astrology

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.[3] He was president of the Astrological Lodge of London from 1985–7 and of the Astrological Association of Great Britain from 1994–99.[4][5][6] He published a number of books on the practice of astrology between 1987 (The Practical Astrologer) and 2004 (The Book of World Horoscopes).

History of astrology and cultural astronomy

Concurrently with his activities as an astrologer Campion researched and published on the history of astrology and cultural astronomy. His book on millenarianism, The Great Year (1994), was described by Daily Telegraph journalist Damian Thompson as "a monumental study of historical schemes". In 1997 he founded the peer-reviewed journal Culture and Cosmos.[7]

Academica

In 2005, he became Principal Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University.[8] 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.[9] He also taught the history of astrology at the unaccredited Kepler College, now located in Seattle, Washington.[10]

Books

Campion is the author/co-author of many books on astrology and its history, including:

• Campion, Nicholas (1982). An introduction to the history of astrology. London: Institute for the Study of Cycles in World Affairs. ISBN 0-9508412-0-X.
• Campion, Nicholas; Baigent, Michael; Harvey, Charles (1984). Mundane Astrology. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Aquarian Press. ISBN 0-85030-302-8.
• Campion, Nicholas; Jaine, Tom (1988). Cosmic Cuisine. Harper & Row.[11]
• Campion, Nicholas (1994). The great year : astrology, millenarianism, and history in the Western tradition. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-019296-4.[12][13]
• Campion, Nicholas (1997). The Practical Astrologer.
• Campion, Nicholas (2000). Zodiac: Enhance your life through astrology. Quadrille.[14]
• Campion, Nicholas (2000). Astrology, history and apocalypse. London: Centre for Psychological Astrology Press. ISBN 1-900869-15-2.
• Campion, Nicholas (2001). Cosmos : a cultural history of astrology. London: Hambledon and London. ISBN 1-85285-257-7.
• Campion, Nicholas; Kollerstrom, Nick, eds. (2003). Galileo's Astrology. Culture and Cosmos. Cinnabar Books.[15]
• Campion, Nicholas (2003). The Ultimate Astrologer: A Simple Guide to Calculating and Interpreting Birth Charts for Effective Application in Daily Life. Rider.
• Campion, Nicholas (2004). The Book of World Horoscopes. Wessex Astrologer.
• Campion, Nicholas (2006). What do astrologers believe?. London: Granta. ISBN 1-86207-838-6.
• Campion, Nicholas (2008). Horoscopes and Popular Culture, in Franklin, Bob (ed.), Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism. Oxford, England: Routledge. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-415-42555-1.
• Campion, Nicholas (2009). A History of Western Astrology Vol. 1: The Ancient World (first published as The Dawn of Astrology: A Cultural History of Western Astrology Vol. 1, The Ancient and Classical Worlds). London: Continuum. ISBN 978-1-4411-2737-2.
• Campion, Nicholas (2009). A History of Western Astrology Vol. 2: The Medieval and Modern Worlds. London: Continuum. ISBN 978-1-4411-2737-2.
• Campion, Nicholas (2012). Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions. New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1714-1.
• Campion, Nicholas (2012). Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement. Farnham, England: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-3514-3.
• Campion, Nicholas (2015). ‘The Moral Philosophy of Space Travel: A Historical Review’, in Jai Galliot (ed.), Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy, Governance (Abingdon: Ashgate; London: Routledge 2016), pp. 9-22. ISBN 9781472436115.
• Campion, Nicholas (2015). The New Age in the Modern West: Counter-Culture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. London: Bloomsbury 2015. ISBN 978-1-4725-2279-5.
• Campion, Nicholas; Pimenta, F.; Ribeiro, N.; Silva, F.; Joaquinito, A.; Tirapicos, L. (2015). Stars and Stones: Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy – a Meeting of Different Worlds. Oxford: British Archaeology Reports. ISBN 978-1-4073-1441-9.
• Campion, Nicholas; Silva, Fabio (2015). Skyscapes: The Role and Importance of the Sky in Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow. ISBN 978-1-78297-840-4.
• Campion, Nicholas; Greenbaum, Dorian (2016). Astrology in Time and Place: Cross-Cultural Currents in the History of Astrology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 1-4438-8381-6.
• Campion, Nicholas; Rappenglück, Barbara; Rappenglück, Michael; Silva, Fabio (2016). Astronomy and Power: How Worlds are Structured. Oxford: British Archaeology Reports. ISBN 978-1-4073-1441-9.
• Campion, Nicholas (2016). ‘Archaeoastronomy and Calendar Cities’ in Daniel Brown (ed.), Modern Archaeoastronomy: From Material Culture to Cosmology, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 865, 2016, pp. 1-7.
• Campion, Nicholas (2017). ‘The Importance of Cosmology in Culture: Contexts and Consequences’, in Abraao Jesse Capistrano de Souza (ed.), Cosmology, InTech Open, pp. 3-17. ISBN 978-953-51-3209-7.

Awards

• Marc Edmund Jones Award (1992)[16][17]
• Prix Georges Antares Award (1994)[18]
• Spica Award (1999)[18]
• Charles Harvey Prize (2002)[19]
• Regulus Award (2002)[20]
• Regulus Award (2012)[21]

References

1. Lewis, James, R. The astrology encyclopedia, p.105. Gale Research, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8103-8900-7.
2. "Study Astrology: University of Wales, Lampeter".
3. "Interview with Nick Campion – Part 2". Astrological Association. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
4. Astrology, Centre For Psychological. "The Centre For Psychological Astrology – Nick Campion".
5. "Ariadne". New Scientist. 3 February 1990.
6. "Check it Out: Hi-tech Alternatives". The Independent. 30 January 1999. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. Oestmann, Gűnther, 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, p. 275. ISBN 9783110185454
9. Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine at School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
10. 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." www.kepler.edu Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
11. Burnett, Bev (22 September 1988), "Star grazing", Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 11 October 2013
12. Review of The Great Year by Heath-Stubbs, John Francis Alexander, Contemporary Review, 1 November 1995 (subscription required)
13. BOOKS / Paperbacks by Blake, Robin, The Independent, 23 October 1994
14. Readers' round-up, The Scotsman, 9 September 2000 (subscription required)
15. Review of Galileo's Astrology, Boner, Patrick J., Renaissance Quarterly, 22 March 2006 (subscription required)
16. Mark Edmond Jones Award, 1992 Archived 14 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine for scholarly and innovative work for his The Book of World Horoscopes
17. Beyond Belief? James Langton interviews Archived 5 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine 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"."
18. Lewis, James R. (2003) The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences, Visible Ink Press, MI, USA
19. "Astrological Association of Great Britain :: The Charles Harvey Award".
20. www.astro.com, Astrodatabank by Lois Rodden and Astrodienst AG Zollikon, Switzerland – astro.com -. "Nick Campion, horoscope for birth date 4 March 1953, born in Bristol, with Astrodatabank biography – Astro-Databank".
21. "UAC – United Astrology Conference 2018".

External links

• Official website
• Staff page at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David