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About Cardano’s seven segments: a review 24 Sep 09
Celestial visions 31 Jan 10

About beibenie stars and their virtues

January 17, 2010

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About beibenie stars and their virtues

A couple of weeks ago  Dr. Ben Dykes- one of my favourite translators, one of the very few to have a proper curriculum studiorum, when the  greater part has a self education, ie no title and competence - posted in Deborah Houlding site a preview of his last work Persian nativities-  which includes al-Khayyat’s Judgement [...]

Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)

January 17, 2010

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Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)

Stars at the border of Sagittarius, the three ones of third magnitude near or over the arrow, have a great influence in producing murderers. If they are well disposed they make heroes, men of war, tribunes, judges, responsible for other people’s death; if ill disposed, they make wardens, subordinates to magistrates,  executioners, thieves. If they [...]

Johannes Lydus on comets

January 2, 2010

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Johannes Lydus on comets

Comets - like the one it’s told showed the road to Magi- the learned astrologers arrived from far East in order to worship the baby Jesus - always show supernatural events because of their unpredictable nature;  they suddenly appeared in the sky and suddenly disappeared, they did not have a fixed path like the wandering [...]

The Sun and heliacal phases of the planets

December 22, 2009

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The Sun and heliacal phases of the planets

This moment of the year is the feast of Light and astrology in itself is the science of the Light,  which comes to us by the Sun. Everything on the earth, starting from the switching between day and night, seasons, years derives from the Sun. Planets have not light, it derives from the Sun, so every [...]

Astronomy, astrology and astral divination in the Ancient East and Persia, a lecture by Prof. Antonio Panaino

December 8, 2009

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Astronomy, astrology and astral divination in the Ancient East and Persia, a lecture by Prof. Antonio Panaino

The following is an abstract of the lecture kept in Sophia at the New Bulgarian University on  the 19th November 2009 by Prof. Antonio Panaino, the famous Italian Orientalist, Professor of Alma Mater Studiorum and Isiao - the Italian Institute for Africa and East. I should thank Dimitar  Kozhuharov who kindly sent me the file; bibliography [...]

Stars, trade, magistery, profession and inclinations

November 22, 2009

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Stars, trade, magistery, profession and inclinations

We know that traditional astrology is not an uniform group of tools, rules and techniques, so sometimes it’s difficult to find a common thread in it, we should just collect single inputs trying to put them together. Surely this is the case of profession and trade determination. Not all the planets can be chosen as significators of [...]

Are stars signs or causes? The southern hemisphere experiment

November 12, 2009

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Are stars signs or causes? The southern hemisphere experiment

Since the beginning astrology was never either a block of consistent techniques or it was founded on the same philosophical background. The art of the astrologer is - like in Plotinus reading signs in the book of the sky? Looking at stars like they would be fonts, the ones who know their grammar, recognise the future from [...]

A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

October 30, 2009

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A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

Reading here and there I see that primary directions are seen as very difficult and occult. It is not like that. Ideas which are behind are very easy to grasp, and modern software can do all the calculation for us: on the other hand people who have learned them generally use them as a way to [...]

In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna

October 18, 2009

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In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna

In Medieval Latin the word “medicamentum simplex” was a single herb used as a medicament while several herbs used together were called a “medicamentum compositum. “ From this  Medieval abbeys gardens and later universities gardens where herbs were cultivated for study and medical use were called “Hortus Simplicium“, gardens of simple (medicaments). This old tradition comes to [...]