If the primary directions were surely the favourite tool of the traditional astrologer, they generally were used together with solar returns and profections. Only combining the three tools together a prediction is possible- something very far from the modern use of transits.
January 31, 2010
One of the most important cultural centres of Rome of 1600 was Collegio Romano, the general house of Jesuits, founded by St. Ignatius de Loyola in 1534.
January 17, 2010
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 [...]
January 17, 2010
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 [...]
January 2, 2010
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 [...]
December 22, 2009
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 [...]
December 8, 2009
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 [...]
November 22, 2009
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 [...]
November 12, 2009
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?
My name is Margherita Fiorello from Rome, Italy.
I graduated with a thesis on Renaissance villas in Papal Kingdom and I have been engaged in traditional astrology since ten years. Currently I'm studying astrology with Giancarlo Ufficiale, one of the founders of CieloeTerra- Prof. Giuseppe Bezza's traditional astrology group. I'm a member of CieloeTerra and a certified CIDA member. More about me in the bio.
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