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About Cardano’s seven segments (aphorisms): a review 24 Sep 09
The Concordia shipwreck 15 Jan 12
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Dorotheus on ships: the Concordia departure

January 14, 2012

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Dorotheus on ships: the Concordia departure

I have received and happily publish from Marco Fumagalli, math mind (and more) of Cieloeterra the following article about Costa Concordia and the astonishing lines from Dorotheus:

About the temperament of the moon

January 9, 2012

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About the temperament of the moon

A friend in a recent thread in Deborah Houlding forum, focused my attention about  the quality of the Moon according Ptolemy. In Quadripartite, I, 8 Ptolemy debates about the qualities of the planets in respect of the Sun, and other notes he will add in III, 11.

About tailed stars and other stories: coming back from Apotelesma congress

October 31, 2011

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About tailed stars and other stories: coming back from Apotelesma congress

Traditional astrology is alive and kicking in Italy too, and the evidence is the yearly meeting of Apotelesma congress, organized by its President and our friend Lucia Bellizia. Under an almost summer sun - very strange for Halloween’s eve - but we had the traditional pumpkin and candles together with  six lectures, which put together [...]

Detrimented planets in a birth chart

August 16, 2011

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Detrimented planets in a birth chart

As many traditional astrologers, coming from horary, one of the first factors I consider in a chart is if  planets are dignified by essential and accidental virtue. The first thing one should learn in horary is using the dignity table, which is on the desktop of every traditional astrologer. But is this  true for nativities too?

Ptolemy and Placidus primary directions

July 4, 2011

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Ptolemy and Placidus primary directions

Like the famous ghost haunting the whole Europe, now and then in the traditional lists and forums the question about the true house system used by Ptolemy arises again and again, especially because now it’s trendy in traditional astrologers of English speaking countries to use whole sign houses following Vettius Valens or to use them [...]

Relocating solar returns?

June 17, 2011

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Relocating solar returns?

Being an Italian it’s almost impossible now and then avoiding  supporters of relocated solar returns and travel solar returns: however every cloud has a silver lining so a recent thread on an Italian list  gives me the opportunity to write some short notes about the matter.

Stars of Florence

June 7, 2011

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Stars of Florence

As every year,  this year too I attended the meeting of Cieloeterra group because I’m strongly persuaded this event is a great opportunity to learn many new things , and as usually I was not  disappointed. Moreover by change the hotel was in front the pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, one of the oldest of [...]

Mundane, 2012 and the bogus earthquake

May 8, 2011

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Mundane, 2012 and the bogus earthquake

Obviously Italy is not preserved from 2012 prophecies believers,1 but (un)fortunately we have ours in addition, and astrological ones too. If  it is not enough the end of the world in 2012, Rome and its inhabitants are doomed to perish in a couple of days, on May 11th 2011. For a satiric abstract of all [...]

Liz Taylor: an astrological portrait

March 27, 2011

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Liz Taylor: an astrological portrait

Astrologers are always attentive to newspapers reports, so they could not miss the death of one of the most important international actresses, Liz Taylor, who gave her face to the symbol itself of beauty, Cleopatra. It is impossible to resist to give a quick look to her chart.