Syzygy preceding the Winter Ingress

Ptolemy writes “it yet seems to be more consonant to nature, and more consistent with the facts, that the combined positions of the Sun, and the new, or full, Moon, which happen when the Sun is nearest to the points above-mentioned, should mark the four beginnings; and more especially if such combined positions should produce [...]

Love in Renaissance Rome

This morning, as every year, I visited the traditional  Christmas books’ exhibition and I had the opportunity to attend a lecture about the star crossed love between Raffaello Sanzio, the famous painter and the beautiful Fornarina, made immortal by one of his paintings. Who was that woman is not clear but many say she was Agostino [...]

Signs of Earthquakes in astrological manuscripts

Angelicus 29 We can foresee these events in advance from the following signs: when in a sign we find the conjunction of three or four planets, like Saturn, Jupiter and Mars or Mars and Venus and Saturn and even Mercury and when they are in their own places or triplicities or exaltations and one of two of [...]

….and Henry II

About Caterina de Medici’s husband, it is well know the prognostication Luca Gaurico made for him. Percopo, Gaurico’s biographer mentions it: “Itinera tamen aquea videntur infausta et ab equis nonnihil impedimenti et lachrimulis ex oculo sinistro fluentibus“ “Travels by water are inaspicious and accidents with horses and tears from the left eye.” While in his Tractatus, Gaurico mentions [...]

Caterina de Medici

The black legend about Caterina de Medici depicts her as a wicked woman, adept to black magic and every kind of sorcery in order to keep the power and the throne, and i found this story in several astrological sites too. Alexandre Dumas writes in his wonderful novel “La reine Margot” about her

Diaz, Giuliani and astrology

There are several good reasons why we should not forget what happened to Covell, then aged 33, that night in Genoa. The first is that he was only the beginning. By midnight on July 21 2001, those police officers were swarming through all four floors of the Diaz Pertini building, dispensing their special kind of [...]

Anton Grigoryev astrologer

This is denunce to the Police against  Anton Grigoryev , astrologer, the one I believed a dear friend since years , No words to define Anton. Is there something more shameful and mean that a man who can profit from a woman disappearing with her money? And how this man can dare going on writing [...]

The Sun-tanned cat , Obama, Berlusconi and astrology

Considering that the first and most important rule is “God save us from imbeciles”, this is unlucky sinastry between the new US President and (the old) Italian Prime Minister Ruler of Berlusconi’s Ascendant, Mercury, is inconjunct with Obama’s one, Saturn – no good. Berlusconi’s Mars is square to Obama’s Moon and MC – [...]

Queens and the Water Trigon

Describing the heresy of his time and the decadence marked by the Great Conjunction in the Watery trigon Tommaso Campanella happily writes that In his  times of heretic arrogance,  the Sun apse in Cancer makes the heresy stronger, and being in a feminine sign put women on the thrones. “Elisabeth in Anglia, Maria in [...]

Again the nova stella