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Calculating the Almuten of the soul with Morinus software

April 1, 2010

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The new version of Morinus fixes a bug in the calculation of the Almuten, so this could be the opportunity to discuss how we can use this software in judging about the qualities of the soul. The chapter about the qualities of the soul is surely the most important together with the one about the prorogation: [...]

divisors, chronocrators, almutens and more in a Renaissance geniture

March 28, 2010

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Very recently the Italian astrologer Grazia Bordoni put on line here for  her column in the  site Armonics an old lecture written  by Maurizio Malagoli  for Venice CIDA Congress about the geniture of Alfonso d’Este, illegitimate son of the Duke of Ferrara Alfonso I,  Lucrezia Borgia husband.

astronomy and astrology in the age of scientific revolution

March 14, 2010

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Where we discover that Jung supports Ptolemy view on astrology. The following is the translation of the Conference kept  by Prof. Ornella Faracovi on the 11th November 1993 in the Physics Department of Milan university. Prof. Faracovi is  an expert of history of philosophy and the director of Centro Studi Enriques.  She is an expert of [...]

Seeing in the future: solar returns, profections, directions

February 27, 2010

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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.

Celestial visions

January 31, 2010

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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.

About beibenie stars and their virtues

January 17, 2010

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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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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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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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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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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 [...]