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Andrea Argoli, born in Tagliacozzo in 1570 is very famous for his book about primary directions, the Tables of the primum mobile, (from which I took the picture ) 1. The following is my translation from Latin from another of Argoli’s main works, Two books about critical days and decumbiture of diseases2 revised and revisited by [...]
August 23, 2009
Love illness is currently understood like a venereal disease, but this is not its traditional meaning, which is was on the other hand well known from Galen to Renaissance and more, till the theory of four humors was rejected, and it was called amor hereos. Amor hereos or love sickness is the idea that one cannot [...]
August 6, 2009
I’ve just finished reading Martin Gansten’s book about primary directions, and I liked very much. So I believe it’s the opportunity to give some examples about primary directions using Morinus software, especially because here in Italy we don’t use Kolev formulae- better said, we use them but put in another way.
July 31, 2009
Surely the most popular chapter from Ptolemy’s Quadripartite is the chapter about the duration of life, 1 where Ptolemy explains primary directions. Primary directions were surely the most important tool of the traditional astrologer in foreseeing the facts of life: lost of sight in the 20th century, they are reborn thank to the work of Rumen Kolev 2 [...]
July 25, 2009
Ancients were very fond of the number seven. God made the world in seven days and the city of Rome lays on seven hills, the same Wisdom is founded on seven pillars.
July 16, 2009
A traditional astrologer cannot miss the “dark side of the Light” or as the ancients called it, Sol niger, the black Sun. The second and last eclipse of the year will occur on the next 22nd July and it will be longest of the century- the obscuration will last 6 minutes 39 seconds. Ancients -we know- [...]
July 8, 2009
In one of my researches in Rome’s libraries I found a copy of Astrolabium Planum, one of the most intriguing and enigmatic books written during Renaissance by Johannes Angelus, published in 1488 in Augusta, one of the oldest German cities, founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus- where the author Johann Engel stated that the second [...]
July 1, 2009
The gentle author of this blog is not very fond of Michael Jackson music- she has different musical tastes and never in her life took Michael Jackson into consideration- but as every astrologer, she uses people as guinea pigs for her experiments, and she cannot miss this chart. She likes very much the reading Ben Dykes [...]
June 27, 2009
Yesterday evening the gentle author of this blog visited the presentation of the book “L’enigma del manoscritto Voynich“, the enigma of Voynich manuscript. a book about the famous manuscript, one of the greatest riddles of the history, in the most famous esoteric bookshop in Rome.
June 22, 2009
While newspapers are concentrated on Iran revolt, and astrologers from all the world too, your gentle author is going to explore a little a lighter event, an Italian scandal to the light of traditional astrology. She cannot miss the opportunity to talk about her Prime Minister, in fact
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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