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Reading a birth chart: a geniture according traditional astrology

October 24, 2010

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The following text was written in the last summer and concludes the yearly meetings between Giancarlo Ufficiale, a founding member of Cieloeterra, who coordinated the group, Paola Fornai, a CIDA certified member, and the gentle author of this blog. The method is the one taught in Almugea School, inspired to the methods of traditional astrology, [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

ABOUT THE STARS OF ANGELUS ASTROLABIUM PLANUM

July 8, 2009

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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 [...]

Stade on Fixed stars

May 16, 2009

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Fixed stars have a prominent part in traditional astrology: Ptolemy in the first book of  Tetrabiblos lists them without giving any meaning, but we have several alternative sources for them, Manilius and Firmicus in the Latin world,  Anonymous of 379 and two chapters from Liber Hermetis  in the late Antiquity, and in the Middle Age and [...]