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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 [...]
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.
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- [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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
One of the most famous and interesting subjects of Medieval art and astrological discussion was the thread of cardinal and theological virtues.
The word “virtue” comes from the Latin “vir“, i.e. man. Still in Latin culture the word did not indicate just masculine gender, but a moral code, an unwritten law more important than the written [...]
In the previous post we saw as Salome’s story, the story of a woman who asked the head of a prophet in a gold plate in order to satisfy her lust of power can be easily connected with Algol and its representation in Art, especially in Decadent 1 and Symbolism movement, which liked so much [...]
As I wrote in my latest post, I was planning to write about the fixed star Algol.
As everybody, I read Thomas post about Algol and Pleiades and the following post from Dorothy, and in the same time I was involved for some sincronicity in a clash of wills about this star, in a chart I [...]
About Cardano’s seven segments: a review
A post from the past: Firmicus, and pictures and paranatellonta
In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna
Astrological notes about Indonesia and Samoa quakes
July 31, 2009
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