The Italian earthquake
Yesterday night a strong earthquake (magnitude 6.3) killed 207 victims and still 15 people are missing. L’Aquila is a Medieval city in the heart of Italy, admist the mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo.
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Death at G20
April 2, 2009
Yesterday 01 st April 2009 at 7:30 pm a man has been found dead during the protests at the G20 summit in London. English police is not like Italian one, so they did not shoot at him as they did with Carletto Giuliani during Genoa G8. Maybe the man collapsed during the protests, I read [...]
the sabbath of the witches of Benevento
April 1, 2009
With the rain and with the wind under the Benevento’s tree (ancient spell) If every nation has its own witches and devils, the story says from every angle of the world these wicked souls meet under the walnut of Benevento, an ancient city between the mountains of Sannio, in the heart of southern Italy. Romans called this [...]
DELICIAE
March 22, 2009
A new page about all the nice things people think about me and the ones I love. The worst ones aren’t taken into consideration, there are so many awful things in the world that I believe we should not give other room. Many years ago a priest talking about the presence of the Devil in the Church [...]
some notes about temperaments
March 21, 2009
Can a star of whatever planetary nature with the Sun deciding the temperament as a traditional astrologer, author of a DVD about humours and temperament states? When does John Frawley say that an oriental Saturn is cold and dry he is talking according the tradition? One of the most interesting point in astrology is [...]
About the thema mundi
March 13, 2009
Destiny determines character in a certain way. The fact to live in a city like Rome and to have the opportunity of visiting the most important museums in all Europe - British Museum in London, Louvre in Paris, Pergamon in Berlin, Uffizi in Florence - and hundreds of exibitions gives me an idea of what the [...]
The illustrated astrological congress in Perugia
March 9, 2009
The gentle author of this blog has just arrived from Perugia, where she peregrined - she was obliged to wake up to 5 AM to arrive in time - for the Congress organized by Nunzia Coppola Meskalila, with Deborah Houlding as special guest
Hildegard of Bingen, Moon and the horoscope of conception
March 5, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I attended a lecture about Tithi organized by our Italian Astrological Association. I’m absolutely new to Vedic astrology, so I will take the definition from Wikipedia, I don’t know more than this in fact. A Tithi is “a lunar day, or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between [...]
Site update: Deliciae page
March 2, 2009
New DELICIAE page about astrological things I like, and nice people who talks about me here. Deliciae is the Latin word for delights in fact. Please visit it frequently, because I hope frequent updates.
The alchemical Door
February 28, 2009
In the very centre of Rome, in the middle of the gardens of Piazza Vittorio there is a strange stone door called “Alchemical door” or “Magical door.” The door was the entrance of the Villa built by the Marquis Massimiliano Palombara around 1660. Inside his villa Palombara was dedited to occult studies and involved in alchemical studies [...]
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Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)
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, subordinate
ABOUT STARS RISING WITH THE 12 SIGNS ACCORDING ALBUMASAR GREAT INTRODUCTION
Stars rising with portions of ecliptic, the so-called paranatellonta, have a central place in traditional astrology. Ancient texts give a lot of room to this subject, Manilius dedicated to paranatellonta the whole fifth book of his Astronomica, Firmicus lists them in two of the eight books of Mat
Some personal notes
A THIEF called ANTON GRIGORYEV Caesar divorced Pompeia at once, but when he was summoned to testify at the trial, he said he knew nothing about the matters with which Clodius was charged. His statement appeared strange, and the prosecutor therefore asked, "Why, then, didst thou divorce thy wife?"
A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions
Reading here and there I see that primary directions are seen as very difficult and occult. It is not like that. Ideas which are behind are very easy to grasp, and modern software can do all the calculation for us: on the other hand people who have learned them generally use them as a way to show ho
The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole
Since the Antiquity astrology (and prediction) was based on astronomical tables generally divided into three different parts collected together: tables of primum mobile, tables of planetary positions, eclipses; at the beginning of the Renaissance tables of primum mobile were separated from the rest:
the astrological ceiling of Villa Farnesina in Rome
This is the transcript of the lecture kept in Rome by me and Anton Grigoryev (who wrote the article with me) for the Congress/Competition of October 2006 organized by CIDA, the Italian Astrological Association . The Italian text has been published in the Winter 2006 issue of Linguaggio Astrale, t
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC
Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is music for life, the sound of work, war, happiness, sadness, love, prayer. [vimeo 2654494] The Litaniae Sanctorum are one of the oldest prayers of the Church. They were established by Gregorius the Great in 590 AD to stop the plague. A medieval legend
Stade on Fixed stars
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 theABOUT ME
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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