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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 [...]
This morning I tried to renew my subscription to Angelicus Merlin list, from which I was deleted almost an year ago.
Which was my fault and mistake? That I told in public that Anton Grigoryev stole my money and betrayed a 4 years friendship.
Traditional astro-lists in the net are a precious source of knowledge (and friendship), and I’d like to mention two different threads worthy to inquire about and mix a little how I like to do very often.
The first one appeared in The Real Astrology and it was about an Italian translation of two important works of [...]
Yesterday morning at 6.30 Giancarlo Ufficiale Fabrizio Corrias and me left Rome for Milan: there we met Patrizia Nava and Lucia Bellizia.
Our astrological destination, Giuseppe Bezza’s lecture about Centiloquium and much more.
A while ago I had the opportunity of visiting in Rome a true factory of perfumes of antiquity with its products: the factory of Pyrgos in the southern part of the island of Cyprus.
The myth tells us about Venus, the goddess of beauty and love: when she arose from the foam of the sea, the [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick look to swine influenza.
In Italy we had some cases in tourists recently arrived from Mexico but they are recovering now, on the other hand influenza seems deadly just in Mexico. We can guess some reasons, at least we read them in our newspapers, and we can see others from an astrological point [...]
As many of us know, Placido Titi did use his own calculation of Part of Fortune, which he took from Adriano Negusanzio “nobleman from Fano, very expert both in the astrological doctrine according the true doctrine of Ptolemy, and in natural science and in the other secrets of nature… “
In his Canon de Parte Fortunae, [...]
June 14, 2009
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