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 [...]
February 27, 2009
In the last comment I wrote that I would close comments about that awful man, Anton Grigoryev, a man who can steal to a woman and a friend who opened her house twice and believed he was a friend for 4 YEARS. Anyway I should reply to this: http://www.antonblog.net/astrology/mundane-astrology/comet-lulin/#comments considering that Anton after having disappeared without giving [...]
February 24, 2009
In the moment everybody is looking in the sky for the Comet Lulin, I believe of some interest reading what a Medieval astrologer wrote about the famous Halley comet in 1301. This passage was so famous that many scholars believe that the Italian painter Giotto painted Halley comet in his painting for the Scrovegni [...]
February 21, 2009
Surfing the net this morning I found this article posted today in the blog of Anton Grigoryev which is the copycat of my post about the comet Lulin written the 9th of February: http://heavenastrolabe.net/about-the-comet-lulin/ Cardano became Campanella and PseudoPtolemaus Ephastio, but what? Obviously traditional sources are in agreement. So please let’s try to respect others’work. There is even the picture of [...]
February 17, 2009
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 Mathesis, and the list of 30 stars given by [...]
February 14, 2009
Does love depend on stars as William Shakespeare seems to believe in the first lines of Romeo and Juliet? Astrologers and initiates think the same. Hermes explains to Asclepius the secret of love and sex. Moon and Venus willingly satisfy men, while the Sun and Mars are allied to women. The Moon favors marriage for men, while [...]
February 9, 2009
Comets have fascinated people since antiquity, who considered them as a sign for future events. They could be for the good if Venusian or Jupiterian comets – and here it’s easy to think to Julius Caesar’s star, but more often they were malefic in nature, of Mars and Saturn nature. Some say in fact that Electra seeing [...]
February 7, 2009
The following is the translation from Latin of an horary question asked to the prophet- astrologer Annius of Viterbo. The querent is Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan, who was inquiring about the health of his enemy Don Ferrante of Aragon, King of Naples, who was sick in his bed. Planetary positions as given in the Latin [...]
February 5, 2009
I was reading this interesting post about Ptolemy’s directions, an example which always makes me crazy for its difficulty, it’s because numbers confuse me, and the example is very difficult. So let’s try to make some order, (I’m a Virgo Sun). We should calculate the arc of direction between A and B. MC:17.30 Taurus Right Ascension [...]
February 3, 2009
The legend states that this famous medical school was founded around 1000 AD by four pilgrims, experts in herbs, traditional remedies and medicine: a Greek one, a Latin one, a Jew and a Muslim. Surely it was the first medical institution in Europe and the first of European Universities. The most famous treatise produced in the [...]
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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About Cardano’s seven segments: a reviewA short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions
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
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