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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
While talking about the meaning of comets moving against the order of the signs (like the comet Lulin)- in his comment to Tetrabiblos - Girolamo Cardano explains why this is so a bad omen, with reasons unfortunately very true for present time.
This means heresy and perturbation in religions, because men can make evil in everything [...]
In the traditional astrology blog of Dorothy Kovach there is an interesting and as usually well written article about the year of the Ox and some notes about Chinese calendar.
Still practioners of traditional astrology would remember some lines from the famous book of Franz Boll, Wilhelm Gundel, Carl Bezold, Sternglaube Und Sterndeutung Die Geschichte Und [...]
As we saw in these days with Obama’s oath(s) – the first problem for an astrologer is determining the true moment of birth, whatever event we are talking about.
Placidus writes some interesting considerations in his Coelestis Philosophia (1650):
Before we astrologers can start with astrological predictions, let’s give a quick look where this eclipse is visible, and where it could produce its effects.
Ptolemy in fact writes: “In all eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and especially in such as are fully visible, the place in the zodiac, where the eclipse happens, is to [...]
A quick look to Obama inauguration chart:
Venus is the ruler of the Ascendant and the almuten of the chart – at least according Solar Fire, I’m too lazy to calculate it by hand. It is in a very good position by essential and accidental dignity: in her exaltation and triplicity. It is visible and vespertine [...]
Ptolemeus de stellis cum caudis- BN-Paris 7432
Ptolemy says that tailed stars are nine. First veru, second tenaculum, third pertica, quarta miles, fifth dominus Aschone, sixth matuta seu aurora, seventh argentum, eighth rosa, ninth nera.
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, the journal of the Italian Association.
Some [...]
February 7, 2009
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