This is one of the most famous sermons and astrological texts written by Marsilio Ficino for Christmas 1482. Marsilio explains the birthchart of Jesus and the role of Magi: he dismisses the theory of Great Conjunction but he can’t renounce to one of the most known texts of Middle Ages, few lines from Albumasar’s Great Introduction. [...]
January 1, 2009
The legend says that Numa Pompilius, the successor of Romulus, in his reform of the Calendar added two months to the Roman calendar, and fixed the beginning of the year at the first day of the month dedicated to Janus, the God of the doors – janua in Latin, from yana (road) in Sanskrit. [...]
December 30, 2008
- Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 229 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state. Hamas vowed revenge including suicide bomb attacks in the “cafes and streets” of Israel, as Israeli air strikes continued late into the night. [...]
December 28, 2008
Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is music for life, the sound of work, war, happiness, sadness, love, prayer. 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 says that during these prayers Pope Gregorius [...]
December 27, 2008
Yesterday in a forum I stumbled upon a thread about the quality of astrological translations. I will not quote neither the forum nor the translator they were talking about because he is known in the astrological world - this is the Christmas spirit - especially because he always writes about philological exactitude. This is a point [...]
December 25, 2008
Luca Gaurico and Girolamo Cardano are two of the most important Italian astrologers, still they were always rivals and enemies. Gaurico lived in Rome at the court of Paul III, as Pope’s astrologer and courtier, because he was able to foresee for Alessandro Farnese the election as Pope, when the noble was not hoping for it [...]
December 22, 2008
In his effort to forget Arab magic and astrology and collections of aphorisms and in order to give more evidence to genethliac astrology, Cardano puts his reading of Jesus birthchart in his Comment to Tetrabiblos. These pages are a turning point after Albumasar’s pages about the Great Conjunction and the Pulchra Virgo. In these lines written [...]
December 16, 2008
Ptolemy writes “it yet seems to be more consonant to nature, and more consistent with the facts, that the combined positions of the Sun, and the new, or full, Moon, which happen when the Sun is nearest to the points above-mentioned, should mark the four beginnings; and more especially if such combined positions should produce [...]
December 8, 2008
This morning, as every year, I visited the traditional Christmas books’ exhibition and I had the opportunity to attend a lecture about the star crossed love between Raffaello Sanzio, the famous painter and the beautiful Fornarina, made immortal by one of his paintings. Who was that woman is not clear but many say she was Agostino [...]
December 4, 2008
Angelicus 29 We can foresee these events in advance from the following signs: when in a sign we find the conjunction of three or four planets, like Saturn, Jupiter and Mars or Mars and Venus and Saturn and even Mercury and when they are in their own places or triplicities or exaltations and one of two of [...]
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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