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Will the king of Naples die?

February 7, 2009

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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  [...]

Primary directions 3 1/2 and Latinorum too

February 5, 2009

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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 [...]

About four temperaments and Salernitan Medical School

February 3, 2009

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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 [...]

Cardano on wars of religion

February 1, 2009

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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 [...]

Teucer and the year of the ox

January 30, 2009

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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 [...]

Which is the true moment of birth: Placidus and animodar

January 27, 2009

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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):

the first eclipse of 2009

January 25, 2009

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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 [...]

Obama inauguration

January 20, 2009

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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 [...]

About omen in the sky and tailed stars

January 20, 2009

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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.

the astrological ceiling of Villa Farnesina in Rome

January 15, 2009

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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 [...]