A new star

Brahe’s new star A martian star, because both the siyzygy and the following angle are ruled by Mars. The star is in Aries at MC.

Love and Sex and Astrology

Translation from “Trattato d’astrologia giudiziaria” Luca Gaurico (1539) Download from Widget Box

All Power to the Soviets

I was reading last issue of Phos, so let’s check Russian Revolution. The author considers 1914 eclipse and give 48 months for its duration, but let us stick with Cardano. As in the previous post, Russia is ruled by Aquarius. So the eclipse falls in the 12th house. Saturn rules the sizigy by domicile, triplicity, terms and it [...]

Russian Astrologers

“The nations about Sauromatica, Oxiana and Sogdiana, are influenced by Aquarius and Saturn; and are therefore less polished in manners, and more austere and uncouth.” Tetrabiblos II, 3 and thieves, scondrels, profiteers  and liars….

Questions

But why  does nobody translate Boll’s book?

The chariot of Love in Petrarca Trionfi

Vedi Venere bella e con lei Marte, cinto di ferri i piè, le braccia e ’l collo, e Plutone e Proserpina in disparte; vedi Iunon gelosa, e ’l biondo Apollo che solea disprezzar l’etate e l’arco che gli diede in Tessaglia poi tal crollo. Che debb’io dir? In un passo men varco: tutti son qui in prigion gli dèi di Varro; e di [...]

Marsilio Ficino casts his horoscope

Reply to a friend asking Marsilio’s birthday You are asking me about my birthday; and if our Plotinus, to the friends that often asked him about it, never replied, I’m so touched of your love for me, that I can’t deny anything if not what I’m not able to do. My birthday was on 19th October 1433. About [...]

Pontano stars

AD STELLAM in tenebris, mea Stella, nites, dum sidera pallent, Et nox ipsa tuo lucida honore placet; In medio, mea Stella, die sub sole nitescis, Clarior et per te solque diesque uenit. Sic es sideribus decus addita matutinis, Et radiis debent solque diesque tuis. Sed cur, quae tenebris honor es, decus una diebus, Cur lumen nobis nocte dieque negas? Nocte negas foribus clausis, in [...]

Jupiter in Cancer, year 1574

Firmicus, and pictures and paranatellonta

Pictures are taken from the astrological representation of paranatellonta in Villa Te in Mantua,1527 ARIES Haedus is in the 20th degree of Aries toward the North…….Also from this star are born shepherds who make sweet songs to rustic pipes. TAURUS When the Pleiades are descending in the sixth degree ofTaurus, if this degree is attacked by malefic influence, [...]