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Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)

January 17, 2010

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Stars at the border of Sagittarius, the three ones of third magnitude near or over the arrow, have a great influence in producing murderers. If they are well disposed they make heroes, men of war, tribunes, judges, responsible for other people’s death; if ill disposed, they make wardens, subordinates to magistrates,  executioners, thieves. If they [...]

Stars, trade, magistery, profession and inclinations

November 22, 2009

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We know that traditional astrology is not an uniform group of tools, rules and techniques, so sometimes it’s difficult to find a common thread in it, we should just collect single inputs trying to put them together. Surely this is the case of profession and trade determination. Not all the planets can be chosen as significators of [...]

Are stars signs or causes? The southern hemisphere experiment

November 12, 2009

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Since the beginning astrology was never either a block of consistent techniques or it was founded on the same philosophical background. The art of the astrologer is - like in Plotinus reading signs in the book of the sky?

About Cardano’s seven segments: a review

September 24, 2009

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I see from the net that the first chapter of Seven Segments “”translated” by Anton Grigoryev and Valeria Livina is ready for download in Anton’s site, so I’m obliged again to spend some words about Anton Grigoryev, a “man” who makes his name of astrologer copying and paste others’ work.

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 [...]

Girolamo Cardano writes about Jesus’ horoscope

December 22, 2008

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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 [...]

Cardano on Solar Returns

October 15, 2008

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Girolamo Cardano, doctor, mathematician, philosopher, scientist,  is surely one of the most famous Italian astrologers. He is well known in the traditional astrology world especially for Lilly’s translation  of chosen Aphorisms selected from Aphorismorum Astronomicorum segmenta septem but surely the greatest contribution Cardano gave to astrology was his Comment to  Tetrabiblos, written after 1552  when he  [...]