Comets - like the one it’s told showed the road to Magi- the learned astrologers arrived from far East in order to worship the baby Jesus - always show supernatural events because of their unpredictable nature; they suddenly appeared in the sky and suddenly disappeared, they did not have a fixed path like the wandering [...]
February 24, 2009
In the moment everybody is looking in the sky for the Comet Lulin, I believe of some interest reading what a Medieval astrologer wrote about the famous Halley comet in 1301. This passage was so famous that many scholars believe that the Italian painter Giotto painted Halley comet in his painting for the Scrovegni [...]
February 21, 2009
Surfing the net this morning I found this article posted today in the blog of Anton Grigoryev which is the copycat of my post about the comet Lulin written the 9th of February: http://heavenastrolabe.net/about-the-comet-lulin/ Cardano became Campanella and PseudoPtolemaus Ephastio, but what? Obviously traditional sources are in agreement. So please let’s try to respect others’work. There is even the picture of [...]
February 9, 2009
Comets have fascinated people since antiquity, who considered them as a sign for future events. They could be for the good if Venusian or Jupiterian comets – and here it’s easy to think to Julius Caesar’s star, but more often they were malefic in nature, of Mars and Saturn nature. Some say in fact that Electra seeing [...]
February 1, 2009
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 [...]
January 20, 2009
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.
June 3, 2008
Of Comets or blazing stars, and cœlestiall prodigies, their nature, situation, and diverse sorts. THESE blazing starres the Greekes call Cometas, our Romanes Crinitas: dreadfull to be seene, with bloudie haires, and all over rough and shagged in the top like the bush of haire upon the head. The same Greekes call those starres Pogonias, which [...]
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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