The following text was written by Franz Boll in 1917 and has been translated from Italian from a collection of chosen essays. 1. The original version is published in the Neue Jahrbucher, XXXIX, 1917, page 19 et ff, as Astronomische Beobachtungen im Altertum. It is especially dedicated to lovers of fixed stars, of which Boll is surely [...]
November 25, 2010
In traditional astrology Moon and Mercury and their ruler give the mores, morality as a set of mores1, what Ptolemy and the rest of ancient astrologers call “the quality of the soul”, which we should not mix with the temperament- which is more innate, “physical.” Wikipedia [↩]
January 17, 2010
A couple of weeks ago Dr. Ben Dykes- one of my favourite translators, one of the very few to have a proper curriculum studiorum, when the greater part has a self education, ie no title and competence - posted in Deborah Houlding site a preview of his last work Persian nativities- which includes al-Khayyat’s Judgement [...]
January 17, 2010
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 [...]
May 16, 2009
Fixed stars have a prominent part in traditional astrology: Ptolemy in the first book of Tetrabiblos lists them without giving any meaning, but we have several alternative sources for them, Manilius and Firmicus in the Latin world, Anonymous of 379 and two chapters from Liber Hermetis in the late Antiquity, and in the Middle Age and [...]
May 6, 2009
Just a quick look to swine influenza. In Italy we had some cases in tourists recently arrived from Mexico but they are recovering now, on the other hand influenza seems deadly just in Mexico. We can guess some reasons, at least we read them in our newspapers, and we can see others from an astrological point [...]
April 7, 2009
Yesterday night a strong earthquake (magnitude 6.3) killed 207 victims and still 15 people are missing. L’Aquila is a Medieval city in the heart of Italy, admist the mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo.
March 21, 2009
Can a star of whatever planetary nature with the Sun deciding the temperament as a traditional astrologer, author of a DVD about humours and temperament states? When does John Frawley say that an oriental Saturn is cold and dry he is talking according the tradition? One of the most interesting point in astrology is [...]
January 12, 2009
In generation and corruption earthly forms are subordinate to the celestials; wherefore they that frame images, do then make use of them, by observing when the planets do enter into those constellations or forms (Ptolemy’s Centiloquium) A recent post in Yuzuru’s blog made me think a little again about Moon mansions, i.e. the 28 [...]
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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