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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is Medusa rising with my Ascendant. as given in one of my favourite painter
And below as in the astrological version in Fendulus / Hermann of Carinthia / Abumashar
But why does nobody translate Boll’s book?
January 17, 2010
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