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Gaurico on sinastry

December 25, 2008

Luca Gaurico and Girolamo Cardano are two of the most important Italian astrologers, still they were always rivals and enemies. Gaurico lived in Rome at the court of Paul III, as Pope’s astrologer and courtier, because he was able to foresee for Alessandro Farnese the election as Pope, when the noble was not hoping for it [...]

….and Henry II

November 28, 2008

About Caterina de Medici’s husband, it is well know the prognostication Luca Gaurico made for him. Percopo, Gaurico’s biographer mentions it: “Itinera tamen aquea videntur infausta et ab equis nonnihil impedimenti et lachrimulis ex oculo sinistro fluentibus“ “Travels by water are inaspicious and accidents with horses and tears from the left eye.” While in his Tractatus, Gaurico mentions [...]

Caterina de Medici

November 22, 2008

The black legend about Caterina de Medici depicts her as a wicked woman, adept to black magic and every kind of sorcery in order to keep the power and the throne, and i found this story in several astrological sites too. Alexandre Dumas writes in his wonderful novel “La reine Margot” about her

Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)

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, subordinate

ABOUT STARS RISING WITH THE 12 SIGNS ACCORDING ALBUMASAR GREAT INTRODUCTION

Stars rising with portions of ecliptic, the so-called paranatellonta, have a central place in traditional astrology. Ancient texts give a lot of room to this subject, Manilius dedicated to paranatellonta the whole fifth book of his Astronomica, Firmicus lists them in two of the eight books of Mat

Some personal notes

A THIEF called ANTON GRIGORYEV Caesar divorced Pompeia at once, but when he was summoned to testify at the trial, he said he knew nothing about the matters with which Clodius was charged. His statement appeared strange, and the prosecutor therefore asked, "Why, then, didst thou divorce thy wife?"

A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

Reading here and there I see that primary directions are seen as very difficult and occult. It is not like that. Ideas which are behind are very easy to grasp, and modern software can do all the calculation for us: on the other hand people who have learned them generally use them as a way to show ho

The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole

Since the Antiquity astrology (and prediction) was based on astronomical tables generally divided into three different parts collected together: tables of primum mobile, tables of planetary positions, eclipses; at the beginning of the Renaissance tables of primum mobile were separated from the rest:

the astrological ceiling of Villa Farnesina in Rome

This is the transcript of the lecture kept in Rome by me and Anton Grigoryev (who wrote the article with me) for the Congress/Competition of October 2006 organized by CIDA, the Italian Astrological Association . The Italian text has been published in the Winter 2006 issue of Linguaggio Astrale, t

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC

Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is music for life, the sound of work, war, happiness, sadness, love, prayer. [vimeo 2654494] The Litaniae Sanctorum are one of the oldest prayers of the Church. They were established by Gregorius the Great in 590 AD to stop the plague. A medieval legend

Stade on Fixed stars

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

Browsing Tag »Gaurico«

Gaurico on sinastry

….and Henry II

Caterina de Medici

Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)

ABOUT STARS RISING WITH THE 12 SIGNS ACCORDING ALBUMASAR GREAT INTRODUCTION

Some personal notes

A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole

the astrological ceiling of Villa Farnesina in Rome

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC

Stade on Fixed stars

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