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About beibenie stars and their virtues

January 17, 2010

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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, 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 [...]

ABOUT STARS RISING WITH THE 12 SIGNS ACCORDING ALBUMASAR GREAT INTRODUCTION

February 17, 2009

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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 Mathesis, and the list of 30 stars given by [...]

Teucer and the year of the ox

January 30, 2009

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In the traditional astrology blog of Dorothy Kovach there is an interesting and as usually well written  article about the  year of the Ox and some notes about Chinese calendar. Still practioners of traditional astrology would remember  some lines from the famous book of Franz Boll, Wilhelm Gundel,  Carl Bezold, Sternglaube Und Sterndeutung Die Geschichte Und [...]

Hermes on Moon Mansions

October 8, 2008

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The following text is an English translation from a Spanish book written at the court of Alphonse the Wise around  the second half of 13th century, and known as Vaticanus Reginensis 1283. Alfonso D’Agostino, in his edition of the book, identifies two main sources for the manuscript, Ghayat al-hakim and the Great Introduction of Albumasar. The Spanish manuscript shares [...]

Hermes Book of Paranatellonta

August 8, 2008

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Pseudo Pythagoras The book of Paranatellonta  in  Reginensis Vat. Lat. 1283 fol 1-8v. This is the first and likely the most important part of the selection of Spanish Medieval texts collected in the  manuscript known as Reginensis Vat. Lat. 1283,  written in the court of Alphonse the Wise around 1280. The illuminated  book was discovered [...]