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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 17, 2010
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