Yesterday in a discussion group we have been talking about the temperament of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. I met him on one occasion in Bonn when I was in my early twenties and I remember him as tall, very fat and with a grave voice. Several group members
Galen’s theory of the four humors and its influence to classical astrology
This is the translation of an older article of mine, which was first published in German by the Meridian, Fachzeitschrift fuer Astrologie in 2012. Claudius[1] or Aelius Galenus was born in 129 B.C.E at Pergamon, the capital of the ancient region of Mysia, which corresponds nowadays to the Turkish Izmir