My friend and collegue Ashwin Subramanyan has recently published a short article on dorphory, also referred to as spear-bearing. Bells rang as I remembered Stephan Heilen’s translation and Antigonos of[…]
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What’s your career? Ptolemy’s use of the helical rising planet
Ptolemy gives clear instructions about how to determine a client’s career. In his technique, the heliacal rising plays a fundamental role.
Read onCapricorn Ingress 2022
The Capricorn Ingress chart 2022 cast for Rome shows a pretty impressive chart with Mars right on the MC:
Read onThe celestial couple: Venus’ heliacal phases
Hathor and Isis are often represented with horns. These horns do not refer to Venus’ domicile Taurus but represent Venus’ heliacal phases.
Read onThe Decumbiture II: Culpeper’s use of Mooncrisis charts
There are many different techniques regarding decumbitures and their origin goes far back in time. The physicians Hippocrates (460-379 BC) and Galen (129-200 AD) were probably the most prominent representatives,[…]
Read onMars OOB, on autopilot at the Bull’s horn
I have posted on this topic on Instagram here and here, but will now look at it from a more astronomical perspective. You will find much more on this in[…]
Read onThe stolen underwear
This is a remarkable horary from the 5th century. Emperor Zeno’s anonymous astrologer had learned from a handmaid, that some of her linen clothes (probably underwear) had presumably been stolen.[…]
Read onOn temperament
[:en]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[…]
Read on[:en]Messages from beyond the veil – the amazing story of Erik[:]
[:en] This article is a in depth research of traditional astrological techniques such as annual profections, zodiacal releasing, sygyzy and circumambulation through the bounds. We know that a birth chart[…]
Read onUkraine plane crash
[:en] On January 8th, 2020 the regular passenger flight 752 directed from Teheran to Kiev , operated by the Ukraine International Airlines, crashed only minutes after its departure. All 176[…]
Read onAyrton Senna and Valen’s special method of Solar Return charts
Ayrton Senna was a famous Brazilian Formula One driver. He lost his life in a car accident. In this short article I will look at the Solar Return of the[…]
Read onJean Dominque Bauby, a butterfly in the diving belt. About annual profection, solar revolution and circumambulation through the bounds
Bauby dictated his book A Butterfly in a diving belt in which he described the condition of his total paralysis only with the blinking of his left eye. This articles loooks at the annual profections and other timing techniques for the time he published his book.
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