Astrology from Non-English Sources

conspiracy theorist

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The idea of this thread came about when I was reminiscing about a former poster on here who was very vehement about Ptolemy being the originator of western astrology, especially of its traditional practitioners. Her expressed purpose was to reform astrology into what she believed to be a better system. She was an Italian, and that might have had a lot to do with her opinion as I am vaguely aware of a set of traditional astrologers in Italy who uses Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and the approach found therein in their chart delineation.

Last year, Kiril Stoychev who is the chairman of the Bulgarian Astrological Association, posted an alternative perspective on exaltations on the forum - which can be found at this link - http://astrohoroscope.info/stoycheff/?p=269

Jean Baptiste Morin de Villefranche, mathematician and astrologer, was the author of Astrologiae Gallicae, or French Astrology. According to this article, his work is the basis of many French and Spanish practitioners, although most in the English speaking world have never heard of him. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/morin.html

There is a poster on here from Scandinavia, who reports that there has been a lot of research done on black moon lilith within the astrology community of their native land.

These are all examples of astrological developments and personalities who exist and practice outside of the English speaking world, and who importantly , also fall under the umbrella of "western astrology". I'd like for this thread to be a space where people can share astrological knowledge that has its origins outside of English speaking countries and cultures. The net is cast sufficiently wide enough to incorporate traditional and more modern techniques, important personages who might not have been astrologers but have produced works which have had influences on astrological practice or anything that can be linked back to how western astrology is practiced outside the anglosphere.
 
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katydid

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I'd be very interested in the Scandinavian writings about Black Moon Lilith. I have such a hard time isolating or recognizing my BLM. It is tightly conjunct my Pluto and my South Node, both in Leo in the 4th, and part of a grand square. So it has tightly infiltrated my neurosis. :innocent:
 

JUPITERASC

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The idea of this thread came about when I was reminiscing about a former poster on here who was very vehement about Ptolemy being the originator of western astrology, especially of its traditional practitioners. Her expressed purpose was to reform astrology into what she believed to be a better system. She was an Italian, and that might have had a lot to do with her opinion as I am vaguely aware of a set of traditional astrologers in Italy who uses Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and the approach found therein in their chart delineation.

Last year, Kiril Stoychev who is the chairman of the Bulgarian Astrological Association, posted an alternative perspective on exaltations on the forum - which can be found at this link - http://astrohoroscope.info/stoycheff/?p=269

Jean Baptiste Morin de Villefranche, mathematician and astrologer, was the author of Astrologiae Gallicae, or French Astrology. According to this article, his work is the basis of many French and Spanish practitioners, although most in the English speaking world have never heard of him. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/morin.html

There is a poster on here from Scandinavia, who reports that there has been a lot of research done on black moon lilith within the astrology community of their native land.

These are all examples of astrological developments and personalities who exist and practice outside of the English speaking world, and who importantly , also fall under the umbrella of "western astrology". I'd like for this thread to be a space where people can share astrological knowledge that has its origins outside of English speaking countries and cultures. The net is cast sufficiently wide enough to incorporate traditional and more modern techniques, important personages who might not have been astrologers but have produced works which have had influences on astrological practice or anything that can be linked back to how western astrology is practiced outside the anglosphere.
Margherita Fiorello Rome, Italy :smile:
Currently on the Board of CieloeTerra- Prof. Giuseppe Bezza's traditional astrology group
and is a certified CIDA member https://heavenastrolabe.wordpress.com/author/heavenastrolabe/
 

JUPITERASC

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Giuseppe Bezza :smile:
has written a number of essays on the history of astrology.
and is the author of
Commento al primo libro della Tetrabiblos di Claudio Tolemeo (Milan, 1991), Arcana Mundi.
Antologia del pensiero astrologico classico
(Milan, 1995)
and
Précis d’historiographie de l’astrologie: Babylone, Égypte, Grèce
(Turnhout, 2003)
 

conspiracy theorist

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@Katy - Maybe if the poster sees this thread, they will share the direct sources that they culled from.

@JA - Thanks for providing a face for the Italian traditionalists that I mentioned in the OP.
 

JUPITERASC

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QUOTE

is from an article by Russian Astrologer Albert Timashev
which he wrote in 2000:

"Many fundamental techniques and methods of ancient astrology
are generally unknown to modern astrologers
because they were lost as a result of a scientific revolution
of the 17th century
which claimed astrology was a pseudo-science.
One fundamental basis of astrology is the system of terms
- the division of the ecliptic into 60 unequal sectors
by 5 sectors per each sign of the zodiac -
and the major Egyptian years directly following from terms" :smile:

SOURCE: http://astrologer.ru/article/mey.html.en
 
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