Cold Fusion
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Cold Fusion, I don't know how much Hellenistic astrology you've read, but it is important to put its isolated snippets into context. The ancient astrologers lived in a very cut-and-dried, "black or white" mental world, without the ambiguity and flexibility that characterizes our post-modern world. Events were either good or bad to them. Most of them were stoics (philosophically,) and they came out of the Babylonian tradition in which the planets were gods or directed by gods. Ipso facto, what the gods decreed, humans could scarcely overturn.
Ditto for the medieval Arab astrologers (the will of Allah,) who comprised a lot of Vivian Robson's material.
Few of us in modern western astrology think that way today. For more up-to-date and constructive readings in fixed stars, I recommend Bernadette Brady's Star and Planet Combinations, and Brady's Book of Fixed Stars. Her interpretation of Ras Alhague might surprise you. See also: Richard Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning.
If Ptolemy says that a star is "of the nature of Saturn and Venus," We have to understand his schema. Saturn was cold and dry, Venus was warm and moist; and then to work through how this star could give reversals in life or conflicting events, both harmful and beneficial. Robson was a great compiler of star lore, mostly from medieval Arab astrologers. I don't think he did any research himself on stellar influences.
I just checked my copy of Tetrabiblos, I.9, and here is what Ptolemy actually said about the stars in Ophiuchus, including this one:
"The stars in...Ophiuchus [have the nature] of Saturn and to some degree of Venus; those in his serpent, of Saturn and Mars..."
That's it.
Ptolemy and Robson were highly influential in the history of astrology, but Time Marches On.
p.s. (By "he" do you mean me? I'm a she. I don't post to be popular but to say what I believe to be correct.)
When it comes to fixed stars, I go by two sites:
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Stars_in_longitude_order.htm
http://www.astrologycom.com/fixedstars.html
Think about it this, are satanists considered to be depraved narcissistic (Malignant) insane people?
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Sun with Mars and Achird:
Haughtiness, boastfulness, exaggerated pride; commands respect
Neptune (which rules spirituality) with Unukalhai:
Success followed by fall, suicide, insanity, accidents, success in war, politics, writing, problems in love, forgery, shipwreck, loss, earthquake
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