Considerations
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A prince who cast charts: astrology at the Portuguese court in the 1600s
This is an earlier address of our article on astrology at the seventeenth-century Portuguese court, kept because it still receives links. It covers the heir to the restored throne — who collected charts, made political predictions and was tutored by a Jesuit who studied the…
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Astrology and the Jesuits: what was actually permitted
This is an earlier address of our article on astrology and the Jesuits, kept because it still receives links. In short: what was in force was a distinction rather than a prohibition. Natural astrology — weather, agriculture, medicine — was uncontroversial and taught in the…
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The Aries ingress: how the astrological year is judged
This is an earlier address of our article on the Aries ingress, kept because it still receives links. The ingress chart — the Sun's entry into Aries, cast for a capital — is the base of mundane judgement for the year. It is local, it describes conditions rather than events, and…
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The Aries ingress: how the astrological year is judged
This is an earlier address of an article that now lives at the Aries ingress . The address is kept because it still receives links from elsewhere. In short: the astrological year begins at the Sun's entry into Aries, not in January; the chart is cast for a particular place, so…
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Political violence in mundane charts: what the technique describes
This is an earlier address of our article on political violence in mundane charts, kept because it still receives links. In short: the tradition gives clear testimonies — a human sign rising, the lord of the eighth afflicting the lord of the Ascendant, a conjunction with Mars,…