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Primary Directions: the story of calculations (vol. 1)

September 1, 2008 in Astrology, Primary directions | No comments

I wrote two posts on story of primary directions. It was couple years ago, and now these posts are buried deeply in the archives of Angelicus Merlin Group. Therefore I decided to repeat that stuff and perhaps to develop the subject.

First of all, because primary directions are based on daily rotation of celestial sphere, we must have a mathematical model of this rotation to calculate directions. The first model of this rotation was made in Babylon, but astrologers of Hellenistic period mostly call it “according to Egyptians”.

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The Fixed Star Of The Place

August 24, 2008 in Astrology, Fixed stars, Mundane astrology | 4 comments

Recently I read “De fixis stellis commentarius” (The Commentary On Fixed Stars) by Johannes Stadius.

Johannes Stadius (1527 – 1579) was a Dutch (his Dutch name was Jan Van Ostaeyen) from Belgium (Flemish). He was astronomer, astrologer, historian and mathematician. Stadius lived in Turin, Cologne, Brussels and Paris. He worked as professor of mathematics in the University of Leuven, and also he worked as a mathematician for the Duke of Savoy.

Along with common astronomical and astrological information about the most famous fixed stars, this text contains some rare and interesting details for astrological gourmets. One of them is the fixed star of the place.

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