Often a querent asks several questions at the same time. There are interesting rules for such cases in a book of Abenragel, the astrologer of X-XI cc. Is there any modern astrologer, who uses these rules in practice? 
I havn’t been tried them, actually. But after unexpectedly good results with the rules about querent’s thoughts I will try these as well 
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I think every astrologer knows that there is a Placidean house system. Some of astrologers are informed that Placidus is not the inventor of this house system. Few astrologers heard that Avraham Ibn Ezra wrote about this system five centuries before Placidus. But much less number of astrologers know what and where Ibn Ezra really wrote.
Ibn Ezra really described the house system that is based on the hour distance of the point of ecliptic from the meridian. And it is really the same basic idea as in Placidean house system.
Ibn Ezra describes this system in his ספר הטעמים א (The Book of Reasons A). A is important in this case, because there are two versions of The Book of Reasons – version A and version B. Version A is more than twice bigger than version B. But the English translation of The Book of Reasons by Meira Epstein is based on the version B. Therefore English speaking readers are bereft of some very interesting and important parts of this Ibn Ezra’s work, including the part on house system.
The translation of a fragment from the book by the astrologer of VIII c. Omar of Tiberias (‘Umar Ibn al-Farrukhân al-Tabarî) on horaries. This fragment says about accomplishment of some doubtful thing. The way of judgement doesn’t look standard for modern horary astrology.
Just a quotation about some fixed stars and hight social position from “De fixis stellis commentarius” (The Commentary On Fixed Stars) by Johannes Stadius:
Lyra [Vega, α Lyrae] in the second house or mixed with Jupiter, Venus or the Part [of Fortune] promises immeasurable wealth.
The Right Shoulder of Orion [Betelgeuse, α Orionis] or of Auriga [Menkalinan, β Aurigae] with Jupiter promises the famous fortune and increase of faculties.
Italian astrologer of XVII century Andrea Argoli (also known by the Latin version of his surname as Argolus) gives in his book a natal chart of the famous French cardinal Richelieu (see Andreae Argoli… De diebus criticis et aegrorum decubitu, Patavij 1652, page 172, 173). The charts in this book are rectified. The rectification mostly made with primary directions. From the other hand, there is a nativity of Richelieu in the book of the famous French astrologer Jean-Baptiste Morin (see his Astrologia Gallica, Hagae 1661, page 612). The version of Morin is not the same as the version of Argoli.
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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