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The Anachronism of Hellenistic Detriment: What the Astrology Podcast Left Out

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Ant 5 Comments adversities, antithesis, Anubio, ben dykes, chris brennan, depression, detriment, dignity, Dorotheus, enanti, enantioma, enantios, episode 264, estrangement, exile, fall, Hellenistic astrology, Hellenistic detriment, hephaistio, hephaistion, manetho, opposition, ptolemy, rhetorius, serapio, the astrology podcast, Theophilus, Valens

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes Introduction 6 months ago, when the Sun was opposite the position it is now, I published

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Is Astrology Geocentric?

May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 Ant 2 Comments 17th century, absolute motion, brahe, celestial spheres, comet, copernican revolution, copernicus, epicycle, galileo, geocentric, geocentric astrology, geostatic, heliocentric, heliocentric astrology, heliostatic, history of astronomy, hugh thurston, kepler, morin, morinus, newton, planetary motion, ptolemy, relative motion, tycho brahe

Introduction This is an accidental article. While working on the research for a long article on comets, prompted by the

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Detriment: A Questionable Distinction | Part 1: Historical Development

February 2, 2020September 9, 2020 Ant 12 Comments abu 'ali, Abu Bakr, Abu Ma'shar, adversities, al-andarzaghar, antiochus of athens, arabic astrology, ben dykes, chris brennan, debility, detriment, dignity, domicile, Dorotheus, exaltation, exile, fall, firmicus maternus, greco-roman astrology, greek astrology, Hellenistic astrology, hephaistio, hephaistion of thebes, liber hermetis, manetho, Masha'allah, medieval astrology, Paulus Alexandrinus, persian astrology, porphyry, ptolemy, reconstruction, rhetorius, Robert Schmidt, roman astrology, sahl, serapio, teucer, theophilus of edessa, umar al-tabari, Valens, wabal, zodiac

Update 9/4-9/20: A little over a month ago, this article was mentioned on a podcast where its arguments were misrepresented,

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Astrological Predictive Techniques | The Ages of Man with Maya Angelou

December 9, 2019December 12, 2019 Ant 8 Comments ages of man, angelou, claudius ptolemy, Hellenistic astrology, IV.10, marguerite johnson, maya, maya angelou, ptolemy, seven ages of man, shakespeare, stages of life, tetrabiblos

Introduction Many of the predictive techniques of Hellenistic and medieval astrology seek to time out specific major events indicated in

Prince | Part 2: The Timing of his Death

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Ant 0 Comments ascensions, cause of death, distributors, Dorotheus, Fortune, Hellenistic astrology, length of life, longevity, lot of death, lot of fortune, primary directions, prince, prince rogers nelson, profections, ptolemy, solar return, the artist formerly known as prince, Valens

Prince Part 2: Death In the last article, I discussed Prince’s natal chart with a particular focus on his character

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How Old is the Tropical Zodiac?

March 20, 2019February 1, 2020 Ant 3 Comments antikythera, callippus, equinox, euctemon, Eudoxus, Geminos, geminus, hpparchus, kallippos, Neugebauer, ptolemy, sidereal, solstice, tropical, tropical zodiac, Valens, zodiac

Introduction The original regular twelve-sign zodiac was a Babylonian invention. It was strongly shaped by both the tropical year of

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Why Use the Tropical Zodiac?

December 21, 2018February 1, 2020 Ant 8 Comments ayanamsa, ayanamsha, Babylonian astrology, fagan-bradley, Francesca Rochberg, Geminos, Hipparchus, Mesopotamian, Neugebauer, origins of tropical zodiac, ptolemy, sidereal, signs, system A, system B, tropical, zodiac, zodiac origins

Introduction: Contentious Choices The practice of astrology is riddled with contentious choices. Which one of the dozens of house systems

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Twelve Easy Lessons for Beginners | 5. Planetary Aspects and Configurations

December 2, 2015June 10, 2019 Anthony 12 Comments aspects, bounds, conjunction, dahmer, dominate, irrational mind, joining, Moon, opposition, overcome, predominator, prevail, psychology, ptolemy, regards, sextile, square, terms, trine, unconscious, whitney houston, whole sign aspects

But since the variety of the impulses of the soul is great, it stands to reason that we would make

Traditional Astrology of Death | Special Techniques for Length of Life

June 29, 2015April 30, 2019 Anthony 2 Comments alcocoden, anaereta, apheta, ascensional times, ascensions, control, death, Dorotheus, firmicus maternus, governor, haylaj, hyleg, jarbakhtar, kerkorian, length of life, longevity, manilius, Paulus Alexandrinus, planetary years, primary directions, ptolemy, rising times, secondary directions, secondary progressions, solar return, transits, tropical zodiac, Valens

Length of Life Techniques In Hellenistic astrology, astrologers often presented special techniques for determining the length of life. The method

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Traditional Astrology of Death | A History of Length of Life Special Techniques

May 19, 2015April 28, 2019 Anthony 4 Comments advancement, alcocoden, anaereta, aphesis, apheta, ascensional times, ascensions, bonatti, control, death, distributor, Dorotheus, governor, hilaj, hyleg, inoperative degrees, kadukhudhah, length of life, longevity, operative degrees, Paulus Alexandrinus, primary directions, ptolemy, quadrants, retreat, Valens, zoller

Introduction Now I will explain to you the length of life and the number of years as I attempt [to

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