In this essay I want to demonstrate how the traditional system of essential dignities can be used to add quite a bit of detail and nuance to the interpretation of a chart. Traditional astrology uses five different essential dignities. There are the major dignities, rulership and exaltation, and their corresponding debilities, detriment and fall. Modern astrology still has these dignities, although they are often not widely recognized or used.
If you believe psychology is a merely a modern invention of a narcissistic age, you haven’t been paying attention. While the “scientific” study of psychology in a laboratory may be a relatively modern notion, (re)invented by researchers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the study of the mind has ancient roots in all human cultures.
Here’s a chart example to demonstrate many of the major themes of the Hellenistic tradition of astrology. In this essay I refrain from outright interpretation
By: Joseph Crane Ptolemy’s Harmonics The Harmonics [12] is probably earlier than the Tetrabiblos.[13] Although Ptolemy is well known for his astronomy and astrology, he
Ptolemy’s Digression: Astrology’s Aspects and Musical Intervals Statement of the Problem This essay addresses a problem in the development and continuity of astrology: how do
Features of Hellenistic Astrological Techniques Joseph Crane Here I address not the historian and scholar of the Hellenistic world, but instead I address the person
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