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Legal Astrology 10 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
As you may be aware I am both a practicing Renaissance astrologer/astrological magician and an attorney. One thing that's been fun and interesting is to bring these two professions together. I recent...
"Correct?" Planetary Rulership 17 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
I had a very good question from a student about how to deal with differences in list of planetary rulerships. What do you do when Agrippa says one thing Al-biruni another and Lilly a third thing abou...
Fixed Stars Not on the List 5 Jul 2013 | 05:14 am
I had a question recently about working with a fixed star that wasn't on the 15 fixed stars list. One of the reasons we work with the manuscript Hermes on the 15 Fixed Stars is that we have the fulles...
Review: Jason Miller's "Advanced Planetary Magic" 27 Jun 2013 | 10:11 pm
I just got a review copy of Jason Miller's Advanced Planetary Magic Thank you Jason! Jason Miller is one of our best known modern mages. I really like his approach of combining magic and practical, ...
Incense for Fixed Star Talisman Consecration 1 May 2013 | 03:04 am
I had a question about what incense to use for suffumigating a fixed star talisman during consecration. Suffumigation means to move the talisman back and forth through the rising smoke of incense. Thi...
Considerations Before Judgment? 27 Apr 2013 | 08:58 pm
I had a poster ask about the "Considerations Before Judgment" citing John Frawley's skepticism about them in his Horary Textbook and asking me what I thought about them. The Considerations Before Jud...
"Traditional Astrology"? 4 Apr 2013 | 10:02 pm
After 15 years of using the term "traditional astrology" as a label for the astrology practiced in Europe between 1200 and 1700 without incident, all of a sudden this definition is WRONG! Everyone mu...
Archeology of the Term Hermetic & Hermetic Reading List 20 Mar 2013 | 08:12 pm
I had a question recently asking me what I meant when I said I practiced "Hermetic" magic? Well, let's look at the dictionary definition, "(1) made airtight by fusion or sealing.; (2) not affected by...
Riffing within the Tradition 25 Feb 2013 | 06:37 am
I got a very good question the other day about horary and in particular Lilly's famous Christian Astrology, from a student of mine and member of my discusssion group, Spiritus Mundi, Kiel Price. Kiel...
Let's Get Traditional With Reception 9 Feb 2013 | 06:56 am
A series of unfortunate events made the very useful technique of reception very confusing. First I really regret that the 17th century astrologers messed with it and tried to limit it to mutual recept...
