DEVELOPED UNDER THE SHADOWS of the Egyptian temples, Hellenistic Astrology is an Ancient form of divination inherited from Mesopotamian wisdom traditions.
To this end, this Volume provides a series of rigorous methods for evaluating the Condition of each planet in a birth chart through the lenses of classification (sect, gender, benefic/malefic), signs and rulerships (residences, reception, exaltation, trigons, bounds), the solar phase cycle (speed, direction, visibility, phase, phasis), lunar considerations (course, phases, bonding, nodes, bending, eclipses, prenatal lunation), and aspects (configurations, witnessing, testimony, bonification, maltreatment, adherence, overcoming, ray.
Not all planets are created equal in a given nativity, however, and so the first step of the practicing astrologer is to assess the Condition of each planet in a chart in order to determine its effectiveness (or lack thereof) in the native\'s life.
Volume 1: Assessing Planetary Condition In Ancient cosmology, the Planetary divinities symbolised the hierarchy of forces that shape our lives in the sublunary world.
Each Volume and each technique is richly illustrated with diagrams, example charts, and practical exercises.
In two volumes, it provides the complete foundations and detailed dynamics of Ancient chart-reading techniques.
Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice is, in essence, a training Manual for the study and practice of Hellenistic astrology.
Scholar, translator, and practitioner, her work reveals the potent cosmological veins that bear the lifeblood of Traditional astrology.
Drawing on a body of Greek texts that have remained largely untranslated for almost two-thousand years, Demetra George brings the contemporary practice of Astrology back to its Ancient roots.
Distilled in Gr co-Roman antiquity, and refined in the fires of philosophy and astronomy, it forms the bedrock of Traditional western Astrology (while also bearing profound similarities to Jyotish or Vedic astrology).
DEVELOPED UNDER THE SHADOWS of the Egyptian temples, Hellenistic Astrology is an Ancient form of divination inherited from Mesopotamian wisdom traditions
