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Using Medieval Astrology:  Part I – Universal Astrology

We are pleased to announce the release of the first volume of Prof. Benjamin Dykes's Using Medieval Astrology, a several-part compendium of concepts and techniques for use in practicing and studying medieval/traditional astrology. Suitable for both beginners and those with a background in modern astrology, Part 1 of Using Medieval Astrology is devoted to Universal Astrology: over 100 pages of information and practical advice from traditional authorities on concepts and techniques that apply to all branches of astrology.

Like the future volumes in this work, Professor Dykes has consulted the practices of the great medieval/traditional astrologers, including: Ptolemy, Paulus Alexandrinus, Dorotheus, Masha'allah, Abu 'Ali, Abu Ma'shar, Al-Biruni, Alchabitius, Bonatti, Haly Abenragel, William Lilly, Henry Coley, Johannes Schoener, Morinus, John Frawley, Robert Zoller, and others. These authorities are supplemented by Professor Dykes's own experience.

Topics in Using Medieval Astrology Part 1: Universal Astrology include:

1. The differences between medieval/traditional and modern astrology
2. Universal significators
3. The different types of zodiac and their use
4. The zodiacal signs in medieval/traditional astrology
5. Whole sign and quadrant house systems
6. The natures and significations of the seven traditional planets
7. Evaluating the major and minor dignities and debilities
8. The multiple uses of triplicity rulers
9. Evaluating malefic and benefic influences
10. How to analyze and interpret planetary aspects
11. Relations to the Sun such as being under the sunbeams, combustion, and orientality/occidentality
12. The use of sect rulers and sect conditions like halb/hayz/dustoria
13. Special conditions like retrogradation and reception
14. The derivation of Arabic Parts
15. Basic interpretative advice for fixed stars, and the equations for calculating their rising and culminating positions with a calculator

In Chapters 6 and 7, Professor Dykes supplies extensive templates and explanations for standard house delineation, including valuable, house-by-house information based on Henry Coley, Morin, and Abu 'Ali on how to delineate the ruler of each house when it is in any other house. Chapter 7 concludes with an in-depth delineation of several features of a natal chart, employing many features of the preceding chapters. Professor Dykes also provides online information for the best websites for learning or discussing medieval/traditional astrology.

Future volumes in this compendium series will be devoted to Natal, Horary, Electional and Mundane Astrology. Professor Dykes will employ his translations of Guido Bonatti and Haly Abenragel, providing information and texts never before published in English.

This book is a downloadable PDF file. Price: $25.00 US

COMING SOON:

Abu Ma’shar: Flowers of Astrology - Second Edition

This classic text in mundane astrology is now available for the first time in English! Based on Professor Dykes's upcoming translation of Bonatti's complete Liber Astronomiae (1491, 1550) this second edition has been stylistically improved and had several errors corrected.

Translated by Professor Dykes from several Latin editions, this updated edition of the Flowers has been cross-referenced with Abu Ma’shar’s On the Great Conjunctions for accuracy.

The Flowers of Abu Ma'shar contains sections on the following topics:

• Finding and delineating the Lord of the Year, used to interpret events of the year
• The mundane significations of the traditional planets
• How to cast an ingress chart
• Disasters: famine, war, earthquakes
• The malefic conjunctions of Saturn and Mars by house
• Malefic fixed stars and how they afflict the nation and children born that year
• Delineating the superior planets by sign and condition
• Delineating the Nodes of the Moon by sign
• Comets

The Flowers also comes with special supplements from Haly Abenragel on the Lord of the Year, and Guido Bonatti on comets -- never before translated into English. Professor Dykes has supplemented the text with further commentary. Professor Dykes's commentary on comets includes an application of medieval rules to the Hale-Bopp comet and its effects on the USA. Don't miss this opportunity to learn valuable mundane techniques from famous medieval astrologers!

This 74-page book is a downloadable PDF file. Price: $20.00 US

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