Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Warnock Christopher
Title : Fixed star sign and constellation magic
Year : 2019

Link download : Warnock_Christopher_-_Fixed_star_sign_and_constellation_magic.zip

Chapter 1 - Introduction Astrology literally means the language or wisdom of the stars. Originating in Babylonia and Chaldea, Western astrology is over 2,000 years old. By observing the cycles of the Heavens, astrologers and magicians could predict events and even cause spiritual and material effects here on Earth. Astrology flourished during periods of high civilization: among the Greeks and Romans, the advanced Islamic civilization of the Middle East, and in Europe in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The astrology practiced in Europe during these last periods, approximately A.D. 1100-1700, is known as traditional astrology. Unlike the predominately psychologically oriented modern astrology, traditional astrology emphasizes prediction and providing definitive answers to specific questions, and traditional astrological magic focuses on the use of astrology for talismanic magic. Among the most important celestial factors used in traditional astrology are the fixed stars, signs and constellations. The planets and signs of the Zodiac are much more familiar, even to astrologers, than the fixed stars and constellations. The word planet comes from the Greek planetes, meaning wanderer, reflecting the ancients’ observation that over time the planets move significantly relative to each other and to the fixed stars. Renaissance astrology used a geocentric (Earth-centered) astronomy based on the concept of celestial spheres. The fastest planet, the Moon, had the sphere closest to Earth, followed by Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and the slowest and thus highest of the planetary spheres, Saturn. Above the spheres of the planets was the sphere of the fixed stars and the Zodiac, the highest of the celestial spheres. ...