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DE DIVINATIONE by Cicero

This treatise is an attempt to convince the reader of the absurdity of divination. However, it's interesting in it's description of differents philosohical schools on the topic. It seems the Stoics were in favor of almost every type of divination because it helped them to accept their fate and attai...

Hand reading. It can be very interesting to get a detailed knowledge of one's hand anatomy and understand the meaning of it's shape and the lines in it. Not to mention you can get to know other people better. Face reading. Very useful for understanding yourself and other people based on shape of face.

Astrologer's watch?

Would an astrologer use this? "Introduction of the new Yellow Gold version. The night sky of the northern hemisphere rotates counterclockwise on its dial, showing the angular progression of the stars relative to the meridian passage of Sirius. At the same time, the display shows the meridian pa...

I think modern astrology is right in recognizing the solar system as we know it right now. The main problem is that New Age and pop astrologers have got in the way astrology is done, damaging it's reputation. So it's understandable why traditional astrologers think anything modern in this field is n...

If I were to look for a field-developed model of modern astrology, I would look to the Cosmobiology of Reinhold Ebertin. I would look at the Hamburg School of Astrology instead. As Reinhold Ebertin is dishonest and an egalomaniac, because he stole the methods of the Hamburg School of Astrology, mod...

Nor tradition or novelty alone make an astrological model better than the others. We need a system for the measurement of quality of a given astrological model. Principles 1. Internal consistency. 2. Cultural relevance. 3. Interpretative power. Those principles are very short and archaic, however th...

So what Juan Revilla is proposing
is the folowing: selecting among
let's say 15 "planets", 7 that serve
for the specific inquiry. So it's some
sort of meritocracy rather than a
aristocracy of 7 or 9 planets, or worse
yet a mediocracy of 100..... planets.

I disagree with three of your five points. And due to your presumption of intellectual superiority I'm going to do a rebuttal of those I disagree. 1. I think that the labeling of a planet does affect astrological meaning because astrology is based on concepts fundamented by the collective unconsciou...

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