I've graduated his horary course, but I have the magic course on CD. His courses are very thorough and he follows through with the lessons - meaning he responds to your lessons and will answer your questions. They are not easy, especially the magic course, but if you actually graduate them, you'll b...

If you want to stay in the Renaissance period, there is actually a fair amount in Ramsay and Gadbury. Everything is freely available. However Chris Warnock, who is a person you need to be familiar with, has a compilation of some of these that you can buy in print form: http://renaissanceastrology.co...

Chris, this is what happens with research. We SHOULD be revising our conclusions based on what learn.

Don't be hard on yourself!

Well first of all I disagree with Crowley's definition of magic (in response to JPskyman's mention of him): to affect change in conformity with will, because with that definition, making toast is magical. It leaves out an important component: spirit. Agrippa and Picatrix agree that magic unites the ...

Are you asking me or JPskyman?

Oh and the third, while not specifically magic, is the "Corpus Hermeticum". It's the philosophical basis for astrology, magic, and alchemy - all of which are the three hermetic arts. Pretty much every astrologer between the medieval period and renaissance were very familiar with this book....

The two best sources are "The Picatrix", the Latin version of which is translated by John Michael Greer and Christopher Warnock. It's quite easy to find. The other is "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" by H.C. Agrippa. There are two versions: one translated in the 1600s by J.F. (...

I think it's basically that through magic, one can connect to the higher spheres and transcend fate. Essentially the natal chart is the "default" state that people are born into, and by gaining wisdom they can overcome it. It actually has some support in the "Corpus Hermeticum". ...

I'd agree, but again there are different opinions on this. I know some very competent magicians who'd disagree. Of course this is the source of many a good natured argument.

Astrological magic is a branch of electional astrology, so it's basically taking advantage of good placements. Most of the source literature says that as magicians, we are actually dealing spirits associated with the planets rather than the planets themselves. Personally I'd argue that astrology in ...

"duodecim" is the Latin for 12, so you'll see duodecimoria in Latin texts more.

My books are going to be in storage for a few more days so I can't check, but I know al-Qabisi in "Ad Magisterium Iudiciorum", translated as "Introductions to Traditional Astrology" by Ben Dykes, has a section on the colors of the houses. It's on page 80. I sourced that for a tra...