Hi Tom & All - While I'm still interested in developing this notion of mundane signature and tarcing it's references since Ptolemy, this stuff on Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly and Columbus is also fascinating. d'Ailly's world dominated by the crown and the church certainly did end with the revolution ...

Flat Earth : I apologize for perpetuating a myth better laid to rest.

I knew the Greeks were aware of the spherical earth early on but thought that as a result of the Dark Ages, it was forgotten for a time. I stand corrected.

Tom - "The comment was directed to you, but rather it was a general remark aimed at people who might read Tetrabiblos and see the word "countires" and think of them the way we do. I was only trying to place Ptolemy's work and the translations in hisotrical context. " no problem, ...

Tom & Granny - Tom : The method of mundane signatures does not rely strictly on topography but on a combination of factors. These are determined by correspondence with dignities of the planets within each sign and an observation of the effects of transits. Thanks for the Ptolemy reference but I'...

Ok, that is a frequent comment. Let me attempt to be a little clearer about mundane signatures and then give some examples. The planets rule various metals and minerals. Places where deposits of these are found correspond to the planet. These will sometimes vary in quality and quantity depending on ...

Hi Deb, Thank you. Yes, I agree that Gary Kronk's site is a very good one and that most of the purely astronomical sites are not easy to use. His site contains at least the dates of perihelion and magnitudes for major recent comets and perhaps by contacting him the exact information can be obtained....

The Mars transits are certainly stimulating. In the original chart set for DC, I found the conjunction near the midheaven within a few degrees of Algol and square retrograde Uranus at 20 Aquarius which is about the perihelion of Halleys comet in '86. A close trine of the Sun in Gemini to nova 1987a ...

Hello All - I have been having trouble locating information on the visible comets of 2004 and 2005. I have been to several sites but I noticed that on the astronomical sites youhave to be quick to snag the information. They usually give current ephemeris information and if you happen to be lucky eno...

Deb & interested parties -

Note that the MC is in square to Algol, Mars is near conjunction with that star and Mars rules the ascendant. Much death to say the least.

I have been using mundane signatures, that is landforms, human activity in a region, animals and minerals and response to transits to locate the effects of comets and eclipses after the place of their visibility. I have numerous examples of this and it has worked well. I have seen the attribution of...