New traditional horary text: The Search of the Heart
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:01 pm
Hi All,
Right on the heels of my al-Kindi translation, I have another horary work, Hermann of Carinthia's The Search of the Heart. This book is on two main topics: finding significators of thought (or what we would now call "consultation charts"), where the astrologer interprets the unspoken thoughts of and topics for a client, and the calculation of victors (or mubtazzes or almutens), both geared toward the horary astrologer. Most of Hermann's book is compiled from Arabic sources.
Although Hermann's book is shortish, it is chock full of information, and I have supplemented it with over 60 pages of Appendices with material from al-Rijal (Haly Abenragel), Sahl, Masha'allah, 'Umar, ibn Ezra, al-Kindi, Argafalau, Ptolemy, Hephaistio, and Leopold of Austria.
In my introduction I provide examples, tables of the methods, a historical overview of the material, and some conjectures of my own about the role of thoughts and victors in horary astrology. I have also had to revise some of my own thinking on victors since discovering some of this material!
Right on the heels of my al-Kindi translation, I have another horary work, Hermann of Carinthia's The Search of the Heart. This book is on two main topics: finding significators of thought (or what we would now call "consultation charts"), where the astrologer interprets the unspoken thoughts of and topics for a client, and the calculation of victors (or mubtazzes or almutens), both geared toward the horary astrologer. Most of Hermann's book is compiled from Arabic sources.
Although Hermann's book is shortish, it is chock full of information, and I have supplemented it with over 60 pages of Appendices with material from al-Rijal (Haly Abenragel), Sahl, Masha'allah, 'Umar, ibn Ezra, al-Kindi, Argafalau, Ptolemy, Hephaistio, and Leopold of Austria.
In my introduction I provide examples, tables of the methods, a historical overview of the material, and some conjectures of my own about the role of thoughts and victors in horary astrology. I have also had to revise some of my own thinking on victors since discovering some of this material!