Monthly Archives: June 2021

Never get married on a Tuesday

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Anthony Louis

In Spain there is a proverb which goes: “En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques.” (On Tuesdays, neither get married nor embark on a journey.) According to wikipedia: “In Spanish-speaking countries, instead of Friday, Tuesday the 13th (martes trece) is considered a … Continue reading →

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Embolismic Lunation Returns – example of a hellish year

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Anthony Louis

Recently I’ve been experimenting with Placidus’ method of progressing a birth chart via ’embolismic lunations’ (returns of the Sun and Moon to the same phase angle they held in the birth chart). In reading Martin Gansten’s recent book Annual Predictive … Continue reading →

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Embolismic Lunations — Another Example (Alan Leo)

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Anthony Louis

The previous post discussed the idea of Placidus about using ’embolismic lunations’ (Sun-Moon phase angle returns) to progress the natal chart. Placidus mapped each such lunation onto a year of life. To test the method, I have been experimenting with … Continue reading →

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Embolismic Lunations

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Anthony Louis

Recently I was reading Cooper’s 1814 translation of Placidus’ Primum Mobile and going over the charts in the section Thirty Remarkable Nativities in which Placidus discusses the chart of King Charles V of Germany (23 Feb 1500 – 21 Sep … Continue reading →

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