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Missing Archives

Post author By Darin
Post date January 12, 2021

Not a day goes by that I don’t miss being able to work in the archives. Travel restrictions that prevent me from going to and working in the archives I need for my research depresses me, to say the least. The fact that there is no end in sight compounds my feelings of loss.[1] There […]

HoS Advent Calendar 2016

Byzantine Diagram of Planetary Aspects

Post author By Darin
Post date December 3, 2016
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A sixteenth-century copy of a Byzantine diagram showing the basic astrological configurations of the planets: “Table of the whole circle of the 12 zodiac signs and how it is divided into aspects.”[1] The table gives the degrees between the planets in each aspect, the symbol used to indicate that arrangement, and the distance in signs […]