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Astrology 18
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assembled mainly 2nd–1st millennia BCE
Enūma Anu Enlil
A vast series of celestial omens correlating astronomical phenomena with earthly events. One major root of what eventually becomes judicial astrology.
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second century CE
Tetrabiblos
The most influential astrological text ever written, and the reason Western astrology has the shape it has. It sets out the signs, their elements and modalities, the houses of...
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Arabic, probably second half of the tenth century
Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm
A large handbook of astral magic, carried into Renaissance occultism through its Latin translation as the Picatrix.
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1489
Three Books on Life
The most overtly occult of his works: medicine, astrology, music, planetary influence, images, substances, and methods by which the learned can bring themselves into harmony...
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unfinished at his death
Disputations against Divinatory Astrology
Attacks deterministic judicial astrology, despite his earlier enthusiasm for other forms of occult philosophy.
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1555
Les Prophéties
literary work by Nostradamus
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1558
Propaedeumata Aphoristica
Astrological and cosmological aphorisms exploring celestial influences.
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1619
Harmonices Mundi
book by Johannes Kepler
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1647
Christian Astrology
William Lilly’s large practical manual of horary and natal astrology, including concise accounts of the planets and twelve houses.
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1766
Dissertatio physico-medica de planetarum influxu
His medical dissertation on planetary influences and a universal physical fluid.
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1889, fourth edition
The Influence of the Stars
The earliest of these books and the only one by a woman. Baughan writes her house judgements as semicolon-separated clauses, running a planet through several houses in one...
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1898
The Manual of Astrology
Sepharial's four-book manual, arranged by the QUESTION a reader brings — the bodily form, financial fortunes, marriage, the kind of death — rather than by placement. Its...
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1899
Astrology for All
Leo's sign book, built on the pairing of the Sun's sign with the Moon's. It delineates each luminary through the twelve signs and then all one hundred and forty-four...
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1903; this printing 1928
How to Judge a Nativity
Leo's house book: the planets taken one at a time through the twelve houses, with a paragraph of delineation for each. It is where most twentieth-century English astrology got...
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1912
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1918; this printing 1919
The Message of the Stars
The second lookup table after Leo's, and the larger: chapters titled plainly SATURN IN THE TWELVE HOUSES, MERCURY IN THE TWELVE SIGNS, and so on through the planets.
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2018
The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Cultures
Studies of arithmology, physiognomy, astrology, divination, geomancy, lettrism, alchemy, magic and gnosis in pre-modern Islamic cultures.
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undated