The Trial of William Lilly and the life of Elias Ashmole – Bernard Eccles
July 13 @ 19:15 – 21:15 BST
18:30 Sketch: The Trial of William Lilly
19:15 Sir Elias Ashmole: astrologer, alchemist, antiquary, and more – Bernard Eccles
Elias Ashmole was interested in anything and everything. He was a close friend of William Lilly, but was also a founder member of the Royal Society, so he bridges both old knowledge and new. He seems to have known just about everyone who was anyone in 17th century London and he founded the world’s first public museum, the Ashmolean at Oxford. His personal coat of arms included the Gemini twins and the figure of Mercury! This talk looks at his life, his career, and of course, his horoscope.
Bernard Eccles
Bernard Eccles has been writing, teaching and lecturing about astrology for over forty years. He was President of the Astrological Lodge of London twice in the 1980s, won the Astrological Association’s Charles Harvey award in 2011, and is a regular guest lecturer at the Faculty of Astrological Studies Summer School at Oxford
. His magazine horoscope columns appear in eight different languages around the world.
