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The Lord of the Orb
May 3 @ 00:00
19:15: The Lord of the Orb: Anthony Louis
The idea of planetary hours dates back at least to the Babylonians, who assigned rulership of each hour of day and night to one of the classical seven visible planets in Chaldean order from the slowest to the fastest. The position of the Sun in the sky indicated the hour, and the planetary ruler of that hour was considered the lord of the entire celestial sphere (aka orb), influencing the entire universe for the duration of that hour. Horary astrologers looked for some resonance between the lord of the orb and the Ascendant of a horary chart to assess whether the chart was radical. Medieval astrologers, such as Abu Ma’shar, used a profected version of the lord of the orb together with the lord of the year (the ruler of the profected natal Ascendant) to delineate solar returns. Despite discussions of lord of the orb in medieval and Renaissance texts by Bonatti, Abenragel, Giuntini, Galluci, Diego de Torres and others, somehow the use of the lord of the orb did not make its way into the English-speaking world. This presentation attempts to fill in those gaps.
20:15: Questions / Discussion / Charts discussion
Anthony Louis
Anthony Louis is a psychiatrist who has studied astrology as a serious avocation since his early teens. His longstanding interest in the history and symbolism of the divinatory arts has led to his lecturing internationally and publishing numerous articles and books on astrology, tarot, and other forms of divination. His highly acclaimed text Tarot Plain and Simple first appeared in 1997 and has become a perennial favourite for students of tarot. His most recent book Secrets of Predictive Astrology discusses the work of the relatively unknown but brilliant early 20th century British astrologer William Frankland. Anthony is a member of the Astrological Society of Connecticut.
His blog is at http://tonylouis.wordpress.com/
