Tag: William Lilly
Lilly’s 43 Considerations
by Dorothy Kovach on Oct.10, 2009, under Uncategorized
Angelicus Merlin, himself!
Back in 1675, Lilly and Coley published a small book with a large title:
‘Animae Astrologie Or a Guide for Astrologers being the considerations of the famous astrologer, Guido Bonatti faithfully rendered into English as also [yes 'as'] the choice aphorisms of Cardan’s Seven Segments, translated and methodically digested under their proper heads...”
These are ‘choice’ fragments of much larger works. The Considerations are but a very tiny portion of Bonatti’s masterpiece ‘Astronomy.’ For centuries, this was all that was available of Bonatti’ and Cardano’s great masterpieces in English. I must say, this is just another example of why Nostradamus said what a wonderous age we live in. Thanks to the strident efforts of Dr. Ben Dykes, Guido Bonatti’s complete Astronomy is available at his website: Ben Dykes
I am eagerly awaiting Jerome Cardano’s complete, Seven Segments which, as I mentioned, Dr. Valerie Livina and Anton Grigoryev are presently completing, but I am grateful that they have allowed me to share a segment on our august website: The Seven Segments Perhaps it is the ‘old English’ fonts, but I am afraid, that some of our gentle Artists, may have concluded that these fragments of Bonatti and Cardano, are Lilly’s Considerations. They are not. Since Lilly’s Aphorisms don’t seem to get a lot of ‘interet action,’ I thought it might be timely to place Lilly’s actual Aphorisms, here. Whenever a chart does not go the way I thought it would, nine times out of ten, I have found the reason can be explained in one of Mr. Lilly’s 43 Considerations.
One more thing, some very brilliant teachers have confused Lilly’s aphorisms with ‘considerations before judgment.’ I really do not think that Mr. Lilly planned for us to read 43 rules, prior to reading a chart, they really do describe the pitfalls that are easy to fall into when working with horary clients. If you cannot memorize them, I suggest printing them out, and keeping them nearby. As time allows, I hope to be able to give explicit chart examples where some of these considerations have come in handy for me in the past. (continue reading…)
