William Lilly

Yeah.

It works whether we're looking at it from this ancient perspective and using their same tools, whether we're looking at it with, like, William Lilly and Christian astrology in the Renaissance in England versus lovely Placidus, who's doing his own thing and, on the Continent, and getting his book... [laughs] Like, what he published was literally, uh, put on the blacklist by the Vatican.

The Pope was like-

Oh.

I would say the quickest way to kind of look at the different methods is probably to look at some of the original books.

So if somebody wants to know about, like, Regiomontanus' house systems, um, you could read his stuff.

You could also look at William Lilly's Christian Astrology and all of the things that people have written since as commentary.

So, like, when we buy a published book of that particular method from the Renaissance, from, like, Elizabethan England, then we're gonna be looking at modern people's take on it, because there will always be footnotes.

So you've heard about Ketu, and then Rahu being the North Node.

Um, I looked at what William Lilly said, and he in- is an astrologer from the 17th century.

He's an English astrologer.

And he had kind of a standard rule where he said that, you know, the North Node is the head, so this will increase things, where the South Node is essentially the tail.

Abu Ma'shar is cited over 100 times across ve- many traditions, and doesn't always get the center stage as the most influential astrologer.

We tend to think like William Lilly in England is the most important astrologer, and even within his own tradition, he's cited zero times.

[chuckles] So Abu Ma'shar is cited 50 times within the Euro-American tradition.

But why I think A- The Great Introduction is very important is because it really outlines, especially in books one through three, a, a solid philosophical defense of astrology.

But if you think, if you look back in history, it's like how many astrologers get remembered? Yeah.

The ones that, ironically enough, like, you know, William Lilly,

like...

I think because he did Charles II's chart before his anointment and all that stuff.

And one of the interesting things that they would have to take an inventory of his or her library.

So we see what they were reading and they're reading William Lilly.

They would have a couple grimoires, some of the early

printed grimoires.

I like to say that this is not necessarily from...

I think Culpepper lists it, but I know William Lilly does not.

But I like Blue Flag for Jupiter.

And I know that that could be contentious, but actually Blue Flag is a great incense base because it has a lot of those...