#medieval-astrology
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BeginnerAl-Biruni: Master the Sky Before You Read It
How the Persian polymath al-Biruni taught that you must master astronomy and geometry before you dare to read a birth chart.
BeginnerSacrobosco's De Sphaera: the textbook that mapped the medieval cosmos
How a short 13th-century textbook taught Europe the geometry of the sky shared by astrology and astronomy for 400 years.
BeginnerGuido Bonatti: the Medieval Master Who Systematised Astrology
Guido Bonatti, the famed 13th-century astrologer of Forli, wrote the encyclopedic Liber Astronomiae that organised the whole art.
NatalThe 28 Lunar Mansions: The Moon's Hidden Zodiac
Long before sun signs, astrologers tracked the Moon through 28 nightly stations to time elections and talismans. Here is how the lunar mansions actually work.
NatalFirdaria: The Persian Time-Lords of Your Life Chapters
Firdaria are a Persian time-lord system that divides life into planetary periods, each governed by a planet that sets the dominant theme for that stretch of years, with order and length set by a day or night birth.