The constellations and the fixed stars are the true origin and the foundation of astrology.
Paracelsus claimed that each of us is the manifestation of a star, but by this we mean a
certain cosmic principle, one of the ideas; this idea is also typical of a certain star, but we
have not derived it from the star, it is only that we are related to it and therefore we attract
each other. Thus we understand the importance of the techniques shown in the first part of
this book for identifying stellar and planetary significators in a birth chart. We will see how
to identify the constellations, the fixed stars and also the planets with which the native is in
particular "sympathy" and how to use them both in the common astrological practice, both
in spiritual or magical astrology. In the following the book deals with the relevance of the
heliacal phases in world astrology. The last chapter focuses on the analysis of sympathetic
attraction mechanisms between terrestrial and celestial realities.
INTRODUCTION
I’ve decided to dedicate another book to the theme of constellations and
fixed stars because after years of research I feel able to affirm that in them
lies the origin and foundation of all astrology.
Their (only apparent) minor relevance in practical astrology has meant that
they have always been neglected by ancient and modern astrologers.
And this is even more true for the constellations. In reality, as we’ll see in the
following pages, their practical relevance is also far from negligible, to the
point that it seems extremely bizarre that today some astrologers attribute so
much importance to asteroids and none to the constellations and fixed stars.
Yet it should make us reflect the fact that the origin of the constellations is
probably much older than the first organized civilizations. Just think of the
wonderful paintings found in the Lascaux cave in France. They date back
some 17,000 years. We will talk about this in the first pages of the book.
We’ll see that the cave was chosen because the orientation of the entrance
was such that on the day of the summer solstice the rays of the setting sun
would enter to illuminate the paintings of the great room of the Bulls.
Simulations were then made to examine the rising of the stars on the
evening of the summer solstice, choosing as a reference the more
pronounced lines that marked the contours of the animals painted on the
rock, such as the extremity of the horns and the snout or the position of the
eyes.
Scholars found a perfect correspondence between these points and some
stars. It would seem that all the zodiacal constellations have been
represented by these drawings. Sagittarius, for example, is represented by a
horse.
Going forward with our historical excursus, we’ll see how a series of artifacts
belonging to the various epochs show that the stellar religion was the oldest
of humanity. The gods of ancient peoples have always been associated with
constellations and stars. Importance has always been attached to the
constellations at their heliacal rising at the spring equinox and their
paranatellonta.
Men have always recognized in terrestrial images the representation of the
Archetypes that inform terrestrial realities. As well as all the matter that
composes our bodies and other things in the world comes from the stars,
even the physical form and the essence of the ta errestrial things are in-
formed by these ... created in their image and likeness, we could say
recalling the words of the Bible.
The ancients believed that one of the ways to attract the influence of stars
and constellations was to create a more or less stylized representation of
them, or to construct buildings and temples based on stellar orientations.
They are often oriented towards the heliac rising of certain stars, or the rising
or setting of the Sun at the equinoxes or solstices.
The underlying principle is always the same: to attract a certain celestial
influence, terrestrial realities should as much as possible conform their
nature - and even their external appearance - to the nature of the stars.
But, as always, we are not satisfied with history and don’t stop at the
ancients’s thought.
This is why, after years of studies involving birth and mundane charts, in the
remainder of the book I expose some techniques that on the one hand are
very useful for completing the normal astrological analyzes, on the other
provide definitive proof about the validity of the principles that we have just
exposed. The strange thing is that, despite being known for millennia, they
have never been organically integrated into "practical" astrology. This is
precisely my purpose: to pass from words to deeds by providing the scholar
with a series of techniques to integrate their interpretations with the precious
information that comes to us from the eighth sphere. In this way a much
deeper analysis of the essential nature of every man and of the events of
collective and individual life becomes possible.
That’s way why I attach great importance to the principles set out in the first
part of this book and related to the identification of stellar and planetary
significators in a birth chart. We’ll see that each person is in particular
"sympathy" with one or more planets, fixed stars and constellations and
explain how these natal significators can be derived from the birth chart. To
outline this procedure, I also used special event charts related to remarkable
events that characterized the lives of the native. And since it is very
important to have the exact time in which these events took place, I gave
priority to the events of which is known the exact hour.
This is because one of the factors that can make a certain planet, star or
constellation privileged significators of the native is precisely their angularity
at the moment of birth. Therefore, in order to verify if they really behaved as
their significators in the course of life, it is very important to be able to verify
their angularity at the time of some remarkable events. For example, as we
will see better in a while, often at the hour of death the stars or constellations
that were angular at birth are again in an angle. Typical is the case in which
at the moment of death we find at sunset or at the Ic a constellation that was
rising at birth.
What I discovered during my research about planetary and stellar
significators in a birth chart presents unique affinities with the magical theory
of “sympathies” and “antipathies”of the great Renaissance doctor and
magician Paracelsus.
According to this theory, each of us is the manifestation of a star, but by star
is meant here a certain cosmic principle, one of the Ideas; this Idea is also
proper to a certain physical star, but we have not derived it from the star, it is
only that we are related to it and therefore we attract each other as
manifestations of the same Idea or Being.
In fact al Kindi and the other Arabs say that not only the stars act on us, but
we also act on the stars: each thing transmits its nature to the others, but it
can only do so if there is already attraction among them by “sympathy”.
We are therefore in a position to put ourselves in sympathy with certain stars
by attracting their influence because in us there is already a certain tendency
akin to them.
Paracelsus says: "No one needs to deal with the course of Saturn: it does
not shorten or lengthen anyone's life. If Mars is fierce, it does not follow that
Nero was his son; and although Mars and Nero may have had the same
qualities, they did not take them from one another. The stars do not incline
us to anything we do not want”1.
Following is a rich series of examples relating to the birth charts of famous
people: for each of them we identify the planetary and stellar significators
and then we verify their condition in the days when significant events
occurred to that person. In this way the reader will learn the procedure for
identifying planetary and stellar significators in each birth chart he will
examine.
We also deal with the important topic of the heliacal phases in mundane
astrology. We will see that even in this case, as in individual natal charts, the
stars at their heliacal rising (and, to a lesser extent, in another heliacal
phase) have more strength when they are also activated by virtue of a
conjunction, parallel or aspect to a planet.
To this end it is always good to consider the condition of these stars even at
the time of the New Moons and Full Moons, given the particular value that
these charts have in mundane predictions.
Later we will examine some mechanisms of sympathetic attraction between
terrestrial and celestial things. One of the examples we will study is related
to the two Koreas, and in particular to North Korea. We will see how the
division between North Korea and South Korea creates a natural affinity with
all the celestial images characterized by any kind of polarity, in particular that
between a northern and a southern part. So first of all the Scales (Libra
constellation) also called Zubenelgenubi (Southern Scale) and
Zubeneshamali (Northern Scale), but also the two Aselli (Asellus borealis
1
For these observations on the thought of Paracelsus v. Franz Hartmann: "Il mondo magico di Paracelso", ed.
Mediterranee
and australis) and the two Crowns (Corona Borealis and Australis). But the
correspondence that seems to be stronger and more recurrent is that
between the two Koreas and the Scales, and more generally between Korea
as such and the constellation of Libra.
Through the analysis of a series of recent events related to this nation, we
will have definitive proof of the link between North Korea and Libra
constellation, in particular with the stars of the Northern Scale.
Another example of the ways in which these "sympathies" between heavenly
and earthly things can be established is the analogy between the Berlin Wall
and Orion’s Belt, and this too will be concretely demonstrated through the
analysis of the charts relating to the erection and fall of the Wall.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION…..pag.5
PART 1…..pag. 9
FIXED STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS IN ANTIQUITY
PART 2…..pag.17
THE IDENTIFICATION OF OUR PLANETARY AND
STELLAR SIGNIFICATORS IN THE BIRTH CHART
MARCO PANNELLA
Birth and death of Pannella
Criminal conviction
RINO GAETANO
The stars at the moment of Rino Gaetano’s death
FEDERICA PELLEGRINI
The gold medal won
Victory in the semi-finals of the world championships
STEVE JOBS
Death (October 5, 2011)
Apple Foundation (1 April 1976)
Marriage (18 March 1991)
Resignation from Apple CEO (August 24, 2011)
June 20, 1999: a day of great publicity for Steve Jobs
Posthumous recognition of 12 February 2012
PART 3…..pag.43
THE WORLD EVENTS IN RELATION TO THE
HELIACAL PHASES
PART 4…..pag.59
SOME MECHANISMS OF SYMPATHETIC
ATTRACTION BETWEEN EARTHLY AND CELESTIAL
THINGS
BIBLIOGRAPHY…..pag.71