Great resources on Horary & History of a student

[Paula]

I want to share my resources for what I've learned about horary. I was cruising the internet sometime back and out of the blue received an email from Marybeth Beechen. She had seen my posts on a website from England and thought I might enjoy horary astrology. She invited me to join the yahoo group: The Real Astrology which studies Horary Astrology primarily as taught by John Frawley. I joined and promptly had a horary chart about flooding where we owned land. Flooding was a great description for how I felt about learning. I felt like I was nearly drowning, swimming in new terminology. Every sentence I read felt like I was in the wrong class at school or they were talking in a foreign language. But, everyone was so nice and friendly! Chad Henry also moderates that list and it is a great list I plan to remain a member of for life! Everyone on the list took the time to patiently answer any questions I had, or steer me to where I could find the answers. It's been great!

One day, one of the members of the list mentioned I might also enjoy Angelicus Merlin, another horary forum on Yahoo. It was moderated totally at that point in time by Dorothy Kovich, who also has the website http://www.worldastrology.net and on that website has some free book downloads. William Lilly is her primary focus, as he was a very astute horary astrologer from England born in 1602. He wrote the book, Christian Astrology, which is full of intense knowledge. There are many good downloads on both Yahoo group sites.

I can't remember how I came around to deciding to take a course from Branka Stamenkovic, but it may have been a referral from Chris on this forum. I began the course early in 2006 and completed it before the year was out. Students are allowed two years to complete her course. The course covers many areas including reception and dignity of planets, strength and debility of planets, timing, lost objects, love questions, real estate questions, strange and odd questions, pregnancy questions, and more. Her website is: http://www.branka.net.yu/English.html and is a good place to start if you wish to contact her to take her course. It is a great course and I don't regret for a moment the time and money I spent on it.

All of the above people and websites have contributed to where I am today with horary astrology. I had studied astrology, casting charts long hand, back in the 1970's. After a very long period away from it, I came back to it. I received SolarFire in the mail on April 21, 2005 and promptly cast a chart for the time I started up the program, which I saved. So, I've only really been back to astrology since early 2005. My children are grown, and I have alot of motivation to study in my spare time. I am thrilled to have this chance that Molly has given me to try out my skills and also to reach out and help others learn. I want to give back what has been given to me! Welcome to this forum!

[Lillybeth]

Hi Paula,
Congratulations on developing a wonderful Forum and we at the TRA Yahoo Group wish you every good fortune in this enterprise!
love,
Marybeth

[Paula]

Thank you so much Marybeth!

[ToddCarnes]

Congratulations on the new forum, Paula!

Todd

[Paula]

Bless you, Todd!

[Chris Mitchell]

Congratulations, Paula -

Here's to a bright future

Chris.

[Keishin]

Paula, I'm sure you'll so a great job with this, so don't let it freak you out.
Cheers!
(looks around for the little champange glasses smiley)

[Paula]

Thank you all! Keishin, thanks for the reminder not to freak out. How did you know????? (I really am learning how not to stress, but it's only taken me fifty plus years).

[Tienka]

HiPaula,
Just read the news of this forum at TRA!
wonderful, another horary list!
warm regards, Tienka Atema

[Paula]

Thank you so much Tienka.

[ToddCarnes]

Free Online Chart Calculation

* Astrodienst - free, user-friendly, VERY accurate charts... (Home of the Swiss Ephemeris)
* Astrolabe Free Online Chart Calculating Service

Free Astrology Programs for Your Computer

* Morinus has become quite popular. It does a lot of cool stuff. It's especially good for traditional astrologers because it does stuff you can't find in other free programs (for example, primary directions).
* The original Astrolog by Walter D. Pullen (versions available for many platforms including Windows, DOS, Mac, Unix/Linux, and OS/2)
* Astrolog32 Walter Pullen's program updated to use Swiss Ephemeris for accuracy and has a BIG database of US & World cities added.
* While Astrolog & Astrolog32 are no longer under development, StarFisher has taken up the Astrolog torch.
* ZET Lite excellent program available in both English & Russian (Windows only, uses Swiss Ephemeris). This is my favorite of the freebies.
* Kairon 2.19 is, to quote the author of the program, "68k enabled, PPC accelerated Astrology Software for the Apple Macintosh." (Available in English & German). There also appears to be an OS X version (Kairon 3), but I don't own a Mac so you Mac-heads will have to check it out yourself.
* Astro123, AstroWin, & several other free programs are available at Allen Edwall's site
* The full version of the Vedic program Jagannatha Hora 7.4
* Cosmic Patterns, makers of the popular Kepler charting program, offer the free programs "StarLite" & "Cosmic Star", they can be downloaded here. (Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or XP)
* John Halloran's freeware Astrology for Windows
* Junior Jyotish & Quick Jyotish for Windows are available at JyotishTools.com. They also offer Quick Jyotish for Linux, Apple, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Android, etc.
* King of the Stars for WINDOWS 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP offers the basic kernel for free. Expansion modules offered for sale.

Free references/e-books

The following e-books are available from World Astrology

* Alburini's India, Vol. 1
* Alburini's India, Vol. 2
* William Lilly's "Christian Astrology", Book I (An Introduction to Astrology)
* William Lilly's "Christian Astrology", Book III (An Introduction to Nativities)
* William Lilly's autobiography "History of His Life and Times"
* William Lilly's "Several Observations Upon The Life And Death of Charles I
* "Lilly Digested, Vol. 1" by Jane Griscti
* Claudius Ptolemy's "Tetrabiblos"
* Regiomontanus' Tables of Houses
* The Seven Segments by Cardan
* Using An Ephemeris by me.

The Hermetics Library of Magical & Mystical E-Books offers many free e-book downloads. Examples that are astrology related...

* Max Heindel's "Message of the Stars"
* Max Heindel's "Simplified Scientific Astrology"

Some of the Stuff I've found on Google Books

* Raphael - A Manual of Astrology, or The Book of the Stars
* Besant, Annie - Annie Besant: An Autobiography
* Babylonian Horoscopes By Francesca Rochberg
* Jerome Cardan: The Life of Girolamo Cardano, of Milan, Physician By Henry Morley
* The Familiar Astrologer: And Easy Guide to Fate, Destiny, and Foreknowledge By Raphael
* The Metaphysics of Aristotle By Aristotle
* The Mysteries of Astrology, and the Wonders of Magic by Charles W. Roback

[Chris Mitchell]

Fantastic resources - many thanks, Todd.

[isthmus nekoi]

A fun horary resource is the blog, Gryphon Astrology: http://gryphonastrology.wordpress.com/

There's personal readings, mundane astrology etc.

[Paula]

YES it is a great site! Nina and Bernhard were doing a Sunday teaching session you could actually listen to from the website for awhile. (not sure if it's still going on, I haven't been on their site for a few months)
Thanks for sharing!

[67sarah]

Oh I am now totally hooked on gryphon - thanks isthmus nekoi!
xxx

[ToddCarnes]

I just wanted to note that my web site has a LOT of new links to free astrology stuff that I've found since making this original post.

Paula,

I hope everything's well with you & yours.

[Paula]

Thanks, Todd. I hope all is well with your family, too. Feel free to post the link again or on a new thread!

[Chanah]

Not a horary proggie, but Morinus is a wonderful pice of free software to calculate primary directions - and even direct the planets through terms: http://pymorinus.extra.hu/

If you download it, instal it, and don't have a clue how to use it, I made a blog post with screenshots walking you through the setup here: http://36cards.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/...y-morinus/

Many old ebooks including Dariot, Culpeper, Saunders, Kirby, Gadbury, et al, can be found at: http://www.astrologiamedieval.com/e-Books.htm

[Paula]

yes! Thank you so much for sharing. Welcome to the forum.