Articles

Most of the articles to be  included on this site are aimed at students of The Traditional Horary Course. There are a wide range of topics to assist you in your studies, and to offer explanation of some of the more complex points arising within the traditional art. Most are free of charge, and can be downloaded onto your own PC, but copyright allows this to be done only for your personal study. You may not copy or transmit any of the work produced on this site without permission.

These articles can be considered as required reading for students of the Traditional Horary Course.

Unless stated otherwise all of the following are by Sue Ward.

 

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• Biographical sketches of some of those mentioned by Lilly in his autobiography by Ruth Baker
  

• A Question, if best to adheare to King or parliament. Extracted from Angelicus Merline, 1646, Lilly's annual almanac. Transcribed with commentary.
  

• A collection of interesting nativities (HTML) relevant to Lilly's period or to Lilly himself::
  
  Ruth Nedham (Lilly's third wife)
  John Gadbury
  Oliver Cromwell
  Prince Rupert of the Rhine
  Dr. Simon Forman
  William Backhouse
  John Booker
  John Aubrey
  George Parker
  Arthur Dee (John Dee's son)
  William Laud
  Thomas Wentworth (a delineation by William Lilly)
  

• Review of James Martin Harvey's Nativitas (HTML) by Ruth Baker
  

• An Introduction to the Astrology of William Lilly (HTML)
  

• The Wivenhoe Earthquake by Ruth Baker (HTML) Read about Ruth's new book here.
  

• The Sacred Art: An Explanation of William Lilly's "Letter to the Student". (HMTL)
  

• Weak Malefics (HTML)
  

• Divination and Ego (PDF)
  

• The Misleading Horary Question (PDF)
  

• The Correct Use of Reception in Traditional Astrology (PDF)
  

• Addendum to The Correct Use of Reception in Traditional Astrology (HTML)
  

• Gender in Astrology (PDF)
  

• Planetary Friends and Enemies (PDF)
  

• The Houses in Traditional Astrology (PDF)

 

 

 

Amended 24 October 2004