Hellenistic Track Translations

Project Hindsight Companion to the Greek Track

Table of Contents

Part I -- Some Statements of Method From Hellenistic Greek Astrology Concerning
          How to Read A Chart ..................................................................................................... 1
          I. From the Hermetic Writings (c. 20?) B.C.E.) ................................................................ 1
                    The Tabular Examination ..................................................................................... 1
          II. The Systematization of the Tradition by Ptolemy, Valens, and Others ...................... 8
                    From Chapter 24, Book I. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos .................................................. 8
                    From Chapter 3, Book 111. Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos ................................................ 9
          Ill. The Byzantine Synthesis in Rhetorius ...................................................................... 11
                    How Many Ways It Is Necessary to Inquire ........................................................ 11

Part II - Glossary of Greek Astrological Terminology ............................................................... 15
          additive in times (or motion) ......................................................................................... 16
          affiliation ....................................................................................................................... 16
          affliction ........................................................................................................................ 16
          angle ............................................................................................................................ 16
          aphesis, apheta, aphetic .............................................................................................. 16
          Aphrodite ...................................................................................................................... 16
          application .................................................................................................................... 16
          Ares .............................................................................................................................. 17
          arise ............................................................................................................................. 17
          ascend (of nodes) ......................................................................................................... 17
          ascensional times ......................................................................................................... 17
                    Table of Ascensional Arcs of Zodiacal Signs, Modern Format Using
                              Ptolemaic Methods .................................................................................... 18
                    Table of Ascensions - System A for Alexandria .................................................... 21
                    Table of Ascensions - System A for Babylon ........................................................ 21
                    Table of Ascensions - System B for Alexandria .................................................... 22
                    Table of Ascensions - System B for Babylon ........................................................ 22
          astrological effect .......................................................................................................... 22
          averse (in aversion to) .................................................................................................. 23
          bear witness to ............................................................................................................. 23
          benefic .......................................................................................................................... 23
          bound, boundary ........................................................................................................... 23
                    Bounds According To the Egyptians ..................................................................... 24
                    Bounds According To the Chaldeans, Diurnal Charts ........................................... 25
                    Bounds According To Ptolemy .............................................................................. 26
                    Bounds According to Vettius Valens, Book III, Diurnal Charts .............................. 27
                    Bounds According to Vettius Valens, Book III, Nocturnal Charts .......................... 28
          Chaldean Order ............................................................................................................. 28
          circular period ................................................................................................................ 28
          circumambulation ........................................................................................................... 28
          climacterica .................................................................................................................... 29
          commencement .............................................................................................................. 29
          commixture .................................................................................................................... 29
          communion .................................................................................................................... 29
          conjunction .................................................................................................................... 29
          contact ........................................................................................................................... 29
          containment ................................................................................................................... 29
          contemplate ................................................................................................................... 29
          contrariety ..................................................................................................................... 29
          co-rise ........................................................................................................................... 30
          co-ruler .......................................................................................................................... 30
          crisis .............................................................................................................................. 30
          culminate ....................................................................................................................... 30
          decan ............................................................................................................................ 30
          decennial ...................................................................................................................... 30
          decline .......................................................................................................................... 31
          degree .......................................................................................................................... 31
          descend (of nodes) ....................................................................................................... 31
          depression .................................................................................................................... 31
          destroyer, destructive ................................................................................................... 31
          diametrical. diameter ..................................................................................................... 31
          divide the hour .............................................................................................................. 32
          dwelling place ................................................................................................................ 32
          east ................................................................................................................................ 32
          east in relation to the Sun (or Moon) ............................................................................. 32
          enclosure ....................................................................................................................... 32
          effect-description ........................................................................................................... 32
          Evil Fortune (place of) .................................................................................................... 32
          Evil Spirit (place of) ........................................................................................................ 32
          exaltation, exalted ........................................................................................................ 32
          face ............................................................................................................................... 32
                    Table of Faces or Decanic Rulerships ................................................................... 33
          familiarity ....................................................................................................................... 33
          figuration ....................................................................................................................... 33
          figure ............................................................................................................................. 33
          figure-description ........................................................................................................... 33
          Gate of Hades ................................................................................................................ 33
          Giving over and taking up .............................................................................................. 33
          Good Fortune (place of) ................................................................................................. 33
          Good Spirit (place of) ..................................................................................................... 33
          God (place of) ................................................................................................................ 34
          Goddess (place of) ......................................................................................................... 34
          have dealings with ........................................................................................................ 34
          Hermes .......................................................................................................................... 34
          hexagonal (side) ........................................................................................................... 34
          hide ............................................................................................................................... 34
          Horoskopos ................................................................................................................... 34
          hour .............................................................................................................................. 34
                    Table of Planetary or Unequal Hours ................................................................... 35
          house ............................................................................................................................ 35
          hurl rays ........................................................................................................................ 35
          ingress .......................................................................................................................... 36
          kinship ........................................................................................................................... 36
          klima, kimata ................................................................................................................. 36
                    Klimata Based on Alexandria ............................................................................... 36
                    Klimata Based on Babylon ................................................................................... 37
          Kronos ........................................................................................................................... 37
          light of the sect .............................................................................................................. 37
          like-engirding ................................................................................................................. 37
          lord/lady ......................................................................................................................... 37
          -lord ............................................................................................................................... 37
          lot .................................................................................................................................. 37
                    Lots from Paulus .................................................................................................. 38
                    Lots from Paulus and Others ............................................................................... 38
                    Lots from Vettius Valens and the Liber Hermetis ................................................. 39
          malefic ........................................................................................................................... 39
          mark the (birth) hour ..................................................................................................... 39
          master, mastership ........................................................................................................ 39
          Midheaven ..................................................................................................................... 39
          mixture .......................................................................................................................... 39
          monomoiria .................................................................................................................... 39
                    Table of Monomoiria - First Type .......................................................................... 41
                    Table of Mononzoiria - Second Type .................................................................... 41
          nativity .......................................................................................................................... 42
          non-wandering .............................................................................................................. 43
          occident, occidental ....................................................................................................... 43
          occupancy ..................................................................................................................... 43
          orient, oriental .............................................................................................................. 43
          (non-)partisan ............................................................................................................... 43
          period ............................................................................................................................ 43
                    Planetary Periods ................................................................................................ 44
          phase ............................................................................................................................ 44
          pivot point ..................................................................................................................... 44
          place ............................................................................................................................. 44
          place-positioning .......................................................................................................... 45
          post-ascension ............................................................................................................. 45
          pre-ascension ............................................................................................................... 45
          predominate, predomination ......................................................................................... 45
          (un) profitable place ..................................................................................................... 45
          regard .......................................................................................................................... 45
          rejoice .......................................................................................................................... 45
          rise ............................................................................................................................... 45
          ruler, rulership .............................................................................................................. 46
          scrutinize ...................................................................................................................... 46
          sect .............................................................................................................................. 46
          separation .................................................................................................................... 46
          set ................................................................................................................................ 46
          spear-bearer ................................................................................................................ 47
          square (side) ................................................................................................................ 47
          step .............................................................................................................................. 47
          -steward ....................................................................................................................... 47
          subteraneous pivot point .............................................................................................. 47
          subtractive in times (or motions) .................................................................................. 47
          superior position ........................................................................................................... 47
          take delight in ............................................................................................................... 47
          testify to ....................................................................................................................... 47
          time-lord ....................................................................................................................... 48
          trigon ............................................................................................................................ 48
          triangular side .............................................................................................................. 48
          twelfth-part ................................................................................................................... 48
          twelve-turning ............................................................................................................... 48
          unconnected ................................................................................................................. 48
          under the beams .......................................................................................................... 48
                    Arcs of Combustion from Firmicus Maternus, Book II, 9. 48 welcome .................. 49
          west ............................................................................................................................. 49
          west in relation to the Sun (or Moon) ........................................................................... 49
          wind .............................................................................................................................. 49
          Zeus ............................................................................................................................. 49
          zoidion .......................................................................................................................... 49

Part III - The Greek Astrologers .............................................................................................. 50
          Berosus ......................................................................................................................... 50
          Nechepso & Petosiris .................................................................................................... 50
          Hermetic writings .......................................................................................................... 51
          Geminus ........................................................................................................................ 51
          Manilius ......................................................................................................................... 51
          Thrasyllus ...................................................................................................................... 51
          Dorotheus of Sidon ....................................................................................................... 52
          Teucer of Babylon........................................................................................................... 52
          Balbillus ......................................................................................................................... 52
          Claudius Ptolemy ........................................................................................................... 52
          Vettius Valens ................................................................................................................ 53
          Antigonus of Nicaea ....................................................................................................... 53
          Antiochus of Athens ....................................................................................................... 53
          Pseudo-Manetho ............................................................................................................ 54
          Porphyry ......................................................................................................................... 54
          Pancharios ..................................................................................................................... 54
          Maximos ........................................................................................................................ 54
          Paulus Alexandrinus ...................................................................................................... 54
          Anonymous of 379 ........................................................................................................ 54
          Firmicus Maternus ......................................................................................................... 55
          Hephaistio of Thebes .................................................................................................... 55
          Proclus .......................................................................................................................... 55
          Julian of Laodikeia ......................................................................................................... 55
          John Lydos .................................................................................................................... 55
          Olympiodoros ................................................................................................................ 55
          Rhetorius of Egypt ......................................................................................................... 55
          Theophilus of Edessa .................................................................................................... 56
          Leo the Mathematician .................................................................................................. 56
          Demophilus ................................................................................................................... 56

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