Work on the Astrologie writes by Ptolémée
Tetrabiblos is Encyclopedia gathering the Ancient Knowledge with destination amongst other things of Medicine and other aspects such a practical for Knowledge of the Man.
According to Pascal Charvet, translator and commentator, hellenist and professor of higher pulpit of old languages, which wrote in collaboration with CNRS, " The Single Book of Astrologie" , translation in French of Tetrabiblos, published with the Editions of the Nile in 2000, Ptolémée is the reference for any person being interested seriously in Astrology.
The Table of Ptolémée shows the Solar system such as it was perceived since thousands of years at the time of Antiquity (Egypt, Greece, Mésopotamie,…), it thus takes again 7 Planets: Sun, Mercury, Come, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturne, the Earth having to be in the middle of this list which shows accurately with respect to Astronomy, the site of Planets as for their distance compared to the Sun, was worth to him celebrates it quotation criticized by Kepler and others: " The Earth is in the center of Univers".
Universe being the Solar system, Translation of the Greek of Ptolémée in the German of Kepler, to create the misunderstanding that everyone knows.
Ptolémée spoke of course about the Astrological Solar system and not Astronomique.
The Table below thus shows the Ancient Vision of Ptolémée and is used for example to find its Ascending very easily.
Initially locate using your cursor your date in the " upper part; Periods of Dates" table, then, descend the column until making coincide your date and hour of birth (example: If you were born on April 20th with 03:33, the symbols written on the line of 03:00, you look at are ascending RAM VERSEAU) then defer of high in the " Part; SIGNES" to identify your symbol, the Colors indicate the Planet which " gouverne" your date and hour of birth, ex: a person born on April 20th with 05:31 of the Morning will have for Planet Couleurs: the Red (Mars) for its Sign, the Green (Come) for its Decan and Blue (Jupiter) for its Hour and its ascending will be the Ram.
If you were born (E) " with cheval" by ex: at 2 a.m. crushes morning, you must also take account of ascending of 1 hour of the morning
" It should not be believed that all arrives to the men by a celestial cause (...) The lower things change by a natural and changeable destiny, although they take sky even the first causes of their changes, which arrive to them afterwards by some conséquence." (Claude Ptolémée)
" Only the adversaries of astrology remained ignoramuses of Tetrabiblos, continuing to relate to this art of criticisms which do not apply to the presentation that Ptolémée made some or to which it has répondu." precisely; Lynn Thorndike, has off history magic and experimental science , New York, Columbia University Press, 1923, vol. 1, p.116. City by Unlucky Patrice in astrological proclamation.
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