BIO

y name is Margherita Fiorello and I live in Rome, in Italy, where I graduated with a thesis on the daily life of noble families in Rome during the Renaissance. I’m interested in astrology since the end of the Eighties, when – because of  various trips abroad –  I was able to read the transcripts – even now never translated into Italian  – of  Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas’ seminars, in those years almost unknown in Italy.

My different orientation and years of study, made me feel soon  the great limits of psychological astrology and, increasingly unhappy, I have chosen to look elsewhere.

Once again I looked at the Anglo-Saxon world, where a process of rediscovery of astrological ancient texts was starting, and one of the first astrologers reconsidered was  William Lilly (1602-1681), who  remains the unsurpassed master of the art of astrology questions, horary astrology.

For a dozen years I have been dedicating to studying  traditional and horary astrology so  I collected a decent collection of ancient texts, if not in original  version, in  one  more easily available, due to new interest that Classical astrology is having now, due to the effectiveness of its techniques.
In particular I’m interested in astrological iconography in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and its links with traditional doctrines.
For some years I have been studying Mediterranean humoral medicine, herbal remedies traditionally used according to the teachings of Dioscorides and Galen and  iconography of medieval herbaria.

‘m a member of the Italian Association of traditional astrology founded by Prof. Giuseppe Bezza, CieloeTerra and for many years I have been cooperating with CIDA- Italian Center for Astrological Disciplines, for Rome area. I’m in touch with several traditional astrologers from different countries, and I’m between the members of traditional astrology mailing-list Angelicus Merlin, moderated by Dorothy Kovach, which surely collects the best of practioners of traditional and  horary astrology.

In 2004  I lectured for CIDA of Rome about a beginning guide to the reading of an horary chart according Lilly’s Christian Astrology.

In 2006 – with a work written  together with the Russian astrologer  Anton Grigoryev- we were selected for the  Competion “Astrological New Talents”   and  we lectured for the closing Congress kept in Rome.

translated several articles of well known traditional astrologers like Robert Hand and Graeme Tobyn, and  written several articles for  Linguaggio Astrale, CIDA journal . Among the rest:

year 2006

PLANETARY GODS AND RENAISSANCE ART:  THE ASTROLOGICAL CEILING  IN VILLA FARNESINA (with Anton Grigoryev)

IL RITORNO DEGLI DEI PLANETARI NELL’ARTE

It is the transcript of the lecture kept in Rome in October 2006 together with Anton Grigoryev for the competition “Astrological New Talents.”
It is a research about Agostino Chigi birthchart (and life), according  Fritz Saxl’s discoveries about the ceiling of Galatea Lodge in Villa Farnesina in Rome, depicting planets, constellations and fixed stars arranged in the vault according Chigi’s horoscope, in a hidden language lost for centuries.

ABY WARBURG AND STARS’ TYRANNY

ABY WARBURG E LA “TIRANNIA” DEGLI ASTRI

Astrological influence in Aby Warburg life and Aby Warburg’s influence in rediscovery of astrology in 1900:  from Byzantium to Baghdad, from  Baghdad to Ferrara, from Ferrara to Hamburg  under stars’  ”tyranny.”

year 2007

UNDER BERLIN’S SKY

IL CIELO SOPRA BERLINO

An examination of Martin Luther horoscope in Luca Gauricus and Girolamo Cardano, based on the theory of Great Conjunctions. The prophecy of the “little prophet” and Luther reaction.

THE MAP OF CONSTELLATIONS OF GREAT CARDINAL FARNESE

LA MAPPA DELLE COSTELLAZIONI DEL “GRAN CARDINAL” FARNESE

The fate of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese was marked by the reading Luca Gauricus made of his horoscope when he was still a child. One interpretation which the cardinal  always believed was true and that he made immortal in the ceiling of the palace of Caprarola, which however was not intended to happen.

year 2008

AN HISTORICAL HOROSCOPE FOR ROME FOUNDATION

STORIA DI UN OROSCOPO DI ROMA

The horoscope of Rome compiled by Taruzio in Cicero and Plutarch and its variations in Solinus  and Johannes Lidus.

year 2009

ABOUT NEW STARS (AND OLD METHODS)

SULLE STELLE NUOVE (with Valerio Simei)

Tycho Brahe  and Johannes Kepler astrological readings of supernovae using the syzyzy preceding the event and the great conjunction in the Fire triplicity of 1603 .