Penelope Sitter joins the show to talk about the life and work of the 17th century astrologer Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche, and her new translation of his work.

Morin was an astrologer from France who lived around the same time as William Lilly, and he wrote a massive tome on astrology titled Astrologia Gallica, which means French Astrology.

Penelope just translated book 21 of Morin’s work from Latin, which is the most important book of Astrologia Gallica, where he outlines his unique approach to chart synthesis.

Penelope became so excited about Morin's work after being exposed to it in the 2000's through the work of Robert Corre that she actually learned Latin specifically in order to translate Morin's text.

During the course of the episode we talk about Morin's life and work, and then we also get into his techniques and discuss what makes his approach interesting and different when compared to some of his contemporaries.

Along the way we talk about his birth chart and personality, and use his chart a few times to demonstrate his technical approach, which he does several times in his work.

It ended up being a fascinating discussion, introducing an important but often overlooked astrologer who was the last great court astrologer in France before the decline of astrology in the 17th century.

Penelope's Translation of Book 21 of Morin

You can get Penelope's translation of book 21 of Morin here:

Morin's Book 21: Of the Active Determination of the Celestial Bodies & the Passive Determination of Sublunary Things

This episode is available in audio and video versions below.

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:04 About Jean-Baptiste Morin

00:08:32 Astrologia Gallica volumes

00:15:00 Translations of Astrologia Gallica

00:18:51 Penelope Sitter's background

00:31:45 Why Morin has been difficult to understand

00:35:38 Morin's natal chart

00:41:50 Morin's personality

00:47:59 Triplicity rulers

00:49:20 Morin's significations of the houses

00:55:38 Morin's family

00:57:37 Significations of Sun and Moon

00:58:41 Zoltan Mason

01:00:49 Reestablishing of lineages

01:03:17 Rejection of general significators in book 21

01:10:11 Morin's use of specialized terminology

01:12:27 Planet begins the action and dispositor takes over

01:16:39 Particular significators and local determinations

01:20:51 Essential and accidental meanings of houses

01:23:23 Angular vs. intermediate houses

01:24:58 Chapter on houses

01:31:30 Significators for parents

01:31:58 Jupiter and Mercury significators

01:33:49 Best steps to follow for delineations

01:39:25 Theory of astrological signification

01:49:50 Influence of planets on preceding house

01:57:07 Gustavus Adolphus' natal chart

02:00:14 House distortion

02:02:50 Blending of whole sign and quadrant houses

02:06:30 Cabala of the houses

02:11:57 4 traditional human aims

02:18:23 Rulers of the houses

02:25:21 Influence of Aristotle

02:30:20 Derived houses

02:32:21 Synastry

02:34:10 Timing techniques

02:37:04 Fate and divine will

02:39:34 Penelope's book and projects

02:44:35 Closing credits

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Ad6dQbmEo

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Transcript

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