Secrets of the Three-Day Moon in Astrology

If you read my last blog post on the Magic of Triplicity Rulers in Astrology, then you’ll recall our introduction to Dorotheus of Sidon, the first-century astrologer whom A. Wasserstein, reviewing David Pingree’s 1976 translation of Carmen Astrologicum, called “immensely influential among Persian, Arabic and Byzantine astrologers of late antiquity and the middle ages” (1). While Ben Dykes advances an argument for the writing of Carmen in the early second century, we can generally assume that Dorotheus’ text was at least in circulation at the time that the famous astronomer, Claudius…