Sahl ibn Bishr: A New Translation by Benjamin Dykes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- An interview with Benjamin Dykes about his new translation of the works of the 9th century astrologer Sahl ibn Bishr from Arabic.
Sahl flourished around 815-825 CE, and wrote what became some of the foundational works on Medieval astrology.
Ben's new book is a compilation if different works by Sahl on natal, electional, and horary astrology, titled The Astrology of Sahl B. Bishr, Volume I: Principles, Elections, Questions, Nativities.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:24 Ben Dykes' background
00:07:20 Similarity in Hellenistic and Arabic astrological terms
00:12:21 The Astrology of Sahl B. Bishr, Volume I
00:17:33 Theophilus of Edessa (695-785 CE)
00:23:13 Masha'allah (740-815 CE)
00:27:09 Sahl ibn Bishr (786-845 CE)
00:31:33 Civil war in 815
00:34:17 Queen Buran
00:39:37 Lords of the houses section of the book
00:45:02 Delineations of lots
00:49:24 Nuances in lords of the houses delineations
00:54:19 List of definitions in the book
00:57:06 Non-receptions and psychological hierarchy of planets
01:02:11 Description of detriment
01:06:42 Arabic terms have rich, psychological meanings
01:09:38 50 aphorisms
01:15:41 Retrograde planets
01:17:08 Anaretic degree and cusps
01:23:40 Horary astrology
01:27:14 Horary questions related to meals
01:30:05 Timing techniques
01:37:11 Whole sign vs. quadrant houses issue
01:43:34 Time lords
01:45:44 The book of Aristotle not written by Masha'allah
01:56:06 Where to buy the book and Ben's course
You can order Ben's translation of Sahl from Amazon here: amzn.to/2WgyuQg
I love this level of scholastic knowledge in the astrology world!
Omg im so glad that someone is talking about arabic astrology 💛🕊
Brilliant...the book has been ordered.....thank you Ben and Chris. x
Ordered! Brilliant. Great, thanks for this Chris.
Ok just ordered this. You had me when you mentioned the thing about benefics in the 3rd house steering the meaning towards religion and malefics tending to signify siblings. Having jupiter in the 3rd house without this knowledge would seem to signify an abundance of siblings, but I'm an only child. But I resonate strongly with the idea that jupiter is influencing me more in the department of spirituality and interest in foreign things/ celestial matters, amplified more so by having venus and jupiter in mutual reception. So cool!
1:16:00 - This is very interesting. I'd never seen retrograde planets associated with anything other than negative significations in traditional astrology other than being a good sign with missing objects. It's oddly similar to the very modern notion I've seen that retrograde planets are internalized - not quite the same, but remarkably close given that the delineations were derived independently.
Thank you Chris and Benjamin!
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much
Mind-blowing!🙏🔥💚
Facinating stuff!
Great work, I'm from Baghdad originally and like to get the Arabic original book, where can I get it from please?
I would like to add to this anoretic degree issue in natal astrology. In my experience, which is a lot of charts at this point, the expression is diffused. So an ascendant or the sun ruling the midheaven, the native is lost about self or career. A great competing predicament occurs.
I loved you monthly horoscopes. Will we be getting an April one?
Ben looks like Sahl :)
someone knows the exact name from his red book?
Works of Sahl & Masha'allah