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DR. JOHN DEE - Astrologer and Adviser to the Queen

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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2007, 12:11:23 pm »






During this time Dee had built up a reputation for himself as an astrologer, so much so, that his talents attracted the interest of the Royal court of Queen Mary. As a result John Dee was played to cast horoscopes for the Queen and her prospective husband king Philip of Spain.

John Dee’s cousin, Blanche Parry who was Maid of Honour to the young princess Elizabeth, who at the time was confined to Woodstock near Oxford. Through his cousin Dee perilously formed a link with Elizabeth, and drew her Horoscope. Because of his involvement with Elizabeth, John Dee was accused of trying to murder Queen Mary by the heinous crime of black magic, luckily for Dee the only evidence his accusers could put forwards was Mary’s horoscope that he had shown to Mary’s sister Elizabeth. Although being acquitted of the charge he remained in prison until his release in 1555.
                                                 

Elizabeth was crowned Queen in 1558. After the death of her sister, not forgetting her old acquaintance, Elizabeth summoned John Dee to court, where a friendly relationship blossomed between John Dee and the new Queen. However Elizabeth kept John Dee in the wings. not wishing to be seen by the court openly to having a liaison with a suspected sorcerer, Dee was introduced by the Queen to Sir Francis Walsingham, who was head of Elizabeth’s secret service. After this meeting Dee would often travel to the continent on the Queens business, or more often or not on some errand for the spy master Walsingham. Did John Dee gather secret information for the crown, using his magic for a cover for espionage, no one knows for sure, but it would have been easy for such a gifted mathematician to hide a cipher inside his complex magical symbolism.

John Dee was married twice, his first wife died in 1575 just one year into the marriage, the strange thing was, on the day of her death Queen Elizabeth along with her entourage visited Dee’s house. The Queen wished to see her astrologer’s magic glass, that was the talk of the court.

Dee wrote in his diary; "The Queen and her courtier’s laughed heartily". As John Dee’s magic glass was more then likely to have been a concave mirror, Elizabeth and her friends would have seen themselves upside down or distorted in the dark mirror. This probably frighten them, so being human, just laughed it off. Stranger still, there was no record of the marriage in Dee’s diary, not even the woman’s name, furthermore, why was the Queen not upset about the death of his wife?
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