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(X.) HISTORY - Towards the Dark

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« on: August 18, 2007, 07:19:47 am »







Dorothy Partridge, a midwife who with Sarah Jinner was one of a very few women astrologers, was more outright a century later: in January, she found 'a lusty squab bedfellow very good physic at this season'; but December and February were lusty months too, and an especially good time to be 'a husband to thy wife' was when the Moon was in Sagittarius.

The first Englishman to flood the market with his almanacs was William Lilly (1602-81), a yeoman's son from a tiny village in Leicestershire, who went to London as servant to an illiterate alderman and, marrying his rich widow, learned astrology from a disreputable master. By 1635 he was both teaching and practising astrology.

It was in 1644 that as 'Merlinus Anglicus Junior' he published his first almanac, and the publication continued annually until 1682, the year after his death. Lilly's notebooks are, like Forman's, a picture of an age, revealing the amount of work he did for men and women of all classes (he was consulted by Charles I as well as by servants, by army generals, sea captains and rich merchants, and nonentities).

If Lilly was perhaps the best-known astrologer of the 17th century, there were others almost as notorious. (There were none whose forecasts were so well publicized: Lilly was actually arrested on a charge of starting the Great Fire of London, on the grounds that his alleged prediction of it was so accurate that he must have started it to justify himself!) John Booker (1603-67) was a haberdasher's apprentice before he became an astrologer; he published his own almanacs from 1631 to 1667, and recorded in his casebooks a thousand clients a year before 1648 and 1665.

Lilly, better-known especially after the publication of his textbook Christian Astrology (1647), dealt with almost two thousand enquiries a year at the height of his activity.

And they had two hundred or so colleagues between the reigns of Elizabeth and Anne.
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