ABSTRACT
Astrology is a technically complex discipline, and the exposition in the foregoing chapter may have seemed baffling to the uninitiated. As one way of showing how it actually worked, I am going to take an individual birth chart and illustrate how two ancient astrologers would have interpreted it, according to the generalised instructions given in their works. They are quite different sources, in that they are separated by several centuries, and that one was written in Greek and the other in Latin. However, they are remarkably similar, illustrating the tenacity of astrological tradition. The reason that they are ideal for such an experiment is that they present themselves as simple handbooks, and offer precise predictions corresponding to particular configurations.
