The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction

#SundayReads: Carlos Eire on the levitating troubles of 16th-century saint Teresa of Avila... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-reluctant-levitator/

Breathtakingly-Detailed Tibetan Book Printed 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible

Planetary stations deserve attention. As a planet slows to station, its symbolism often becomes more pronounced before it changes direction.

Before we're even passed the title page of this 1825 manual on astrology and the occult, we encounter an instance of the dark arts at work — this second edition has been cunningly labelled the “seventh” to make it look like a runaway success: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

A retrograde doesn’t mean “don’t do anything.” It describes a period where the planet’s themes tend to become more reflective, revisional & internal. Sometimes the most important part of a retrograde is realizing what needs to change.

#September — from the Labors of the Months section of the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. The page shows workers getting busy in the grape harvest, while above a sun-wielding Phoebus rides his chariot beneath an astrological chart. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...