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Why could astrologers of the 17th century foretell events
when present day astrologers cannot? When talking about prediction,
one means clear, unambiguous answers to questions such as
"Who will win the battle?" "Where is the lost
linen of the slave girl?"
They could, and did, predict in that way, because they had
information - the residue of centuries of deep thought and
study. It was a subject that had engrossed the minds of great
men since long before Pythagoras - to penetrate the meaning
of life on earth, to understand our relationship with the
rest of the universe, to calculate time from the luminaries
and to observe the connection between events on earth and
the movement of the heavenly bodies.
William Lilly's book, Christian Astrology, published in 1647,
was the first astrological textbook written in English. Previously
such books were in Latin. Lilly translated the information
from over three hundred great
authorities of the past and put together his masterpiece eight
hundred and seventy five pages long.
The Qualifying Horary Practitioner (QHP) course is divided into a Certificate and a Diploma.
This is a correspondence course originally devised by Olivia Barclay in 1984 and was the first
of its kind to teach traditional methods as practised by the
great 17th century astrologer William Lilly. This is an advanced
and rewarding course demanding effort and concentration. The
course has students world wide.
The course assumes a basic knowledge of chart construction.
Regiomontanus house system is used throughout.
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By the end of the course, students should be able to make
an accurate, verifiable prediction from a horary chart. This,
together with continual
assessment throughout the course, replaces a final examination.
After demonstrating that your work has reached a professional
standard, you will be awarded a Diploma entitling you to use
the initials QHP (Qualifying Horary Practitioner) and eligible
to join the Association of Professional Astrologers (APA).
The QHP is the only horary course with representation on
the APAE (Advisory Panel for Astrological Education) and the
only horary course whose
graduates are eligible to become a member of the APA.
The course (Certificate) begins with brief lessons covering the techniques
used in the second longer part of the course (Diploma). Each lesson
is completed and corrected before moving on to the next. An
index is completed for a section of Lilly's book. The student
moves from exercises in basic horary to a study of earlier
authorities in different sorts of astrology.
There is no shortcut; today's expectations of quick result
will not help you to do good astrology.
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