Astrology, signs, and divinatory arts
Astrology and Divination Texts
Astrology and divination texts on zodiacal symbolism, astrological doctrine, geomancy, dream interpretation, and related predictive arts.
- Texts
- 63
- Authors
- 51
- Range
- 1000 BCE to 1930
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
Astrology and Divination collects the archive's technical and symbolic predictive arts. It includes astrology, geomancy, dream interpretation, and closely related divinatory systems without merging them into the site's live astrology tools.
- Astrological doctrine, zodiacal symbolism, and traditional astrology texts.
- Geomancy, dream interpretation, and other divinatory manuals.
- Works where prediction, signs, or symbolic timing are central.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Astrology.
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous1930
PrimaryIntroductory
The Science of Numerology
Sepharial (Walter Gorn Old)1912
PrimaryIntermediate
The Prophecies
Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus)1555
PrimaryAdvanced
Principles of Astrological Geomancy
Unknown or Esoteric Author1900
PrimaryIntermediate
Palmistry for All
Cheiro1916
PrimaryIntroductory
Tetrabiblos
Claudius Ptolemy150
PrimaryAdvanced
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller1901
PrimaryIntroductory
The Kabala of Numbers
1913
PrimaryIntermediate
The Book of Talismans
William Thomas Pavitt1914
PrimaryIntermediate
I Ching
Anonymous (Traditional attribution: King Wen & Duke of Zhou)1000 BCE
PrimaryAdvanced
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith)1828
Primary
The Influence of the Stars
Rosa Baughan1880
PrimaryIntroductory
More Astrology and Divination Texts
Four Basic Principles of Numerology
Various Authors1920
PrimaryIntroductory
Christian Astrology
William Lilly1647
PrimaryAdvanced
Monarchy Or No Monarchy
William Lilly1651
PrimaryAdvanced
Astrologia Restaurata
William Ramesey1653
PrimaryAdvanced
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper1653
PrimaryIntermediate
Genethlialogia
John Gadbury1658
PrimaryAdvanced
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley1669
PrimaryAdvanced
Anima Astrologiae
Henry Coley1676
PrimaryIntermediate
Mikropanastron
John Partridge1679
PrimaryIntermediate
Mikropanastron (1692)
John Partridge1679
PrimaryIntermediate
Opus Reformatum
John Partridge1693
PrimaryIntermediate
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
1784
PrimaryAdvanced
The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars - Volume 2
Thomas H. Burgoyne1889
PrimaryIntermediate
The Interpretation of Dreams
Various Esoteric Authors1910
PrimaryIntroductory
Esoteric Astrology
1913
PrimaryAdvanced
The Message of the Stars
1913
PrimaryIntermediate
Your Place in the Sun
1927
PrimaryIntroductory
Philosophumena (Vol 1)
Hippolytus of Rome222
PrimaryAdvanced
Picatrix
Anonymous (Medieval Islamic author, often attributed to Maslama al-Majriti or his school)1050
Primary
The Book of Thoth
Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla)1785
PrimaryIntermediate
Secrets of Black Arts
Anonymous1850
PrimaryIntermediate
The Tarot of the Bohemians
Papus (Gérard Encausse)1889
PrimaryAdvanced
Indian Palmistry
J. B. Dale1895
PrimaryIntermediate
Astrology for All
Alan Leo (William Frederick Allan)1899
PrimaryIntroductory
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley1909
PrimaryAdvanced
Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer1487
PrimaryIntermediate
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim1533
PrimaryIntermediate
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke1825
PrimaryAdvanced
Demonologia
J. S. Forsyth1827
PrimaryIntermediate
Bilder der Wunderkunst
Karl Grabner (Attributed/Editor)1834
Primary
Thaumaturgia
Richard Harris Dalton Barham1835
PrimaryIntermediate
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer1870
PrimaryIntermediate
Mysteries of All Nations
James Grant1880
PrimaryIntermediate
Salem Witchcraft
Various Historians1892
PrimaryIntermediate
Aradia
Charles Godfrey Leland1899
PrimaryIntermediate
Witchcraft & Second Sight
John Gregorson Campbell1902
PrimaryIntermediate
Curiosities of Superstition
William Henry Davenport Adams1882
Introductory
Star Names
1899
Advanced
Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Arthur Edward Waite1911
Intermediate
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton1621
Advanced
Signs, Omens and Superstitions
George Lyman Kittredge1915
Intermediate
Miscellanies
John Aubrey1696
Intermediate
A World of Wonders
James Grant1845
Intermediate
Myths and Dreams
Edward Clodd1885
Intermediate
Dream Psychology
Sigmund Freud1901
Intermediate
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson1220
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay1841
Intermediate
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
Herbert Mayo1851
Introductory
Superstitions of Witchcraft
Howard Williams1865
Intermediate
British Goblins
Wirt Sikes1880
Intermediate
Domestic Folk-lore
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer1881
Introductory
John Partridge1644 to 1715 | 3 texts
Anonymous2 texts
Henry Coley1633 to 1707 | 2 textsJames Grant1822 to 1887 | 2 textsWilliam Lilly1602 to 1681 | 2 textsAlan Leo (William Frederick Allan)1860 to 1917 | 1 textAleister Crowley1875 to 1947 | 1 textAnonymous (Medieval Islamic author, often attributed to Maslama al-Majriti or his school)1 text
Anonymous (Traditional attribution: King Wen & Duke of Zhou)1 text
Arthur Edward Waite1857 to 1942 | 1 textCharles Godfrey Leland1824 to 1903 | 1 textCharles Mackay1814 to 1889 | 1 textCheiro1866 to 1936 | 1 textClaudius Ptolemy100 to 170 | 1 textE. Cobham Brewer1810 to 1897 | 1 textEdward Clodd1840 to 1930 | 1 textGeorge Lyman Kittredge1860 to 1941 | 1 textGustavus Hindman Miller1857 to 1929 | 1 textHeinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim1486 to 1535 | 1 textHeinrich Kramer1430 to 1505 | 1 textRelated Topics
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