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Today on Rundsupe we welcome Musicians, scholar and astrologer Dr. Angela Voss. Dr Voss is program director for the Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred MA at Canterbury Church

Cathedral University and is the author of the Western

Esoteric Masters Series book on Marsiliophicino.

Dr Angela Voss, thank you very much for your time.

It's a great pleasure to be here. Wonderful now we have a

traditional first question around here. Angela were you a weird kid?

No, I was an extremely conventional kid from an extremely conventional family.

Although my parents did have one I would call weird friend who I used to commandeer in my teenage years and talk about all sorts of extraordinary things.

But I think my parents thought I was a bit odd in what I was interested in, but no, really, really conventional when I was young, yeah.

So those interests that were a bit left to field.

Were they typically academic stuff?

Did the, uh, did the Renaissance find you early?

The Renaissance found me when I was about 15

and I was playing lots of music

and I happened to watch a television series called The Six Wives of Henry the 8th, which had original Tudor music.

And it just did something for me and I just realized that this period of music was what I wanted to devote myself to.

So from about the age of 15 I became completely immersed in Renaissance art and music

and my friends were at discos and I used to lie on the sofa listening to Monteverdi for hours on end for getting

high on that kind of music. So that was what introduced me to the period, was through the arts.

You say getting high on that kind of music, we will of course talk about a one Mr Ficino a little bit later,

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