The Anthology of Vettius Valens

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In episode 372 astrologers Chris Brennan and Jenn Zahrt talk about the life and work of the second century astrologer Vettius Valens, and a new translation of his Anthology that they just published. Valens is one of our most important sources for understanding the practice of ancient astrology, because he wrote one of the longest texts on Hellenistic astrology that survives, and he included more than 100 example charts to demonstrate how the techniques work in practice. In 2010 a classics scholar named Mark Riley released an unfinished PDF of a translation that he made of Valens' Anthology online for free, and this has become the main source that many astrologers and academics use to read Valens today. However, because the translation wasn't finished, Mark didn't include diagrams in the text to illustrate Valens' chart examples, and there were also some important chapters that were not completed. The absence of illustrations in the text made it much harder for students to read Valens and understand what he was talking about with his chart examples. That is why, with Mark's permission, Chris has just published a new print version of his translation of Valens that includes diagrams every time a chart example is introduced. We also completed chapters that were unfinished, and corrected a number of typos, making this edition more definitive. The final book is 440 pages long, and it includes a 50 page survey of Valens' Anthology that was written by Mark, which gets into some really interesting stuff about the chronology of Valens' life. Chris also wrote a foreword for the book. The book has just been released yesterday, October 16, 2022, and you can order it through online retailers such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble. The Anthology of Vettius Valens on Amazon A free eBook version of Valens' Anthology was later released in June 2025: The Anthology of Vettius Valens Find out more about Jenn's astrological library and institute: https://caeli.institute This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on Vettius Valens on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9bJ3Ne2WrA - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 372 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3:

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology podcast in this episode
0:04.2	of maybe talking with Jen Zart about this new publication, a new translation of the work
0:09.7	of the second century Astrology of Adios Valens, which is coming out this week, and that
0:14.7	we, I'm publishing and Jen helped me to put together doing the layout on, so it's kind
0:20.0	of a big announcement to release.
0:22.2	So hey, thanks for joining me.
0:24.2	Thanks.
0:25.2	It's good to be here.
0:27.1	Yeah, so you were joining me from, I see this gigantic library that you've been building
0:32.4	over the past few years, right?
0:34.2	Yeah.
0:35.2	So these Lestial Arts Education Library is where I'm sitting in Olympia, Washington, and
0:41.1	I began collecting collections of Astrology books somewhat in, I think, about 2013.
0:47.7	Linda Lehman came up to me at NCGR in Philadelphia, and she said, I've got two boxes of these
0:52.2	German Astrology books.
0:53.5	Can you find them at home?
0:55.5	And I was thinking to myself, they're at home with me.
0:57.9	So over the years, it's grown and grown, and now it has become an institute.
1:03.3	Amazing.
1:04.3	All right.
1:05.3	And we'll talk about that more later.
1:07.3	You are the head of a publishing company, and you're starting like an Astrology book
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