The Life and Work of Astrologer Helena Avelar

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 236 minutes

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Summary

In episode 324 astrologer Luís Ribeiro joins me to talk about the life and work of his partner Helena Avelar, who passed away earlier this year. Helena was a respected practitioner and teacher of traditional astrology from Portugal, and had influenced many astrologers through works she co-authored with Luís, such as their 2010 book On the Heavenly Spheres: A Treatise on Traditional Astrology. She was also a scholar of the history of astrology, and obtained PhD from the Warburg Institute in 2018, with a thesis titled "The Making of an Astrologer in Fifteenth-century France. The Notebooks of S. Belle: Lisbon, MS 1711 and Paris, NAL 398." Her PhD dissertation was recently published by the academic publisher Brill, and the book came out just a few months after she died, under the title An Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France The Notebooks of S. Belle. In the first half of this podcast episode we focus on giving a biographical overview of Helena's life and talking about her work and accomplishments, while in the second half we talk about her new book. This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Links to Resources Mentioned in the Episode Here are some links to different resources mentioned in the episode: First Astra Project Workshop: November 6, 2021 The Academy of Traditional Astrology, Helena and Luís's school The Astra Project YouTube Channel Helena Avelar animal fund Helena PhD Dissertation PDFHelena Avelar de Carvalho, An Astrologer At Work in Late Medieval France: The Notebooks of S. Belle, Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2021. Helena Avelar, “Who Wants to Live Forever? Astrological Methods for Calculating Lifespan in Western Culture and Perspectives on Determinism in Astrology,” in: International Journal of Divination & Prognostication, no. 2 (2021), pp. 161–188. Episode 225 of The Astrology Podcast, Helena Avelar and Luís Ribeiro on Traditional Astrology Interview with Volker Schendel, published Nov 14, 2020 Watch the Video Version of This Episode Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lovzhwqedY - Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 324 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode You can either play the audio version of this episode of the podcast directly from the website or download it as an MP3 to your device by using the buttons below:

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology podcast in this episode.
0:05.1	I'm going to be talking with Luis Ribeiro about the life and work of Astrologer Helena
0:10.2	Avalar.
0:11.2	So, hey, Luis.
0:12.2	Welcome back to the show.
0:13.2	Glad to be here.
0:15.2	Chris.
0:16.2	Yeah.
0:17.2	So, we've been meaning to do this episode for a few months now to talk about your partner,
0:25.3	Helena, who passed away unexpectedly earlier this year on March 9th, and who you collaborated
0:32.8	with for a few decades now in your work on Astrology, and she actually had a book that came out,
0:38.3	which was the published version of her PhD dissertation that came out just a few months
0:43.4	ago, as well as other paper that actually just came out a few days ago.
0:48.4	So, we were going to do in this discussion kind of an overview of her life, and then in
0:54.6	the second part, discuss her work, and especially her book that just came out, which is titled
1:00.2	an Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France, the Notebooks of S-Bel.
1:05.8	So, how are you doing just first off?
1:10.6	Okay.
1:11.6	I'm doing fine.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	So, you've continued the work, a lot of the work that you guys were doing since that time.
1:19.8	Yeah.
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