Description:

In western astrology we use of course Roman names for the planetary symbols; but when you look on the mythological explanations, you usually get Greek mythology to explain them. Doesn’t count: NOMEN EST OMEN?
Searching the mythological leavings of the original Roman deities Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. It was necessary to dive deeply into the history of theology because the well-known writers like Ovid, Virgil, and Lucretius preferred to retell Greek myths instead of preserving their own roots. In the last centuries (until about 1900) these authors were taken as sources for theological research, and there was no discrimination between literature/poetry and original italic tradition. Perspective and moral view of the 19th century added more misinterpretations and made the knowledge of Roman religion almost vanish.
Existing rests are collected in this book and compared with the actual astrological symbols. Thus, the reader can recognize now how much of Roman ideas can be found in the planetary symbols nowadays. Simultaneously, new points of view are opened for the interpretation of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.