Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast.

This episode is a recording of an hour long webinar that I did last Wednesday, where we celebrated

the life and work of the second century astrologer, Vedius Valens.

So Valens is one of our most important surviving sources for the study of ancient astrology

because his nine book text that was written in Greek in the middle of the second century

survived into modern day and has been translated recently so that we can study and recover

and learn some of his techniques.

And some of those techniques have been revived over the past 30 years together with the

techniques of other astrologers through other translations.

So this webinar was hosted by Jen Zart of the Kaley Institute, which is an astrological

research library that's available to the public in Olympia, Washington.

So last year Jen helped me to publish a print translation of the anthology at Vedius Valens

by a scholar named Mark Riley.

And this was the first time that the entire anthology has appeared in print in English,

in the English language.

So during the course of the episode, we talk about Valens' life and work and then we also

answer some questions from a live audience who were attending the webinar that day.

I think it was like 50, maybe 100 people tops was our max.

So since this episode was recorded right in the middle of this past week, where there

were a lot of discussions about Vedius Valens in connection with some debates about house

division and how house division was done in ancient times, that was addressed at one

point in the webinar as well.

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