Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to be talking with astrology Nina Griffin about the 17th century

astrologer William Lillie and his work, or his book on astrology titled Christian astrology, which is one of the first English language

text books on astrology. This episode is recorded on Sunday, September 8th, 2019, starting at

4.16 p.m. in Denver, Colorado, and this is the 221st episode of the show.

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please visit the astrology podcast.com slash subscribe. Hey Nina thanks for joining me today

thanks for having me Chris. All right so this this is a big topic. We're going to be talking about the life and work of William Lily who was easily the most prominent astrologer of the 17th century, but also had a huge impact on later

traditions of astrology because he wrote what was essentially the first major textbook in

astrology in the English language and this is somebody whose work you've really

focused on and come to specialize in to a large extent right? Yes that's correct. I have

studied with Deborah Holding and John Frollley, both of whom, as we will later discuss, come out of the Olivia Barclay lineage, who of course is very tied into willy-milly, and it's been a big part of my own study and learning of astrology as well.

Okay, brilliant. So in terms of Lily, what was his dates and like time frame, like what years did he live and die? Sure so Lily had a

particularly long life by 17th century standards he of course was born in

England and he was born in 1602 and died in 1681.

So pretty much the entirety or the greater part of the 17th century pretty much encapsulates his life. That's right. All right and he was not just like a

theoretical astrologer but he was actually a practicing astrologer who lived in London and

saw clients on a regular basis, right?

Yes, that is correct.

So he was not originally from London, and we'll talk a little bit about his bio later,

but William Lilly really saw a number of clients every day, and we know this not only because of his own and contemporaries accounts, but also because he had his own case books that he kept.

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