FROM OPA’s MONTHLY SPEAKER SERIES – RECORDED JULY 12 2026
We will introduce in theory and in practice Marsilio Ficino’s astrological therapeutics, a magical system of mystical ascent and for the attainment health: spiritual, intellectual and psico-corporal harmonic well being. Ficino was the head of the Italian renaissance: the translator of Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Corpus Hermeticum, a brilliant and sophisticated philosopher and theologian but also an experienced astrologer, doctor and magician.

Transmitting and adapting to his own culture the methods of Neoplatonic and Hermetic Greek theurgy, Ficino wrote De Vita, a manual for the attainment of happiness, learning how to follow our own star and to be guided on this by our own guardian genius. We will show examples that illustrate the application of Ficino’s system in our own times.

This 2025 Capulus reaches 30 years practicing astrology and magic. Besides being an active consultant, José Manuel Redondo has a PhD on ancient philosophy and has been teaching at the university (UNAM) Medieval and Renaissance philosophy for over 17 years, also doing published research on Neoplatonism (and astrology, theurgy, etc) and participating in international congresses, academic and astrological. He is a consecrated priest, initiated into several afro-Caribbean mystery traditions, a work he integrates with astrology. Capulus studied with astrologers Luis Lesur and Robert Zoller (Zoller tutored him directly since he lived for a while in the same town, New Paltz N.Y.) Recently he finished a posdoc research stance working on a translation of a text about astrological magic by Marsilio Ficino on sacrifice and magic.

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