Thank you David,
you have cleared some of my doubts.
I agree that there is no reason to think that the zodiac section is a horoscope (or a set of horoscopes).
While the Lapidario truly is "passive astrology" according to your definition, I believe that Reg Lat 1283.a counts as "active astrology". The use of those zodiac wheels was to foresee the destiny of a person (note the future tense "sera") on the basis of the zodiac degree the sun was in at its birth. It certainly is a very basic form of fortune-telling, only requiring your day of birth without the need of a complete horoscope, but it still is astrological fortune telling. For instance, the fourth degree of Gemini:
"A qui nasciere en el sera feminino y muy malo y sabidor de nigromancia"
Who is born in this degree will be effeminate and very bad and knowledgeable in necromancy.
One born on April 20 "will be humble and hardworking".
One born on May 28 "will be an evil necromancer".
If the content of the Voynich zodiac section should result to be similar to the Lapidario, it would have a "passive astrological" content.
If it should result to be myrogenesis-based fortune-telling, like Reg Lat 1283.a, it would be very basic "active astrology".
If it proved to be something entirely different, it might not be astrological in any sense. It might still be astronomical in the modern sense (e.g. representing stars corresponding to the single degrees of the zodiac). Or it might be a 360-days calendar, with each nymph being a personification of a day, somehow similarly to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Or....
you have cleared some of my doubts.
I agree that there is no reason to think that the zodiac section is a horoscope (or a set of horoscopes).
While the Lapidario truly is "passive astrology" according to your definition, I believe that Reg Lat 1283.a counts as "active astrology". The use of those zodiac wheels was to foresee the destiny of a person (note the future tense "sera") on the basis of the zodiac degree the sun was in at its birth. It certainly is a very basic form of fortune-telling, only requiring your day of birth without the need of a complete horoscope, but it still is astrological fortune telling. For instance, the fourth degree of Gemini:
"A qui nasciere en el sera feminino y muy malo y sabidor de nigromancia"
Who is born in this degree will be effeminate and very bad and knowledgeable in necromancy.
One born on April 20 "will be humble and hardworking".
One born on May 28 "will be an evil necromancer".
If the content of the Voynich zodiac section should result to be similar to the Lapidario, it would have a "passive astrological" content.
If it should result to be myrogenesis-based fortune-telling, like Reg Lat 1283.a, it would be very basic "active astrology".
If it proved to be something entirely different, it might not be astrological in any sense. It might still be astronomical in the modern sense (e.g. representing stars corresponding to the single degrees of the zodiac). Or it might be a 360-days calendar, with each nymph being a personification of a day, somehow similarly to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Or....