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[Hermes777]

Hermes777, you like to talk about the context. And you're right. The best context to understand the VM is the medieval mindset. To anyone who understands medieval thought about the cosmos and nature, the solution I give will not seem crazy.

It is the heavenly influence that gives herbs their medicinal virtues. This is something natural to the medieval mind and this is what we see reflected in the Voynich.

Yes, we face great conceptual difficulties when studying a work like the Voynich. The medieval mind - and the premodern mind generally - had the habit of thinking in terms of parallelisms and ratios. Not only do we not think like that, we don't even appreciate that we don't think like that. It is a long, hard process for modern minds to reacquire those habits and we can only approximate it because we are not embedded in a corresponding cosmology. 

So the type of astronomical system you propose seems outlandish to the modern mind, but it would be quite in line with premodern cosmological thought. In fact, I think it is more extensive in the manuscript than just connecting herbs with stars: there are wider parallelisms. There are parallels between water and light, for instance, that are entirely unsuspected by modern thinking. 

In Voynich literature I see people really struggling with premodern ideas. The notion of nympha as personifications of the animating forces of the World Soul is especially alien to us, but to the premodern mind it is as natural as angels. 

I would like to know more about how you think the text was generated using a system of wheels.