 Initially, Porta’s naturalized version of astrology was probably a mere maneuver for detouring around the ecclesiastical censorship of the divinatory arts; in the first edition of the Magia (1558) Porta had fully embraced astrological causation, as well as the decisive role of an auspicious astrological moment for magical operations, especially the confection of talismans as described by Ficino in the De vita (Magia 1558: bk. 1, chs. 15–17; Trabucco 2002, 2005).