A graduate in humanities from the State University of Milan in 1944 (thesis on Maurice Barrès), Lisa Morpurgo worked for the Italian publishing house Longanesi, first as a translator from English and French and later as the head of publishing rights for foreign works. Her interest in astrology was ignited when translating a work by François-Régis Bastide on zodiac charts. Thanks to her work at the publishing house, she had forged friendships with some literary greats, including Eugenio Montale, Guido Piovene, Gabriel García Márquez, Dino Buzzati and Mario Vargas Llosa, to whom she applied astrological methods with interesting results.

These encouraged her to publish her observations.

She got to such a level of knowledge that urged her to look for the deep reasons why the zodiacal mechanisms works.

From this starting point on, an impressive amount of findings took place: she could no longer accept the obsolete and fideistic dogmas of traditional astrology, so she set for research of those astrological and scientific mechanisms that underpinned each phenomenon.

By analysing what makes astrology work, she managed to:

•     identify X and Y, the two planets beyond Pluto

•     decipher our Zodiac's complete structure

•     deduce the planets' by transparence exaltations

•     decode the zodiacal systems A and B, and their related four zodiacal sequences.

And all this was accompanied by genial observations and deductions.

Thus, the so-called Morpurghian astrology was born, based on scientific and modern criteria, within a deep and complete system of analysis and interpretation of the zodiacal elements. By hooking the individual charts with the whole deciphering of the zodiacal structure, this system allowed for a more in-depth enrichment of symbols that, in turn, allowed for a never-before-reached level of analysis.

Lisa Morpurgo revolutionised astrology as it had been understood until then. She paved the way for new researches to be undertaken with a serious and rigorous method, founding her own school with classes she taught and with her books that soon became milestones.

In essence, we can say that Lisa Morpurgo arrived at the complete deciphering of the Zodiac via logical, rigorous and geometrical principles, by identifying all its components and decoding what is hidden within its mechanisms: that Code interpreting a reality that – with zodiacal systems A and B, each with its own specific Zodiacs – completes the map of a true Cosmogony.