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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is upon us.

So ends the age of earth and so begins the age of air.

if an undead Timur i lang rises from his grave you'll know why...

we're also entering a new dawr or planetary age

so fun times ahead!

"From time immemorial, people have looked to the stars to help them explain the chaos of their present and the uncertainty of their future." me for @TheAtlantic and @marinakoren theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

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16 Dec
Astrologers from the medieval Islamic world envisioned history as a series of great planetary cycles. You've heard of the Great Conjunction on December 20th and the Age of Aquarius, but the medieval writers had different ideas.

According to them we are in a new age

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While the Age of Aquarius is not really a thing in the writings of medieval astrologers, they do have several techniques which divide up history into astrological ages, or world years.

One is the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn which we discussed in our last two threads.
The others are intiha’at, fardar, dawr, and qisma which were all related to one another
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9 Dec
Every few hundred years Jupiter and Saturn meet in a conjunction. For medieval Muslim astrologers, the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn would be linked to world conquerors, messiahs, and the apocalypse.

The next Great Conjunction is on December 20th 2020.

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The Jewish-Persian astrologer Mashallah, drawing heavily from his Sassanian predecessors, argued all of world history was shaped by cycles of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions.

They would be used to explain seismic political and historical changes.
In the little conjunction of 20 yrs Jupiter Saturn would meet in a sign indicating shifts in political winds and war.

In the great conjunction of 240ish yrs they would shift triplicity indicating the fall of empires, the rise of new dynasties, & the coming of a world conqueror
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2 Dec
Every few hundred years, Jupiter and Saturn meet in a Great Conjunction. For medieval Muslim astrologers the cycles would represent the rise and fall of empires, the coming of messiahs, and foretell the apocalypse.

The next conjunction is December 20th 2020.

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Jupiter and Saturn are the two slowest classical wandering stars of astrology. Many civilizations from the Babylonians to the Greeks associated them with world-changing events.

But it would be the Persian Sassanians who would use their movements as unique time-periods.
According to scholars like Pingree, the idea was picked up by medieval astrologers of the Islamic world like Ma’shallah, Abu Mas’shar, Ibn Hibinta, Al Qabisi and others.
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18 Nov
Eclipses like the ones coming up on 11/30 and 12/14 were of great importance to medieval Muslim astrologers. They featured in dire predictions and were used to time major events like wars.

A thread on eclipses and their history in a great rebellion
Accordingly, to Mashallah, Abu Ma’shar, and Sahl which sign an eclipse or Kusuf appears in and what sign is ascendant reveals its effects.

In Aries it spells the ruination of kings from war
In Taurus scarcity of crops and food is likely.

In Gemini a solar eclipse portends bloodshed among the people and danger in roads.

A lunar eclipse like the one on 11/30 warns of hot winds and storms.
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11 Nov
Medieval Muslims wrote extensively about plagues. Theories ranged from the natural, to the will of the divine. But some spoke of the hidden influences of jinn and stars.

A thread on the astrology and jinn of plagues in the medieval Islamic world
Jinn were invisible beings, often associated with the dangers of the desert. They could cause mischief for travelers but also frequented cities.

One way they caused mayhem was through sickness and plague.
The jinn were said to possess poison arrows or spears called “ta’n” which they used to afflict people. Individually, they could strike a human with illness and fever, but should plague overtake a city then it was described as a battalion of jinn descending with their ta’n.
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4 Nov
Jinn and humans are said to live in parallel worlds but sometimes they collide in a mix of passions, obsession, and love.

A thread on jinn-human love and sex
The most famous jinn-human pair were the parents of the Queen of Sheba, Bilqis.

King Al Hadhad was out hunting when he encountered a family of deer. In a moment of mercy, he stayed his hand, sparing their life. The deer turned out to be a tribe of jinn.
Their king, Sakan rewarded Al Hadhad by offering him marriage with a jinn.

Thus was King Hadhad married to jinn princess, Ruwaha. They sired several children who were whisked away into the realms of the jinn.
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