there’s a whole semi-forgotten tradition of astrology and dream divination. Way cool

second would have to be the Arabic Lots; there is far more to them than Fortune and Spirit. You could direct/turn/profect from them as a predictive and timing technique
there was also a series of Lots meant to be used with the great conjunction charts and revolution charts which were used to determine the character of the ruling hegemony of the coming age

The Lot of Mulk and the Lot of Din
The calculations vary; distance of Mars to Moon then projected from Ascendant, distance of Jupiter to Saturn then projected from ascendent etc.
Based on them the Lot of Mulk lands in Sagittarius bound of Jupiter or Aquarius bound of Mercury and Lot of Din falls into Capricorn bound of Mars for the charts
traditionally these mean

-rule by managers
-war between wealthy old merchants and young poor laborers
-religion of mathematicians and their instruments
-reformist religions
in modern parlance that might be labor uprisings, unions, corporate monopolies forming and breaking up, and maybe the religion of mathematicians is algorithms, maybe?

ok next mini thread on letter magic and jinn later today

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Letter magic or ilm al huruf very much overlaps with jinn and astrology

as an occult or magical system it is grounded in a cosmology where everything is linked together

the wise sage knowing the mystery of letters could invoke the powers of God, the angels, and fearsome jinn
Influenced heavily by the Sufi-mage, al Buni, letter magic viewed the whole of creation as formed by sacred letters

therefore everything corresponded to a letter and in turn every letter corresponded to a Name of God, a planet, an angel, and a jinn.
The mage would select a specific astrological moment to craft a talisman, using alpha-numeric calculations and patterns intended to invoke a certain attribute of God, draw an angelic power, and stir a mighty jinn

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In Middle Eastern and Islamic lore, the jinn are associated with dreams. As subtle, invisible creatures they were treated as a separate race of beings and as a type of spirit-life.

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They could also sway the dreams of humans.
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