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20 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Happy Nowruz and Aries season!

Like the kings of old let’s look to the stars and to verse for wisdom.

Here is the chart of Aries Ingress/Astrological New Year

The lords of the year are Jupiter and Saturn by tahawil and intiha' Image
Which meant:

-Poisoned winds in West and harsh winds in South
-Corruption and infirmity among old rulers
-Conflict between wealthy and common people
-Judges vs rulers
-Legal reforms
-Evil in Hind, Ifriqiya, Sin, and Herat
-Diplomatic tensions between kingdoms
Mars' position meant overthrowal of merchants while Venus' position with Jupiter as a lord of year meant the rise of women rulers, ministers, and judges.
Opening Fal e Hafez to a random verse it falls upon:

“The beggar of your home, of the eight heavens has no needs

the prisoner of your love, from both worlds is free”

The alphanumeric sum of the verse gives two lucky numbers: 9 and 21
And one secret number, 6. In the horoscope above, Fallen Mercury is in the 6th Degree of Pisces as the “Broken Messenger.”

Eat some apples, enjoy some poetry, and welcome spring!
for us historians of science and religion this medieval practice is such a fascinating blend of complicated calculation, poetry, and a dynamic calendar system.

The coming of spring wasn’t an empty metaphor but imbued with significance

Here’s to apples, stars, and poetry

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21 Mar
the majority of astrologers of the premodern world knew about precession and wrote about it extensively.

Al Biruni would advise you to pick up a book before you tweet 😉
like believe whatever you want but let’s not pretend scientific inquiry popped up out of no where a century ago

Ptolemy was writing about precession in second century CE and Al Biruni was writing about it in the 11th century
he doesn't even have to go too far back in the history of science to see the relationship between astrology and astronomy.

The famous 17th century astronomer, Johannes Kepler, also cast horoscopes.

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For many cultures, New Year isn’t January 1st, but the dawning of Spring.

It's also the astrological new year.

Medieval Muslims who followed a lunar calendar with its own new year took note of the Sun’s entry into Aries as the key to predicting the year to come

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The astrological new year with the Sun’s ingress into Aries predates Islam, but quickly became an important date.

The ability to cast and interpret this chart would be one of the most important jobs of the medieval astrologer.

These charts were called revolution charts.
Astrologers would cast a horoscope for the moment of the astrological new year and use it to predict the fate of the kingdom.
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the cullinan diamond in her scepter was taken from South Africa and the koh-i-noor diamond in her crown was stolen from India
personal investment must be a new way of saying colonial legacy
the history of the koh-i-noor is so sordid: after conquering the Punjab, the viceroy made the boy prince travel 4,000 miles to present the diamond to Queen Victoria in person in a ceremony of subjugation
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In medieval Islamic cosmology the universe was ordered into celestial spheres and earthly matter. Everything was given a numerological association which then corresponded to mystical values.

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Thus the influence of planets transmitted through the Moon and its Mansions.
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Venus has entered Pisces, the sign of its exaltation where it will stay for the next three weeks

Mashallah and Al Khayyat says Venus in Pisces is the mark of nobility, of makers of beauty, and those who are indecisive in love, but when they love they love as if in devotion.
The significations of Venus in Pisces here are so fascinating and they challenge our contemporary understanding of relationships which are often more Mercurial and Martial than Venusian—more transactional and shaped by consumption.
For you see there is another side to Venus than simply pleasure and sensuality.

Venus is devotion.

If Jupiter understood the divine through philosophy and law, Venus was ecstatic worship.
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The mysterious prophet Idris is an important figure for Islamic esoteric traditions, becoming a possessor of great wisdom.

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He is associated early on with Enoch, with much of Muslim commentaries drawing upon the life of the Jewish prophet to fill out the story of Idris.
Tabari, drawing from Biblical narratives, says Idris was born while Adam was still alive and is one of the antediluvian prophets.

He goes on to list his progeny, saying his son was Methuselah the grandfather of Noah.
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