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Ali A Olomi Profile picture
@aaolomi
Apr 23, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
today mars leaves Gemini and enters its fall in Cancer.

medieval astrologers of the Islamic world were especially nervous of this transit and wrote it meant:

-Danger and bloodshed in the land of Arabs
-boiling blood and pestilence of chest and stomach
-the changing of kings
-sudden conflict and strife
-imprisonment and betrayal
-a plague of insects
-winds which destroy trees
-the rise of a great rumor
-danger to lesser rulers
-fire in homes
-humiliation of soldiers
-the prominent laid low
they were particularly worried about the conjunction of malefics in this sign which happens every 30 years

For historians these interpretations are interesting. Did the anxiety of conflict stem from the Cancer season and summer months historically being a time of war?
What about the connection with insects? Is that just the symbolism of the crab or was there as season of bugs?

I’m not an environmental historian but I’m curious if the Middle East has a summer of locust or something.

Either way Mars in Cancer was a time of anxiety for them
adding this for further research
apparently Lebanon has locust already. It’s interesting they associated bugs with Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces

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Nov 5
Earlier in the week, Mars left its fall in Cancer and entered Leo. Medieval astrologers noted this as an important omen meaning:

-the rise of warlords and warmongers
-contest of wills and conflict between rulers
-harm and disruption to coin-makers
-rise of dangerous beasts Manuscript showing a lion weigh the Sun in the back. From BnF
-grave danger to rulers
-harm and unrest among the youth
-fires and burning and droughts
-deceptions and corruptions between courtiers
-conflict in the court of rulers
-harm to nobles
-strife in the land of the Turks, Jerusalem, and Sistan
Mars will only stay in Leo for a little bit before retrograding back into Cancer

When it retrogrades it signifies:

-revelations of plots and schemes by warmongers
-exposure of the deception of a ruler
-injustice and violence in the lands of the Byzantine
-Market instability
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Oct 2
Today there is a a solar eclipse in Libra. Medieval astrologers saw eclipses as moments of upheaval. An eclipse in Libra indicates:

-harm to old rulers and those forgotten by society both
-destruction of old buildings and structures
-revelation of plots & schemes Image
-scandals among judges
-legal crisis
-usurpations in Islamic lands
-calamities in East Africa
-struggles for justice against corruption and oppression
-maneuvers by advisers and courtiers and their revelation
this particular eclipse has heavy Mars and Saturn influences so astrologers would see it as a rough one
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Mar 22
Belief in the evil eye is found in many global cultures but particularly in the Middle East, Africa, India, and the Mediterranean. It is based on the idea that the malicious or envious gaze of some can disrupt your health and luck

A quick thread Blue glass evil eye charm hanging on a tree from Wikipedia
The evil eye is described by some medieval authors as a type of ray

directed either intentionally or unintentionally it can impact health and fortune

jealousy, envy, or a heart which desires strongly can unintentionally direct such rays
hate and malice can send rays directly and intentionally
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Mar 6
In Dune the Freman follow Zensunni a future religion derived from Islam and Buddhism with Reverend Mothers like Lady Jessica. Since Zensunni derives from Islam were women religious leaders in Islam historically?

Yes!

A 🧵 Lady Jessica sitting in a cane with blue eyes and tattoos across her face
The early development of Islam relies heavily in part on the instruction, attestations, and transmissions of Aisha so much so that some historians argue the development of the body of traditions called the sunnah is indebted to her.
She passes on the saying of Muhammad, teaches the Qu’ran, and instructs in religion
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Feb 14
in medieval astrology Venus is the planet of love and romance.

astrologers from the Islamic world also had other interesting ways of examining love in a birth chart

A Valentine’s Day thread on love and romance in medieval astrology- Venus as a lute player on a blue sketch surrounded by two angels
to determine a person’s love life medieval astrologers would look at where Venus was in a birth chart.

For example al Khayyat says Venus in Capricorn is an enduring love, delight in venerable things, and ruins

They also examine the Lot of Union
The Arabic Lots were calculated spots in a horoscope derived from ancient Babylonian, Egyptian & Hellenistic practice & employed celestial mathematics

There was the Lot of Fortune, the Lot of the Hidden, Lot of Harmony—hundreds of them
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Nov 6, 2023
if you want to learn more about the history of what is happening in Israel and Palestine these are the books I highly recommend.

A 🧵
For the history and misrepresentation

Edward Said, The Question of Palestine Image
for one of the most authoritative histories

Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine Image
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