Distant Cousins

So far, my favorite customer reaction to horary is “Whoa, I had no idea astrology could work like this.”

It’s pretty weird, I agree. It surprises me every time. Like, why is the answer to this question in here, and why is it so clear? It’s also surprising how frequently entirely new principles are involved. I’m gonna want hundreds of charts under my belt before I try to level up.

By “level up,” I mean try to study and internalize the older Islamicate texts that the Renaissance and modern teachers I’ve studied were drawing upon. That’s where I expect to find explicit articulations of the… theological? mystical? underpinnings of this practice.

What excites me is, I expect to find those more culturally and religiously resonant for me, not only than the more recent horary texts I’ve learned but ALSO than the Hellenistic tradition from which I learned the basics (and, to be clear, HAVE only learned the basics so far).

I feel like I followed my nose to a form of astrology that underwent some modifications from the Hellenistic foundations in order to make it more compatible with a culture that — while distant cousins, clearly — is more like mine. I want to believe that’s why I’m taking to it.