Alan Lagudka

@lagudka.bsky.social

Queer diviner and divinely queer • astrology, numerology, cartomancy • Spiritualist • maths teacher • he/they.

Turns out Jupiter as my profected ascendant Lord this year coincided with my being asked to teach Religious Studies (specifically Christianity and Buddhism) alongside my normal maths teaching. It's always interesting to see how the same activated houses manifest in different ways.

Alan Lagudka@lagudka.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Jupiter is the lord of my profected ascendant again (may his blessings be forthcoming). The last time he was profected ascendant lord, I gave my first academic paper abroad as a PhD student (Lord of 10th) on the topic of Yahweh’s womb in the Hebrew Bible (Jupiter in & exaltation lord of the 5th).

My birthday was yesterday and I begin again at a first house profection year (36), ready to commence another twelve-year cycle on this god-blessed rock hanging in the aether.

Sure, the Hermetic texts are monist in its philosophy and cosmology. They are *also* polytheist, explicitly encouraging us to worship the many gods, not only because it's good to do so, but also to continue our active co-creation with the world as part of our own mystic work towards the Godhead.

"Kilsey Nan, who ran a shop at Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales, in the early nineteenth century. She…told fortunes by using 'her Guinea pig, and about half a pack of dirty cards.' Sadly, nobody recorded how." Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon

After searching everywhere I could think for my memory sticks, I turn now to the hallowed art and call upon the spirit of William Lilly to assist me in this horary endeavour.

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It boggles me how so many people don't realize that so much of what we get into as occultists is only possible due to the work of academics and researchers, not just for source material availability but the very models that underlie all the hot takes of folks who bias themselves against "academia".