Astrology brings out a different side of me cause my father was literally obsessed with it and owned a billion astrology books and constantly talked about his chart. I have no sense of it being frivolous, I’m just like, “ah yeah astrology the dork religion”— Big Joel (@biggestjoel) April 4, 2022
basically all the new age nonsense is directly descended from it, not really fringe at all many kings in western europe took it seriously and so did the enlightenment
jordan peterson even shoplifts from heremeticism and acts like he doesnt. look up the history of court astrologers, for instance, queen elizabeth i had one and thats basically just state sanctioned hermeticism from a very prolific and important queen of england. hermeticism and feudal structures often went hand in hand and were used to reinforce existing power dynamics through nonsense
fun fact, elizabeth's astrologer was the first person to coin the term 'british empire' and wrote several books on what they needed to do to achieve it
hermeticism once again at it
i feel like ive been riffing hermeticism a lot here but it really is the cause of so many absurd things in our society
What does hermeticism have to do with this? I thought it was a pretty fringe religion.
basically all the new age nonsense is directly descended from it, not really fringe at all many kings in western europe took it seriously and so did the enlightenment
jordan peterson even shoplifts from heremeticism and acts like he doesnt. look up the history of court astrologers, for instance, queen elizabeth i had one and thats basically just state sanctioned hermeticism from a very prolific and important queen of england. hermeticism and feudal structures often went hand in hand and were used to reinforce existing power dynamics through nonsense
fun fact, elizabeth's astrologer was the first person to coin the term 'british empire' and wrote several books on what they needed to do to achieve it