Hellenistic Astrology ၏ စာသားမှတ်တမ်းအပြည့်အစုံ

00:04:41 this subject a more academic approach, which is something I've been looking for Speaker: 00:04:45 because sometimes, or a lot of times, honestly, articles on websites are Speaker: 00:04:50 the most common and immediate source of information, but they don't have Speaker: 00:04:54 that rigorous fact checking that a more academically inclined book will have, Speaker: 00:04:59 and those sites can spread misinformation and have too much of an enchanting and Speaker: 00:05:04 fantastical view about it instead of a more balanced view that is rooted in Speaker: 00:05:09 history and not so much personal belief. Speaker: 00:05:12 So let's talk about Hellenistic Greece for a minute. Speaker: 00:05:15 The Hellenistic period of Greece started when Alexander the Great Speaker: 00:05:19 died in 323 BC, all the way until the Roman Empire took over in 30 Speaker: 00:05:24 BC after the death of Cleopatra. Speaker: 00:05:26 Before then, Alexander the Great was the king of the Greek Empire. Speaker: 00:05:32 He's called The Great because he went on a campaign to basically take over as much Speaker: 00:05:38 of the Asian and Mediterranean world as he could and he did he took over a lot. Speaker: 00:05:42 But after he died in 323 BC began the War of the Diadochi which basically Speaker: 00:05:48 translates to the War of his Successors. Speaker: 00:05:50 So a lot of his generals fought over the land that he conquered which Speaker: 00:05:54 stretched from present day Greece all the way up to the Balkans , all the Speaker: 00:05:58 way around the Mediterranean, all the way from present day Greece Speaker: 00:06:01 down to India, so the Middle East. Speaker: 00:06:04 The Western part of Asia, all the way down to India all the way Speaker: 00:06:08 around North Africa, where Egypt is. Speaker: 00:06:10 There are three main kingdoms that took over. Speaker: 00:06:13 When it comes to Hellenistic astrology, the one that Brennan mentions the most in Speaker: 00:06:17 his book is called the Ptolemaic dynasty. Speaker: 00:06:20 And basically this is the area around Egypt in North Africa. Speaker: 00:06:23 After the War of the Diadochi, there was a lot of Greek influence Speaker: 00:06:26 into these other areas that Alexander the Great had conquered. Speaker: 00:06:31 And there was a lot of mixing of Greek and the culture that was already there. Speaker: 00:06:36 For example, one major figure that comes to mind is Hermes Trismegistus, Speaker: 00:06:41 and this was a combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Speaker: 00:06:46 There's a lot of astrological writings attributed to him within Hellenistic Speaker: 00:06:51 astrology, as well as other religions and philosophies such as Hermeticism, which Speaker: 00:06:57 is a philosophical and religious movement that is attributed to this Hermes figure. Speaker: 00:07:03 But that as an example of how the Greek and other cultures were mixed together. Speaker: 00:07:09 Now, what we learn in school , at least what I learned in school, was Speaker: 00:07:13 classical period of Greece, which makes sense because the classical Speaker: 00:07:17 period of Greece is a time when there was much flourishing of the culture. Speaker: 00:07:21 There was a lot of developments in art and literature in science and philosophy. Speaker: 00:07:26 A lot of the main Greek philosophers that I've heard of actually Speaker: 00:07:30 come from the classical period. Speaker: 00:07:31 This would be Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, as well as Pythagoras, who created Speaker: 00:07:37 the Pythagorean theorem that we still use and are taught in school today. Speaker: 00:07:41 But this Hellenistic period is after that classical almost golden period of Greece Speaker: 00:07:48 And so Hellenistic astrology or astrology in general actually Speaker: 00:07:51 derives from the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures. Speaker: 00:07:55 The Greeks just developed the techniques and significations of the planets a Speaker: 00:08:00 little further . They expanded the significations of the planets as well as Speaker: 00:08:04 the houses, which are the sections of the sky that is along the elliptical, which Speaker: 00:08:09 is the path that the sun takes across the sky, and the planets through the Speaker: 00:08:14 constellations or the Zodiac, which I'll explain a little bit more in part two. Speaker: 00:08:19 But astrology was a big factor of the culture, or at least that's Speaker: 00:08:23 what I gathered from Brennan's book. Speaker: 00:08:25 And it continued on through the Roman Empire until it fell and Speaker: 00:08:30 then Christianity took over. Speaker: 00:08:32 So if you've looked at Roman history, you will realize that the Romans actually Speaker: 00:08:37 adopted a lot of the Greek culture. Speaker: 00:08:40 As a matter of fact, when I was doing a little bit of research on this Hellenistic Speaker: 00:08:44 period, there's this, I can't say it verbatim, but there's this idea or Speaker: 00:08:49 this saying that even though Rome took over Greece, Greece heavily influenced Speaker: 00:08:55 Rome and their culture, almost as if Greece still took over Roman ideas. Speaker: 00:09:00 Because again, Romans adopted the pantheon of Greek gods and Speaker: 00:09:04 just gave them Roman names. Speaker: 00:09:06 I've always found it fascinating how Greek deities have a Greek and a Roman name. Speaker: 00:09:11 . Part of the culture that they took over was the idea of astrology Speaker: 00:09:14 being so pervasive in the culture. Speaker: 00:09:16 However, Christianity took over, denounced it as pagan and blasphemous, Speaker: 00:09:21 and denounced it from Western Europe. Speaker: 00:09:23 However, it continued in the East because at that period the Greek Speaker: 00:09:28

empire, was broken into two. Speaker: 00:09:30 So you had , where Greece is now and the other areas of the Mediterranean Speaker: 00:09:35 Sea, but then where Turkey is on through the Persian area, that's called Speaker: 00:09:39 the Byzantine Empire at the time. Speaker: 00:09:41 And when you study a little bit about Greece, that's Speaker: 00:09:44 called the Byzantine period. Speaker: 00:09:46 And so that's where more of the Greek culture continued on while the Western Speaker: 00:09:51 area of what used to be the Greek empire, continued on to a more Christian thought. Speaker: 00:09:57 And I'll do another episode on the continued history of astrology Speaker: 00:10:03 because it's actually fascinating. Speaker: 00:10:04 It goes on into the Medieval period to the Renaissance and continues Speaker: 00:10:08 on until we have the modern and contemporary version of astrology today. Speaker: 00:10:12 But there are several components that will definitely be part of Speaker: 00:10:15 later episodes, it's beyond the scope of what I want to talk about today. Speaker: 00:10:19 But the major components are the planets in the sky that the Speaker: 00:10:23 ancients could see at the time. Speaker: 00:10:26 And they included the moon and the sun because to them it was a big planet. Speaker: 00:10:30 Those were big planets, but you have Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. Speaker: 00:10:36 In contemporary astrology, there's other planets, Neptune, Pluto, however, they're Speaker: 00:10:40 too far away for the naked eye to see. Speaker: 00:10:43 So those are not included in traditional or Hellenistic astrology. Speaker: 00:10:47 Then you have the 12 zodiac signs. Speaker: 00:10:49 Now these are the constellations, the main constellations in the sky. Speaker: 00:10:53 And we'll talk more about that in later episodes, but they Speaker: 00:10:55 are very important as well. Speaker: 00:10:57 Then you have what's called the 12 houses or the Greek Speaker: 00:11:00 translation of what means places. Speaker: 00:11:03 Again, those are those 12 sections of the sky that the planets Speaker: 00:11:08 and the sun travel across. Speaker: 00:11:10 Then you have what's called the configurations, which are the Speaker: 00:11:12 relationships between planets in the sky. Speaker: 00:11:15 And they're measured in degrees, which we'll talk about in just a minute. Speaker: 00:11:18 All of these, the configurations, the planets, the houses, the zodiac signs, Speaker: 00:11:23 all of these are configured onto a chart. Speaker: 00:11:26 And most of the times you see them on natal charts, which is a chart of all Speaker: 00:11:29 the planets and their configurations to each other on a chart drawn up at Speaker: 00:11:34 the day and time of someone's birth. Speaker: 00:11:37 But the main point of all of this is that the ancients believed that Speaker: 00:11:41 the planet somehow influenced our mind and actions, as well as signify Speaker: 00:11:46 future directions of our life and the challenges that we'll face. Speaker: 00:11:49 It was part of more of a philosophical debate that I'll get into in part two. Speaker: 00:11:52 But astrology in itself is just an example of divination and fortune Speaker: 00:11:57 telling practices that have existed since ancient times till today. Speaker: 00:12:01 They're not mainstream or not really known about in a deep historical Speaker: 00:12:06 sense, due again to the Christian rejection of anything pagan, but Speaker: 00:12:10 there is a resurgence of it due to the internet and social media. Speaker: 00:12:14 I've heard people mock about astrology or make jokes about certain astrological Speaker: 00:12:20 aspects such as Mercury in retrograde. Speaker: 00:12:22 That's just proof that it hasn't disappeared, obviously, but Speaker: 00:12:25 there's not a lot of thought given to the historical elements of Speaker: 00:12:31 astrology, which are very important. Speaker: 00:12:33 And it brings us to part two, where I talk a little bit about the culture Speaker: 00:12:37 and philosophy behind astrology. Speaker: 00:12:40 Now, when I was doing my own independent research before I found Speaker: 00:12:43 Brennan's book, one name that kept coming up was Claudius Ptolemy. Speaker: 00:12:47 Now, he was a Hellenistic astrologer as well, but he did a lot more research Speaker: 00:12:52 within the idea of natural science. Speaker: 00:12:55 And modern times, we believe that he is the most influential Speaker: 00:12:58 and representative of the time. Speaker: 00:13:00 Like he was the most representative of Hellenistic astrology. Speaker: 00:13:03 However, that's not true. Speaker: 00:13:04 He did write four books called the Tetrabiblos, which lists out important Speaker: 00:13:09 techniques and relevant philosophies. Speaker: 00:13:11 And he also made a connection between the constellations and the seasons. Speaker: 00:13:17 For example, when the sun enters the constellation, or the zodiac of Speaker: 00:13:22 Libra, that's the beginning of fall. Speaker: 00:13:24 When the sun ingresses into Cancer, that coincides with the start of summer. Speaker: 00:13:29 He made that connection at first. Speaker: 00:13:32 And the reason he did this is because he tried to make astrology into a natural Speaker: 00:13:36 science, even though other astrologers at the time disagreed with him. Speaker: 00:13:41 He did make a lot of impact into astronomy. Speaker: 00:13:45 He created something called astronomical tables, which is still Speaker: 00:13:48 used in the field of astronomy today. Speaker: 00:13:51 And this is because he focused so much on the natural world and Speaker: 00:13:54 cosmos and trying to bridge those into the idea of natural science. Speaker: 00:13:59 And lastly, why he's

believed to be the most influential is because his work Speaker: 00:14:04 has been the most transmitted over time. Speaker: 00:14:06 And so us in modern day will tend to overhype him in a way that overshadows Speaker: 00:14:11 the other astrologers of the time, such as Vettius Valens, which when I was reading Speaker: 00:14:16 Brennan's book, there was many techniques that are attributed to Valens and led Speaker: 00:14:21 to a lot of development within astrology or at least Hellenistic astrology. Speaker: 00:14:26 A lot of Hellenistic astrology has been lost as most of what Speaker: 00:14:31 contemporary astrology seems to be taken from Medieval tradition, but Speaker: 00:14:36 we'll get to that in a later episode. Speaker: 00:14:37 I still need to do research on that one myself. Speaker: 00:14:39 And that brings us to the main philosophical debates, which Speaker: 00:14:44 this is part of Brennan's title. Speaker: 00:14:46 It's called The Study of Fate and Fortune. Speaker: 00:14:48 And so fate and fortune were the two aspects of astrology that was Speaker: 00:14:53 caused for philosophical debate. Speaker: 00:14:55 Now, the Mesopotamians, and I think to some degree, the Egyptians Speaker: 00:14:58 believed that the planets were signs from the gods of something to come. Speaker: 00:15:05 So they were almost as omens. Speaker: 00:15:07 However, when we get to the Hellenistic period and the Greeks, there was Speaker: 00:15:11 debates between whether the planets were just signs in the sky of moments Speaker: 00:15:15 to come of the future events, or if there was a causality to them. Speaker: 00:15:20 Did they cause us to behave a certain way, or do they cause us to have to Speaker: 00:15:25 go through certain events in our life? Speaker: 00:15:27 Do they cause certain things to happen in history? Speaker: 00:15:31 Astrologers debated and fell into a spectrum of, "yeah, it totally causes Speaker: 00:15:37 us to have to go through certain periods in our life, and the planets do cause Speaker: 00:15:41 certain events" and then others fell into the camp of, " no, they're just omens". Speaker: 00:15:46 And then with the concept of fate, are we completely beholden Speaker: 00:15:50 to what our natal chart shows? Speaker: 00:15:53 Whatever fate that is present in that chart? Speaker: 00:15:56 Or is it just partially true and we have free will to change it. Speaker: 00:16:01 And so there was another spectrum of , are we completely beholden to Speaker: 00:16:04 fate or is it just partially fate and we have the way to change it. Speaker: 00:16:08 Alongside this development of Hellenistic astrology was the development of the Speaker: 00:16:14 philosophy called Stoicism, which is the belief that in order to be a virtuous Speaker: 00:16:18 person, and I'm heavily paraphrasing this, in order to be a virtuous person, Speaker: 00:16:22 you had to just accept the way life is. Speaker: 00:16:25 There was no reason arguing against fate. Speaker: 00:16:27 We have little control over what happens in life. Speaker: 00:16:30 That was that idea and you just had to accept that. Speaker: 00:16:33 It reminds me of the modern day, and I've said this before in other episodes, Speaker: 00:16:38 but this kind of reminds me of the modern day idea of serenity, which is Speaker: 00:16:43 the idea of seeking a balance in life. Speaker: 00:16:45 Even in Christianity, there's something called the Serenity Prayer, which is Speaker: 00:16:50 the idea of, or really I could just recite it, Which goes, God grant me the Speaker: 00:16:55 serenity to accept the things I cannot change, but the courage to change the Speaker: 00:17:00 things that I do have control over. Speaker: 00:17:01 I'm paraphrasing. Speaker: 00:17:03 And that idea of serenity that I just said falls back to the idea of Stoicism. Speaker: 00:17:09 As When I looked up the Serenity Prayer and who created it, there Speaker: 00:17:13 was an idea of it being connected to this ancient Greek idea of Stoicism. Speaker: 00:17:18 Now, with the concept of fortune, there's this idea of good and bad fortune. Speaker: 00:17:24 If you look on a chart done during Hellenistic times, or even a modern Speaker: 00:17:29 chart using a Hellenistic idea, there are places within the chart, Speaker: 00:17:33 that are called good fortune, good spirit, . And then on the opposite Speaker: 00:17:37 side, bad fortune and bad spirit, right? Speaker: 00:17:40 So there's this idea of fate within the chart. Speaker: 00:17:44 And what separates Hellenistic astrology, in my mind, in my understanding, Speaker: 00:17:48 from contemporary astrology is this idea of external circumstances Speaker: 00:17:53 versus psychological influences. Speaker: 00:17:55 In modern astrology, I learned that when you look at a person's chart, it shows all Speaker: 00:18:01 of their kind of psychological influences. Speaker: 00:18:03 The sun represents our path in life and the major part of our personality. Speaker: 00:18:08 The moon represents our emotions, Mercury represents our thoughts, Speaker: 00:18:11 Venus represents our desires, right? Speaker: 00:18:13 And so on and so forth. Speaker: 00:18:14 However, when I was learning about Hellenistic astrology, our Speaker: 00:18:18 personality and physical body was depicted as the Ascendant. Speaker: 00:18:24 It's the horizon. Speaker: 00:18:25 But everywhere else on the chart represents external circumstances Speaker: 00:18:30 that we may face in our life. Speaker: 00:18:32 It's not so much our psychology and parts of our personality, but it's Speaker: 00:18:36 more so what we will encounter in life. Speaker: 00:18:39 Or at least that was from my understanding. Speaker: 00:18:41 And I found that very interesting. Speaker: 00:18:43 There's a

lot of negative and misinformed judgments on social media Speaker: 00:18:48 based on very immature and quick judgments and misinformation, honestly. Speaker: 00:18:54 For instance, if your sun sign is Scorpio, then that means you're Speaker: 00:18:57 a very manipulative person. Speaker: 00:18:59 Or if it's in Cancer, you're a very overly emotional person. Speaker: 00:19:02 These very extreme ideas and the idea that the sun is almost the one point on a chart Speaker: 00:19:10 that represents your whole personality. Speaker: 00:19:12 If someone ever asked you, "what's your sun sign", and they thought they had a Speaker: 00:19:15 good reading on you based on your sun sign, that's a very immature way of Speaker: 00:19:19 trying to judge somebody because then you get people saying, " Oh, I can't Speaker: 00:19:23 date Scorpios" or "I can't date Geminis". Speaker: 00:19:25 That's very weird. Speaker: 00:19:26 And I've even heard not horror stories, but complaints about people who Speaker: 00:19:31 have had their chart read by these very, I'm going to just continue the Speaker: 00:19:35 word immature, who have had their charts read by these people, and Speaker: 00:19:39 felt extremely judged and confused. Speaker: 00:19:41 Or you'll have people saying, I don't really feel like my Sun sign, right? Speaker: 00:19:46 And it's because your Sun is just one of the many planets within astrology Speaker: 00:19:51 that tells a much bigger story. Speaker: 00:19:53 You have to look at the whole chart Speaker: 00:19:55 . Now, because astrology is so connected to astronomy, or at least it was, it involves Speaker: 00:20:01 a lot of mathematical equations that are relayed in degrees and geometric shapes. Speaker: 00:20:06 So for Instance,, an astrological chart is expressed in a Speaker: 00:20:10 circle, and it's 360 degrees. Speaker: 00:20:12 When planets are 120 degrees apart, that relationship is called a trine, Speaker: 00:20:17 which corresponds to the 120 degrees of external angles of a triangle. Speaker: 00:20:23 If the planets are 90 degrees apart that is called a square, Speaker: 00:20:26 which a square has 90 degrees. Speaker: 00:20:29 Also the elliptical, which is the path that the sun takes across the sky, has Speaker: 00:20:34 different names and degrees as well. Speaker: 00:20:36 So the ascendant is the horizon. Speaker: 00:20:38 The midheaven is called the highest points in the sky that the sun Speaker: 00:20:42 travels across, which for us would be in the middle of the afternoon. Speaker: 00:20:47 The setting place is where the sun sets in the eastern sky Speaker: 00:20:50 before it dips below the horizon. Speaker: 00:20:52 And what is opposite from the midheaven, the highest point of the sky where the sun Speaker: 00:20:57 is, that's called the subterranean, which would be the lowest point out of view. Speaker: 00:21:02 Now all of these calculations and degrees and relationships on the chart Speaker: 00:21:07 has esoteric explanations behind them. Speaker: 00:21:11 This is for me where it turns from just astronomy to astrology, Speaker: 00:21:16 to a more esoteric spirituality philosophical understanding, right? Speaker: 00:21:21 There are plenty astrologers who will connect these themes that will Speaker: 00:21:26 be reflected in a chart, either in a person's life, or if there are Speaker: 00:21:30 planets that are making specific configurations to each other, there's Speaker: 00:21:34 a theme that will be derived from it that will match certain events that Speaker: 00:21:40 do end up happening in life, almost again like divination, fortune telling, Speaker: 00:21:44 but a lot of times they come true. Speaker: 00:21:46 Because of these coincidences, many people , lie in three camps, or at Speaker: 00:21:50 least a spectrum of these three camps. Speaker: 00:21:52 Some believe that astrology is an example of divine knowledge. Speaker: 00:21:56 Some believe that it's just pure coincidence, and some believe Speaker: 00:22:00 that it's absolute nonsense. Speaker: 00:22:01 But either way, I do believe that it's an important and a reflection Speaker: 00:22:06 of a culture, which brings us to part three of why any of this matters. Speaker: 00:22:11 Astrology and really esotericism in itself, is part of history that has Speaker: 00:22:16 been left out due to the Christian agenda and the academic elitism. Speaker: 00:22:21 Because so much of esotericism is based on philosophical reasoning and Speaker: 00:22:26 coincidences that are hard to prove scientifically and replicate, this Speaker: 00:22:31 leaving out of history makes sense. Speaker: 00:22:34 But there's this prejudice against it. Speaker: 00:22:36 For example, when someone says they're not religious or they're spiritual but not Speaker: 00:22:40 religious, some people will have a more nuanced take on Christianity, and they Speaker: 00:22:46 won't be so prejudiced against Christians. Speaker: 00:22:48 Even though, throughout history, Christians have been very Speaker: 00:22:51 prejudiced against non Christians, and this is an example of that. Speaker: 00:22:55 Christians were very prejudiced against Pagans, basically. Speaker: 00:22:59 And as we've gone on into the Enlightenment movement and further Speaker: 00:23:04 on, a lot of the academic elites and the thinkers, again, also look Speaker: 00:23:09 down on pagan beliefs as well. Speaker: 00:23:12 And because of this philosophical aspect of it that's, again, very hard Speaker: 00:23:17 to prove scientifically, I personally put it in the camp of spirituality, Speaker: 00:23:21 even though it has contributed to modern science, like I said. Speaker: 00:23:25 Now with all that said, and I believe Brennan said this in his Speaker: 00:23:29 book, how books can give you a

more nuanced and historical information. Speaker: 00:23:33 A book that is written from a more historical and rigorous standpoint Speaker: 00:23:37 than online, which can be more personal and can give you more Speaker: 00:23:42 personal interpretations that could very well be very vague and negative. Speaker: 00:23:46 But the reason it matters is because this is a part of history and a part of culture Speaker: 00:23:51 that will challenge the beliefs that people have come to think are true today. Speaker: 00:23:56 And I find that very fascinating. Speaker: 00:23:57 And that brings us to the conclusion. Speaker: 00:23:59 Again, astrology is part of history. Speaker: 00:24:01 It's not just spiritual nonsense, and we'll learn way more about it Speaker: 00:24:06 when I explain more about these components in later episodes. Speaker: 00:24:10 But the truth of the matter is that both royalty and regular citizens Speaker: 00:24:14 consulted astrologers for major decisions in ancient times and even today. Speaker: 00:24:19 I believe that Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer for Speaker: 00:24:24 major events and for advice. Speaker: 00:24:27 There's a lot of celebrities that have consulted astrologers and even just Speaker: 00:24:31 regular people have consulted astrologers for major moves and things in their life. Speaker: 00:24:36 Which is another reason why I connected to the realm of spirituality. Speaker: 00:24:40 And some astrologers, even in ancient periods, taught classes, and wrote Speaker: 00:24:45 books that have survived today. Speaker: 00:24:47 Again, I've said about Claudius Ptolemy, writing his four books called Tetrabiblos. Speaker: 00:24:52 Vettius Valens transmitted a lot of information, wrote down a lot Speaker: 00:24:56 of information, which thankfully, some have survived to date. Speaker: 00:24:59 As a matter of fact, Brennan has a whole chapter listing out over 10 Speaker: 00:25:04 different astrologers of that period whose works have survived with example Speaker: 00:25:10 charts, their own philosophies, people that I have never heard of. Speaker: 00:25:14 And so that brings me to my last statement that I want to say. Speaker: 00:25:17 When we allow ourselves to stop being curious and ignore information Speaker: 00:25:22 out of fear or arrogance, that's when we stop learning and our Speaker: 00:25:26 understanding of life becomes stagnant. Speaker: 00:25:29 Now some people are okay with this. Speaker: 00:25:31 Grandma or their preacher or their parents taught them this Speaker: 00:25:34 and they're not deviating from it. Speaker: 00:25:36 Those are the authority figures in their life. Speaker: 00:25:38 That's what they're going to believe 100%. Speaker: 00:25:40 They don't want to change. Speaker: 00:25:42 Other people are curious, but they're letting fear stop them. Speaker: 00:25:45 They don't want to learn about this information that is blasphemy, or Speaker: 00:25:49 that is scary to them, or delusional, or devil worship, or whatever. Speaker: 00:25:55 They're scared of that. Speaker: 00:25:56 And other people may have the similar thought that I have, Speaker: 00:26:00 which is knowledge is power. Speaker: 00:26:02 There's a sense of expansion of your life when you learn a lot more. Speaker: 00:26:06 Now you don't have to blindly accept everything, every new Speaker: 00:26:10 information that you're taught. Speaker: 00:26:11 But it does give you a more holistic view of life and it expands your Speaker: 00:26:16 perspective when you learn more about something that you had no idea. Speaker: 00:26:21 Especially when it's related to history, or learning more about a certain Speaker: 00:26:24 culture that is different from your own. Speaker: 00:26:26 You step out of that ignorance that you once had, and you're able Speaker: 00:26:31 to learn more and actually form a more nuanced opinion about life. Speaker: 00:26:36 I'll talk more about Hellenistic Astrology in later episodes. Speaker: 00:26:41 But for right now, this is just an introduction into it. Speaker: 00:26:45 Trying to explain the philosophy a little bit more, which will Speaker: 00:26:49 become much more clear once we get into the different components. Speaker: 00:26:54 That's gonna be it for now. Speaker: 00:26:57 Thank you for listening to this episode. Speaker: 00:26:59 If you're watching on YouTube, be sure to leave me a comment and subscribe for more. Speaker: 00:27:03 For those of you listening through a podcast app, make sure you Speaker: 00:27:06 subscribe and leave me a review. Speaker: 00:27:08 Click the link in the show notes or head on over to merwin mccrady.com Speaker: 00:27:13 to leave me a comment there. Speaker: 00:27:14 Thank you so much, and I'll see you in the next one.