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A chief müneccim Seyyid Mehmed Arif Efendi: A distant relative of mine It was exciting as well as surprising when I learned that one of 37 Ottoman müneccims is my relative from the maternal side; the 35th chief müneccim Seyyid Mehmed Arif Efendi, the father of my mother’s aunt’s husband. It was just by accident,

Part 2 Chief müneccims as state officials The chief müneccims were the members of the ulema and thus a part of the ilmiyye class. Some of them were professors, judges and physicians. They received a tough medrese education and took courses from the well-educated professors in order to be a müneccim. In other words, they

İlm-i Nücum: The Science of The Stars Part 1 By its definition,ilm-i nücum denotes ‘the Science of the Stars.’ During the Ottoman Empire founded in 1299/1302, astronomy and astrology, which were known as ilm-i ahkam-ı nücum, sınaat-i ahkam-ı nücum or shortly ilm-i nücum, ahkam-ı nücum, ilm-i hey’et or ilm-i eflak, were treated together up until

ASTROLOGICAL ADVICES Five out of eight planets we use in astrology is in retrograde; Mercury in Taurus, Jupiter in Virgo, Mars and Saturn in Sagittarius and Pluto in Capricorn. During this rare event, the planets in retro motion cause delays and setbacks in our efforts. While Jupiter-Neptune opposition which symbolizes the situations that drag us

Salad Oil Scandal In 1963, during the last quarter phase of Saturn-Neptune square, a major corporate scandal known as Salad Oil Scandal caused $150million lose. The scandal involved the company Allied Crude Vegetable Oil which discovered that it could obtain loans based upon the inventory of its salad oil. Ships apparently full of salad oil

Let’s first learn about that planets which form the mentioned T-square aspect pattern. Jupiter which represents expansion and growth, welfare, abundance, prosperity and liberalism is the planet of financial issues.  It rules finance, cash flow and banking systems. Minister of Economy, Ministry of Economy, bankers, financiers and stock markets are also ruled by Jupiter. As

We are in a period when Jupiter is transiting in Virgo, Saturn in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces and with a T-square aspect pattern between those planets including 90 and 180 degree aspects between. This T-square pattern between the mutable signs signifies major economic and financial problems! What is T-Square Aspect Pattern? Carrying a high

First of all, let’s begin by explaining a paradigm. Paradigm is the individual and collective perception of reality that we believe without any judgment; we do not need to test it. Paradigm is like an unconscious belief system of our culture that we breathe in and do not think about it until suddenly we begin

The source of life on our Earth is the Sun, which is the center of our Solar System. If the sun did not exist, we would not survive. This is a scientific fact. As a result, any change in the sun carries a vital importance for the human and all the living things. Throughout the

In addition to the Sun, all the planets including the Earth carry huge electric currents and the magnetic electric waves they emit due to their electromagnetic structures enter into the magnetic field of the earth and into the biosphere in the form of an electrical storm. The magnetosphere of the earth is highly sensitive to