Ancient Jewish Views on Astrology

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Episode 310 features an interview with Dr. Justin Sledge about ancient Jewish views on astrology, and the complicated relationship between astrology and early Judaism. Our starting point is the geographical location of the Jewish people being situated between Mesopotamia and Egypt, which were two cultures that had very old traditions of astrology dating back to […]

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to The Astrology Podcast.
0:04.0	In this episode, I'm going to be talking with Dr. Justin Sledge about ancient Jewish views
0:08.4	on astrology.
0:09.4	So, hey, Justin, welcome to the show.
0:11.7	Hi, Chris.
0:12.7	Thank you so much for having me.
0:14.3	Yeah, I really appreciate it.
0:15.9	So, you are the host of the Esoterica YouTube channel, which is available at youtube.com-esoterica-channel,
0:24.6	and you have sort of an academic background where you specialize in the study of Western
0:29.9	esotericism, right?
0:31.3	That's right.
0:32.3	Yeah, I studied the PhD in philosophy, and I also studied in the University of Amsterdam,
0:37.7	which is one of the few places in the world, basically, that offers an advanced academic
0:42.0	degree in the study of Western esotericism and hermetic philosophy.
0:47.1	So I focused a bit of my time there, and yeah, produce content that takes a look at topics
0:54.2	in the occult, magic, alchemy, kavala, from a academic perspective, but I hope the channel
1:01.4	is both useful from anyone from a complete skeptic, but also for practicing occultist and
1:08.5	esotericists.
1:09.5	So, it's a really interesting kind of project, at least I think it is, so yeah, I hope
1:13.4	folks will check the channel out, and maybe they'll find some interesting things there.
1:17.1	Yeah, I've really been enjoying the channel.
1:19.0	It has a lot of really amazing stuff on it, and I'm really looking forward to getting
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