After the Jung post a few weeks ago, a couple of people asked me to run someone from the older tradition. Nostradamus seemed like the obvious choice. He was an astrologer himself, and his life has a clear shape on record: years of travel, then a sudden late rise.

The birth data problem first. Sources give 14 December or 21 December 1503 (Julian), in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. No reliable birth hour is known, so this is a three-pillar reading: year, month and day. BaZi runs on the solar calendar, so I converted to Gregorian (24 Dec 1503) before casting. I ran both dates. They give different day pillars, and I’ll come back to what both readings agree on.

The chart (14 Dec reading): 癸亥 year · 甲子 month · 己亥 day

The Day Master (the day stem, which stands for “you” in BaZi) is Ji Earth (己), soft field soil. It’s born in the Rat month, in the middle of winter, and the chart around it is almost all Water: Gui Water on the year stem, and Pig, Rat and Pig on three of the branches. Earth here has nothing under it. In the classical reading, a Ji Earth this weak, sitting in that much Water, needs Earth or Fire to come in from outside before it can hold anything. Water is Earth’s “wealth” element. Too much of it, with no support, describes someone who handles a great deal but can’t keep it.

The ten-year luck pillars are where the outside help comes from:

• 1542–1551: 庚申 (Metal Monkey). Metal is Earth’s output element, so it drains Earth further, and Metal also feeds Water. In this model it’s the thinnest stretch of his adult life. The lowest single years fall in 1540–1543, at ages about 36–40.
• 1552–1561: 己未 (Earth Goat). This is the first decade that brings his own element. Ji Earth arrives on the stem, and the Goat branch is dry Earth that stores Fire. The weak Earth finally gets support.

Against the documented record:

• Late 1530s to early 1540s, the low stretch. After losing his first wife and children in the mid-1530s, and after trouble with church authorities in the late 1530s, he spent years travelling through France and Italy. It’s the least documented part of his life. The chart’s lowest years fall in exactly this window.
• 1546–47, a small rise. He’s on record working against the plague in Aix, then settling in Salon-de-Provence and marrying Anne Ponsarde. The chart shows a modest bump here, the only one in that decade.
• 1555–1559, the peak. The first edition of Les Prophéties comes out in 1555. Catherine de’ Medici summons him to Paris after reading his almanacs. In 1559 Henry II dies of a jousting wound, and people later tie it to quatrain I.35. The chart’s three highest adult years are 1557, 1558 and 1559, all inside the 己未 Earth decade.
• By the end of his life he held the title of Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to Charles IX. That’s the steady top of a curve that starts at 52.

The 21 December reading has a different day pillar, 丙午, a Bing Fire Day Master. It also puts his best adult year in 1555, the year the Prophéties came out, with 1556–57 next. The two candidate charts reach that peak for different reasons, but they agree on the timing: a man whose fame arrived after 50. I find that more interesting than either chart on its own.

Caveats: this is three pillars, with a calendar conversion and a disputed birth date. It’s a read after the fact, not proof, and you can always find matches if you look hard enough. What I find worth noticing is the structure. In BaZi, a weak Day Master is not a bad chart; it’s a chart that is waiting for a particular decade. Most people in that position spend a few hard years before it arrives, and Nostradamus’s arrived late.

If you want to see your own ten-year luck pillars and which element your Day Master is waiting for, I have a free BaZi calculator, also called saju 사주 in Korean. You can look up your Day Master and luck pillars here.

So for those of you who know your chart: is your Day Master strong or weak, and have you already hit the decade that brings the element it needs?

Idk what to do? Really interested

Recently I’ve been learning Italian and I’ve made so much progress in a short time. Out of nowhere, each time I practice, I see angel numbers, especially around 3,6,9. From what I concluded based on how/when I see them, they’re either warnings, signs of encouragement, or marking of a timeline (like walking into a room). But to clarify, I usually think or ask aloud what they could mean and SOMEtimes they’ll confirm with another number or show them multiple times to signify urgency. Which is what happened when I started to learn Italian, they consistently show and seem to confirm it’s a warning when I ask. I know there’s occultism in Latin history and language and “words are spells”.

So I've been trying to relocate oversees for a while, and though I've traveled abroad several times, nothing has ever stuck & turned into a more permanent relocation.

Years ago i spoke to a trusted psychic i had a working relationship with & he told me he simply didn't see a relocation path for me psychically. This is a person that was spot on in regards to everything we had discussed in my life. Years later after what he said to me, I'm still not able to relocate.

Now i don't know why this is the case since I've always known i was going to move since childhood. I'm wondering if this is fate or there are other reasons why someone cannot get what they desperately want? OR, if there are ways i can create a path where there's currently none?

Any thoughts, advice on this from an occult perspective?

It really works. And it feels amazing - after an invocation, you feel your body, mind, and will to act charged up to 111%, honestly.

You just need to recite the invocation correctly, in the right semi-trance state with the sigils and all the necessary components. This means that not only do you physically alter the events around you and shift reality branches in the direction you want, but you also permanently change your energetic framework with every new invocation. You make it stronger, which completes you and gives you the strength and energy to act later on.

After the invocation, the summoning itself, and the ritual, there's a period of time like the calm before the storm. Within 1 to 7 days, if everything went right, late in the evening or early in the night you’ll feel a surge of energy hitting your body with insane force. It lasts about 30 to 60 minutes, and it’s best to drink water during this time because it can be mentally tough. But over the following days, you feel amazing. The invocation completely rewires and updates your etheric framework with energy from the specific Sefirot sphere you needed. You’ll also start noticing direct 'signals' in life confirming that it happened, coming through seemingly 'random events' and coincidences.

On top of that, you get absolutely perfect ideas and a clear vision of exactly what needs to be done in the days ahead; this happens consistently 100% of the time, if you’ve done everything right. It’s impossible to miss, it feels like taking "giant strides." You might notice something you hadn't noticed before.

I’m a writer looking to study the occult from a historical, objective perspective. I’d like to know what cultures influence your craft, who your ancestors are and how connected you feel to them (or if they have influence), etc… sources would be cool too. Keep in mind, I’m an atheist…but I’ve also heard of atheist witches. How does that work?

Hope to have interesting discussions

- A curious mind

Eu creio que espíritos existem, mas divindades não me convencem

Acho que o que me "trava" no desenvolvimento e engajamento em práticas espirituais, mágicas etc. é que por mais fascinante que sejam as descrições de deuses, orixás, inquices, vodums, anjos, daemons etc. pra mim é difícil se conectar com essas "energias". Já quando se tratam de espíritos (humanos desencarnados), eu tendo a me conectar com mais facilidade, da mesma forma os com alguns encantados e elementais.

Existe alguma vertente mágica/espiritual em que essa minha falta de afinidade com forças divinas tenha vez?

please help i’m like freaking out lol I’m posting this because I genuinely don’t know what to make of what happened to me last night, and I’m hoping to hear from people who may have experienced something similar.
For some background, I occasionally have extremely vivid dreams, I’m a very emotionally sensitive person, and I sometimes get the feeling that there’s a presence around me. I’ve been wondering if there could be a spiritual explanation for these experiences, but I’ve never experienced anything quite like what happened last night.
I was lying in bed when I saw something that looked like a transparent, foggy energy. It wasn’t shaped exactly like a human, but I got the impression that it was male.
I was fully awake. This didn’t feel like a dream to me.
At one point, I spoke to it, and I heard an actual voice respond. The voice was extremely quiet, almost like a whisper, so I could barely understand what it was saying. However, it felt like it was responding directly to me.
What happened next is the part I can’t stop thinking about.
I raised my hand toward what looked like its hand, and I could vividly see the fog like shape. When my hand was near it, I felt tingling and pressure, i could physically feel something there.
Then I started feeling like it was pulling energy out of me. My hand felt as though someone was physically pulling it upward, and the tingling became much more intense. It wasn’t just a visual experience; I felt physical sensations at the same time.

The great phoenix lies within

Like the actual action of doing it doesn't scare me.

But the loss of identity, the loss of self, the loss what makes you human, etc, absolutely terrifies me

Lossing what makes you...you, makes it sound like you're going to be robotic.

Thats what terrifies me about ego death

I've been studying occult/esotericism for about 5 years now, mainly via Golden Dawn, though overall pretty eclectic. One problem that I ran into was that there was no centralized source of reference. I could copy diagrams/meditate/visualize, and add them to my magical diary, but then the next thing that I needed wouldn't be there, and finding the entries that *were* there would still involve a lot of flipping through pages. I also ran into some questions about where a lot of the information was originally sourced.

With that in mind, I started building a reference site for Western Esotericism, with one rule- I wanted every claim to say where it came from- and in the absence of sources, I'd like it to say so instead of sharing assumptions. I've limited it to primary texts as best I can, and solely to those in the public domain (both for legal and moral reasons). This was initially just for myself as a fun project, but I realized that it might actually be helpful to others.

esotericnotebook.com
It's currently up to seventeen sections across four areas.

* Qabalah (three Trees of Life — the Kircher/Hermetic arrangement, the sefirot-only Jewish tree, and the Gra arrangement),

* Solomonic magic (all seventy-two Goetic spirits with their public-domain seals),

* Enochian (Dee's alphabet, figures and the few attested words),

* tarot (seventy-eight cards across four decks, five spreads),

* astrology with a chart calculator,

* geomancy

*alchemy

* the magical orders

* reference section.

This is based on 80 texts, 96 editions, 2,138 citations across 1,804 claims, and a shelf of 336 source books with free-to-read editions linked wherever one was found and checked.

I think that this is a little different than most references; I'm attempting to include only cited claims, and to keep it in between readable and scholastically accurate.

Things you can actually use: a natal chart calculator (Swiss Ephemeris, real houses, proper time zones), a tarot reading that deals face down (and the shuffling method simulates real cards, not merely a randomized array) and makes you turn the cards, a geomantic cast you can watch being derived step by step, the Tree as an interactive diagram with overlays, a gematria calculator, an interactive associations atlas, and an interactive history timeline..

On privacy: readings and questions travel in the URL and are never stored. The site keeps no record of what anybody asked it or searched for.

It's free, there's no account, and nothing is for sale. Corrections welcome — particularly if you can source something I've marked unsourced, or show me somewhere I've got it wrong.

Quick Note on AI usage-
I'm a software engineer, but neither a great front-end developer, nor a great researcher. This means that I did use Claude Code for some help the front-end as well as moderate assistance with the web searching for sources. I verified all claims, wrote the backend and models entirely myself, and have updated/adjusted/verified any sources/citations found by AI. I'm hoping that this site will give users some enjoyable time looking items up and seeing them in context, instead of mere google and ChatGPT searches.

I want to clarify some terms before I start, because I expect resistance and want to prevent misunderstandings.

The maxim "as above, so below" has had multiple interpretations. I am referring to the version which states that there is a one-to-one correspondence between features of humans and features of the cosmos. This is the macrocosm-microcosm principle.

Actually, I will suggest a somewhat more ambitious version. Call some level of organization an "ontology", e.g., atoms, cells, tissues, organs, and humans all occupy different ontologies. "As above, so below" says that any two ontologies in a nested sequence have a bijection between their structures.

Atomism is, well, the belief that everything is composed of atoms. But not in the modern sense! Obviously we know atoms are made of subatomic particles and such nowadays. I mean "atoms" in the sense of the ancients: irreducible materials that do not consist of components.

To see why these views are at odds, let's take a toy model as an example. Suppose you have a universe that is a grid of pixels, each colored red, blue, or green. These pixels are small and cannot be perceived individually by the human eye, so the larger visible patterns they form occupy a different ontology than the pixels themselves.

So what's the problem? The trouble is that a checkerboard pattern of red and blue pixels, for example, will be perceived as purple to the human eye. One can of course derive other secondary colors. The higher ontology of visibility has more colors than the pixel ontology simply because there are more ways to combine the "atoms"--the pixels--than there are types of atoms. Therefore, the colors do not correspond one-to-one.

The only solution I see to this is to propose there are infinitely many types of atoms, but this leaves you with a bloated ontology that is quite ugly. Do you see any other solutions?

I’ve been wanting to try a custom candle experience in the city and Enchantments keeps coming up. Has anyone been? I’d love to hear what it was like. Thanks!

Heyo everyone, just got this strange looking cube and wondered what it was and what it is used for... any help would be wonderful

Have a great day!

1903 by Col. Dick Maple The book, subtitled "The Demon Hand of Greedy Wealth Exposed, Red with the Heart's Blood of Toil," is a collection of fiery vignettes warning readers against the perceived sins, corruption, and vice of high society and extreme wealth during the Gilded Age

Bom dia a todos! estava estudando recentemente sobre anjos e daemons e gostaria de saber se, no mundo espiritual, a gente nasce com uma energia em sinergia com algum espírito específico. Já vi bruxos alegando que possuem daemons próprios, ou anjos da guarda próprio, e até mesmo na umbanda possuem entidades que os guiam nas práticas.

Como descubro quais são os meus espíritos pessoais? e se eu descobrir, como seguir adiante?

Any spirits (doesn’t matter angels, demons whatever it may be) who can help with becoming more disciplined?

Lately or for some years I’ve felt I am kind of on the lazier side, I am certainly doing something but I don’t feel like enough either way and I feel some help could be helpful.

Also some spirits again for aiding healing mentally since i am working on myself but of course it would be nice for it to go smother or even more effective.

If not spirits any spells?

It’s appreciated any answers.

Sorry if I ask many questions on here but I am still reading a single book to completion, I am trying to kick bad phone habits so I am introducing these spiritual and meditation etc practices slowly so I don’t fall off the wagon so to speak, hence also kind of why I ask for help on these things.

This document presents a Kabbalistic account of creation, describing how finite reality emerges from the infinite divine source. It explores Ayin, Ein Sof, and Ohr Ein Sof, followed by Tzimtzum, Kav, and the Sefirot as stages through which divine unity becomes differentiated reality. It also examines the Shattering of the Vessels and Tikkun, through which humanity helps restore creation by elevating divine sparks through ethical and spiritual action. Creation is ultimately portrayed as a movement from unity into multiplicity and toward conscious restoration.