The Book of Thoth: Towards a Kemetic Astrology

Atem-Paut

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This project will attempt to reconstruct the ancient Egyptian astrotheological canon by analyzing its extant derivative systems (alchemy, astrology and the tarot) from a position that regards mythology as a prescientific technical language of metaphysics.

The 36 pips are found to correlate with the Egyptian decans by way of their survival as those of modern Jyotish, in that the sequence of elements associated with the decans of the latter system follows the order in which the gods of the cardinal points are listed with those of the former.

Evidence is presented for the attribution of the aces and fool to the five epagomenal degrees of the ancient calendar; namely the equivalence in relation of these cards to the pips with that of the epagomenal degrees to the decans, and for their designation to individual elements by the corresponding order of the epagomenal gods with those of the cardinal points.

The trumps and courts are found to equate respectively with the 21 halls of the netherworld and 15 tombs in the field of offerings, with the 16th court's placement between the two sets in their listing at successive points on a diagram of the ecliptic enabling the allocation of these cards to mundane positions.

That the elemental designations of the courts do not extend to the trumps is accounted for by the distinction made by the Egyptians between active and passive matter, which by structural analysis of deity-lists contemporary with the above is found to imply a mutually exclusive counterpart to the elements equivalent to the three principles of Jyotish.

From the correlation of the elements and principles with the four common states of matter and three of energy, respectively, the complementarity between active and passive types is attributable to the wave/particle duality of matter and energy as perceived on the macroscopic scale.

Further correspondences in and among the eight major groups of astral deities enable a reconstruction of the main corpus of ancient Egyptian cosmography, from which is derived a system of metaphysical astrology predicated on the synthesis and transformation of stellar energy in its passage through the planetary spheres.