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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I just got back from my seventh funeral this year. Hopefully that gives you the morale boost you need.

Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Etymology of the day: Arabic بَطّ "duck", from Middle Persian *batt (cf. New Persian بربت). Xwarazmī says in his Mafātīḥ al-ʿUlūm: “The barbaṭ is the oud, and the word is Persian—that is barbat, meaning ‘duck's chest’, because its form resembles a duck's chest [...]”

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wonder where Gulf Arabic got سیده ('forward', 'straight') from...

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Far be it from me to indulge in petty conspiracy theories, but I have a strange feeling the Chief Devil-Worshipper has been dead since March. AI-enhanced body doubles don't fool me, I'm sorry.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Michael Jackson's 'Stranger in Moscow' hits different when Māh is in Boz (= Capricornus).

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Why is Threads gratuitously locking me out of my own account, and why the fuck am I being told that it'll be permanently deleted unless I submit a clear "selfie" (basically, biometric data) of myself before their deadline?

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

They turn peaceful countries into giant ashtrays, In the name of dem(on)ocracy.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

You know the world is fed up with the devil-worshippers when one of the most beautiful planetary configurations of the year coincides with them getting curb stomped.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

پاینده باد جانمان تا دیدن شکست بزرگ و خواری پیروان تاریکی. سال نو پیروز 🌞

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Currently, Hōrmazd is motionless in the sky—and his strait (which facilitates the movement of ~20% of the world's total energy wealth) is motionless in the water. You can't make this up.

Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Currently, Hōrmazd is motionless in the sky—and his strait (which facilitates the movement of ~20% of the world's total energy wealth) is motionless in the water. You can't make this up.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The Persian way to get through eclipse season, in a nutshell: - Praying. - Keeping away from the noxious rays. - Abstaining from sex. - Avoiding mind-altering substances (incl. alcohol). - Moderating food intake. - Maintaining cleanliness of body, mind, and environment. - Taking it easy.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The devil-worshippers just bombed the Golestan Palace—a UNESCO heritage site in Tehran.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Another thing: Gaždum (= Scorpio) is not as licentious and debauched as modern "astrologers" make it out to be. If anything, it is quite prominent in the nativities of celibates and those who save themselves for marriage.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Iranophobes can suck my dick.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The Persians were the ones who politicized astrology.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

In this post (which is really more of an essay), I expound on the Persian role in the evolution of astrology. Enjoy, and let me know what you think

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Persians did associate the eighth place with something—but it wasn't the sign of "Scorpio". Rather, the eighth was associated with Kēwān (= Saturn), because Kēwān presides over the seconds prior to the native's emergence from their mother's womb (a hellish and potentially fatal process).

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Not only does this post introduce you to the diverse forms of Mihr, it also features passages from TWO Persian astrology books that I'm currently in the process of translating to English (one of them is being translated for the first time ever)!

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Wishing everybody a blessed Yaldā and an easy Zamistān! ❄️

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Wishing everybody a blessed Yaldā and an easy Zamistān! ❄️

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Persianists, don't sleep on the voiced palatal fricative [ʝ].

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The Hermetic teaching on Will is that it must be free from passion and desire in order for it to be effective.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Astrology podcasters looking to discuss Sasanian Persian astrology, feel free to DM me.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Iranians should bring back the Zagros D: /ð̞/

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

One intriguing element of having a moveable sign rising is that it also means having a double-bodied ninth house... which the Persians of old deemed a mark of inconstancy in one's faith.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Smartly employing the administrative tactics of Cyrus the Great.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Fascinating how the same homonym occurs in both Middle Persian and Arabic: MP. dād (‘age’, ‘tooth’) Ar. sinn (‘age’, ‘tooth’)

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Ērān simply means ‘the Aryans’. Ēr (‘Aryan’) + -ān (plural suffix; commonly forms patronymics and ethnonyms)

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Fun fact: Mamdani is a Twelver Shia with roots in the Khoja community in Gujarat, India. A significant amount of Gujaratis, namely Parsis (Mazdean Persians) and Shias, are of Iranian descent.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Mihr enthroned. Coin of Kušānšāh Ardašīr.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Greeks characterized the 2nd place by its axial relation to the 8th, believing the “Gate of Hades” to be the other side of death. I presume this was an attempt to reconcile their eschatology with the astrology that they were developing. In any case, this characterization is wildly misleading.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Every letter in the alphabet carries a specific planetary energy.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The astrological connection between Hōrmazd and large-scale demonstrations is truly a beautiful one to observe.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

One of the (many) things that I plan to do with my Patreon is to translate some of my Persian and Arabic sources into English, making them a bit more accessible to anglophones. Would anyone be interested in that?

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This all just goes to show you... there's no such thing as a "good" eclipse.

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Andarzgar @andarzgar.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Two major meteor showers will overlap on the tail end of this month, from the 29th–31st of July.

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