Astronomical object

They're also called the Tzva'ot, the hosts of heaven.

This is drawing on much more ancient Hebrew Bible traditions about, um, the celestial bodies that are apportioned over the nations as their gods.

Now, this might seem kind of radical to some people [laughs] if you've never heard this before, but this is straight out of Deuteronomy, um, supposedly the bastion of, uh, Jewish monotheism, right? You know, um, but it's [laughs] it says very specifically that these i- in the context of an aniconic discourse, um, a discourse about not making, um, images, um, Israel's forbidden, you know, in the Ten Commandments not to do this.

But there's a really interesting extended discourse of this in Deuteronomy 4 that gives the, uh, the grounds and the foundation why they're not supposed to do this.

So don't make any, uh, graven images of male, female, beasts of the field, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Now he says, "Now look up to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and the stars, all the Tzva'ot, all the hosts of heaven." So there it is again, this idea that all the heavenly armies, all the celestial beings up there.

He says, "Don't be carried away and worship them." And he does not say, "Because they're not really gods," you know? He says, "Don't be carried away and worship them, those that were allotted to all the peoples under the whole heavens." And that's the, that's the key there, is that these gods, these celestial bodies are conceived of or imagined as gods that rule over the other nations.

And it's not surprising.

And I know that that sounds a little like fluffy and pretty, but there's something to that.

And so I think like at the end of the day now, what my work is, is like, let's talk about our connection to ourselves, but talk about it through the lens of the archetypes of the celestial bodies or the zodiac or the sky and not using astrology as a means to predict the future, but a tool to create it.

And so I've kind of done everything from like writing horoscopes for traditional newspapers and magazines to writing fiction books infused with Zodiac characters to hosting events and all that kind of stuff over the years.

And lately, like, I'm just really, really... passionate about inviting people to develop their own relationship to the cosmos.

So I'll start with my first baby.

These are my children.

So this is Analogies, Energies, and Celestial Bodies.

And it's basically like...