It explores how the tensions between cosmic forces and celestial beings are reflected in the birth chart, and how human action can embody constructive forces, resist destructive ones, and put that transformation to service in the lives of others.
It uses a Sidereal Hellenistic astrological method, rooted in the Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Zoroastrian astrological tradition (3rd–10th centuries CE) and in a Zoroastrian cosmology. Gumezishn Astrology takes its name from the Middle Persian concept of Gumezishn, meaning the Mixture: and refers to the condition in which opposing cosmic forces of good and evil met and continue to meet within the world and cosmos.
Zoroastrian astrology operates within a genuinely free-will framework where one's actions have real weight in the ongoing course of the world's history and indeed the history of the cosmos too. The world is still caught between Asha and Druj, the good against chaos or lie, and every honest thought, word, and deed tips the balance. The Zoroastrian tradition has a name for someone who lives this way: an Ashavan, one who holds to Asha. This is the aim of this astrological practice: to help you navigate your chart and find the best opportunities to build Asha.
Your birth chart is not a forecast of what will happen to you but a key to understanding your particular relationship to fixed stars and planets, and a guide to participating consciously in the cosmic drama unfolding around you.
Understanding that pattern of relationships can help you navigate celestial conditions while also asking a more fundamental question: what good are you here to do?
Gumezishn Astrology is a service astrology
About the Practice
Gumezishn Astrology is a contemporary synthesis. It works within a Zoroastrian cosmological framework and draws upon historical Iranian astrological and cosmological materials, but it does not claim to reproduce a complete historical system of Zoroastrian astrology.
Where the historical sources leave gaps, I develop their symbolism through comparative astrology and my own interpretive synthesis.
Indeed, Gumezishn Astrology began with my reconstruction of Sasanian-Hellenistic astrology, particularly its remarkable conception of fixed stars and planets as participants in a continuing celestial contest. Sasanian astrologers assimilated Hellenistic and Indian astrological techniques and blended it with their own and with Zoroastrian doctrine.
My developing practice continues that process of synthesis while clearly distinguishing historical evidence from my own reconstruction and contemporary interpretation.
Celestial Vocation
Zoroastrian cosmology describes a creation in which celestial and earthly beings participate in an ongoing struggle between Asha (Truth, Order, Good) and Druj (Lie, Disorder, Evil). For a contemporary astrologer, this raises questions that extend beyond historical reconstruction: how might a person understand their own celestial belonging, vocation, and responsibility within such a cosmos?
Gumezishn Astrology develops this into the idea of celestial vocation: that our relationship with the stars can be explored not only as a question of identity, but also of what we are capable of bringing into the world.
The birth chart can therefore be read as a map of celestial relationships and tensions that become consequential through human action: the qualities we may cultivate, the forms of disorder we may be equipped to resist, and the particular forms of good we may be capable of creating.
Celestial identity becomes meaningful through earthly action.
Gumezishn Astrology practices what I call a service astrology: not a system for predicting what will happen to you, but one for locating where and how you are positioned to do good in the world. Every house of the chart, not only those traditionally tied to career, marks its own domain of possible service: family, partnership, community, communication, and more, each showing a different area where real contribution can be made. A difficult placement is not read as a flaw to manage or a fate to endure, but as contested ground worth working, the place where deliberate conduct does its most real good.
Sources, Reconstruction & Interpretation
Gumezishn Astrology distinguishes three levels throughout the practice: historical evidence, historical reconstruction, and contemporary interpretation:
1) Where primary sources establish a doctrine or astrological relationship clearly, I identify it as historically attested.
2) Where evidence is incomplete, distributed across sources, technically ambiguous, or contested, I identify my reconstruction as such.
3) Where I extend historical material into a contemporary astrological or spiritual interpretation, it is identified and my rationale given.
There are five central named pairs, and two additional parties are involved in the astrological struggle set out in the Middle Persian cosmological text known as the Bundahishn: or "Creation":
Kaywān, Saturn, against the Mēx ī Mayān ī Asmān, the Peg at the Middle of the Sky, or the pole star. Saturn won. So he commands the rest of Ahriman's force in the Spihr, as a hostile general of generals (spahbedān spahbed), holding the center itself rather than any single direction. He remains a malefic in the astrological chart.
Wahrām, Mars, against Wanand, Vega, stellar general of the west. Mars won too. He remains a malefic in the chart, still fighting.
Ohrmazd, Jupiter was set against Haftōring, the Great Bear, general of the north. Jupiter lost here, and was bound ever since to give away the very goodness that beat him to humans. Confusingly, this planet carries Ahura Mazda's own name. One later text, the thirteenth-century ʿOlamā-ye Eslām, holds that Ohrmazd (Ahura Mazda, not the planet) gave each hostile planet a positive, Ahuric, name to wear, while its real, demonic name stayed underneath: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/planets/.
Anāhīd, Venus, was against Sadwēs, the star Fomalhaut in Pisces, general of the south. Venus lost too. As such she became a benefic in the chart and a giver of the stellar light.
Tīr, Mercury fought against Tishtar, Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, general of the east. Neither won though. The only true draw among the five, which is why Mercury is beneficial when conjoined, bounded, or overcome by beneficial planets (Jupiter, Venus, Moon, Sun), but malefic placed in the same situation among malefic planets (Saturn, Mars).
Two further figures entered the sky the same day: Gozihr (the dragon whose head and tail represent the lunar nodes) corded to the chariots of the Sun and Moon and a wandering comet, Mūsh Parīg (Middle Persian for "Rat Sorceress" cf. the same in mūsh pairikā of the AvestanYasnas 16.8 and 68.8: ) was corded to the Sun's chariot alone.
The stellar contest continues in the present, and the birth chart marks the particular moment at which your embodied life entered the Mixture (Gumizishn).
It provides a snapshot of the celestial relationships surrounding that incarnation and a starting point for exploring how you might participate in the ongoing work of creation.
The Current Cosmic Era
Two powers stand at opposite ends of everything. Ohrmazd (Ahura Mazda): wise, luminous, the maker of everything good, and Ahriman, his enemy, ignorant, destructive, driven only to spoil what he cannot make. Ahriman broke into Ohrmazd's finished creation and tangled it: order with disorder, good with evil. The Pahlavi (Middle Persian) sources call this state Gumezishn, the Mixture. It is where we still stand.
This stellar battle takes place in the spihr ī gumēzishnīg, the sphere of the Mixture, the band of sky the zodiac occupies.
The Logo
A SCHEMATIC of the BUNDAHISHN
By contrast, Jupiter and Venus appear in spheres of starlight as they lost their own contests against Haftoring and Sadwes and were compelled ever since to distribute the very goodness that defeated them.
Mercury and Sirius' match was a draw represented by a split circle.
Around the outer band of starlight, at north and south, two smaller contained orange circles sit apart from the four generals entirely: the lunar nodes represented by the head and tail of Gozihr the nodal dragon (at top and bottom), read in this tradition not as combatants who won or lost per se, but as a dragon already bound, corded to the sun and moon's own chariots from doing too much damage.
The Gumezishn Astrology logo is designed to depict in shorthand the stellar battle described in the Bundahishn.
At the center sits Saturn, alone, victor for now over Polaris, the North Star: and is spahbedān spahbed, general of generals of Ahriman's forces in the sphere of the Zodiac.
The four arms extending outward are a literal compass, each pointing to one of the four quadrant-commanders and their rivals and the direction where each was posted to guard at the dawn of the Mixture: Haftoring (Ursa Major) to the north who met Jupiter, Sadwes to the south who met Venus, Vanant (Vega) to the west who met Mars, and Tishtar (Sirius) to the east, who met Mercury.
Saturn and Mars, the two undefeated, hostile generals, are shown in solid orange as victors over the stars they met and thus remain malefic in astrological charts.
Services
I offer two ways to work together, each serving a different astrological purpose:
Natal Reading: A comprehensive written chart analysis plus a focused 60-minute live debrief session, £100 (includes prep-time and the detailed written interpretation).
Continuing Chart Defense: For past Natal Reading clients. A 60-minute session extending your existing chart work into whatever new ground your life is currently raising, a decision, a question, a new chapter, prepared in advance around what you'd like looked at, £75, including a written report.
Start with the Natal Reading first if you want to know exactly where and how to best apply the strengths of your own chart.
Once you've had a reading, Continuing Chart Defense is where that picture keeps meeting your life as it unfolds, on your terms: you bring the question, I bring what I already know of your chart.
If you'd like to book, just drop me a message here first:
I'll then send you the next steps, including a Stripe payment page if you'd like to pay online. Bank transfer is also available.
You can find more on both these services here.
SEASONAL CHART DEFENSE WORKSHOP
Interest Form
I'm considering running an online Chart Defense Workshop. Signing up here doesn't commit you to anything or involve any payment, it just lets me know there's interest, and I'll be in touch with dates as soon as something's confirmed.
The seasonal Workshop will focus on learning to read the sky accurately, recognise difficult planetary conditions, work consciously with beneficial celestial influences, and develop practical ways of responding to the celestial weather shown in a chart with the system used in Gumezishn Astrology.
The emphasis is not on prediction but participation in the stellar landscape: learning how to meet difficult conditions with appropriate virtues and actions while making constructive use of the strengths shown in your chart.
Cosmic navigation in service of the good you are here to do
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