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James Burgess on Sufi Cosmology, Sabian Symbols & the Outer Planets

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioSep 17, 2026

Astrologer and Sufi teacher James Burgess explains the Sabian symbols, a set of 360 degree-by-degree astrological images channeled by psychic Elsie Wheeler in 1925, and shares how his decades-long quest led him to secret Sufi orders in 1980s Turkey. He introduces his new book on the outer planets, proposing that Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto form a trinity of freedom, creativity, and evolution whose midpoint, the 'Trinity Point', reveals a person's spiritual path. Along the way he speculates that the Sabians descended from Atlantean survivors who settled near Harran and helped build Gobekli Tepe.