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Lorelai Kude

Lorelai Kude

Lorelai Kude began her career as a professional astrologer in the 1980s. She holds a BA in Journalism from San Francisco State University and a MA in Jewish Studies from Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, where her thesis topic was astrology in Jewish cultural history. Find more of her work at astrolojew.com.

“The Seventh Plague” by John Martin, 1823
Posted inColumns

Month of Nisan: First the plagues, then the redemption

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude March 30, 2020March 30, 2020
Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
Posted inPurim

Month of Adar: Facts are flexible as we don the masks of Purim

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 24, 2020March 2, 2020
D’li the water bucket, AKA Aquarius, the sign of the Jewish people, in a 1322 German prayerbook.
Posted inReligion

Month of Shevat: Old gives way to new

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude January 27, 2020
Gidi (aka Capricorn) as drawn in a 1322 German Shavuot prayer book
Posted inAstrolojew

Month of Tevet: Growing up and getting real

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude January 2, 2020January 17, 2020
Big Jupiter energy this month! On Dec. 4, 1973, NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft sent back these images of Jupiter. (NASA)
Posted inAstrolojew

Month of Kislev: A ‘great conjunction’ approaches, but is it good for the Jews?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude December 2, 2019
Akrav (AKA Scorpio), ruling sign of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, as drawn in a 1322 German Shavuot prayer book.
Posted inAstrolojew

Month of Cheshvan: Empty of holidays, full of potential

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude November 4, 2019November 5, 2019
photo: silhouettes of trees in front of a vibrant black, blue and purple starry night sky
Posted inAstrolojew

Month of Tevet: From Hanukkah lights to long winter nights

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude December 10, 2018December 11, 2018
an ornate illustration of a centaur aiming a bow and arrow, with an array of stars and constellations behind it
Posted inColumns

Month of Kislev: The darker the night, the brighter the light

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude November 6, 2018
an illustration of the planet Mars
Posted inColumns

Month of Cheshvan: a dance between harmony and aggression

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude October 8, 2018October 8, 2018
Libra is this month's ruling sign. Pictured: the constellation Libra as depicted on an astrological chart published in London in 1824
Posted inAstrolojew

How will you fare during Tishrei, birth month of the world?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude September 12, 2018September 17, 2018

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