We are accustomed to high ranking politicians having advisors. Which is quite understandable. You can have experts in different fields advising you on their different expertises. You can have a financial advisor, a public relations advisor, a communications advisor, a foreign affairs advisor, internal affairs, military and so on and so on. While this is a very good practice to ensure that you are properly briefed about a various number of issues that would be impossible to have a proper grasp on without the advisors. But sometimes one can go overboard and that is precisely what Haman seems to have done.
The Midrash, Yalkut Shimoni states that Haman surrounded himself with a lot of advisors, a whole lot of advisors. 365 in fact. Why did he feel that he needed that many people and what where there jobs?
The number 365 is the dsame amount of days in the solar calendar. We know that Haman relied heavily on the constelations and astorlogy. Each one of these advisors was in charge of a particular and specific day. Each one was responsible for his day. If the day was considered lucky by the stars, Haman was willing to take a risk. If the day was considered unlucky, Haman was likely to just stay in bed.
To fully understand the implications and greatness of the Purim story, we should look at the the fact that when Haman came to the King to request permission to kill Mordechai, he had probably been advised that this was a great day for him, all systems were go. He was on top of the world and then on that very day, was when all things started going downhill, fast.
He was told to take Mordechai around town on the royal horse, calling out in front of him for all to see. He got the sewage poured on him from his on daughter and was brought to the feast of Esther that brought about his demise
Maybe having so many advisors wasn’t such a good idea after all