Category: Astrology
Jupiter has been exalted in Cancer since June 9. The womb of Cancer, positioned in the Nadir of the zodiac wheel, the midnight point of the north, is cold and moist, a nocturnal lunar sign of cardinal Water. One that is receptive, fertile, enveloping. Jupiter, being warm and moist, mingles with this element like a…
In the Corpus Hermeticum, Heimarmene is explicitly described as the “governing circuit of the stars,” the chain through which the Divine intellect structures the material world. It is the order (taxis) of the cosmos: an intelligent and binding necessity. Heimarmene (εἱμαρμένη, from meiromai, “to receive one’s portion”) is the chain of causation, the web of…
The entrance of Venus into Scorpio today reactivates one of the great paradoxes of the zodiac: the principle of union subjected to the principle of division. The goddess of charm and attraction swims in the poison, blood, and instinct, where love ceases to be harmony and becomes possession, control, the urge to devour the Other…
Mars is now in Sagittarius, leaving his domicile in Scorpio, where he led a rare four-planet stellium. He has lost its essential dignity (domicile and triplicity) and is now peregrine, ruled by Jupiter. And not just any Jupiter, a Jupiter exalted in Cancer and about to turn retrograde. I. Technical The dispositor is now ready…
The Justice card as the work of Tikkun: Venus in Libra, path of Lamed between Geburah and Tifereth, restoring divine balance through learning and light. I. The Sign of Libra and the Breath of Equilibrium Libra opens one of the four gates of creation, as it is Air Cardinal, the first impulse of the mind…
We are now in the season when the Sun moves through Scorpio. All Souls’ Day, and Dia de Los Muertos all mark the same threshold. Nature begins to withdraw, light fades, the days grow shorter, and roots feed on the fallen leaves. I. The Transformative Water of Scorpio Scorpio is the densest point of water.…
When Christ declares in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfil”, He invokes one of the most profound mysteries of Christian gnosis. The verb πληρῶσαι (plērōsai) means to fill, to make whole, to bring to completion. It…
The Sun has entered the fixed waters of Scorpio, a feminine and nocturnal sign traditionally associated with the eighth house, a shadowed and inactive region of the zodiacal wheel, without pitagoric aspect to the Ascendant. The diurnal and radiant principle is now in an underground spot. After leaving its fall in Libra, the Sun has…
David Foster Wallace’s chart is the portrait of a mind forged in crystal and iron. Thought was destiny. His Mercury, ruler of both the Moon and the Ascendant, was itself ruled and joined by a fierce Saturn domiciled in Aquarius in the ninth house – domus Dei -, binding soul and flesh to the discipline…
The sky of October 23 presents a rare stellium in Scorpio: Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars. All under the rulership of Mars itself, domiciled in this nocturnal sign. And also a grand trine between the three signs of Water. I. Descriptive The Sun, today newly emerged from its yearly fall in Libra, becomes peregrine in…
