
A querent contacted me to ask whether he would close a business deal with a potential partner. At the moment I cast the chart, the 1st house was in Virgo. The querent is signified by Mercury in Pisces, in fall and detriment. Mercury is also retrograde and combust, applying to the Sun. Being placed in…

On his website, Martin Gamsten remarks that he cannot quite attribute to Saturn the health difficulties Robert Zoller faced in his life, since the planet is not that prominent in his chart. After all, the 1st House (vita, health) is ruled by Jupiter in Scorpio, the great benefic in a relative good state. Plus, the…

I have been meditating on the significance of the 10th House in Astrology. The 10th House represents the teleology of the soul’s incarnation, the fulfilment by dekalog of the 1st House, the 1 that unfolds to the 10 and then returns to the 1, within the whole Neopythagorean and numerological itinerary this implies, also associated…

From a horary astrology perspective, I wanted to understand why Ilia Malinin, the favourite for gold in the men’s short program at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, failed in what many consider a true debacle. He himself stated that everything was due to the pressure of having to live up to expectations. After the event,…

Leo Tolstoy was born into a wealthy family, landowners integrated within the Russian nobility. This at first appears to conflict with Saturn as the significator of the 2nd House, especially because it is in poor essential condition, being in detriment in Leo. Saturn is cold, dry, melancholic and deadly. Leo is hot, dry, solar, vital…

Horary Astrology can be applied to any kind of question, including those that concern our own inner state. Today I feel particularly unmotivated. It is not simply a case of a blue Monday, but more like inner depletion. I decided to analyse myself through a horary chart. The Ascendant is in Leo, so I am…

António Quadros was a Portuguese philosopher and historian. António Telmo, his fraternal friend, says that Quadros felt unhappy upon being told that his horoscope was of a lunar spirit. The reason is an extremely dense stellium in the 2nd house in Cancer, with the New Moon in domicile. I checked the natal chart of António…