Today I lost my left earring, which is a silver Ankh. I noticed it was missing while I was in the shower, and I thought I might have lost it in the bathroom, maybe near a drain or somewhere on the floor. Because it has sentimental value, I decided to cast a horary chart. I,…
Yesterday I analysed a map where Mars was clearly an accidental benefic, working in favor of the native. Today I’m checking a chart where the exact opposite happens, with Mars doing what he does best: destroying. I. Scorpio Rising The native is born with Scorpio rising, a feminine and fixed sign, of centripetal nature, which…
I decided to analyse the chart of a teenage family member who, from a very early age, has shown a strong capacity for action and self-assertion. He is someone who tends to act, decide and impose his presence in a clear way, which always impressed me. I. The Ascendant and the Core Drive The Ascendant…
I received a horary question about whether the querent was capable of participating in and winning a television competition taking place over the coming weekend. The show involves simple but physically demanding challenges, and the querent was still recovering from a minor injury. The Ascendant at 19 degrees Leo confirmed the chart’s radicality, making the…
Bill Hicks was one of the most intensely influential figures of my adolescence. An anarchist with a profoundly spiritual, untamed and subversive core, he embodied exactly what a teenager at the height of his estrangement from the world often admires most. His comedy was a philosophical manifesto disguised as stand-up, a form of spiritual warfare…
This text presents a delineation of the foundations of James Hetfield’s natal chart, constructed using the Whole Sign Houses system, laying out the internal architecture of the chart itself. Its main axes, its dignities and debilities, and the structural tensions that organise the native’s life and work. I. Capricorn Rising and the Rule of the…
The querent’s question was simple: he wished to know whether he should, or even could, re-establish contact with a friend with whom he had abruptly severed relations several months earlier. At the moment the chart was cast, Pisces rose on the Ascendant, making Jupiter the significator of the querent. Pisces, a Water sign and feminine…
The querent’s question was clear and delicate: should he spend a few days in a Cistercian monastery, in what would be his first contact with monastic-Benedictine life? The moment I opened the chart revealed a telling detail. The Ascendant at 4 degrees of Virgo, a sign of analysis, modesty, and discretion, but too early for…
The beginning of each year is always marked by a flood of pleas for peace. Leaders and institutions come forward with the same refrain: concord, understanding, ceasefire. But, beneath the sublunar sphere, human wishes are always shaped by the higher forces that press upon incarnation. After all, what moves above manifests below, as planets are…
A querent contacted me to ask whether his computer truly needed repair. He did not specify the nature of the fault, only that the device had stopped working and that this had prevented him from carrying out his work. I cast the horary chart and found Leo rising, making the Sun the natural significator of…
