Category: Astrology


  • The Crab and the Moon: Hermetic Body, Tidal Shelter

    The crab moves always sideways, carrying its house upon its back, half hidden between sand and sea. In ancient iconography, the crab was never chosen by accident; its flesh, its movement, its patience and retreat, all these were seen as living emblems of a deeper reality. The Greeks called the sign Cancer, after the crab…

  • Napoleon: The Mother Was His Empire

    Napoleon Bonaparte was born under a diurnal sect, with the Sun above the horizon as the dominant luminary of his chart. This marks him as aligned with the solar, outward-facing, authoritative current of fate: those destined to enact their spirit through visible force, public function, and sovereign will. But it is precisely this solar path…

  • The Anaretic Edge: Uranus at 29 Taurus in the Age of Thresholds

    Uranus now inhabits the anaretic degree of Taurus, the final and most perilous threshold in the cycle of a sign, a point long feared and revered by the Hermetic astrologers as the degree of fate, crisis, and irrevocable release. The Promethean planet enacts its most severe ordeal upon the fixed earth, driving Taurus to the…

  • The Zodiacal Releasing of Spirit and Fortune: A Map of Oracular Time

    Across centuries, astrologers have sought to unearth the rhythms that bind human life to the stars, yearning for a system that may narrate not merely what happens, but when meaning descends. Among the most enigmatic gifts of the ancient tradition is the technique known as Zodiacal Releasing, a system not of daily weather, but of…

  • Tarot Liturgy: Sun in Cancer

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. At the threshold of the solstice, as the Sun crosses into the zero degree of Cancer and the Moon, having just entered Taurus, wanes into her final quarter, the celestial architecture becomes a living parable for all that seeks shelter, renewal, and truth.…

  • The Law of the Moon at the Solstice’s Gate

    In the reckoning of cycles, no moment is more charged than the solstice,when the Sun halts at its zenith, and the visible world, for one day, teeters between triumph and return. Beneath the cult of solar glory, another current moves: the silent sovereignty of the Moon. It is She who governs the threshold, She who…

  • On the Brink of Light: The Anaretic Sun in Gemini and the Threshold of the Solstice

    There is a night every year when the Sun trembles on the very cusp of the heavens. It neither truly in Gemini, nor yet arrived in Cancer. This is the solstice threshold: a razor’s edge where the cycle of light itself hangs in the balance. To the ancients, the 29th degree of any sign, but…