When working astrologically with derived houses, we gain the ability to understand to what extent another person’s destiny infiltrates our own. This was precisely the case of a querent who came to me recently, concerned about a recurring pattern she observed within her circle of friends: men and women who, almost chronically, face turbulence in…
Two days ago, on December 24, Venus joined Capricorn, precisely one month after her Morning Setting. The nocturnal benefic is now invisible, covered by the solar light, under the beams of the Sun, gradually losing individuality and moving towards a stronger combustion. This is the phase in which she ceases to be Phosphoros, the morning…
This is it. The Sun has entered Capricorn today, marking the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere, after the longest night of the year. From this moment onward, the days begin to lengthen, and light slowly returns within the densest of the zodiacal signs. Capricorn is Cardinal Earth, the realm of structure, ascension, and discipline,…
Today, the New Moon in Sagittarius opens a paradoxical cycle for the nocturnal luminary. The Moon, cold, moist, and phlegmatic by temperament, belongs naturally to the lower half of the zodiacal wheel: it rules the Cardinal Water of Cancer, where it nourishes and protects, and it is exalted in the Venusian Earth of Taurus, the…
Mars entered Capricorn a few days ago. After having been peregrine and unstable in the mutable fire of Sagittarius, ruled blindly by retrograde Jupiter in the cardinal water of Cancer, the martial iron now finds its exaltation in one of the densest signs of the zodiac. Capricorn is cardinal Earth under Saturn’s governance, one of…
My natal chart is born with a structural inversion that alters the entire logic of the zodiacal wheel. Where the common course begins in Aries in the First House, mine begins in Libra, and everything unfolds as a mirror. This inversion means that what normally culminates in Capricorn in the Tenth House – the point…
Venus has now entered Sagittarius, leaving behind her exile and venenum in Scorpio, a word whose root lies in her own name. Venenum once meant a love potion before it came to signify poison, revealing the ambivalence of attraction and peril that belongs to her nature. She rises from the eighth house, the realm of…
Saturn concludes its retrograde motion in Pisces today, which began on July 13, 2025. Despite having entered Aries in June, the Lord of Time turned back to revisit his Saturnian bound (from 30° to 28° Pisces) and a portion of the previous Martial bound (28° to 25°), that is, the harshest and most malefic degrees…
A few days ago, I was asked by a consultee to analyse their birth chart. The moment I opened it, I was struck by the overwhelming strength of its Oikodespotes. It is rare to come across a horoscope in which a single planet concentrates so much authority and radiates such a decisive influence over a…
The entrance of the Sun into Sagittarius is the rekindling of will and consciousness after the long autumnal descent. Since leaving Leo, the Sun has fallen silent: peregrine in the mutable and mercurial Earth of Virgo with a partial solar eclipse; then his zodiacal fall in the cardinal and Venusian Air of Libra; and finally…
