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…
Yesterday, on October 21, 2025, the Moon joined the Sun at 28° of Libra, inaugurating a new lunar cycle in the Cardinal Air sign. This lunation arises under the direct rulership of Venus in domicile also in Libra, currently in the first decan, a decan of lunar nature, creating a subtle mutual rulership between the…
The sky of October 22, 2025 is ruled entirely by the invisible elements Water and Air. There is no Fire, no Earth, leaving the heavens suspended, fluid, and intangible I. Descriptive The immediate cause is Neptune’s retrograde return to Pisces, the mutable Water sign, strengthening the liquid realm. There it joins Saturn retrograde and the…
The natal chart is the invisible pattern through which the world takes shape in a soul. It describes how the cosmic order entered form. The zodiac is a set of wheels moving under the light of a single centre. To read it rightly is to ask: what gesture allows this structure to become transparent to…
It is one of the most elegant returns of the year. Venus in Libra is Aphrodite on her throne, the gesture of the world finding proportion again. After purification in Virgo, she reappears in cardinal air as pure relational force, the moment when the self recognises the other and the cosmos arranges itself in pairs…
The Sun has now spent twenty days in Libra, the sign of its fall, in the western point of the Zodiac, where the Light meets its own reflection. Libra stands at the horizon, under the guardianship of the Archangel Gabriel. The element is Air, of cardinal nature. Within it, the Sun finds no dignity by…
Venus at 26° Virgo is still in her zodiacal fall. The goddess of pleasure, desire, and aesthetic relationality is currently forced to descend into a terrain of analysis, modesty, and correction. As if Aphrodite had to wash her feet before being adored or serve tea with hands wounded by labour. There is a vestal sort…
After considering astrologically this Mercurial movement through Scorpio, the sign attached the eighth house of the zodiac, with all its aspects, we now turn to the divinatory art of the Tarot to interpret the meaning of this passage. The word divination comes from the Latin divinatio, derived from divinus, meaning “divine”, which itself originates from…
The Sun now stands in its fall, in the seventh house of the Wheel. This is the Descendant, the western point of the heavens, aligned with the sign of Libra. The direction we call the West was named in Latin occidens, from the verb occidere: ob meaning “down” or “toward”, and cadere meaning “to fall”.…
