When a person ends a difficult day and draws the Six of Wands, the first reaction is often confusion. How can a card of victory appear when the mood has fallen into defeat? The answer lies in understanding what kind of victory the symbol represents. It does not describe success in ordinary terms, but the…
The ninth house, known as domus Dei, is the temple of ascent. It traditionally belongs to the mutable fire of Sagittarius, a masculine, diurnal sign that burns through knowledge and expands through faith. It is a cadent house, leaning away from the zenith but joined to the Ascendant by a trine, and so carries the…
The heavens are currently saturated with the element of Water. The three signs of the humid, nocturnal triplicity – Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces – form a silent chain across the sky, breathing the letter Mem through all their tides. The intellectual principle, the expansive heart, and the structure of form are now all immersed in…
The entry of Mercury into Scorpio marks a decisive moment in the sky’s silent liturgy. After the pale equilibrium of Libra, where Mercury performed its subtle movemente at the gates of the Descendant, the god of mediation and ambiguity now plunges into the deep water of Scorpio. The passage from cardinal air to fixed water…
Astrology reveals paradoxes hidden within the order of the heavens. When Capricorn, the natural sign of the tenth house, is placed at the fourth, the axis turns inside out. What is usually the summit of visibility becomes the deepest of roots. The mountain sign descends into the cavern. Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, if placed here,…
The Lot of Spirit is seen as a place of fire, a secret measure traced between Sun and Moon, where the intelligence of light crosses into the vessel of the soul. It is not the same as the Lot of Fortune, one that speaks of chance, body, and survival. Spirit points toward intent, command, and…
Every year the ingress of the Sun into Libra marks the descent of light into balance and measure. At the equinox, day and night weigh equal upon the scales of the sky. But the same Libra that proclaims equilibrium is also the place of the solar fall. In Leo the Sun is exalted in its…
The spectacle of a solar eclipse is never a simple matter of astronomy. It carries the quality of a rite performed in the sky. When the Sun is hidden by the Moon, even if partially, the order of visibility is reversed. The lord of clarity and centre is cast into silence and the lesser light…
The present sky shows a rare alignment of word and desire. Descending into the mutable earth of Virgo, Venus is embraced by Mercury, who also has just stepped into Libra. What seems a simple exchange of regencies reveals itself as a deeper alchemy. It is the figure of the Rebis, the androgynous child of Hermes…
The name of Capricorn carries within it a secret that is older than Rome, older than Greece. It comes from the Latin Capricornus, a compound of caper meaning goat and cornu meaning horn. In Greek the same image was rendered as Aigokerōs, from aix for goat and keras for horn. The horned goat of the…
