Category: Divination


  • Cardinal Liturgy for the Last Quarter Moon in Pisces

    As the waning Moon crosses the final, dissolving degrees of Pisces (twenty-seventh, threshold of endings and beginnings), a gate opens between element and archetype. The world stands at a crossing: from the oceanic depths of the mutable water to the blazing threshold of cardinal fire. Images collide, matter ripens or withers, bonds are sealed or…

  • The Six of Pentacles: The Sacred Exchange of Body and Spirit

    Within the living architecture of the Hermetic cosmos, there exists a moment of sublime equilibrium, a fulcrum where the act of giving and receiving is a rite. The Six of Pentacles stands as the seal of this mystery: an image of the physical world transfigured by loving action. To understand this card is to understand…

  • Cardinal Liturgy for Mars In Virgo

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. The Malefic in the Field of Virgo: Classical and Hermetic Astrological Context In the language of classical astrology, Mars is counted among the malefics, planets whose nature is inherently disruptive, fiery, separating, and at times destructive. Mars brings heat and dryness, the will…

  • The Dog of The Fool: Shadow as Gatekeeper of the Infinite

    I. The Fool’s Threshold At the edge of every journey, at the border between the known and the abyss, stands The Fool. In the Tarot’s first and final card, he strides forth, both careless or holy, radiant or naïve, but always accompanied. Most see the knapsack, the precipice, the flower. Fewer see the dog: the…

  • The Incandescent Mirror: Rimbaud’s First House in Libra and the Alchemy of the Self

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. At the moment Arthur Rimbaud entered this world, not only was a veil torn open, but an altar was ignited in flesh itself. His natal chart is not mere biographical decoration, but wound, and explosion. To understand the rare intensity of his path,…

  • A Cardinal Liturgy for the Disseminating Moon in Aquarius

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. In this cycle, the Moon enters her disseminating phase in Aquarius. This is the lunar moment when the fruits of the previous lunation are cast into the collective field, neither in the innocence of waxing nor in the exhaustion of waning, but at…

  • The Uncrossed Threshold: Pessoa and the Refusal of Surrender

    There are days that do not sit within the calendar, yet they burn beneath it. June 13 is one of these, a pressure point in the flesh of the invisible. It marks no simple nativity, but a faultline, a fissure where history breaks and the unspeakable seeps through. To call him “Pessoa” is to name…

  • A Cardinal Liturgy For the Full Moon in Sagittarius

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. There are moons that merely illuminate the well-trodden path and others that, at their zenith, aim for a horizon yet unborn. The Full Moon in Sagittarius belongs to the latter lineage: it does not linger on the past, nor dwell on the margins…

  • Cardinal Liturgy For Mercury in Cancer

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. This month, three celestial lights pass through the same threshold: the Sun, the teacher of essence; Jupiter, the agent of expansion; and Mercury, the carrier of meaning. All find themselves immersed in Cancer, the womb, the memory, the tide that precedes language. When…

  • Cardinal Liturgy Under the Influx of Jupiter in Cancer

    If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. As Jupiter, bearer of Sacred expansion, enters the waters of Cancer, a symbolic aperture opens in the visible world. This is a deviation in the current, not a forecast; a subtle cosmic breath that presses gently against the Veil. When the Great Benefic…