Category: Tarot
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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.…
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Every sacred feast is also a map of absence, a liturgy of what remains at the threshold: longing, hunger, and exile. In the drama of Corpus Christi, as in the entire Western tradition, the body has so often been the absent guest: spoken of, disciplined, abstracted, and yet never fully welcomed to the centre of…
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There is a strange dignity, even a peculiar radiance, in those who keep faith with the lost cause. In every spiritual tradition worth its salt, there is a space reserved for the moment when every rational hope is exhausted, when prayer turns silent, and even the Gods seem to have abandoned the seeker. To persist…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…