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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Without Her, pleasure turns into rot. The age of Aphrodite Pandemos drapes itself in restless fingers, thirsty mouths, a hedonism that never learns dawn, a world dazed by its own surface, gasping for climax but refusing the cost. Friction passes as love; fire, the slow, real kind that transforms, becomes legend. Sensation is distilled into…
Under the current of the Four of Cups, the Lady wraps the world in a deep, lunar presence, the majesty of emotion and creation, where the Moon is exalted in her own home. This is Chesed of Briah, a day shaped by abundance that does not spill over, by feelings that are crowned not with…
Not everything that is true should be spoken the moment it is born. Certain truths, when revealed too soon, crystallize into fragile, distorted forms, unable to carry the power entrusted to them. Today’s symbol moves through the lunar field like a worker toiling at the edge of the city, discreet, cunning, diligent. He does not…
