Category: Fragments
It is interesting to observe the layout of Berghain’s Funktion-One sound system. The stacks are profiled exactly like the columns of Carcer. Geomantically, Carcer is the figure of Saturn in Capricorn, domiciled, cold and dry, where matter closes upon itself. The stacks stand aligned like votive stones of an underground temple, projecting waves that shape…
Jupiter has been exalted in Cancer since June 9. The womb of Cancer, positioned in the Nadir of the zodiac wheel, the midnight point of the north, is cold and moist, a nocturnal lunar sign of cardinal Water. One that is receptive, fertile, enveloping. Jupiter, being warm and moist, mingles with this element like a…
In the opening of John 7, it says that the Feast of Tabernacles was near, and his brothers (in the broader sense, relatives or countrymen) said to him: “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing” (John 7:3). They were speaking with a hint of…
In the Corpus Hermeticum, Heimarmene is explicitly described as the “governing circuit of the stars,” the chain through which the Divine intellect structures the material world. It is the order (taxis) of the cosmos: an intelligent and binding necessity. Heimarmene (εἱμαρμένη, from meiromai, “to receive one’s portion”) is the chain of causation, the web of…
John 6:66-71 is one of those rare crystalline points where theology, language, and ontology come together. Even the verse number 6:66 feels like a mirror of division, marking the threshold where the Word separates those who remain from those who cannot bear the mystery. Just before this, Christ uttered the most scandalous of all sayings:…
The entrance of Venus into Scorpio today reactivates one of the great paradoxes of the zodiac: the principle of union subjected to the principle of division. The goddess of charm and attraction swims in the poison, blood, and instinct, where love ceases to be harmony and becomes possession, control, the urge to devour the Other…
Psalm 91 is the psalm of absolute trust, of the protective power of the Name, used since antiquity as a verbal amulet against visible and invisible evil. It appears in the final section of the fourth Book of the Psalter (Psalms 90–106), traditionally tied to Moses. It mirrors Psalm 90, which laments human frailty before…
Among the four creatures of the Gospels, the Lion represents Saint Mark, the voice of the Word rising into sound. Its roar is the primordial vibration, the echo of Fiat Lux made flesh. In the zodiac, Leo is fixed fire, the only sign ruled by the Sun and that is no mere coincidence. It forms…
This Full Moon at 13° Taurus is rare and alchemically refined. The lunar cycle began with the New Moon in Libra, a cardinal Air sign, but it does not close upon the usual 1–7 axis (Ascendant–Descendant) but upon the 7–2 axis, that of relationships and shared values. This inversion occurs because of the double New…
Among the apocryphal writings that survived the silence of the centuries, few possess the dramatic depth of the Evangelium Nicodemi, also known as The Gospel of Nicodemus. Its second part, the Descensus ad Inferos, is one of the earliest Christian attempts to describe what occurred between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, the hidden hours of…
