I received a question from a querent who wished to know whether her natal chart contained any indication that may explain the repeated failures in her relationships, which she described as being marked by loss, conflict, and recurring frustration. The analysis that follows is conducted strictly within the parameters of medieval astrology. I. Jupiter and…
I received a horary question about whether the querent was capable of participating in and winning a television competition taking place over the coming weekend. The show involves simple but physically demanding challenges, and the querent was still recovering from a minor injury. The Ascendant at 19 degrees Leo confirmed the chart’s radicality, making the…
Bill Hicks was one of the most intensely influential figures of my adolescence. An anarchist with a profoundly spiritual, untamed and subversive core, he embodied exactly what a teenager at the height of his estrangement from the world often admires most. His comedy was a philosophical manifesto disguised as stand-up, a form of spiritual warfare…
Today, the Bizantine Church celebrates Saint Maximus the Confessor, the theologian who united in his own body the Word and the Cross. Amid the Monothelite controversy, Maximus defended to the point of martyrdom that in Christ there coexist two wills (the Divine and the human) reconciled in Love. Far from being only theoretical, the doctrine…
David Lynch would have turned eighty yesterday, and this text offers an introductory delineation of his natal chart. I. Scorpio Rising The Ascendant, at 18 degrees of Scorpio and only three degrees beyond the Via Combusta, situates him in an incarnation marked by profound emotional necessity. Scorpio, a Water sign of feminine nature, seeks to…
This text presents a delineation of the foundations of James Hetfield’s natal chart, constructed using the Whole Sign Houses system, laying out the internal architecture of the chart itself. Its main axes, its dignities and debilities, and the structural tensions that organise the native’s life and work. I. Capricorn Rising and the Rule of the…
The querent’s question was simple: he wished to know whether he should, or even could, re-establish contact with a friend with whom he had abruptly severed relations several months earlier. At the moment the chart was cast, Pisces rose on the Ascendant, making Jupiter the significator of the querent. Pisces, a Water sign and feminine…
The querent’s question was clear and delicate: should he spend a few days in a Cistercian monastery, in what would be his first contact with monastic-Benedictine life? The moment I opened the chart revealed a telling detail. The Ascendant at 4 degrees of Virgo, a sign of analysis, modesty, and discretion, but too early for…
The beginning of each year is always marked by a flood of pleas for peace. Leaders and institutions come forward with the same refrain: concord, understanding, ceasefire. But, beneath the sublunar sphere, human wishes are always shaped by the higher forces that press upon incarnation. After all, what moves above manifests below, as planets are…
Lately I have been devoting attention to horary astrology. One of the first questions I received came from a lawyer who wished to know whether one of her clients would return to her. The Ascendant was at 8 degrees of Gemini, a position which, although still early, does not invalidate the judgement. Very early degrees…
