In the previous article, I mentioned that my recent readings had been lacking a certain lightness. Curiously enough, the Tarot seemed to take that remark personally and answered with a touch of mordant humour. In one reading made over the past few weeks, for personal matters, the first card I drew was the Five of…
A few years ago, when I first began to handle the Tarot, I did so with the lightness typical of a beginner, with that blend of scepticism and playfulness which protects the spirit when it comes close to the invisible. There was no fear, no heaviness, only curiosity and fascination with the forms. I used…
The 4 of Cups belongs to the element of Water, therefore to the plane of Briah, the sphere of Creation and Emotion. As a four, it closes the Pythagorean cycle initiated by the Ace (as Yod י and Monad), continued in the Two (as He ה and Dyad), and in the Three (as Vau ו…
My natal chart is born with a structural inversion that alters the entire logic of the zodiacal wheel. Where the common course begins in Aries in the First House, mine begins in Libra, and everything unfolds as a mirror. This inversion means that what normally culminates in Capricorn in the Tenth House – the point…
One of the towering monastic figures of the twelfth century in Europe, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was the spiritual architect of Cîteaux’s renewal and the driving force behind the Cistercian expansion across the continent. His influence reached far beyond the cloister, as he became counsellor to popes and kings and shaped the ethos of knighthood…
I visited the Kulminator in Antwerp on a cold afternoon around 2017 or 2018. The place was discreet, with the modest charm of a tavern that time had forgotten. At the entrance, the owner, an elderly man with a severe face and eyes that missed nothing, stopped us before we could step inside. “To drink…
The Hebrew word נִקְפָּה (nikpáh), translated as rope, girdle, or braided cord, derives from the triliteral root נק״ף (naqaf). The semantic field points to the act of circling, surrounding, or encircling. In Scripture, naqaf describes the movement of going around a city (Joshua 6:3) and also the gesture of forming a ritual circle. The image…
Today is the November 29, Saturday. In Judaism, this is the day when almost all activities are suspended, especially those tied to labour and production. It is the day of Saturn, the planet of restraint and limitation, when time seems to thicken and grow heavier. There is a particular gravitas to this day, a slowness…
At the dawn of the sixteenth century, Portugal was a kingdom that sought the Omphalos, the navel of the world, the sacred centre where Heaven and Earth could converge. The old Knights Templar, reborn as the Order of Christ in Portuguese territory, had exchanged the horse for the caravel, carrying the Cross across the seas…
Venus is closing today, November 26, her Luciferian cycle, of the Light that precedes the rise of the day, and enters the invisible heart of the Sun. This is known as the Morning Setting, and it happens today at 24° of Scorpio, the moment when the Goddess ceases to be seen in the sky before…
