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…
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…
