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…
The All Souls’ Day always takes place when the Sun crosses Scorpio. The same drama repeats itself each year, with Christ-Logos descending into the black waters, and consciousness faces its own reflection in the deep. The Sun that rules the living walks for a time among the dead, and the veil between both worlds grows…
Languages do not die. The words uttered in temples and deserts remain suspended in the subtle air, their syllables repeating themselves in the invisible. Each sacred tongue becomes a vessel of vibration; through long use it condenses into a presence, a field of memory. The prayers of the dead stratify the astral atmosphere, forming egregores.…
When Christ declares in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfil”, He invokes one of the most profound mysteries of Christian gnosis. The verb πληρῶσαι (plērōsai) means to fill, to make whole, to bring to completion. It…
David Foster Wallace’s chart is the portrait of a mind forged in crystal and iron. Thought was destiny. His Mercury, ruler of both the Moon and the Ascendant, was itself ruled and joined by a fierce Saturn domiciled in Aquarius in the ninth house – domus Dei -, binding soul and flesh to the discipline…
Baptism used to be a descent into the womb of the cosmos itself. The word baptisma comes from the Greek βαπτίζειν (baptizein): to immerse, to submerge, to dye. The root bapto was used for dipping linen into pigment or plunging iron into molten liquid. It meant a total penetration, a transforming contact. To be baptised…
A man once told a story about two fish. One asked: “How’s the water?”. The other had no idea what water was. This parable was retold by David Foster Wallace. But what he offered could stand beside any page of the Zohar or the Corpus Hermeticum. The parable that begins with a fish unaware of…
Few words disclose such a precise mirror of the human condition as symbolon and diabolos. In their Greek origin lies the drama of creation itself: the movement of union and separation, the pulse of the One divided into the many and forever yearning to return. The symbolic heals that wound and the diabolic widens it.…
The ancient verb obedīre conceals an act of luminous listening. It comes from ob- meaning “toward” or “in the direction of”, and audīre, “to hear”. To obey once meant to listen attentively toward a source. Its origin lies in hearing that answers rather than slavery. When the Latin was still fresh, to obey meant to…
