Category: Fragments
The Scriptures often speak of the place where there will be weeping and the grinding of teeth. The phrase has haunted generations of readers because it touches the border between body and soul. It is much more than a mark of pain; it is a description of what happens when language collapses. The human mouth,…
Today, September 29, the Catholic Church honours Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. This year the feast coincides with a Monday, a day under the Moon, consecrated to Mary and marked by the voice of Gabriel. The coincidence draws the memory of the angels into the rhythm of the week; it is as if the lunar and…
The first pages of Genesis contain a rift that will echo through the whole of Scripture and the secret traditions born around it. Expelled from the garden, Adam begets three figures who carry in themselves three different paths of humanity. Cain, the cultivator of the soil, violent and restless. Abel, the fragile shepherd, whose life…
The image of Mercury has always unsettled those who seek certainty. He is never fixed, he escapes definition. He walks with the Sun, sometimes combust, other times under the burning fire of cazimi, but does not belong to it. He at times is tied to the day and at times to the night. This shifting…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. The sky has just unfolded a rare cycle. Two new moons were born in Virgo, both between eclipses. This seldom seen two-fold beginning marks a labour that cannot be resolved in one attempt. The firmament ponders that the question bound to the sign involved requires…
The word empire carries an ancient resonance. It once signified order descending from above, a structure that replicated the harmony of creation and drew earthly power into alignment with the Divine. For Dante, the empire in its true sense was the Empyrean, the region of pure Light where blessed souls abided in union with God.…
Every year the ingress of the Sun into Libra marks the descent of light into balance and measure. At the equinox, day and night weigh equal upon the scales of the sky. But the same Libra that proclaims equilibrium is also the place of the solar fall. In Leo the Sun is exalted in its…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. Mars entered today into Scorpio, his house of rulership. He comes in silence after crossing the exile of Libra, where his sword was forced to move according to the mirror of the Other. During that stay, Venus in Leo held him under her regal and…
The spectacle of a solar eclipse is never a simple matter of astronomy. It carries the quality of a rite performed in the sky. When the Sun is hidden by the Moon, even if partially, the order of visibility is reversed. The lord of clarity and centre is cast into silence and the lesser light…
The present sky shows a rare alignment of word and desire. Descending into the mutable earth of Virgo, Venus is embraced by Mercury, who also has just stepped into Libra. What seems a simple exchange of regencies reveals itself as a deeper alchemy. It is the figure of the Rebis, the androgynous child of Hermes…
