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…
The sky of October 23 presents a rare stellium in Scorpio: Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars. All under the rulership of Mars itself, domiciled in this nocturnal sign. And also a grand trine between the three signs of Water. I. Descriptive The Sun, today newly emerged from its yearly fall in Libra, becomes peregrine in…
The ancient mind intuited that what appears is only half of what exists. The visible is the clothing of the invisible, the surface of the flame rather than its source. Kant gave this intuition a rigorous name when he spoke of the noumenon and the phenomenon. The distinction was philosophical, but it concealed an older…
Yesterday, on October 21, 2025, the Moon joined the Sun at 28° of Libra, inaugurating a new lunar cycle in the Cardinal Air sign. This lunation arises under the direct rulership of Venus in domicile also in Libra, currently in the first decan, a decan of lunar nature, creating a subtle mutual rulership between the…
The sky of October 22, 2025 is ruled entirely by the invisible elements Water and Air. There is no Fire, no Earth, leaving the heavens suspended, fluid, and intangible I. Descriptive The immediate cause is Neptune’s retrograde return to Pisces, the mutable Water sign, strengthening the liquid realm. There it joins Saturn retrograde and the…
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…
The natal chart is the invisible pattern through which the world takes shape in a soul. It describes how the cosmic order entered form. The zodiac is a set of wheels moving under the light of a single centre. To read it rightly is to ask: what gesture allows this structure to become transparent to…
Pluto crossed the threshold of Aquarius on November 19 2024, becoming the first of the transpersonal gods to announce the new cycle of profound mutations that are transforming the three outer planets. On May 4, it began its retrograde motion; due to the slowness of its realm, it did not return to Capricorn. Yesterday, October…
It is one of the most elegant returns of the year. Venus in Libra is Aphrodite on her throne, the gesture of the world finding proportion again. After purification in Virgo, she reappears in cardinal air as pure relational force, the moment when the self recognises the other and the cosmos arranges itself in pairs…
