The Sun has now spent twenty days in Libra, the sign of its fall, in the western point of the Zodiac, where the Light meets its own reflection. Libra stands at the horizon, under the guardianship of the Archangel Gabriel. The element is Air, of cardinal nature. Within it, the Sun finds no dignity by…
On October 13, 1917, the sky above the Portuguese hills in the village of Fátima trembled. The crowds saw the Sun move in a way that defied the geometry of heaven. They saw it shiver, whirl, descend, and return. The event later named the Miracle of the Sun marked the end of six Marian apparitions;…
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.…
Venus at 26° Virgo is still in her zodiacal fall. The goddess of pleasure, desire, and aesthetic relationality is currently forced to descend into a terrain of analysis, modesty, and correction. As if Aphrodite had to wash her feet before being adored or serve tea with hands wounded by labour. There is a vestal sort…
After considering astrologically this Mercurial movement through Scorpio, the sign attached the eighth house of the zodiac, with all its aspects, we now turn to the divinatory art of the Tarot to interpret the meaning of this passage. The word divination comes from the Latin divinatio, derived from divinus, meaning “divine”, which itself originates from…
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…
The Sun now stands in its fall, in the seventh house of the Wheel. This is the Descendant, the western point of the heavens, aligned with the sign of Libra. The direction we call the West was named in Latin occidens, from the verb occidere: ob meaning “down” or “toward”, and cadere meaning “to fall”.…
When a person ends a difficult day and draws the Six of Wands, the first reaction is often confusion. How can a card of victory appear when the mood has fallen into defeat? The answer lies in understanding what kind of victory the symbol represents. It does not describe success in ordinary terms, but the…
The ninth house, known as domus Dei, is the temple of ascent. It traditionally belongs to the mutable fire of Sagittarius, a masculine, diurnal sign that burns through knowledge and expands through faith. It is a cadent house, leaning away from the zenith but joined to the Ascendant by a trine, and so carries the…
The heavens are currently saturated with the element of Water. The three signs of the humid, nocturnal triplicity – Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces – form a silent chain across the sky, breathing the letter Mem through all their tides. The intellectual principle, the expansive heart, and the structure of form are now all immersed in…
