Category: Gnosis
The mystery of Love has always carried within it a hidden wound and a hidden flame. Traditional astrology contains the Lot of Eros, drawn from the relation between Venus and Spirit. This Lot is a cipher of the soul’s capacity for desire consecrated. It reveals that Love spreads through the body, through pleasure, through the…
The vision of mystical ecstasy has always been described as luminous and terrifying. When the Light that is called Kether of Atziluth, the primal fire at the summit of the Tree, descends into the vessels of this world, it comes in gentle force. The mystics of every age have spoken of this encounter as a…
The Tree of Life is a living map of Divine procession. Its three columns hold the mystery of balance and movement, but the central axis bears a special role, since it binds the heights of the Crown with the depths of the Kingdom. This vertical line is the living current through which the unseen breath…
Leonard Cohen once wrote the unforgettable line: “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in.” Altought often quoted in sentimental tones, it carries a gravity that touches the core of mystical traditions. Cohen, who stood in the lineage of Jewish visionaries, was drawing from an intuition that reaches far beyond…
The Fool is the wanderer who begins without guarantees and travels without a fixed plan. In mystical life, this image carries a truth that resists ordinary logic. There are seasons when the soul does not know the destination, when there is no fixed scheme for what is to come. The absence of a clear map…
This year the Great Feast of the Dormition unfolds under a sky with the Moon exalted in Taurus; the lunar current is strong, clothed in the earth. In her exaltation, she mirrors the role of Mary as the sacred container of the Light of the Logos, the Speculum Iustitiae in which divine justice reflects without…
The heavens have long told the tale of two archetypes who seem to share the same face under different veils. Guardian of tides and memory, the Moon embodies the Mother who nourishes and protects. Venus, star of dawn and evening, wears the mantle of the Beloved whose beauty draws the soul into union. In the…
The opening riff of “Thunderstruck” is a flash in the dark, the violent descent of a force that splits the heavens apart. This bolt is the arrow of a higher order, the discharge of a current that belongs to realms above the seven planetary spheres. This is the domain of the Ogdoad, the Eighth Heaven,…
Monday, a day ruled by the Moon’s quiet governance and guarded by Gabriel, the Archangel of waters who speaks in dreams. The tides within and without rest under His care, and today the Moon leans into the mutable waters of Pisces after her watch in Aquarius. The full Moon has passed, but its silver still…
Elimas is a magus whose craft is woven from the fibres of the planetary loom. The text names him Bar-Jesus, son of a name already luminous with Messianic weight, but his service bends away from the straight path. When Paul and Barnabas arrive, drawn by the hunger of the governor for truth, Elimas moves to…
