Tomorrow is the beginning of Lent, the period of forty days until Easter. The number 40 is an architecture in itself. It is the multiplication of 10 (the number of full manifestation in Pythagorean arithmetic) by four, the number of the structure of the created world, the four elements, the four gospels, the four cardinal…
Horary Astrology can be applied to any kind of question, including those that concern our own inner state. Today I feel particularly unmotivated. It is not simply a case of a blue Monday, but more like inner depletion. I decided to analyse myself through a horary chart. The Ascendant is in Leo, so I am…
I cast a horary chart for a bus journey back home taking place today, with an estimated duration of four hours. The question concerned the quality of the journey itself. The Ascendant is in Cancer, therefore I am signified by the Moon. The Moon is in Sagittarius in the 6th house, a house of wear…
António Quadros was a Portuguese philosopher and historian. António Telmo, his fraternal friend, says that Quadros felt unhappy upon being told that his horoscope was of a lunar spirit. The reason is an extremely dense stellium in the 2nd house in Cancer, with the New Moon in domicile. I checked the natal chart of António…
A querent was interested in acquiring a new house but was concerned about certain signs of wear observed in the property itself. He asked me to cast a horary chart to assess the situation. The Ascendant is in Aquarius, so Saturn signifies the querent. Saturn is in the 11th house, in Sagittarius. This shows that…
Today I decided to attend the Catholic Eucharist as an exercise in contemplation. The Roman Catholic rite, especially after the Second Vatican Council, became excessively explanatory and catechetical, and the symbol has been diluted to the point where its esoteric dimension is almost never felt, leaving mostly the exoteric and parochial level. Interestingly, the Mass…
This is not an exercise in mundane astrology, nor a set of banal observations about what “Saturn in Aries may mean for the you and the world”, relying on the worst habits of psychological astrology. This short article concerns the ousía, the essence of the planet itself, its proper substance, and the way that substance…
The querent asked me when she would get married. With Gemini rising, her significator is Mercury. And we can also give her the Moon in this case, although not relevant in this judgement. Mercury is located in the 2nd house, in Leo, which shows that, for her, the theme of marriage is tied to material…
Fyodor Dostoevski died 145 years ago. When we look to his birth chart, we are struck right away by the brutal conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, both retrograde, in the angular 4th, and in a choleric sign like Aries that Saturn abhors. The expansion and faith of Jupiter are crushed by weight, fear, and existential…
I cast a horary on a municipal matter. A local resident decided to advance a project to the city council for a vote, concerning the redevelopment of an area of my neighbourhood, inclduing new green spaces. I decided to chec whether the proposal had any chance of passing in the municipal assembly. I assigned her…
