Tag: Astrology
The crab moves always sideways, carrying its house upon its back, half hidden between sand and sea. In ancient iconography, the crab was never chosen by accident; its flesh, its movement, its patience and retreat, all these were seen as living emblems of a deeper reality. The Greeks called the sign Cancer, after the crab…
Napoleon Bonaparte was born under a diurnal sect, with the Sun above the horizon as the dominant luminary of his chart. This marks him as aligned with the solar, outward-facing, authoritative current of fate: those destined to enact their spirit through visible force, public function, and sovereign will. But it is precisely this solar path…
Uranus now inhabits the anaretic degree of Taurus, the final and most perilous threshold in the cycle of a sign, a point long feared and revered by the Hermetic astrologers as the degree of fate, crisis, and irrevocable release. The Promethean planet enacts its most severe ordeal upon the fixed earth, driving Taurus to the…
In the reckoning of cycles, no moment is more charged than the solstice,when the Sun halts at its zenith, and the visible world, for one day, teeters between triumph and return. Beneath the cult of solar glory, another current moves: the silent sovereignty of the Moon. It is She who governs the threshold, She who…
There is a night every year when the Sun trembles on the very cusp of the heavens. It neither truly in Gemini, nor yet arrived in Cancer. This is the solstice threshold: a razor’s edge where the cycle of light itself hangs in the balance. To the ancients, the 29th degree of any sign, but…
Every sacred feast is also a map of absence, a liturgy of what remains at the threshold: longing, hunger, and exile. In the drama of Corpus Christi, as in the entire Western tradition, the body has so often been the absent guest: spoken of, disciplined, abstracted, and yet never fully welcomed to the centre of…
As the waning Moon crosses the final, dissolving degrees of Pisces (twenty-seventh, threshold of endings and beginnings), a gate opens between element and archetype. The world stands at a crossing: from the oceanic depths of the mutable water to the blazing threshold of cardinal fire. Images collide, matter ripens or withers, bonds are sealed or…
Within the living architecture of the Hermetic cosmos, there exists a moment of sublime equilibrium, a fulcrum where the act of giving and receiving is a rite. The Six of Pentacles stands as the seal of this mystery: an image of the physical world transfigured by loving action. To understand this card is to understand…
I. The Pillar and the Mirror: Foundations of the 1–7 Axis At the heart of the natal chart, two points stand eternally opposed: the Ascendant, marking the horizon where day begins, and the Descendant, where the sun falls and night gathers. This axis, linking the First and Seventh Houses, is not merely the spine of…
If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. The Malefic in the Field of Virgo: Classical and Hermetic Astrological Context In the language of classical astrology, Mars is counted among the malefics, planets whose nature is inherently disruptive, fiery, separating, and at times destructive. Mars brings heat and dryness, the will…
