Tag: Astrology


  • Solar Appearances, Retrograde Mirrors: The Apparent and the Reversed in the Hermetic Heavens

    Upon the surface of the world, the sky arranges itself as a living text, inscribed anew with every hour. There are moments in which the observer stands before the firmament and perceives a great pageant of movement; but the true order of these celestial rites is rarely grasped directly. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in her Glossary,…

  • Nemesis: The Hand That Closes the Veil

    The delicate architectures that undergird the world is where the Hermetic Lots stand as silent pillars, casting their symbolic shadows across the natal firmament. Each Lot, a mathematical wound or secret, arises from the interplay of planetary bodies, mirroring the drama of necessity and pirit, fortune and fate. These points appear as discoveries, never mere…

  • The Inverted Horizon: On the Sacred Structure of Celestial Reflection

    Within the precincts of the ancient art, where the stars do not simply trace cycles but participate in the weaving of Fate, the zodiac emerges as a temple composed of twelve veils, each bearing a signature upon the soul. The masters of Alexandria and the heirs of Mesopotamian priesthoods devised a model of the cosmos…

  • The Mirror of the Hours: Four Portals of the Zodiacal Temple

    The silent chambers of Western and Eastern wisdom, where ink maps the firmament and hours bear the weight of memory, contain the key to open the astrological chart as a temple inscribed in time. Each nativity unfolds as a clock wound by unseen hands; its gears forged of matter and a light older than dawn.…

  • The Sun in Cancer and the Dodecatemoria: Maternal Light in Traditional Astrology

    If interested in a personal liturgy and birth chart reading, please consult this portal. As the Sun transits through Cancer, the ancient science of the stars draws the attentive mind beyond the surface of solar movement, inviting reflection on the hidden depths beneath the visible heavens. In the veiled walls of traditional astrology, few techniques…

  • The Crab and the Moon: Hermetic Body, Tidal Shelter

    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: The Mother Was His Empire

    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…

  • The Anaretic Edge: Uranus at 29 Taurus in the Age of Thresholds

    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…

  • The Law of the Moon at the Solstice’s Gate

    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…

  • On the Brink of Light: The Anaretic Sun in Gemini and the Threshold of the Solstice

    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…