This text presents a delineation of the foundations of James Hetfield’s natal chart, constructed using the Whole Sign Houses system, laying out the internal architecture of the chart itself. Its main axes, its dignities and debilities, and the structural tensions that organise the native’s life and work. I. Capricorn Rising and the Rule of the…
The querent’s question was simple: he wished to know whether he should, or even could, re-establish contact with a friend with whom he had abruptly severed relations several months earlier. At the moment the chart was cast, Pisces rose on the Ascendant, making Jupiter the significator of the querent. Pisces, a Water sign and feminine…
The querent’s question was clear and delicate: should he spend a few days in a Cistercian monastery, in what would be his first contact with monastic-Benedictine life? The moment I opened the chart revealed a telling detail. The Ascendant at 4 degrees of Virgo, a sign of analysis, modesty, and discretion, but too early for…
The beginning of each year is always marked by a flood of pleas for peace. Leaders and institutions come forward with the same refrain: concord, understanding, ceasefire. But, beneath the sublunar sphere, human wishes are always shaped by the higher forces that press upon incarnation. After all, what moves above manifests below, as planets are…
Lately I have been devoting attention to horary astrology. One of the first questions I received came from a lawyer who wished to know whether one of her clients would return to her. The Ascendant was at 8 degrees of Gemini, a position which, although still early, does not invalidate the judgement. Very early degrees…
Two days ago, on December 24, Venus joined Capricorn, precisely one month after her Morning Setting. The nocturnal benefic is now invisible, covered by the solar light, under the beams of the Sun, gradually losing individuality and moving towards a stronger combustion. This is the phase in which she ceases to be Phosphoros, the morning…
This is it. The Sun has entered Capricorn today, marking the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere, after the longest night of the year. From this moment onward, the days begin to lengthen, and light slowly returns within the densest of the zodiacal signs. Capricorn is Cardinal Earth, the realm of structure, ascension, and discipline,…
Today, the New Moon in Sagittarius opens a paradoxical cycle for the nocturnal luminary. The Moon, cold, moist, and phlegmatic by temperament, belongs naturally to the lower half of the zodiacal wheel: it rules the Cardinal Water of Cancer, where it nourishes and protects, and it is exalted in the Venusian Earth of Taurus, the…
Mars entered Capricorn a few days ago. After having been peregrine and unstable in the mutable fire of Sagittarius, ruled blindly by retrograde Jupiter in the cardinal water of Cancer, the martial iron now finds its exaltation in one of the densest signs of the zodiac. Capricorn is cardinal Earth under Saturn’s governance, one of…
My natal chart is born with a structural inversion that alters the entire logic of the zodiacal wheel. Where the common course begins in Aries in the First House, mine begins in Libra, and everything unfolds as a mirror. This inversion means that what normally culminates in Capricorn in the Tenth House – the point…
