At first Fernando Pessoa has in his birth chart a financial configuration that is good or, at the very least, reasonable. Why? The 2nd house of movable resources, obviously money above all, is Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter. The greater benefic in Pessoa’s chart is placed right in the 1st house. It is true that Jupiter…
Nick Oliveri says in an interview that Josh Homme was always seen by the desert rock scene as “Mr. Lucky”. In astrology language, lucky comes with structural good fortune, a natal configuration that favours protection, support, grace, and a recurring capacity to land on one’s feet after falls. Let’s see if it matches. Good fortune…
I decided to take a look at whether a friend is upset with me, because he has not been replying to my messages. The 1st house is me. Leo rises, so my significator is the Sun. I also take the Moon as my co-significator. The Sun is in Aquarius, in detriment, in the 6th house.…
Today is the birthday of William S. Burroughs. The author of Naked Lunch leads us directly toward the universe of addiction, American and Mexican skid rows, and pleasure as an existential axis and as a method of exploring reality, metaphysics and magic. Let’s take a look at his chart. The stellium in the 12th house…
If he were still alive, Paul Auster today would be celebrating his 79th birthday. He was one of my favourite writers when I was a teenager, and I decided to take a look at his chart. I. The Venusian Women of His Life I right away spotted Venus in Sagittarius, in the 2nd house. This…
In medieval astrology, the main planets to be considered for profession are three: Mercury, Venus, and Mars. Mercury signifies merchants, scribes, men of calculation, technique, and craft; Venus signifies artists, musicians, and all occupations that proceed from the pleasure of form and harmony; Mars signifies warriors and occupations of harsh action, cutting, and conflict. Jupiter…
Over the last few days I have been reading and watching things about the Portuguese Commandos. It is an elite troop, known as the Red Berets, with a very specific reputation, built around a training course that is violently harsh on the body and mind, almost a process of deliberate mortification, in which people are…
Yesterday I analysed a map where Mars was clearly an accidental benefic, working in favor of the native. Today I’m checking a chart where the exact opposite happens, with Mars doing what he does best: destroying. I. Scorpio Rising The native is born with Scorpio rising, a feminine and fixed sign, of centripetal nature, which…
I received a question from a querent who wished to know whether her natal chart contained any indication that may explain the repeated failures in her relationships, which she described as being marked by loss, conflict, and recurring frustration. The analysis that follows is conducted strictly within the parameters of medieval astrology. I. Jupiter and…
Bill Hicks was one of the most intensely influential figures of my adolescence. An anarchist with a profoundly spiritual, untamed and subversive core, he embodied exactly what a teenager at the height of his estrangement from the world often admires most. His comedy was a philosophical manifesto disguised as stand-up, a form of spiritual warfare…
