Over the last two days, the cards that I drew as daily meditation were the 8 of Swords and the 4 of Swords. They are both cards of the rational and mental plane, the intermediate sphere of Yetzirah, and are also associated with Jupiter. This is relevant because. in any context, what does Jupiter enjoy?…
As I have said recently, I’ve been interested in the war-related individuals, and the symbols operating behind them. This Tarot reading is about Richard E. Winters, commander of Easy Company in World War II, and has a very clear objective. To understand who he was in the real context of war, as a man commanding…
After doing a reading for William Stoner, I decided to do another one for another stoic figure in American literature: Don Gately from Infinite Jest. Now Don Gately is one of the main staff members at Ennet House, the halfway house for recovering addicts in Infinite Jest. He is a former burglar and addict who…
This is a cardinal reading to analyse the relationship between Tony Soprano and his mother, the one that runs through the entire series and, in the end, structures almost everything he is. The Ascendant is Tony, because I wanted to see the relationship through his eyes. The Descendant is Livia, as the Other. The Imum…
I decided to analyse William Stoner through the symbolism of the Tarot, since he is one of my favourite literary characters. Stoner, by John Williams, is a novel about an entire Stoic life lived without heroic gestures or visible conquests, but with a strong inner coherence. My cardinal reading uses the cards as a way…
If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. The sky has just unfolded a rare cycle. Two new moons were born in Virgo, both between eclipses. This seldom seen two-fold beginning marks a labour that cannot be resolved in one attempt. The firmament ponders that the question bound to the sign involved requires…
A Collective Oracle for the Meeting in the Sixth House of the Zodiac. If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. The Sun and Mercury have met once more, at twenty degrees of Virgo, in the bound of Jupiter, within the sixth house of the zodiacal circle. This is the second union of…
A Collective Oracle for the Mercurial Ingress into Its Earthly Domicile If interested in a personal liturgy, please consult this portal. Mercury has now entered its domicile in Virgo, returning to mutable earth, the zodiacal sixth house; the dwelling of labour, of the body put to its tasks, the Word given over to necessity. As…
A Collective Oracle for the Novilunium in the Mercurial Sixth House If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. The Moon has now entered the mutable earth of Virgo, conjoining the Sun in the silence of the novilunium. A new cycle opens at the exact point where the zodiac consecrates the…
A Collective Oracle for the Venusian path into the seat of Lunar Afection If interested in a personal liturgy and reading, please consult this portal. Today, under the sheltering gaze and celestial blessing of two Archangels, Sachiel and Anael, Venus begins her silent descent into the maternal waters of Imum Coeli, into the hidden sanctuary…
