Category: Articles
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Mercury Under Cover & The Astrology of Stolen Treasure
Last week, on the eve of a near-total Lunar Eclipse, Mercury vanished into the Sun. Moving through Virgo, the planet entered combustion, rendering it invisible, burned out by a brilliance greater than its own. In traditional astrology, the state of combustion obscures agency. What the planet signifies becomes hard to see, overwhelmed rather than absent.…
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When the Lights Go Dark-Eclipses and the Fate of Nations
Within the traditional doctrine of mundane astrology, eclipses occupy a position of exceptional importance, not because they are regarded as inherently destructive, but because they signify periods during which the ordinary order of nature is temporarily interrupted. Both Claudius Ptolemy and Abū Maʿshar regarded eclipses as celestial indicators whose effects are directed principally towards kingdoms,…
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The Lions Den: The South Node in Leo July 2026-March 2028
Modern astrology has tended to soften Leo into a symbol of confidence, creativity and personal expression. The older traditions paint a more demanding picture. They remind us that the lion is first and foremost a creature of appetite. He seeks dominion, territory and recognition. At his highest he becomes the courageous guardian, the ruler who…
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Cancer II-The Remembrancer
Sign: Cancer | Sign Ruler: Moon | Decan Ruler: Mercury Element: Water | Mode: Cardinal The Moon rules Cancer by domicile, while Mercury rules this decan by face. Mercury has no major essential dignity in Cancer and must operate through the sign’s emotional and receptive nature. Thought and communication become closely linked with memory, feeling,…
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Days Above The Year: The Heriu Renpet
What the structure offers is a guarantee of texture, the assurance that every quality encountered in grief has been named, presided over and honoured. At the heart of the structure sit the five days above the year, which are not a stage that comes at the end of the process but a vertical dimension that…
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Chiron in Taurus: What Sustains Us?
If we look at where the solid categories of life have already begun to feel more unreliable, ie, money, land, food supplies, even the body itself, we name Taurus’s own domain: wealth, and when this is examined through the lens of Chiron, we perceive it not behaving as wealth should. Land may not be relied…
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The Herald
There comes a moment in the long interior passage of sorrow when something stirs that has not stirred in what feels like an age of the world; when the voice, so long folded inward upon itself, so long turned away from the open air and the company of others and the bright demanding surface of…
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The Astrology of 2020-A Place Out Of Time
There’s been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin’ that the end is close by ‘Stead of learnin’ to live they are learnin’ to die BOB DYLAN
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Three Tough Lessons from my First Saturn Return
Astrology tells me that with Saturn in Pisces, I am a reluctant Hero, but the way he connects to the Sun and Jupiter blesses me with a free, fighting spirit and a brave, creative heart! Because I could hear the individual call of my own Astrological Saturn, and I understood that a call to adventure…
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It’s Not My Fault; It’s My Pluto Transit!
Anyone who has experienced a strong Pluto transit to an angle of their horoscope or to one of their personal planets will never forget the experience. Whether they know anything about astrology or not, this period of their life is unlikely to be forgotten. Slow-moving and often torturous, Pluto exerts his vice-like grip and slowly…