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Libra III: The Wanderer
The ass, an animal of patient endurance, carries its rider through a rocky terrain, suggesting that this journey is perhaps morally ambiguous; a passage through the world’s pleasures led by an appetite that knows what it wants and is not particularly interested in the rider’s reservations. The serpent of the older tradition implies the body’s…
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Libra II: The Benefactor
The Benefactor reveals one of grief’s more difficult paradoxes: sorrow and peace can coexist. Healing asks that sorrow be given a durable place within a life large enough to contain it. Here Saturn’s restriction becomes a blessing, for what cannot be changed is accepted, what remains valuable is protected, and what is sufficient is recognised…
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Libra I: The Mediator
The ancient images present twin, upright figures, standing on scorpions, holding water jugs from which fine pipes release their contents in a continous, regulated flow. The justice portrayed here, is an ongoing practice, a steady, measured distribution, maintained against disruptive forces. The scorpions beneath the feet are symbolic of the venomous reactive impulse standing beneath…
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Virgo III: The Examiner
We praise this knowledge like a final benediction, the insight grief most needs and most resists, that what was essential in the one who is gone has already been released into the world. The Mercurial sorting of the permanent from the perishable reveals an indestructible residue that no gate of any underworld can finally confiscate.…
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Virgo II: The Petitioner
Venus in fall in Virgo has lost access to her most reliable gift, the quality of being simply received, of attracting without having to argue, of moving toward what she loves with the confidence of one who has rarely been refused. What she finds in Mercury’s exacting realm, in the mutable atmosphere of Virgo’s middle…
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The Sinking of the Ferry FILOJET
On 30 August 2026, the Cypriot high-speed passenger ferry FILOJET departed the port of Kyrenia (Girne) in northern Cyprus, bound for Taşucu on the southern coast of Turkey. AIS tracking places the vessel’s departure at approximately 11:58 a.m. local time, rather than the later 12:30 time initially reported in some news accounts; the chart below…
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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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Leo III: The Feast Lord
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the king who went out into the wilderness in lion skins, who crossed the waters of death and asked the oldest question a grieving creature can ask- What survives? What endures? Where does the beloved go? Can the loss be undone?- returned to his city with that question unanswered in…
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Leo II: The Noble Archer
The unknown land this decan governs is not simply a geographical unknown but an existential one, beyond the boundary of what the traveller has previously understood about loss, about love, about the self that continues when what it most loved has gone. Jupiter’s enlarging influence within the Sun’s own kingdom does not promise that this…
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Leave the Moon Alone!
The launch chart tells its own rather pointed little story, taking place on the day of Mars, in the hour of the Moon. The figure rises with 2 degrees of Scorpio, a sign, and a ruler, entirely fitting for a rocket, and also nodding vigorously to Mars rulership over falcons as a species; the whole…