Tag: #decans
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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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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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Leo I: The Victorious Beast
The traveller who arrives in this decan is in the dull heat of the trial, a territory where the question is no longer whether the worst can be endured but whether endurance itself can be sustained toward a destination with no visible end. What is being tested here is not courage in any dramatic sense…
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Cancer III- The Protector
This is the territory of Cancer III, where the Moon inhabits her own sign, in her own face and finds no moderating influence, no planetary guest to introduce a foreign quality, only herself, distilled into the purest expression of what she has always been, the guardian of life at its most vulnerable, the force that…
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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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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…