Internet algorithms love lists I’m told, and, admittedly, I’ve been a bit blocked in the creativity department. I was turning a post on the Tarot knights over in my head, which didn’t want to translate into anything coherent, and a post on inferior and superior aspects just didn’t do it…

Currently, I’m knee-deep in copies of early English treatises that pick apart astrology’s Ptolemaic foundations. I’m particularly enamored with one so-called “reformer” who advanced a theory of Copernican heliocentrism in astrology, proposing a hypothetical system that replaces the glyph of the sun with a solid black dot (which stands for…

I like to spend a portion of my annual tax return on frivolities: it’s how my Saturn-ruled fifth house partakes in Venusian delights. I don’t blow it all in one place, but this Mercury-in-the-eighth-house-Libra-Rising does enjoy splurging on pretty little occult expenditures from time to time. My most recent purchases…

The Moon holds a special place in the cosmological and astrological imagination. …

Being born with a Gemini Moon is an affliction deserving of its own support group. Consider that I also have a cardinal fire sun and you have some insight into the bright, shiny, distraction-inducing tendency to follow new bits of information down rabbit holes, momentarily enticed by the promise of…

Though a student of traditional astrology, I’m hardly averse to poking around the vast and diverse discipline in search of technical gems that intrigue. As such, while you’ll most likely see my nose buried in Bonatti or Paulus, I’ll occasionally incorporate a little modern astrology into my reading buffet. Enter…

For those who follow me on Instagram, you know I’m fond of the daily Tarot pull: a carefully curated photo accompanied by short, character-counted thoughts. I often write what comes to mind, not because Tarot doesn’t warrant thoughtful communion with the card’s significations, but that the prompted nature of instant…

In traditional astrology, the only house closely configured to the native, their psychology, personality, health and vitality, is the first. Any planets in the first house have a direct bearing on the interpretation of the native themselves, as does the planet ruling the ascendant. If the ruler of the ascendant…

Perhaps I’m blaspheming the sacred, oracular function of the Tarot by consciously choosing a card instead of pulling one at random, but I thought it might be cathartic to reflect on the year that was through a single Tarot image. So many of the figures on the Major Arcana, as…