The Gold Diary

3rd January as the Cardinal Earth Sun sextiles Mutable Water Neptune “There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility and our hearts to love life.” – John…

The Two Books

The New Moon in Cardinal Earth (Sextile Neptune and located between Saturn and Pluto) The climb to this place, akin to Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee’s assault of Mount Doom in Mordor, has been monumental. After much labouring, ascending many a treacherous track, having explored too many cul de sacs and having had to ford…

The Gold Diary

2nd January as the Sun and Saturn conjoin in Cardinal Earth More important than the arbitrary calendar rebirth is today’s cazimi conjunction and parallel of the Sun and Saturn in Cardinal Earth, a conjunction that occurs every year when the Sun reaches the same celestial longitude as Saturn, but it has not happened within Cardinal…

The Gold Diary

1st January as the Western calendar year 2019 begins I was never one to celebrate the change of calendar as a child. Plagued by the pang of deep Irish guilt as an adult when surrounded by an ocean of revellers on the 31st December, enthusiastically counting away time, eagerly anticipating a dawn that would miraculously…