The New Moon in Cardinal Water conjoined Castor on the 14th of July 2026 at 10:43 am BST Cover Art by Abraham van Calraet Lost to circuitous thoughts and soaked to the skin by saudade, he sat motionless, his hands loose on the reins, as his Mustang sorrowed through the roots, the trees so…
The Pythagoreans called it the voice of the cosmos: three to two, two frequencies in delectable consonance, yielding such sublime resonance that you cannot but wonder at the pure beauty that has whispered sweetness in the early morning dawn light. Confidently draped in satin, so elegant and radiantly inspiring, countless musicians have supped from her…
Cover Art by Charlie Mackesy Chiron is returning home. Discovered at the third degree of Taurus on the 1st of November 1977, his ingress back into fixed earth on the 29th of June marks the first occasion, since the moment of his discovery by Charles Kowal at the Palomar Observatory, that he has completed…
The New Moon in Mutable Air conjoined Alnitak and Alnilam in Buaile an Bhodaigh (Orion’s Belt) on the 15th of June 2026 at 03:53 am BST She wandered slowly through the glade, oblivious to the lark’s toning, the dew upon the dawn, and the gentle siosarnach of the birch leaves touching the sky. Even…
This note is about love and relationships, commitment and marriage, four completely different things, four separate forces, four distinct chambers of the human heart that we have been told beat as one. The four chambers reflect the four elements – Fire, Air, Water and Earth – Commitment is Water; Marriage is Earth; Love is Fire;…
The New Moon in Fixed Earth, conjoined Ceres, Algol and Capulus on the 16th of May 2026 at 21:00:59 BST Cover art by Cara Sanders (Owlet Art) Having waited all day to grace her skin, the warm air streamed through her carrying with it the drowsy sweetness of meadowsweet and cut grass and the…
A reflection on AI astrology, the seduction of the algorithm, and what we lose when we outsource self-knowledge A client came to see me recently, a woman who has been working with me for some years. During the session she mentioned that her daughter asked why she was spending money on a consultation when…
The New Moon in Cardinal Fire, conjoined Chiron and the fixed star, Alrisha Damp from the ozurie cloud that soaked her heart, Little Spirit sat bedewed upon the low stone wall at the edge of the garden, her hands resting gently in her lap, her unfocused gaze drifting beyond the hedgerow into the…
The New Moon in Mutable Water conjoined Scheat on the 19th of March at 01:24 am Cloak drawn close to his shoulder, his hood concealing his face from the incessant downpour, a traveller labours through a hill-veined land scented by brine that lingers upon the tongue and oak-moss from the distant woods. The soles…
From time to time I find myself wondering whether our age merely recycles questions concerning consciousness, perception, and what it means to be human, that older traditions contemplated through a different lens. Again and again a recurrent thought returns to me running something like this: what if the mind functions less as a creator of…