The Journal
Essays on the occult, the esoteric, and magick: tarot, astrology, ritual, the body, and the inner path.
Ceres in astrology — the grain-goddess of nourishment and the seasons. How Ceres maps to the body's need to be fed, rested, and restored, and the cycle of depletion and...
Read →Black Moon Lilith — the lunar apogee and the myth of the untamed first woman. How Lilith maps to the wild, instinctual body we are taught to suppress, and how...
Read →The four angles of the chart — Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, and Imum Coeli — the horizon and meridian cross. How the chart's cross maps to the body's posture: the vertical...
Read →Astrological transits explained — the moving sky making contact with your natal chart. Fast transits as weather, slow transits as seasons, and how each lights up a region of the...
Read →Chiron, the wounded healer of astrology — the chart's mark of a chronic wound that becomes a source of wisdom. How Chiron maps to the body's tender, recurring place, and...
Read →The fixed stars behind the wandering planets — the four Royal Stars, Algol, Spica, the Pleiades. How the sky's slow constant lights map to the body's deep constitution beneath its...
Read →Pythagorean numerology read through the body — number as the root of harmony, the body as proportion, and movement as number in time. The qualities of the first numbers as...
Read →The three principal nadis — Ida the lunar channel, Pingala the solar channel, Sushumna the central spine. How the body's three rivers of breath carry the Sun and Moon, and...
Read →The Lot of Fortune — made from the Ascendant, Sun, and Moon — was the Hellenistic lot of the body, health, and vitality. What the Part of Fortune means and...
Read →Domicile, exaltation, detriment, and fall — the essential dignities that make a planet strong or weak. How a planet's dignity maps onto the body, and where to lead from versus...
Read →The five koshas of yoga — annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijnanamaya, anandamaya — the body's five nested sheaths from food to bliss, and how movement travels through all five.
Read →The I Ching's eight trigrams, mapped to the body by the ancient Shuogua commentary — Heaven to head, Earth to belly, Thunder to feet. A Chinese melothesia and a practice...
Read →The North and South Nodes — Rahu and Ketu, the dragon's head and tail — are the axis of eclipses and of growth. What the lunar nodes mean, and how...
Read →Reading is the first step. Practice is the rest.
