Mars will be stationing to go retrograde in the sign of Gemini on October 30, 2022 and I’m hearing a lot of anxiety from clients about this upcoming Mars transit. Here are a few things to keep in mind…

"Spectarunt nuptas hic se Mors atque Voluptas - Unus (fama ferat), quem quo, vultus erat"

"Death and pleasure already saw themselves wedded, and their two faces made only one face"

A subscriber DM'd me an interesting question in regards to whether or not Saturn could be a feminine planet, perhaps representing the crone. I won't post her entire message because it contained some personal reflections, but I will share my answer below

"The Saturnalia, by evoking the Golden Age in which Saturn reigned, celebrated the promiscuity and universal brotherhood that were believed to characterise this age. In reality this belief represents a deviation from traditional truth, and the Saturn who was evoked was not the king of the Golden Age, but rather a chthonic demon; this can be established by the fact that he was represented in the company of Ops, a form of the earth goddess."

How do fate and free will fit together? This is a question long debated by astrologers, philosophers, and theologians and I certainly don't claim to have the final answer on the subject, but I do want to say something about it, as it's one of the most common questions people raise when asking about how astrology works.

The sculptors and architects of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were all initiated into the Mysteries (especially the Eleusinian rites) and while these monuments were all ostensibly erected for a variety of purposes, they were all symbolic structures, placed in very specific locations, designed to perpetuate the sacred arcana of the Mysteries. Each of the Wonders has a correspondence to one of the seven traditional planets.

Within the ancient mythologies of the world, we see a recurring theme of the destruction of the world, by flood (kataklysmos) and fire (ekpyrosis).

There are a few major differences in how modern astrology interprets a chart vs ancient astrology.