Tradition
Astrology
A practice of reading meaning from the positions of the sun, moon and planets, attested in Babylonian, Hellenistic, Indian and Chinese forms and continuous in the West since antiquity. Western astrology divides the year into twelve signs and reads the movement of the planets as a description of timing, season and disposition.
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DivinationA divination practice
On Mars and the oppositionAn opposition is not a wound. It is a sightline. Two planets a hundred and eighty degrees apart can only see each other, and the tradition reads that geometry as a subject a person…DivinationA divination practice
On retrogrades and timingMercury turns retrograde three or four times a year, and for about three weeks the sky suggests review rather than launch. The traditional advice is narrow and practical: this is a…DivinationA divination practice
On Saturn transitsSaturn does not move quickly, and neither will this. When Saturn crosses a sensitive point in the chart it does not remove the difficulty; it slows everything down around it until…