Dispatches from beyond the veil. Stories, signs, and interpretations from the edge of knowing
When The Moon appears reversed in a tarot reading, it often signals a turning point. The fog begins to thin. What was once confusing, frightening, or emotionally overwhelming starts to make sense.
Unlike the upright Moon—which immerses us in m
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Long before modern astrologers began branding this as the house of “shadow work” or “self-undoing,” the Twelfth House was known by something more haunting:
The place where the Sun dies each day.
In Hellenistic astrology, this was the kakos daimon —...
In ancient astrology, the Eleventh House was the agathos daimon — the good guiding spirit, the benevolent force that walks ahead of you and holds the lantern toward your future.
If the Twelfth House is where the Sun disappears behind the horizon,
the E...
In the star traditions of the ancient world, the Tenth House was the Midheaven — the highest point a planet could climb before beginning its descent. This was not a metaphor. This was observational astronomy in action.
The Babylonians called...
In the oldest systems, the Ninth House was called The House of God — not in a doctrinal sense, but in a cosmic one. It was the region of the sky where the Sun began its ascent toward culmination, where omens took on large-scale significanc...
Long before modern astrologers used the Eighth House as shorthand for “intimacy issues” or “joint finances,” it was understood as the threshold of the underworld — the place where things cross from one state of being into another.
In Mes...
In ancient sky-watching cultures, the western horizon was considered a gateway — the place where celestial bodies slipped from the visible world into the unseen. The Greeks called the Descendant the Setting Place — a symbolic point wher...
In the earliest astrological systems, the Sixth House was not “boring”—it was dangerous, sacred, and essential.
The Babylonians associated this region of the sky with:
ritual purification
priestly service
acts performed to res
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In the earliest star traditions, the Fourth House stood at the Nadir — the lowest point in the sky, directly beneath the observer. This was understood as the underworld of the chart, not in a dark or sinister sense, but in the sense of:
ancestry
In the earliest astrological traditions, the Fifth House was called the House of Good Fortune — not because life was easy here, but because this region of the sky was blessed by solar energy.
In Mesopotamian star-lore, this part of the h...
In the earliest astrological traditions, the Third House governed the immediate world — the neighborhood, the clan, the siblings, the small roads that connected village to village.
But beneath that mundane surface, the ancients saw t...
In the early astrological systems, the Second House was the first stop after incarnation. Once the soul emerges in the First House, it immediately confronts the next question:
“What do I need to survive?”
The Babylonians u...
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