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Images and psyche
We are taught very early that the word zodiac is related to "zoo" and the "wheel of animals," but this may be a somewhat incomplete...

Gabriel Castro
Jun 21, 20222 min read
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Twelfth House - The Bad Spirit
We have finally arrived at the 12th house. This is a place that I personally took so long to understand that I couldn't even count...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Eleventh House - The Good Spirit
In tradition, this place is related to friends and groups, alliances, hopes and expectations. As it makes a trine with the 7th house -...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Tenth House - Summit
Mesouranima, a composition from meso, middle, and Ouranos (Uranus), the sky-god, the tenth house became popularly known as the Midheaven...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Ninth House - God
If the Goddess has her dwelling in the inner realm - the third house - God resides up in the high heavens, the ninth house or Theos. From...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Eighth House - Idle
One of the primary meanings of the eighth house is quite clear: death. But how can we derive other meanings from this concept? As with...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Seventh House - Setting
Like the first, the seventh is related to the horizon. However, unlike the ascending sun in the east that, with its luminescence,...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Sixth House - Bad Fortune
Like all cadent houses, the sixth indicates dissipation of the energy of the planet in which it is located. This is as if the planet...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Fifth House - Good Fortune
Being below the horizon, the realm of the Moon, this house is related to the body and matter, and its significations are intertwined with...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Fourth Place - Subterraneous
The significations of this house are directly linked to its location in the circle that encloses our mundane subjects. Being at the...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20221 min read
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Third Place - Goddess
Like all the cadent places, the third is also associated with displacement. This is an agitated house that speaks of the dynamism of...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Second Place - Gate of Hades
This is one of the astrological places with the easiest symbolism to grasp: money. However, reflecting on the words' etymology allows us...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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First place - The Helm
Possibly the best known of the astrological houses / places, the first one is commonly named the "Ascendant" (anatellon; anatonle). It...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Stars and Deities
The wandering stars, or planets as we know them today (planetes asteres), make up one of the pillars of astrological studies. The word...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20221 min read
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Diurnal and Nocturnal
As you reflect about benefic and malefic planets, the immediate concept that follows is the qualitative distinction known as "sect",...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Benefics and Malefics
In astrology, we communicate through symbols and associations just like we do with a language. Each planet has unique meanings and...

Gabriel Castro
May 31, 20222 min read
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Thema Mundi: the nativity of the cosmos
Thema Mundi is a mythical configuration of the birth of the world. In Hellenistic Astrololgy, it was called kosmou genesis, the nativity...

Gabriel Castro
Oct 24, 20212 min read
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