On astrological practice, techniques, and readings.
From 24 October to 13 November 2026, Mercury walks backwards through Scorpio, and Venus walks back with him. Halfway, on 4 November, he passes through the heart of the Sun. A cycle for rereading what was said, and returning to what was left unsaid.
The path of totality grazes the far northeast of Portugal and gives Rio de Onor half a minute of night. Bragança, twenty kilometres away, misses it by 0.06 per cent. And there is a reason the old astrologers cared about that difference: for them, the percentage of the sun that goes dark was the measure of how much a reading covers.
From 29 June to 23 July 2026, Mercury halts and retraces its course through the sign of the Moon. Not a fault in the heavens, but an ancient invitation — to walk back over one’s own steps.
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Seven bodies visible to the naked eye that organized astrology for two millennia — and still anchor traditional chart reading.
The classical doctrine that ties the zodiac to body and character — and how your chart identifies your dominant humor before any other interpretation.
Before interpreting Venus in Cancer in the fifth house, tradition asks six structural questions of the chart. This is the right order.
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