The Working Sky

Vera Lindqvist

Vera writes about the sky as it moves: transits, returns, timing. Her columns carry dates and degrees, not moods — if a claim can't be pinned to the ephemeris, it doesn't run.

The Old Books

Rufus Adeyemi

Rufus reads the classical technique — Lilly's Christian Astrology, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos — and translates it for modern charts, citing book and chapter so you can check him. He thinks most 'new' methods are old ones with the sources removed.

First Houses

June Halloran

June writes for the reader's first year: signs, houses, aspects, and how to look at a chart without drowning. She keeps a standing promise — no jargon without a plain-English sentence beside it.

The Athanor Letters

Edith Marlowe

Edith writes the Great Work as an inner discipline — calcination to rubedo as stages a person actually passes through. Each column is a letter to a student partway along, which is how she describes herself.

Plates & Pigments

Bruno Castellan

Bruno decodes the illuminated manuscripts — the Splendor Solis plates, Ripley scrolls, the emblem books — image by image, the way a museum label should have done it. He believes the pictures were the argument.

Metals

Nadia Ferro

Nadia keeps the metals column: the seven planetary metals, what the old laboratories actually did with them, and where the symbol ends and the chemistry begins. She has a weakness for etymologies and owns it.

The Seven Principles

Arthur Pell

Arthur writes the Kybalion column, one principle at a time, testing the 1908 text against the older Hermetic sources it claims to summarize. He is fond of saying the book is a door, not a house.

The Mead Translations

Ione Kasparian

Ione reads the Corpus Hermeticum through G.R.S. Mead's 1906 translation, a passage at a time — quoting first, glossing after, and marking where Mead's Victorian English needs a modern hand.

The Emerald Line

Heitor Salles

Heitor follows the long thread — the Emerald Tablet, its translations, and how the tradition traveled from Alexandria to the Renaissance to Manly P. Hall's 1928 synthesis. He writes history the way it happened: slowly, with detours.

The Plates

Claire S. Tilton

Claire writes the card-by-card column. She reads each card from what Pamela Colman Smith actually drew — checked line by line against Waite's 1911 Pictorial Key — and distrusts any meaning that can't be found in the picture. She calls herself a student of the images first, a reader second.

Table Practice

Jonah Petrie

Jonah writes about the practice itself: spreads, the reading journal, the daily card as a discipline rather than a fortune. His rule for the column is that every piece must end with something you can do at a table tonight.

Correspondences

Margarethe Voss

Margarethe keeps the system pages: how the seventy-eight cards map to planets, signs and elements, and where those mappings came from. She works from the published sources — Papus, Waite, the Golden Dawn papers — and flags every point where they disagree.