The afterparty is a temporary zone, a place that exists in relation to the party, but that has its own rarefied atmosphere.

The prism captures light and uses it to transform what can be seen. It is a form of practical magic.

What do we need to pierce a hole into the new world?

Mutable water: the void, dark energy, wishes

But it is possible to fall too deep into this part of Pisces and to struggle to come back.

Mutable water: tiny artefacts, dreamscape, hidden moons

What Pisces offers is a way to change the scale; to create tiny artefacts from cosmic incidents so that we can understand them more deeply.

Fixed air: hidden worlds, the maternal, erotic fantasies

Aquarius III is lit by the Moon and wrapped in Venusian silks.

Fixed air: shapeshifting, divination, underworld

They can act as a mirror for the forbidden impulses in all of us; a dangerous and holy place to exist.

Fixed air: exile, iconoclasm, rebellion

The black sheep remains uniquely itself. It is a symbol of self-determination.

cardinal earth: keys, secrets, compartments

Capricorn III is the place where the building work of Capricorn II comes to fruition. Where the vault is filled with treasure, and the ruler carries a ring of heavy keys.

cardinal earth: relics, centuries, buildings

The person under this decan know that they may not see the work completed in their lifetime, but that doesn’t stop them taking care with every piece of stone.

cardinal earth: mysticism, affect, visions

On earth, diamond rain would be a frightening phenomenon; a dangerous weather event. But on Saturn and Jupiter, the two planets that co-rule this decan, it is not uncommon for diamond rain to fall.

Mutable fire: overexposure, doubles, the numinous

Darkness can hide secrets in the shadows, but too much whiteness – as in fog, bright sunlight, or overexposed photographs – hides just as much.

Mutable fire: luminosity, artificial light, spectacle

Kening Zhu’s illustration is trippy and wild; like the night sky has opened up and turned into a videogame with a psychedelic trail leading into the heavens.

Mutable fire: wildfire, rainbows, ruby slippers

The search for the grail is a heroic, technicolour adventure filtered through the rose-coloured glasses of fantasy.

Fixed water: phantasmagoria, dreams, fairy tales

Projections captures the whole spectrum of shadow and light in this decan, from haunted to holy.

Fixed water: nostalgia, symbiosis, healing

A little can be enlivening, a spur to creativity, but a lot can be paralysing or dangerous.

Fixed water: hunger, desires, indulgence

There is fun and playfulness and drama in feasting – the Martial double-edged sword of creation and destruction.

Cardinal air: eye of the storm, altitude pressure, inner strength.

It depends on your mood as to how you might interpret the storm clouds.