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: theatricality, new world, subversion

I don’t see this as just the card of deceit, but one of the hysteric and drama queen – visionaries who are rarely taken seriously and who can do some subversive damage as a result.

Fixed air: hidden worlds, the maternal, erotic fantasies

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

This is the sixth consecutive decan of Saturn, and it is softened by these intuitive, erotic, influences.

Fixed air: apples, the ferryman, the farthest shore

The Six of Swords is about the magician, the passer between realms, the holder of liminal spaces, the one who cuts through.

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: self-determination, excommunication, liberation

The Five of Swords asks us to distinguish between the battle and the war – is a minor victory worth it or does it provide an obstacle to your vision?

Fixed air: exile, iconoclasm, rebellion

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

Fixed air: exile, un-home, paradoxes

To write the ecological uncanny, then, is to spend time in these ‘generic out-houses’, and to lie squat beneath the heavy architecture of habit and belief.

Fixed air: occult systems, leaky borders, containers

The necropastoral offers a key to looking at obscured but visible worlds that exist in the interstices of the media, the spectacle, the haunting.

Cardinal earth: sovereignty, cushioning, crowns

What it might mean to land on the ‘cushioned’ throne – a place where you are living in comfort, but perhaps glossing over what it has taken to get here.

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: history, practicalities, foundations

Pentacles don’t ask for deep emotional dredging like the cups do, but there is a sense in this card that part of the practical is a connection to history, dreams, and simple pleasures.

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, nor will they rush and compromise on quality just to get to the end.

Cardinal earth: opposites, reversals, mirrors.

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: low sun, bleached trees, the flicker.

The Ten of Wands takes you deep into the woods, and lets you get lost.

There are tall trees in white sunlight, bleached animal skulls, and flickering light.

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: heat, tenderness, the warrior

The Nine of Wands is the red neon light that glows in the distance, keeping you awake, but also reminding you that you aren’t alone.