The calendar hanging on your wall looks like the most ordinary thing in the world, my loves. But it is secretly one of the most astrological objects you own. The year it counts is a sun cycle, the weeks it divides are made of planets, and the great reform that gave us this calendar was […]

Here is something that surprises almost everyone, my loves: for most of history, religion and astrology were not enemies. They were companions. The same priests who prayed also watched the stars, the same cathedrals that held the cross were built around the zodiac, and — yes, really — popes kept astrologers at their side. Somewhere […]