The Library
The Library
137 essays on astrology, tarot, colour and metaphysics, written between 2007 and 2026 and sorted into 7 rooms. The shorter pieces of the same years (book descriptions, videos and podcast episodes, notes and announcements) are kept in the archive below.
The rooms
Technique
76 essays
How John reads a chart. Essays on the planets, the houses, the aspects including the quintile, septile and novile, the nodes, Chiron and Juno, midpoints, phase analysis and transits, and synastry. His 2010 series on the 28 lunar phases is here too, with the 2022 revisions of his core teaching pieces.
Kabbalah & Metaphysics
13 essays
John's spiritual writing, most of it from 2007 to 2011. What Kabbalah is, the Ana Bekoach prayer, inner light and surrounding light, resistance as a key to growth, and what the signs look like read through the Tree of Life.
Chart Studies
6 essays
Whole charts read from beginning to end. The natal charts of William Blake and Henry James, Vincent's chart, and a chart for the year 2022, with a shorter piece on John's own Mars in Virgo.
Colour & Healing
6 essays
Colour, water and light as instruments of healing. The correspondence between the signs and the colours, colour healing through the imagination, the theory of astrological cures, and the therapeutic cycles of the planets and signs.
Tarot
10 essays
John's writing on the Tarot, most of it from 2023 and 2024 while he was writing his book on it. The Minor Arcana suit by suit, four of the Swords and the Horseman of Wands one card at a time, and a tour of the world of decks and books.
Degree Theory
24 essays
How the degree symbols are read, as distinct from the symbols themselves, which are under Degrees. The three essays on reading degree symbols, the Pluspoints series on the Sun added to each of the other planets from the Moon to Neptune, the Fulfillment Point, seed aspects, and the last three degrees of a sign.
Essays
2 essays
The pieces that fit no other room: two from 2009, one on Aquarius and one on Neptune at 25 Aquarius.
The archive
Shorter pieces
38 short pieces (book descriptions, videos and podcast episodes, notes and announcements) across 17 months from May 2007 to November 2022. They are listed by month rather than by room.
Most recent: Visit My Blog, November 20, 2022
Now writing
Twinkle Twice
John’s new writing is on Substack. The latest posts are here.