We are all, in our most fundamental design, travellers upon a road that has no signposts, no maps, no obvious destination, and though we are all of us on this journey, almost none understand the journey, because nobody told us what it was for. Most of us pick up pebbles as we walk and assume,... Continue Reading →
Neptune and the Aries’ Point: The Ingress of Shadows
“The stars in the heavens sing a music if only we had ears to hear. But we are deafened by the noise of our own desires.” – Paracelsus A little while ago I was talking to one of my Gen-Z children about the state of the world, and he simply shrugged his shoulders and said,... Continue Reading →
To Leave Unsaid, We Must Not Feel: Achlys in Gemini
"The child has to develop a 'False Self' to protect the 'True Self' from further injury. But the tragedy is that the True Self is then so well hidden that it becomes unreachable even to the person themselves." Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child In my personal constellation, Achlys is peregrine in the... Continue Reading →
Achlys in the Houses
Achlys in a house shows where the child learned that bringing that house’s core needs or functions into the early relationship would be met with minimisation, coldness, withdrawal, or humiliation. In response, they learned to disappear from that field more completely than the original caregiver ever disappeared from them, while...
Bring the Lamps Back In
In the house of the soul, there is a room where the lamps have been stolen. Not simply extinguished, but quietly removed while we were otherwise engaged. This is the work of Achlys, the Goddess of misery and mist who hides from our sight that which would deliver only sorrow...
True Lies: Mercury – Achlys, and Renee Good
The world has been rightly shocked by the tragic shooting of Renee Nicole Good on January 7th. What follows is an attempt to understand a tragic event through symbolic architecture rather than social commentary. Using astrology as a descriptive and symbolic language, not a moral one that purports to determine...
She’s not There: Achlys and the False Self
As our work on Achlys develops, certain psychological frameworks begin to emerge not as loose analogies, but as structural confirmations. One of the most striking of these is Donald Winnicott’s theory of the False Self, which aligns with Achlys so precisely that it now feels indispensable to the theory. Donald...
Telling it Like it Isn’t: Achlys and the Politics of Illusion
What follows needs to be read through an Achlysian lens rather than a partisan one. Achlys is not concerned with left or right, good intentions or bad actors, but with the maintenance and collapse of illusion. She emerges wherever a society can no longer sustain the stories it tells itself...
Moon – Achlys: Atmosphere Control
Hello all. I hope you had a peaceful and restorative Christmas break. I’m back at work today and returning to the Moon–Achlys material, where a number of commonalities are beginning to crystallise and now merit closer examination. I am working from the Moon conjunct Achlys dataset and, rather than drawing...
Illusion’s Half-Life: Achlys, Orcus, and the Moment of Exposure
We are beginning to work with Achlysian energies as they are slowly revealed. We don’t have the specific psychological mechanisms yet, but we can posit the probable drivers of them. If Achylys is the necessity to create, foster, and maintain an illusion, then we can understand constellated points as both...
Achlys Cazimi – the Beautiful Illusion, and its Denouement
For any astrological research of a previously uncharted star, there is an inevitable gulf between what we understand, and what we might come to understand. We can only bridge that gap by making forays of insight. Not all will be correct. Some will only tell a small piece of the...

