Slow Magick Journal
Optics and Light
The Kaleidoscope of Becoming
It’s been fascinating to see how many ways people are talking about the transpersonal planets’ configuration in the sky. Basket? Maybe. Bowl, sure. Vessel, definitely.
I prefer thinking of the aspects between Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini, and Jupiter in Leo as a kaleidoscope, as the word’s etymology breaks down into “observation of beautiful forms.” The word kaleidoscope was also coined alongside its creation by its inventor, David Brewster, in 1816. So both the word and the instrument were birthed at the same time as a way to study optics and light. Sound familiar?
Life After the 8th House
The eighth house in astrology is complex, and there is no way around that. Historically it was called the Idle House and represented death and monetary gain via inheritance. In the 19th century, sex and mental health were added into the mix. Simply put, it contains everything we don’t want to acknowledge or admit, let alone talk openly about. Think of subject matter that is secret, stigmatized, and/or taboo and you’ve got it. But we all experience it at some point, whether by personal planets placed there in our birth charts or by periodic planetary transits through our eighth house.