Oracle's Desk
Dispatches from beyond the veil. Stories, signs, and interpretations from the edge of knowing
Every two years, Mars appears to move backward through the zodiac for about two and a half months. This optical illusion — called Mars retrograde — creates a period when the planet of action, ambition, and assertiveness turns its energy inward. Instead of charging forward, Mars retrograde asks you t...
Mars is your engine. Your hunger. Your fight, your heat, your spark. It rules your impulse to pursue, to defend, to assert, to conquer, to create. If Venus is attraction, Mars is pursuit. If Venus is sensuality, Mars is sexuality.
Mars is the part of you that refuses to wait.
Keywords: desire, amb...
The Archetype: The Phoenix
Scorpio is the energy of death and rebirth, of transformation through destruction, of understanding that sometimes the only way forward is to burn everything down and start again. Where Libra seeks harmony, Scorpio seeks truth — even when truth is ugly, uncomfortable, or ...
The Archetype: The Warrior
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and it shows. This is the energy of pure initiation — the spark that ignites the fire, the first breath, the moment of becoming. Aries doesn't wait for permission or consensus. It acts. It leads. It moves forward with a kind of pr...