Zodiacal releasing

There are years you remember as a single block. When you try to tell the story, you notice they had a climate of their own, a pace of their own, and that at some point the climate changed without you deciding anything in particular. Zodiacal releasing is the traditional technique that tries to read exactly that: a life split into chapters and paragraphs, like a book.

Each chapter lasts years, sometimes decades, and carries the name of a sign. Inside the chapter run shorter phases, months long, shading the chapter differently as they go by. What you read is not a sequence of events, it is a succession of seasons: stretches of time that open, ripen and close at their own pace, with no regard for the calendar.

The starting point depends on what you want to look at. One line starts from the Lot of Spirit, tied to the Sun, and describes the seasons of what you do: the directions you take, your work, the projects that hold years together. The other starts from the Lot of Fortune, tied to the Moon, and describes the ground all of that rests on: the body, your energy, material conditions. The two lines carry equal weight, and the second often explains why the first felt light or heavy.

One warning that holds for the whole guide. Here zodiacal releasing is not used to predict events or to fix dates. It describes the climate of a period, what that time tends to ask of you, the pace it tends to move at. It is a wide-angle technique: it reads tides well and single moments badly. Read that way it gives you perspective, and perspective is the most useful thing it has to offer.

• How zodiacal releasing works
• Aries period
• Taurus period
• Gemini period
• Cancer period
• Leo period
• Virgo period
• Libra period
• Scorpio period
• Sagittarius period
• Capricorn period
• Aquarius period
• Pisces period