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In the spirit of this months theme of celestial agriculture I repotted these rosemary plants during the Sun’s day and hour. Pray for their good health as I try to remake the massive rosemary plant I had to leave behind when we moved. 🙏

This sharp essay by Andrew Crumey pulls alchemy and astrology back into the same frame as science and shows the line between them is thinner than we pretend.

Crumey, a novelist with a PhD in physics, walks through figures like Tycho Brahe and Isaac Newton (a serious alchemist on the side) to argue that history isn't a ladder out of magical thinking but a cliff-face where old ideas persist beneath the new.

That framing matters for celestial agriculture. Moon gardening, planting by the signs, the elemental rhythms growers still follow — these are exactly the kind of "fossilised ideas" Crumey describes, ancient sky-knowledge that never went extinct, just got buried under the topsoil of modern science.

Read it? Tell us in the comments what landed, what didn't!

I am very pleased to present the latest video on the astrological ages, including the Age of Aquarius.  This video was part of a series created in late 2025.  It was produced by Ross McNair and filmed in Bali, Indonesia, in late 2025.  Click on the following Substack link to view the video: https://open.substack.com/pub/terrymackinnell/p/a-longer-introduction-to-the-age?r=2vc0ph&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The Aries Point — 0° Aries — is not merely a technical reference in astrology. It is the degree of creation itself. The moment before form, the breath before the first word.

Across the world's sacred traditions, this primordial impulse has always been recognized.

In the Torah and the opening of Genesis, creation begins not with matter but with divine intention: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... and the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters." There is a hovering, a potential, before eruption. This is the quality of 0° Aries — pure, undirected creative force on the threshold of manifestation.

In the Quran, Surah Ya-Sin (36:82) reminds us: "When He intends a thing, His command is only that He says to it: 'Be!' — and it is." The Aries Point carries exactly this energy. When a heavy outer planet crosses this degree,…