Astrology

Introduction: The Dark Machinery of the Zodiac Astrology is not all soft light and pastel affirmations. It is not merely a wheel of fortune cookies and glittering memes. Beneath the surface of the zodiac lies a darker machinery, a set of gears that grind bone and spirit alike, a system that does not flatter but devours. This is the dark side of astrology , the realm of cursed horoscopes , the places where the stars do not bless but instead strip away, where the planets do not guide but consume. Two of the most feared and misunderstood forces in this shadowed architecture are the malefic houses and the Saturn Return . The malefic houses — the 6th, 8th, and 12th — are the blind corners of the chart, the places where planets lose their strength, where benefics wither and malefics thrive. The Saturn Return, meanwhile, is astrology’s most dreaded rite of passage, the moment when Saturn, the devourer of time, returns to the place he occupied at your birth and demands payment for every illus...