Philosophical non-fiction · 2026

From Metaphor to Geometry

Elements, Tarot, and Astrology

Do not memorise meanings. Derive them from structure.

A structural approach to Tarot and astrology. The four elements are defined through boundary and preserved volume; zodiac signs become geometries of experience, and planets become operations acting within them. The meanings of the twelve signs, ten planetary functions, and twenty-two Major Arcana emerge as one coherent system.

Pavel Medvedev
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22Major Arcana
12zodiacal geometries
10planetary operations

A grammar of symbols

From intuition to a structure that can be tested

Tarot is treated not as a dictionary of ready-made interpretations, but as a compact body of images on which one can test whether meaning follows from form rather than free association.

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Elements

Two independent properties — boundary and preserved volume — define four broad classes of experience.

(∂, V)
02

Signs

Modalities describe the phase of a medium; orientations describe the address of its organisation.

3 × 4
03

Planets

Ten stable operations act within twelve geometries of experience.

10 × 12

Notes

Short observations

Brief consequences of the model for technology, AI, and current change — without turning every thought into a long article.

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The Six Axes of a Living System

Elemental geometry, six questions, and the development of feedback

The axes are best seen not as six abstract pairs but as six questions that any living system repeatedly solves.
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Temperance / Sagittarius

Dosed Fire, correction of direction, and preservation of the target

Sagittarius preserves directionality, but changes the dose, route, timing, channel, or point of application in response to contextual feedback.
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How the Archetype Became a Personality Type

Occultists in academic science, academics in occultism, and the dispute over what counts as an explanation

An archetype is easy to recognize in a picture. It is much harder to understand what remains when the picture is removed.
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When a Symbol Outlives Its Tradition

From Shamanic Ritual, Astrology and Tarot to Occultism and Psychology

What disappears first when a tradition is broken: the image, the meaning—or the way of entering into relationship with the symbol?
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Why Water Changes Color

How to Distinguish an Archetype from Its Cultural Shell

White Water in one system and blue Water in another need not compete for the “correct” color: image, cultural code, and structural invariant belong to different levels.
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Uranus Moves from Taurus into Gemini

From a New Carrier of Value to a New Participant in Exchange

2018–2026: “what can value live in?” 2026–2032: “who else can be a participant in exchange?”
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Neptune Moves from Pisces into Aries

From Digital Trace and Faith to Action, Autonomy, and a New Logic of the Era

If the previous era learned to preserve presence without the present person or object, the new one asks: what happens when the preserved image acquires a verb?
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Pluto in Aquarius: Who Writes the Rules of the Shared World

From Parliament, Common Law, and the Meter to Digital Identity, AI Agents, and the Constitution of a Human-Machine Environment

Not “revolution and technology,” but a reconstruction of shared order: who exists for the system, what they may do, and who may rewrite the rules.
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Three Lenses of the Future: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

2026–2040: From the Machine Participant to a New “We” and an Embodied Digital Reality

The present looks less like a scatter of technologies than the construction of an environment where the machine participant gains a language, a mandate, and a place in the shared order.
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The Lantern and the Moonlit Path

The Virgo–Pisces Axis, The Hermit and The Moon, and the Geometry of Mercury, Neptune, and Jupiter

Change the map → open new routes → isolate a testable step → return the result to the living trajectory.
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Channel and Priority

The Cancer–Capricorn Axis, the Chariot and the Devil, and the Geometry of the Moon, the Sun, Saturn, and Uranus

Not “feelings versus duty,” but two operations: creating a living flow of experience and building a form capable of carrying it through to a result.
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The Source and the Shared Measure

The Leo–Aquarius Axis, Strength and the Star, and the Geometry of the Sun, Moon, Uranus, and Saturn

Not “the individual versus the collective,” but two operations of a living system: sustaining a source of results and turning what it finds into a shared measure for independent participants.
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Debunking Astrology

How operators and environments gradually emerged from archetypes, correspondences, and metaphysical powder

Strip away archetypes and correspondences layer by layer to see whether a finite language of operations and environments remains underneath.
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Moon in Libra: an inner sense of reciprocity

How experience teaches you to feel when a relationship is mutual — and when one person keeps giving more

Moon in Libra is more than diplomacy. After enough interactions, a person starts noticing earlier when their contribution is met in return — and when it is simply taken for granted.
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Pluto in Libra: when the rules of reciprocity change

How a serious conflict can change a relationship so the same problem no longer repeats in the same way

Pluto in Libra appears not when another conflict has merely been survived, but when a similar situation can no longer repeat under the old rules.
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How Something New Begins: Two Cardinal Axes

The Move and the Shared Measure. Belonging and the Center of the Work

How to distinguish exploring a possibility from making a move, see the shared measure, and then understand how belonging and an independent structure arise around content that already exists.
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Why Is Taurus a Bull?

How two coordinates become the elements, the zodiac signs and their Tarot images

Why is Taurus a bull, Scorpio a scorpion and Aquarius a water-bearer? We begin with the structure of each environment, then ask how well the old zodiac and Tarot images actually capture it.
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