1. What the Vesta Asteroid Represents In astrology, Vesta  represents sacred service, devotion, and the central focus of a person’s life  — the thing that is honoured, protected, and kept alight. Vesta is an asteroid with a real orbit, discovered in 1807 and named after the Vestal Virgins of Rome , priestesses who maintained the sacred fire that symbolised the life and stability of the state. Their role was not personal spirituality, but civic and collective service . In an astrological...

When researching for keywords for my Youtube channel, I came upon an old friend. I wondered if I may have created hundreds of searches for the term “spiritual meaning of myrrh” myself over the ast few years. It seems entirely plausible that the times I have plugged it into the keyboard could conceivably run into the thousands while I was researching a book about myrrh and yet, the book still shows no signs of being finished. Too many threads, the weave of it is way too tightly rendered to...

Did you know that Father Christmas secretes myrrh? It sounds like something out of a gothic novel, but the history of St. Nicholas is far more "aromatic" than modern Christmas cards suggest. Before he was the jolly man in the red suit, he was Bishop Nicholas of Myra , a 4th-century healer known for secret acts of charity. But his most mysterious legacy isn't the gold he threw through windows—it's the fact that he is known as "Saint Nicholas the Myroblite,"  or the Myrrh-Streaming Saint What...