Barbaric Spheres

A monthly newsletter tracking celestial patterns and their terrestrial manifestations. Named for Vettius Valens' term for the celestial realm—the barbaric spheres, foreign to human law, moving by their own logic.

Each issue follows the same structure:

The Spheres This Month: Current major transits with historical parallels. When Saturn crosses specific degrees this March—degrees it occupied during the 1848 revolutions and 1929 market peak—the newsletter examines what happened then and what to watch now. Concrete timing windows, documented patterns, specific predictions.

From the Archives: Deep research pieces rotating monthly through different areas: USA political cycles, financial astrology, nuclear technology development, building materials (concrete, plastic, steel), computing history, military patterns, science discoveries, art history, technique testing from traditional texts. Each piece runs 1,500-2,000 words and feeds into the quarterly monographs.

Notes: Working observations from active research. Techniques being tested across datasets, charts worth studying, patterns emerging, traditional texts under examination. Less polished than the research pieces—these are working notes from ongoing studies.

Subscribers also receive early access to new monographs and occasional subscriber-only case studies.

This newsletter is for people who want cutting-edge astrological analysis in a tradition still refining itself against its millennia.

Issues run 2,000-3,000 words total, published the first Wednesday of each month.

$20/month or $200/year.

Questions about the newsletter? Email jonkraftastro@proton.me