Today is the Day of Saturn of Giordano Bruno, the anniversary of his execution.

Giordano Bruno, de la Causa, Principio e Uno (On Cause, Principle, and Unity), 1584:

"This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death - dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature - from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is no absolute up and down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in Space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things."

Raise your glass for this extraordinary heretic and Hermetic (so-called by Frances A. Yeats) seeker of truth!

"On this day, 17 February 1600, the flames of ignorance consumed the flesh of Giordano Bruno. An Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological seer, and esoteric adept, Bruno dared to unveil truths hidden beneath the dogma of his age. He gazed into the great cosmic forge and saw a universe without end—an infinity of suns, each orbited by worlds teeming with potential life. He spoke the heretical wisdom that the Earth, too, was but one wandering star within this vast celestial dance. For unveiling these secrets of the macrocosm and refusing to bow before the leaden weight of orthodoxy, he was delivered unto the pyre.

"For eight long years, Bruno endured the crucible of the Inquisition, his body imprisoned but his mind traversing higher spheres. He was accused not only of cosmological blasphemies but of delving into ancient mysteries—the cross, he declared, was but the echo of the Egyptian ankh, symbol of the life force. He whispered that the stars were as gods, and the planets their children, bearing the seeds of consciousness across the firmament. Threatened with death unless he recanted, Bruno stood unyielding. To his judges, he uttered the immortal words: “Perchance your fear in passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.”

"Upon the morning of his death, in the Campo de' Fiori—the Field of Flowers—Bruno was bound to the wooden axis mundi, the stake encircled by kindling. As fire coiled around him, he turned his face from the crucifix, rejecting the binding symbols of a faith that had shackled his vision. It is said he proclaimed himself a willing martyr, his soul rising with the smoke to the celestial realms. Before his death, he forged his own epitaph—a final decree—that he preferred a noble death to a life lived in fear. Today, upon the very ground where his mortal vessel was reduced to ash, a statue stands—a silent hierophant—bearing witness to the triumph of spirit over the chains of ignorance."

This is interesting. "Magic" is the Seventh art.... Hmmmmmmm 🤔