Xavier Brooks

Xavier reads charts the evolutionary way, which means he starts at the lunar nodes and treats the chart as a description of a direction rather than a verdict. He writes the journal's pieces on the nodes and the south-node material, on the Saturn return, and on the periods when work stops making sense, which is when most people go looking for a chart in the first place.

His other subject is the African diasporic traditions: Ifá and the orishas, and how those systems travelled into Candomblé and Santería. He writes about them as living religions with their own initiates and their own authority, not as a menu of archetypes to borrow, and he is careful to say where a practice belongs to a community he is reporting on.

He works with creative people, and it shows in what he chooses to write about: the block, the transition, the moment a body says no. His answer to those is usually somatic and communal rather than analytical, and he will tell you plainly that a hard season is not evidence that a planet did it.

He keeps an indoor jungle, hunts archival runway pieces, and reads tarot and oracle cards alongside the chart.

Xavier Brooks is a pen name. He writes privately, and he will still argue that rest is a practice.

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