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What You Choose to Nourish 11/26
what are you still being faithful to, even when it no longer reflects who you are? An image of yourself. A way of loving. The belief that, to deserve something, you must first give a little more. This month’s sky symbolically accompanies a shift from reflection to choice. Mercury and Venus turn direct, the New Moon in Scorpio invites us beneath the surface, and the Full Moon in Gemini illuminates the words we use to tell our own story. This reading follows the tropical zodiac

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read


Before the Ink Touches the Skin — When a Tattoo Becomes a Ritual
quercus_lines A Monstera, the lines of an oak tree, and an encounter with a woman who sees nature through different eyes. The story of a tattoo that inspired something new Why Have Humans Been Marking Their Skin for Thousands of Years? Long before tattoos became a contemporary art form, a fashion statement, or an aesthetic choice, they were already part of human history We began marking our bodies with symbols long before smartphones, social media, and even many of the writin

Mariana Sambataro
7 min read


Tarot: a history of symbols, a family history
Before becoming a tool in my work, Tarot was part of my life I grew up surrounded by birth charts, symbols and archetypes, in a family where astrology and card reading were passed down through generations My maternal grandfather used Tarot in his astrology practice in Lugano for over thirty years. He came from a family tradition: my great-grandfather also worked with astrology and Tarot. My father and many of my uncles used Sibyl cards, which are different from Tarot but belo

Mariana Sambataro
4 min read


HALLOWEEN
When the Veil Between Worlds Grows Thin The forgotten meaning of October 31, our ancestors, and the journey into darkness Every year, as October comes to an end, shop windows fill with skeletons, pumpkins, and costumes. Halloween becomes a competition for the most original outfit, the scariest decorations, and the biggest party. We have learned to play with death, to turn it into entertainment, and to laugh at something that, for centuries, inspired respect, fear, and wonder.

Mariana Sambataro
7 min read


The Descent of Venus
October 2026 A month to remember what you desired before the world taught you what to desire October arrives with a strange wind It is not winter yet, but something has already begun to withdraw. The light changes its angle, the days grow shorter, and nature seems to understand perfectly a gesture that we humans still struggle enormously with: letting go of what has completed its cycle And October's sky seems to tell exactly the same story If I had to choose one planet as th

Mariana Sambataro
6 min read


Before Seeking the Gods, Look Behind You
I have always been interested in philosophies, religions and spiritual traditions I observe them, study them, move through their symbols and try to understand their language And yet one question keeps returning Why do we human beings feel such a profound need to search outside ourselves for something to worship? Why do we entrust our prayers, our requests for protection, love and hope to an icon, a spirit, an entity, a messiah, a deity or an archetype that may belong to an an

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read


The dura mater: what lies beneath a back that cannot let go
A person comes in and says: “I need you to work here” And immediately places a hand on the neck or between the shoulder blades or on the lower back Almost always, the assumption is that the problem is right there A tight muscle A knot A stiff back So the solution seems simple: massage that spot release it apply enough pressure But the body does not always work that way Sometimes that muscle is doing exactly what the body is asking it to do: protect And this is where we need t

Mariana Sambataro
6 min read


A month to let everything August stirred begin to settle
The September Sky September does not really begin on the first of September It begins a few days earlier It begins with what August has left on our skin A thought that keeps returningA decision still suspendedA tiredness that sleep alone does not seem to solveA relationship we suddenly see differentlyOr that difficult-to-explain feeling of still being ourselves, but not exactly the same person we were a month ago We are coming out of an intense eclipse season And perhaps Sept

Mariana Sambataro
8 min read


Soul Map: Reading the Many Clocks of the Birth Chart
When we look at a birth chart for the first time, it can seem like a complicated wheel filled with symbols, lines, numbers and signs that are difficult to understand In reality, that wheel does not tell only one story It contains many clocks moving at the same time, each with a different rhythm and each connected with a different part of our experience There is the solar clock, which speaks about identity, will and direction There is the lunar clock, connected with emotions,

Mariana Sambataro
6 min read


Before You Seek the Journey, Learn to Stay
In recent years, so-called ancestral medicines and consciousness-altering rituals have increasingly entered Western spiritual and personal-development spaces Ayahuasca, rapé, sananga, ceremonial cacao, psychedelic mushrooms and practices originating in distant traditions now appear in retreats, social media and everyday conversations This is not an article against these practices Nor is it an attempt to demonise them I am interested in a different, perhaps more uncomfortable

Mariana Sambataro
4 min read


The Number That Was Already Living in Her Body
For years I studied astrology with curiosity and a certain amount of scepticism Not because I doubted that symbols could speak But because the more you study a symbolic language, the more you realise how easy it is to bend it around the story you already want to hear Then I began studying numerology And something surprised me Numbers can be brutally direct They do not explain everything They do not tell you who you are But sometimes they point very quickly towards the place w

Mariana Sambataro
4 min read


The Signature
What Really Happens During an Energy Treatment? The word energy is used constantly High energy, low energy, energetic blocks, people who drain us, places that recharge us and days when we feel we have nothing left It is a familiar word and at the same time difficult to define because it may refer to physical vitality, emotional state, attention or something subtler that we perceive without being able to measure precisely When I speak about an energy treatment, I do not mean a

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read


Between Two Eclipses: The Long Time of Saros Cycles
Something curious happens the day after an eclipse For weeks we talk about itwe wait for itwe photograph itwe give it meaning Then the shadow passes and it seems as if everything is over But astronomically, an eclipse is almost never an isolated event It belongs to a family A story that can last for more than a thousand years These families are called Saros cycles The Saros: when the sky almost returns to the same place A Saros cycle lasts around 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours

Mariana Sambataro
4 min read


What Is Intuitive Massage and Why Can It Never Be the Same for Everyone?
There are days when the body wants deep touch and others when it needs slowness, silence and space, days when we arrive with a precise tension and others when we simply feel tired, full and distant from ourselves Yet many massages are still created as identical sequences, a series of predetermined movements applied in the same order regardless of the person lying on the table Intuitive massage begins with a different question What does this body need today? Not last week, not

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read


Intuition is not a rare gift, it is a language you can learn to listen to
We hear it all the time Listen to your intuitionTrust your gutYour intuition already knows the answer But almost nobody explains one fundamental thing How do you actually listen to it? When you are calm, it can be relatively easy to feel that something is right for you The real challenge begins when you are tired, emotionally involved, under pressure, in love, angry, afraid or simply when your mind refuses to stop thinking In those moments everything starts speaking at once F

Mariana Sambataro
4 min read


marilü in Bern: a Space for Transformation Where Body, Energy and Symbols Meet
There are places we enter to receive a treatment and places we enter because something within us needs to stop, breathe and understand what is really happening marilü was created from this second need It is not simply a massage studio, it is not a superficial esoteric space and it is not a place where someone tells you who you are or what you should do It is a space for transformation in Bern where the body, energy work, astrology, tarot and symbolic practices are used as dif

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read


The Lion’s Gate Portal: Sirius, Astrology and the Courage to Become Visible
Every year, as 8 August approaches, we begin hearing about the Lion’s Gate Portal, manifestation, abundance and powerful energetic openings As often happens in the spiritual world, ancient stories, modern interpretations and beautifully packaged cosmic promises have gradually gathered around this date I prefer to move beyond the surface, because a symbol does not need to become an absolute truth in order to be powerful The Lion’s Gate can be understood as a symbolic threshold

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read


The month of the Sun, eclipses and doors opening
August 2026 August arrives as a powerful, luminous, intense, almost magnetic month It is not just any month It is a month carrying within it the fire of the Sun, the memory of the Earth, the strength of portals and the deep movement of eclipses It is as if the sky were saying: you can no longer remain halfway between who you were and who you are becoming August is the month of Leo, of the heart, of light, creativity and visibility But it is also a month asking us for presence

Mariana Sambataro
8 min read


The Wounded Healer
The one who returns with the medicine "The healer suffers first then returns with the medicine" There is something deeply true about this sentence Not because suffering automatically makes someone a good healer but because some people choose to transform their pain instead of passing it on to others If you had to trust a map would you rather it was drawn by someone who has actually walked the path or by someone who has only studied it in books Technique matters Knowledge matt

Mariana Sambataro
2 min read


J U L Y the month that prepares us to shine from a truer place
July arrives with a sky full of astrological movements, a taste of transformative energies inviting us into new beginnings, but also into a deeper listening of what is changing shape within us This is not a month to rush throughIt is a month to feel Because July does not arrive to give us all the answers immediatelyIt arrives to show us which questions we can no longer avoid It is a month of transition, inner reorganization, memory, intuition and preparationA month in which t

Mariana Sambataro
5 min read
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