Meet each hour in its own spirit. Follow the planetary rhythm, making room for action, reflection, or rest as the day unfolds.
Horae
The correspondences
Follow the old connections between planets, plants, metals and symbols. Notice how the sky has found its way into everyday things.
Corpus
With gratitude
Those who lit the way.
This journey has old roots. Animastra draws inspiration from thinkers who explored the sky, the imagination, and the art of remembering.
Hermes Trismegistus
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The sky, a mirror within
The writings attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus explore the relationship between the human soul, divine knowledge, and the cosmos. Looking outward becomes an invitation to look inward.
That invitation runs through Animastra: from the living sky of Caelum to the memories held in Nous, the world above and the world within remain in conversation.
Marsilio Ficino
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A life in harmony
Marsilio Ficino saw the soul as a meeting place between earthly life and a greater order. Beauty, music, and the rhythms of the heavens belonged to his search for a harmonious life.
Animastra carries that spirit into its planetary hours and daily rituals: small invitations to meet the day attentively, allowing time for action, reflection, and rest.
Carl Gustav Jung
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Listening to the image
Carl Gustav Jung approached dreams and symbols as expressions of the psyche, inviting attention to images whose meaning could unfold over time. An image could open a question before it offered an answer.
His influence lives in the reflective spirit of Nous and the Oracle. Animastra makes room for dreams, personal associations, and questions, leaving you to discover what an image means in your own life.
Giulio Camillo
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A theatre for the mind
Giulio Camillo imagined a theatre of memory in which images and places brought knowledge into an ordered whole. The visitor stood before a symbolic world, discovering ideas through their relationships.
That architectural imagination echoes in Nous. Animastra gives moments and dreams a place among planetary rooms, turning a collection of entries into a theatre you can explore and return to.
Shown here: L’idea del theatro, 1550.
Giordano Bruno
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Give memory a place
Giordano Bruno made vivid images and carefully ordered associations central to his art of memory. Remembering was an imaginative practice: ideas became images that the mind could encounter and revisit.
Nous takes inspiration from that art. Your moments and dreams find places among its planetary rooms, forming a theatre you can return to as new connections between entries emerge.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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Threads between worlds
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa gathered a Renaissance vision of correspondences linking the earthly, celestial, and spiritual worlds. Planets, plants, metals, numbers, and images belonged to an interconnected symbolic order.
His influence appears in Animastra’s correspondences: a way to explore these inherited associations and follow a thread from the planets to the familiar things around you.
Your story is still unfolding.
Keep looking up. Keep listening within. We’ll let you know when Animastra is ready to join you.
Hermes Trismegistus
Marsilio Ficino
Carl Gustav Jung
Giulio Camillo
Giordano Bruno
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
