Numinous Realm

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Film, music, art, and cultural analysis through an archetypal lens

Navigating 2026: An Archetypal View

Culture1 min read

Navigating 2026: An Archetypal View

This Valentine's Day, we invite you to step into deeper intimacy with humanity’s first love: the cosmos. A rare alignment between the four outer…

New Year, Deeper You?

Culture5 min read

New Year, Deeper You?

From the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey It's that time of the year again...to reflect on time itself. What were the peaks and valleys of 2025?…

Uranus-Pluto and Egyptomania

Culture3 min read

Uranus-Pluto and Egyptomania

The Industrial Revolution freed us from manual labor. Now, the AI Revolution is freeing us from knowledge labor. So what's next for us human beings? Meaning.…

The World’s First Exhibition on the Outer Planets of Astrology

Culture1 min read

The World’s First Exhibition on the Outer Planets of Astrology

Planetary Realms: An Art Exhibition on Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto took place from September 26-28, 2025 in New York City, under a rare world transit…

Using Archetypal Astrology to Create Interactive Planetary Art with Nanae Itoi

Culture7 min read

Using Archetypal Astrology to Create Interactive Planetary Art with Nanae Itoi

The World's First Exhibition on the Four Outer Planets of Astrology Somya Desai, co-founder of Numinous Realm, sits down with interactive digital artist Nanae…

"Planetary Realms" Call for Artists

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"Planetary Realms" Call for Artists

An art exhibition in NYC on the four outer planets of astrology Planetary Realms invites artists to imagine a world of their own—a planet shaped by memory,…

The Saturn-Neptune Zeitgeist

Culture3 min read

The Saturn-Neptune Zeitgeist

A moodboard for the zeitgeist until 2027 It was spring 2016, and I was sitting in the front row of my philosophy class— Ethics: East & West . From…

Why Anora Deserves to Win Best Picture

Culture7 min read

Why Anora Deserves to Win Best Picture

A modern myth guiding us from the Jupiter-Uranus to Saturn-Neptune alignment. Why do we watch movies? To dream? To escape? To find inspiration? To ease our…

Lady Gaga's Abracadabra: Recession Pop, Love and Death

Culture9 min read

Lady Gaga's Abracadabra: Recession Pop, Love and Death

"The category is: dance or die" is Lady Gaga's opening line for the music video of her new single, Abracadabra. Ever since the song and video aired on February…

MAC Nudes Collection and the Return of Cool-Toned Lips

Culture3 min read

MAC Nudes Collection and the Return of Cool-Toned Lips

As a girl whose undertone is very cool-toned–and thus someone who experiences most makeup products available today (that are not straight-out grey or purple,…

Is Culture at a Standstill?

Culture17 min read

Is Culture at a Standstill?

Saturn-Neptune: Associated with periods of high nostalgia. Uranus-Neptune: Times in which ideas spread but novelty becomes diffused. Uranus-Pluto: Periods when…

John Galliano x Maison Margiela Artisanal Collection Spring/Summer 2024

Culture10 min read

John Galliano x Maison Margiela Artisanal Collection Spring/Summer 2024

As the hardcore Anais Nïn stan that I am, I recently rewatched Philip Kaufman's 1990's adaptation of Henry and June, Nïn's diary excerpts-turned-book that…