Dave Mockaitis
Dave Mockaitis (Gemini Sun & Moon, Libra Rising) is an astrologer, designer and educator living in Portland, OR. A graduate of the Avalon School of Astrology and former resident astrologer at the Omega Institute in New York, he currently practices online and teaches at the Portland School of Astrology. The collage mandalas in this series seek to access and invoke the collective consciousness through the discarded texts of advertising and the popular press. Learn more, book a session, or commission a collage at livingconstellation.com. You can also keep up with the monthly mandalas and view a complete series of Sabian Symbol collages on Instagram at @living.constellation.
Almanac & Calendar
Assembling the transiting energy
The astrological mandalas of Dave Mockaitis map the monthly cosmic weather through sacred geometry and print culture ephemera.
Collaged from ephemeral images
Each hand-crafted piece conveys a number of planetary configurations and cosmic influences through a combination of geometrically cut and pasted print images.
Unique from year-to-year
When you add Dave's artwork plugin, you'll see the illustrations change each year to reflect the unique patterns of that time period.
Art Store
Posters mapping the Sabian symbols
Dave's epic collage series visualizing all 360 degrees of the Sabian symbols is now available as 12 individual posters. (The Sabian symbols were channeled by Elsie Wheeler with the assistance of Marc Edmund Jones in 1925.) Pictured: Libra Sabian Symbols
Meditate with the transits
Each poster can be used to follow along with the Sun's seasonal movements or with other transiting celestial bodies. Pictured: Taurus Sabian Symbols
View your chart through a new lens
Find the degrees that correlate to your chart placements, and reflect on the subconscious associations. Pictured: Capricorn Sabian Symbols