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Nike Who Hesitates
Titanic Engineers’ Memorial, Southampton, featuring Goddess Nike Nike of Warsaw, monument to Polish war heroes I love poetry because in a few verses it is able to condense more meaning than a long essay and usually does so more beautifully. … Continue reading
Posted in Nike
Tagged destiny, fate, Gilbert Murray, Heimarmene, hesitation, karma, Nike, Nike Who Hesitates, poetry, Pronoia, The Five Stages of Greek Religion, Zbigniew Herbert
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Thinking of Love
This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, astrology, Astrology of Fate, Cancer, destiny, Grand Water Trine, Liz Greene, love, passion, Proust, symbols, uroboros
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Fate: A Jungian Perspective
My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve. Shakespeare, Hamlet The following article is greatly inspired by Liz Greene’s book The Astrology of Fate. I have yet to find … Continue reading
Posted in Fate
Tagged archetypes, Carl Gustav Jung, destiny, Erich Neumann, Erinyes, fate, giants, Greek mythology, Heracles, individuation, instincts, Liz Greene, Moira, Moirai, Mother, numen, numinous dream, Orestes, repression, Rudolf Otto, symbolism, symbols, the three Fates, Titans, Zeus
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