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Images of the Zodiac: Contemplating Pisces
Johfra Bosschart, “Pisces” One of the best novels I have read in my whole life is without any shadow of a doubt Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan. Its narrator, William Buelow Gould, is … Continue reading
Posted in Johfra Bosschart
Tagged Age of Pisces, archetypes, astrology, Dane Rudhyar, divine feminine, Egyptian mythology, fish, goddess, Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish, Johfra, myth, mythology, ocean, Osiris, Pisces, redemption, Richard Flanagan, symbolism, symbols, synthesis, water, wholeness, Zodiac
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The Secrets of the Odyssey (1)
Timanthes, “The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” (detail: Odysseus) Homer’s Odyssey has always held an extreme fascination with me. All the characters and what happens to them have been coming back to me recently, perhaps in connection with Mercury retrograde with Neptune. … Continue reading
Posted in The Odyssey
Tagged archetypes, astrology, Florence and Kenneth Wood, Homer, Homer’s Secret Odyssey, Mercury, Mercury retrograde, Neptune, Odysseus, Pisces, symbolism, symbols, The Odyssey, Thoth, trickster
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The Woman Who Embodied the Goddess
Aphrodite of Corinth Beyond light and shade, Beyond thing and thought, There is love forever lurking. B.Z. Goldberg, The Sacred Fire Among the many totems of the great Babylonian goddess Ishtar was the fish. Her initiates would eat it as … Continue reading
Posted in Sacred Prostitution
Tagged Aphrodite, archetypes, Atargatis, Corinth, fish symbolism, Hora, Horae, Ishtar, Pisces, priestess, sacred prostitution, Shulamite, stranger, symbolism, symbols
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The Winged Sandals of Higgs Boson
I. A Few Thoughts on Time Marc Chagall, Time is a River Without Banks I have always believed in the world of timeless truths. I find comfort in the conviction that although all visible phenomena are constantly changing, beneath flows … Continue reading
Posted in Mercurius, Time
Tagged Age of Aquarius, alchemy, Aquarius, archetypes, astrology, C.G. Jung, Gemini, God’s particle, Hermes, Higgs, Higgs boson, Leibniz, Mercurius, Mercury, Pisces, quantum physics, science, Smolin, space, symbolism, symbols, Time, Time Reborn
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The Knight’s Feet in Soft Slippers
Keanu Reeves, seems perfect to have played Hamlet Hamlet is such a famous and celebrated play that it was dubbed a ‘collection of quotes.’ Who has not heard: “This above all: to thine own self be true,” or “There is … Continue reading
Posted in Hamlet
Tagged art, forgiveness, Fortinbras, Hamlet, Kenneth Chan, literature, mysticism, Pisces, poetry, Shakespeare, spirituality, symbolism, theatre, violence, Zbigniew Herbert
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Out of Water All Life Comes
There are currently as many as eight planets in Water signs. Creativity, imagination and artistic expressions are falling on very fertile ground right now. Inspired by this blog: http://earthstonestation.wordpress.com/ I decided to write about water myself. The title of the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Aries, astrology, birth matrices, creation myth, Emoto, Lao Tzy, Marduk, Pisces, Stanislav Grof, Tiamat, water, water signs
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Venice Is a Fish
Venice is a city that completely took me by surprise. I had not expected to be so utterly charmed and swept off my feet. I like to think of myself as an non-touristy person, but in Venice I did not … Continue reading
Posted in Venice
Tagged archetypes, astrology, Italo Calvino, Pisces, symbols, Tiziano Scarpa, Venice
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Cloud Atlas: Farewell to the Age of Pisces
I’ve been obsessing recently about Cloud Atlas, both the novel and the movie. I have been profoundly affected by both. Jung said somewhere that if archetypes spoke their language would be poetic, lofty, quite far from everyday speech. It is precisely … Continue reading