Category: Literature
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Finding Balance with Gemini/Sagittarius Polarity
Hermes is not so concerned with facts as he is with essential truths, truths that reveal themselves though symbols.
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Anatomy of a mythological hero
But whilst for Freud heroism revolves around human parental relationships, for Jung it revolves around the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.
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The Poison Garden
Nothing could get in; nothing could get out. Voila, more or less instant immortalisation.
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A Feminist Reading of Jason & his Heroic Argonauts
Haynes also reminds us that there were few things that alarmed Greek men more than a clever woman and arguably, Medea is cleverest of all.
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Two Versions: which do you prefer?
Two different voices were required – which do you prefer and why?
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The Hermeneutics of Allegory – Homer’s Odyssey in Context
Naturally, it’s important to understand what a piece of literature or poetry or art might mean (symbolically) – but then comes the next question – what am I meant to do with that?
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Man’s Relationship with his Gods
It’s interesting that our familiarity with our humanity increased as our familiarity with the gods decreased.
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Karmic Astrology (9)
Given that as Judy Hall reminds us, karmic astrology is based on the premise that we are eternal, spiritual beings reincarnating into a physical body in order to perfect ourselves through multiple incarnations, it only makes sense to pay close attention to the lessons that Saturn would have us learn.
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When the ‘sun is spent’…
One of the perennial philosophies asserts that only in eternity (i.e. God, Plato’s forms, Aristotelian essences) can constancy be found. All else is subject to mutability, change as the result of time. In Book Eleven of his Confessions, St Augustine questioned time in relation to God (the stable Truth) and His creation of the temporal world. […]
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Abuse of Power/ Pluto & Mars/ Virginia Woolf
Further, if as I suspect, because of social constraints against power being actively used by women during Woolf’s lifetime (i.e. her ability to set boundaries and protect herself against predators was thwarted), we might expect her writing to contain hints of abuse of power, especially power used by men against women.