Category: Philosophy
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Love’s Alchemy & the Alchemical Marriage
Enter Mercury to facilitate the active dialogue and transference which is at the base of all therapeutic work.
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Love’s Alchemy & the Golden Age of Saturn
Because Saturn marks the boundary between personal and transpersonal (cosmic) powers, it is the alchemists most important planet being equated with both the beginning and end of the Great Work.
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Love’s Alchemy – Stage I – The Purification process or Calcinatio
Calcinatio is a fiery, burning process governed by Aries/Mars during which the dross is burned off to purify rather like the process during which diamonds are formed.
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Find your Personal Path to Enlightenment through your Part of Daemon
The more you’re pushed in the material world, the more likely you are to turn to your Part of Daemon for in essence, it encompasses your entire philosophy (tenets) about life.
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Want to know your astrological life expectancy?
Clearly someone with lots of battery could die young due to an accident. Likewise someone with not so much battery could, with the help of modern science, live to a ripe old age.
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Making Money through your Part of Fortune – Part I – Case study for Ms X
ecause Mars is ‘at the bends’, it is also a strong significator of profession. Traditionally Mars is linked to the warrior classes. Today it might equate to anything connected arguments/disputes and/or sharp (knife/blade) things – such as being a butcher or surgeon or a judge who resolves disputes in a court of law.
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Aristotelian Astrology
The ancients believed that souls could only incarnate on a new or full moon – and hence he/she was kept in a holding pattern in the Sphere of the Moon until the right moment – and in while there – had all the qualities absorbed by the previous spheres SCRAMBLED !
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Change as the Result of Time in the Secular Poetry of John Donne
While on the surface it may appear that he is a proponent of constancy, his speakers often lamenting how others are so inconstant and false, I would argue that on the whole Donne favours change.
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Looking for God Through Astrology
Remember that every planet represented in your chart, was once a god or goddess in his or her own right.
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A Critique of Ecriture Feminine
In the wake of Queer theory, I suggest that the binary oppositions between ‘feminine and masculine’ supporting Cixous’ ecriture feminine have dissolved. Indeed queer now uses ‘the open mesh of possibilities’ – those ‘gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning’, which Cixous once claimed for ecriture feminine.