Freedom includes the will to suffer this dark moon freely. No resistance. Today, I need to know that, and what, I suffer. I am afraid of that -knowing me-. I am afraid. To deny, ignore, or refuse what is contained therein, would perhaps be the ultimate rejection: To eclipse is to occult, hiding through darkening. …
Tag: Fate
Sacred Order and Restless Saturn
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.” ― Philip K. Dick Cosmos Although we easily recognize that life on planet Earth, and perhaps elsewhere, is possible because of the regularity witnessed within the solar system and beyond, dare we call fate that which influences the individual by a similar ordering principle? If not, …
Meditations on Astrology
"Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy: But now was turning my desire and will, even as a wheel that equally is moved, The love which moves the sun and the other stars." Dante's last line in Paradise Last December, shortly after my mother passed away, I signed up for Adam Elenbaas's Hellenistic Astrology course*. How …
Story and Fate
You can say the human heart is only make believe And I am only fighting fire with fire But you are still a victim Of the accidents you leave As sure as I'm a victim of desire Billy Joel In his book, Healing Fiction, James Hillman compares the ideas of Jung, Adler and Freud as …
The Story So Far
Case history: our public, outer life, a collection of facts, figures, biography and stats. Soul history: the private interiority of identity, memory, feeling, reflections, dreams and beliefs. In his book, Healing Fiction, James Hillman says: "We can regard history from the viewpoint of soul. By carefully collating what happened, history digests events, moving them from …
Theoria 