one the bride
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The Bride
Hello beautiful planet ...
Thales 625-545
Anaximenes 585-525
Hereclites550-450
Empedocles493-433
(Metaphysics. 983 b20),
... and here are some Greeks wondering what she is made of. Empedocles, ‘the mediator’, came up with the final decision: She is, he said, made of Earth and Air and Fire and Water.
LOOK! Here is David Bowman, a modern scientist, agreeing!
‘.. the Greeks had it right with their classification of fire, air,
earth, and water …’
The World on Fire ( New Scientist, Oct 10, 2009)
By Shakespeare’s era the idea of The Four Elements
had blossomed into a descriptive language.
Shakespeare is using this language to write these spectacular sonnets.
In sonnets 44 and 45 he equates flesh with Earth and Water, Air with thought, and
Fire with desire.
Edition printed in London in 1609.
You can see that the idea of the Four Elements had developed to symbolises functions of consciousness that supply our brains with the information we need to construct and respond to our world.
We connect to Earth, the matter upon which life is based, through our SENSES. Water supplies us with FEELINGS. The blood pumping around the body responds to pleasure and pain. Through our ears we ‘feel’ sound waves and respond to them emotionally. BANG ... If I make a sudden loud noise behind you, you will jump, this is a feeling called ‘surprise’. These two make up Shakespeare’s ‘flesh’. Oh heavy tears! Fire defines our ability to acquire information from light. Light waves project pictures into our brains through our eyes; we soon acquire an archive of recognisable images through which we immediately comprehend what we see: this is called INTUITION. Then we THINK about things. Thinking uses huge quantities of oxygen - perhaps that is why thinking is correlated with Air.
It is called The Anima Mundi.
Anima is ‘female’ meaning ‘soul’; Mundi means ‘world’.
Jung was seriously interested in symbolic languages. He called the symbols ‘archetypes’. In his book Aion he published this ancient diagram in which each
of the four quarters of the circle represent one of the four elements.
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In her book Relating, Liz, a Jungian, has reworked the Anima Mundi to include the result of mixing two elements together. I need to boil some water to make a cup of tea. Oh yes ... I need ‘hot water’. Hot water is intuitive feeling.
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Liz is also an astrologer. Astrological symbolism draws deeply on the idea of the four elements.
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are practical and down to Earth.
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, the Air signs, are rational and intellectual.
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In her book, Relating, Liz writes about the three Air signs, the three Water signs, the three Fire signs and the three Earth signs.
But LOOK ... There are three very different expressions of each of these elements on Liz’s model.
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I had often wondered why Pisces was described as intuitive-feeling when Pisces is a water sign and intuition is fire.Is this a good position for Pisces?
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How could I put dry, highly structured, business-like Capricorn anywhere but here, in Empiric Thinking. Here this serious, responsible energy can use the thinking apparatus to work out what it needs in order to achieve a position of authority in the social order.
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Six lines = I ChingI am an I Ching master. How can I fail to notice the six lines of an I CHING hexagram???
The Receptive Earth The Creative Heaven SIX NEGATIVE/YIN
THIS SIDESIX POSITIVE/YANG
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I Ching hexagrams are read from the bottom up. A hexagram grows like a flower.
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If this is the same for this new model what have we got going on at the roots . What do we need if we want
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What about a warm, wet, womb? In astrology Pisces the 12th sign signifies the 12th house – the house that means womb.
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Out of the Source comes Life. Yes ... It does.
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This is the Minkowski space-time diagram – between the past and the future is ‘The Present’. On the Anima Mundi this is a very important position. We call this NOW.
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WORK creates our WEALTH. Not just wealth in the form of money, but also as ‘identity’, our position in the group.
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You can think of Saturn as the hard disk upon which we store information, but information needs editing.
Uranus is a powerful disruptive force. Just what we need.
‘The astrological Uranus is perceived as being perpetually engaged in a struggle with Saturn Kronos, aiming to break restricting barriers. …This battle of the gods is an innate living pattern in all our psyches …’
‘As Chronos castrated Ouranus, so astrologically does Saturn cut off the creative impulse and potency of Ouranus. This image encapsulates the basic war in all our psyches’.
Howard Sasportas The Gods of
Change.
Haydn Paul Revolutionary
Spirit.
Here’s what two great astrologers have to say.
(The I Ching calls the top lines, fighting dragons.)
The River of Life?
Chronos eats his children and returns them to the Source.
Is this what they call ...
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Six negative YIN (physical/material) on the left and six positive YANG (creative/mental) on the right.
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21 + 21 = 42 !!!!
And look again ... all the middle numbers add up to 9, and if you add up the outer positions they add up to 42.
It took DEEP THOUGHT millennia to work this out. ...... Oh! Perhaps we shouldn’t be too cocky – Um -
How long has it taken us?
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GC chartDiscovery date18 Dec1984
I thought astrologers might be interested in this. The Sun is conjunct
Galactic Centre?
Moon Opp Moon 0 00' Sun Tri Sun 0°55' Mer Tri Mer 4°05‘Ven SSx Ven 1°24'Mar Tri Mar 0°47'Jup Qnx Jup 0°08'Sat Opp Sat 3°53'Nep Sqr Nep 3°12'Plu Sqr Plu 0°34'Chir Sqr Chir 3°65’Cer Sxt Cer 0°10' N Sat/Ur Conjunct T North Node
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And this is my own chart showing thetransits on that fateful day.
HELP!I NEED A
MATE
It’s OK lovely planet: We have found your mate.
Presentation Two, The Groom,
will introduceThe Creative Heaven. The Creative Heaven is The Receptive Earth’s,
(The Bride’s), magnificent cosmic
partner. Together they give birth to Intelligent
Life, introduced in Part Three. That’s US
isn’t it?