Apr 17, 2010 12:11
Learning is like keeping a slow flame under the pot to gradually turn the lead of information into the gold of knowledge and the sparks of intimate fire, the flowing waters of wisdom. Mercury stationed retrograde exactly on a trine with my natal Mercury means updating at least 3 blogs in the space of one Sitting-In-Front-of-Computer meditation. I have 3 classes this term, all of them dealing in different ways with art theory extrapolated from the culture wars in France circa 2nd Empire and the egg headed Karl Marx who had lots of ideas, little perspective that didn't have directly to do with words. In his own estimation I suppose he's just a farce of Hegel, who is a farce of Descartes, all of them farcical Aristotles, who as we know from Monty Python was really a bugger with a bottle. Or was that in a bottle?
Thankfully the term's work also involves papier mâché vegetables and actually building stuff like a new identity to survive after graduation. All the head noise disrupts the practice somewhat, but that, too is an aspect of the practice. Yeah, Saturn reaches the penultimate opposition with Uranus this week too. The first happened on election day 2008. One could therefore be duped into polarized thinking where Saturn becomes l'Ancienne Régime of neocon thuggery and Uranus is the new Age des Lumières of the Progressives. Uranus is the Luciferian artist, Saturn is the Jehovadaddy Man. That kind of polarized thinking robs sentient beings of the opportunity to resonate in wholeness and extract the elixer of the zeitgeist.
Saturn is also the limitations of existing as living beings in a biosphere, Uranus the spaced out masses of people dazzled by the spectacle of technology. When the two poles recognize their projections onto one another a balancing act can take place. In astrology language you could say that this is an art of transmuting the nastiness of hard aspects. The qualities cultivated in internal martial arts can be seen as a reflection of this moving pattern of planetary forces. Saturn is standing like a nail, the health aspect of the practice, knowing your limits, discipline. Uranus is move like the wind, the energetic aspect cultivating a sense of oneself as an oscillating energetic pattern in the body of infinite space.
Speaking of which this human avatar of the wing footed one needs to go ride a bike. Too much computer time hurts.