ASTROLOGY ////// WRITING & TEACHING ////// ABOUT COSMIC EDGES
“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.” — Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
On the fiery heels of the solar eclipse in Aries, Jupiter and Uranus conjoin in Taurus today. As Mercury retrogrades. Below, a continuation of last week’s screengrab eclipse horoscopes, with longer takes in light of this celestial event. Jupiter and Uranus meet every fourteen years, though the last time they met in Taurus was spring 1941. Jupiter amplifies whatever it’s near and Uranus is an outer planet, galactic and linked with electricity, new creations and their Promethean triumphs and sufferings.
The astrologer and analyst Liz Greene associates Uranus with the Enlightenment, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, revolutions, and the Tower card of the tarot. Sudden lightbulb moments, notions of growth, innovation, progress—charges and rushes of Uranian knowledge whir with excitation. And cost. What are the benefits? Side effects? Who steers the ship? What about our souls—?—are they buckling, growing, glowing under the electronic pulse? And how to sit with “the dead calmness and certainty” amongst so many takes, so much info?
Note: The horoscopes below, as always, aren’t prescriptive or predictive, but more like prompts—to horoscope—to mark the hour, the event, with particular words and images. I think of the screengrabs as freezeframes of sky or some thrown tarot. Cinema and astrology go together: moving images, truths and tricks. Totally serious, playful, delinquent.