Eclipse Ecstasy
Lunar Eclipse in Libra: Moon-struck, moon shapes, hysteria
ASTROLOGY ////// WRITING & TEACHING
Today, a long unwieldy post for paid subscribers. Written early this morning on and under the influence of this eclipse. Also on: moon shapes, hysteria, bodily limits, images, spectatorship, and other celestial and earthly issues. Happy lunar eclipse in Libra.
“In the course of many weeks I succeeded, very gradually, in persuading her to speak. After overcoming many resistances, she told me that she had lived on the moon.” — C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems. As moonminded as Carl Jung was he was probably right about that.” — Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
"Numbers of all diseased, all maladies
Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms
Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds,
Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs,
Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs,
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy
And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy…” — Milton, Paradise Lost
Headless, arrested, and arched into moons—what happens to bodies when taken to a limit? When, in struggling to contend with an energy—lit—thus convulse, contort? What about the moon when full, i.e. when filled with the light of the sun? Body suspended, off grid, hanging by threads. Metallic, at once restless and at rest. Crucially, we can see ourselves, distorted and smooth, in the body of the polished hystero-arch moon…