Cosmic Edges

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FULL MOON IN LEO

FULL MOON IN LEO

notes on moons, lunacy: alchemy, melancholia, Kristeva, Hegel, Žižek, and madness as world- and soul- forming activity, spiritual inoculation

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Emmalea Russo
Jan 25, 2024
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“Unless I discover the alchemists’ trick of turning this filth into gold, I am lost.” —Nietzsche, in a letter, 1882

“Out of what eerie galaxy do its invisible, lethargic rays reach me, pinning me down to the ground, to my bed, compelling me to silence, to renunciation?” — Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

The Extraction of the Stone of Madness or The Cure of Folly, Hieronymos Bosch, c. 1494

Today, the moon’s full in Leo. The Leo-Aquarius axis teaches us about centers and edges. What or who is in the middle? Leo, ruled by the sun, the hea(r)t. And Aquarius, nourished by Saturn’s distant ringed glimmer. How do solar figures and outsiders get made and relate? I wrote about the moon for the latest issue of Spike Art Magazine. And below, you’ll find a very long post with more notes on lunacy—-moon madness, melancholia—-as world- and soul- forming zones—-and this lit-up Leo-Aquarius axis—-faraway Saturn and the sun sun sun…..Happy full moon….

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