ASTROLOGY & TAROT READINGS
ALCHEMY OF THE WORD: A CLASS ON ALCHEMY AND THE PLANETS, SIGN UP BY DECEMBER 31
“But enchantment asks us to be of one body with the world…” (Anne Dufourmantelle)
”As an enchanted lover: he magically re-creates the episode of the enchantment, that moment when he was first transfixed by the Image. This blue garment imprisons him so effectively that the world around him vanishes…” (Roland Barthes)
The word kingdom.
The word world.
The word invisible.
The word glimmering.
The word dress.
The word becomes flesh or garment in an instant teeming with sea green meaning. There’s a light—-neither cosmic nor electric—-blinking into the distance, so drab its glitzy.
Who can say what Neptune, now moving direct after spending all summer and fall in retrograde, is?
Some years ago, a bride, wanting to be photographed again, one more time, in her wedding dress, drowned in the river into which she stepped. The water seeped, crept up and into the gown—-gradually weighing it, then her, down. The dress was too heavy, they said.
Neptune presides over unknowable oceans. There’s Hesiod’s hymn to Poseidon, which goes, “the shaker of the land and of the sea unharvested; God of the deep who holdeth Helicon and wide Ægæ. A double meed of honour have the Gods given thee, O Shaker of the Earth, to be tamer of horses and saviour of ships. Hail Prince, thou Girdler of the Earth—-”
There is shaking, then, and weight and enchantment—the astrologer Dane Rudhyar called Neptune the master of ecstasy. More frocks—-as Rudhyar also describes the robe of glory and the garment of christ, when speaking about Neptune’s modes
robes and cloaks and gowns that slurp up their environments and with them, us
Glamour comes from enchantment, magic, occulted moments of sacerdotal and slippery iridescence, sirens singing into mermaid tails, turquoise and barely there…