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From a podcast about a sonnet (Sonnet 63, Shakespeare Sundays, highly recommended), to twitter, to my tattered copy of Ptolemy, to Shakespeare’s As You Like It (seen here).
Now, not unlike Shakespeare, I purloined most of this research, from a comment about the 7-year cycle, see Saturn Return, through a podcast, to questioning the author, back to Ptolemy, and from thence to As You Like It, and it is a circuitous route.
All of that, and I didn’t even cite the Sonnet 63. Which, I might add, is where it started. I’ve listened to that one podcast about it, three or four times, so far, good stuff.
Hint: don’t look up Climacteric without including “Greek” and “astrology,” as the results tend to be, well, not safe for work or young children. Just annoying for me.
However, as a notation, and from that previous work having to do with Saturn and its cycles, I favor the 7-year cycle, especially punctuated with Saturn at its conjunction point, roughly a 28-year cycle, so that means, Saturn Return at 28 then 56, with the last piece of that second event falling into place at 63. Years are approximate and in various charts vary.
My first real astrology teachers insisted that Saturn was a 28 (and a half) year cycle. Hung me up when I was looking art charts in old Austin and seeing Saturn Returns at age 31.
However, for Greek Astrology, let’s echo back to the 7-year cycle, and how that does line up, rather nicely, with Saturn and its cycles. Not perfectly, but close enough.
I wanted to delve deeper into the 7-year cycles, as I understand them, disagreeing with that old Greek text, which, I might add, I couldn’t locate quickly, but I did have the Ptolemy on my shelf. Looked that one up and it does correspond with Jacques’ speech in As You Like It.
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Troilus and Cressida (V.ii.34)
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Amid the panic and potential pandemic news, working forward, little bit at a time?
Little book of astrology transits
Could be “Kramer Wetzel’s Little Book of Astrology Transits,” and that’s a long way from its original title, “Dramatic Irony.”
Best guess is that I should think about the term, “Dramatic Irony” as a working title. I spent months workshopping the title, hours that might have been better spent wrestling the text itself, but that, in and of itself, has proven to be an onerous chore, at best.
In its original format, it was the text for the report writer, came with an early version of the software — astrology calculation software I used for close to 30 years, I think? Pretty close. Not quite. Opted out of keeping up.
When the software shop closed, and my systems all updated, I was left with text and not much else.
However, I still had the backbone, and I have it in three or four variations, the text that was with the report writer, more keyword text, close to 30 years ago, then, the first edited version I used, my words, their backbone.
Over the years, though, I would dip back into the text itself, and I would edit material as I went along. Early version of what I suggest about the dreaded Saturn Return.
The material — I’ve recently taken one last hard, close look at material, making sure there are no copyright infringements, no plagiarism, nothing too close to anything else that I know.
ISBN: 9781508819288
Seeing it in draft form, and the sad part, to me, I was correcting a simple textual mistake before the first advance copy got to me. Then I have to reorder some of the material, just, you know, to do it correctly.
It was simply a receipt from a place in Austin, dated 1.23.04 — makes that data 16 years old.
Fell out of a disk, with just a little extra “quarantine time” on my hands, I started sorting through old stacks and shelves of CDs. Out of one came that receipt. No idea if it was mine or someone else. I doubt I would’ve spent that much, but the used stuff, that was always interesting.
The used CDs are usually more interesting. If only they could tell their stories?
Fun, for me, this whole “work from home” event? Yeah, not new.
The location, I’m unsure if Cheapo Disks is still there, but I always thought they needed a plaque, original Whole Foods location — when it was a little hippie grocery thing.
Cheapo
The receipt itself was outlined in the shape of the CD from its case.
Trailer parks along the river were still — inexpensive — low rent.
Part of that is what made Austin what it is, part of that is merely history. Part of that shows the ineffable, inevitable drift of change, too — music is hardly sold as tangible object anymore.
“Shelter in place.”
Not sure, how this shows up. Locally, everything is closed, and it looked like there was 30-day mandatory order, closing all “non-essential” businesses.
The Hermit card, and in this case, I think I prefer the more common image from the Rider-Waite deck, which might be public domain, but even in isolation? I am unwilling to and look.
Streamlining it, over the years, I devolved and defaulted to just one type of tarot deck, and that’s obviously the source of the images.
In the more common imagery, the hermit carries the lantern in front of him, lighting the way, some would say, it burns with the light of the lord, but this imagery is a little different.
That’s Virgo (symbol), and Cerberus, the hound of hell, guarding to make sure the dead don’t leave hell. However, in another iteration, it’s that light of the lord, in the form of the lantern, keeping that dog at bay.
Hermit
I keep looking for clues, but I can’t locate one, as to the astrological cause and solution to the current panic. Panic that isn’t all without foundation, no, that’s not it, but is the reaction as dramatic as need be?
Hermit