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LUXLAPIS NEWSLETTER FULL MOON [*]
Friday, 09 December 2011
“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.”
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Dear Friends,
I have been saying to my ‘self’ that the various thematic streams of my life, are starting to coalesce [see HERE]. We sail through life, from birth to death. Life itself is hopefully an onward progression – we should never stop learning . . . from the first breath, right up to the last breath and beyond . . . if you believe in a ‘beyond.’ Besides the coalescence, there has been intensification, both on the global, as well as the personal level. Change is certainly in the air. Someone, called Chris Hedges: somewhere on Facebook, in the context of the Occupy Wall Street Movement wrote:
"Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share."
And the great ecofeminist Susan Griffin posted these words on her FB wall:
“We are fighting for our lives and the quality of our lives right now. The survival of the earth and democracy are both on the line.”
Brilliant words, qualifying all the material shared previously on the Uranus/Saturn Confrontation. It is in this sense, that I see the seamless blending of the Esoteric/Esoteric in my life, and in patterns emerging. The network continues to grow, with stimulating and nourishing discourse on a wide spectrum of subjects. I am still experimenting with this new automated Newsletter format – at the top are some subject headings which by a click will take you to that particular section within the body of the Newsletter.
This will be short & sweet, with richer, more detailed missives some time in the future.
Yours sincerely
Samten de Wet
ASTROLOGY
Kasak, Enn, Ancient Astrology as a Common Root for Science and Pseudo-Science, Folklore Vol. 15, Tartu 2000. [WEB]
Malter, Henry, Personifications of Soul and Body. A Study in Judaeo-Arabic Literature, The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr., 1912), pp. 453-479
“The subject is closely connected with the general idea that the universe and man are parallel; that whatever is found in the world without, in the macrocosm, is reflected or finds its counterpart also in the man, the microscosm. This doctrine is very old, being traceable not only to Pythagoras and Plato, but also to the oldest Babylonian literature. The Talmuds and Midrashim afford numerous instances of analogies between parts of the universe and of the human body; . . . “
Richard L. Hunter, Cambridge, Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the Phaenomena of Aratus
Gothic Spanish-suited cards – World of Playing Cards
Some of my research for Simon Wintle is published here.
A.E. Waite ESOTERIC TAROT AT BRITISH MUSEUM
93 books dealing with Todtentanz – The Dance of Death -useful for tracing influences on Arcanum 13 – The Reaper – Death . .
This is a vast collection where one can download ENTIRE – decks – THE IBIS DECK – IS SOMEWHERE ON THIS PAGE -
One of the great & rather unknown Kabbalist visionaries.
Alchemy Collection at The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Karen-Claire Voss – The Tabula Smaragdina Revisited
ANCIENT EGYPT & ARABIC HERMETICA
Dr. Okasha El Daly, in his ground breaking work, [various books & papers available] – opens a new perspective on Cleopatra, and other Arabic women mystics, alchemists &c. I have often thought that the ‘asps’ are really a code of Cleopatra’s Hermetic nature. El Daly elaborates on her position as an Initiate:
David Ulansey, Mithras and the Hypercosmic Sun
Societas Occulta Islamica is an academic society devoted to the study of the arcana and esoterica of Islamicate Civilization. The obscure theurgy associated with the latter is grounded in the most recondite of oriental doctrines.
Review THE MUSLIM JESUS by Tarif Khalidi Books The Guardian
Chodkiewicz, Michel. The Vision of God, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, Vol, 14, 1993. [WEB]
Arundhati Roy: "The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution" | Truthout – Friday, 02 December 2011
Wednesday 30 November 2011 – by: Arun Gupta, The Guardian UK
The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning.
Nobel Women’s Initiative – No to nuclear power Nobel Peace Laureates to world leaders – Media Release Nobel Women’s Initiative
Heleanor B. Feltham, “Justinian and the International Silk Trade”, Sino-Platonic Papers, 194 (November, 2009)
Julianna Lees image Collection of Ancient textiles from the East in Western churches & museums. Exquisite . . .
CODEX SERAPHINIANUS – a psychedelic Fantasy now available for download as a .pdf [rather large file]
Ketubah, marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, 20th of Menahem 5671 [1911 August 14], Bombay, India
YANTRA – Mahavidya Yantra
LOGORAMA and HERE @ VIMEO
Mel Frykberg – Gaza’s Children Dare to Dream
Larry Dossey – Chaos and Disorder: Why We Need Them
ARAS – The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism is a pictorial and written archive of mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history.
EMAIL: luxlapis
CELL: 083. 4348583
Coalesce: verb come or bring together to form one mass or whole: the puddles had coalesced into shallow streams. DERIVATIVES: coalescence noun. coalescent adjective. ORIGIN : C16: from Latin coalescere, from co- + alescere ‘grow up’.
FEEDBACK FROM: GLOBAL CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION – URANUS & THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE in THE TAROT & ASTROLOGY [Talk @ Booklet]
To further share & circulate ideas – here are some of the responses to the article. I am deeply grateful for the feedback.
* You’re absolutely right, and so is Tarnas (who has recently been staying with me) and the I-Ching. The problem is how to see the actual format that the changes will involve. The financial format for example. How do we give people the possibility of managing their hard-earned money in the way they would like to see it managed. Democracies (the US, UK) don’t really achieve this because finance is all tied into the markets, the banks, debt and what governments think this money should be spent on – such as armaments and giving it to oppressive regimes which in turn buy more armaments (Bahrein) with which they control their own people. It is very difficult to see how radical change in this field could come about. Which I-Ching translation were you using? I am nearly finished my book, the Dream of the Cosmos. love, Anne Baring
* Thank you Samten, I love it! Christina Bryer
* Resonance and synchronicity. The wheel is turning. Fire burning. ushka
* Fascinating Stuff, Samten! Alix Verrips
* Thanks Samten! Now we need movers and shakers Love Savi Veerapan
* Very good! Thank you Lesley Manim
* Thanks Samten…very interesting view of very interesting times!!! Hope you are well, Love Vheke Kruger
* Thank you Samten – I loved reading this cosmic view of where we are in time and space and how to go forward into the future! Lots of love Jenny Wyeth
* Thank you Samten – I have been passing through an astrological starfield of considerable negative energy and wondering what it is all for – i know ultimately it is always for change and growth – but that doesn’t ease the immediate pain and suffering. These words then bring great hope. Thank you again. Many Blessings! Marco
* That was a very beautiful read, Samten. Thank you. Linda Proud
* Thank you Samten for sharing this. Much love Melissa Krige
* Thank you for this Samten…Funny thing that us humans don’t change until the shit hits the fan….we have reached the tipping point with the climate and extreme degradation of natural resources. I see there is an "occupy" movement trying to get going in Cape Town and Joburg….not sure if South Africans are ready to become the activists we all need to be now. Jeunesse Park
* Thanks Samten, A thought provoking message. Like particularly the reading of the hexagram. with metta and best wishes, shanti
* Really nice e-mail, Samten. When do we get to meet up again, I wonder? Sybille Nagel
* Thanks for your analysis of the currents helping to produce change. Rene Wadlow
* Hi, You may be right. I note the I Ching quote: "the old is discarded… [not
"transformed"]… and the new is introduced". Reminds me of a Buckminister Fuller quote: to change a present reality you must propose a new reality that makes the present one redundant.
Regards, Rod Gurzynski
* Thanks for the news and up date and it is the dawning of the age of Aquarius BUT there needs a huge cleanout of population for the space and resources to open up exactly like it did after the black death there was SPACE and art ,farming church building all blossomed Regards David Cowin
* Dear Samten, I loved this email from you and it is very interesting this Occupy Wall Street movement. I think this could well be the groundswell in the western world of the masses demanding revolutionary change from this economic system that has impoverished millions and enriched a few… Gary Cousins
* very insightful, thanks, Leigh
* Hello hello, Thanks for sending this. It is exactly what my sense of this time is as well. About 25 years ago I began learning about the Mayans and about their ideas for this era and, according to whatever it was I was reading, it described the same thing that you do here. It has seemed to me that, more recently, a sort of simpleminded Apocolyptomania was created out of the idea of this "shift", made media-worthy and extreme. But! In that fearful interpretation the directions that have an enhanced opportunity to evolve now are so clearly delineated, so I try to understand it that way and not get so annoyed! The lucky thing for me, back in my early Mayan days, was that it introduced the idea of a crisis that requires evolution, and that the scale and profundity of the crisis is essential to the scale and profundity of the change. All that led me to the I Ching somehow and, when I read your piece, I wondered if you know the books of Carol Anthony. She wrote an extraordinary book where she and a colleague asked the I Ching thousands of questions, basically asking it to define its terms. You can easily find her on the internet, she has a website. I have wondered before if you knew her work. Thanks again, I am grateful to you for the things you share. Ruthie Bosch
* I can’t tell you the pleasure that your last communication gave me. It is very reassuring to me that you have at last got some mite of the recognition you deserve after a life of enlightening and enriching the lives of so many others. Daragh
Some Fragments
Chodkiewicz, Michel. The Vision of God, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, Vol, 14, 1993. [WEB]
Kasak, Enn, Ancient Astrology as a Common Root for Science and Pseudo-Science, Folklore Vol. 15, Tartu 2000.
Malter, Henry, Personifications of Soul and Body. A Study in Judaeo-Arabic Literature, The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr., 1912), pp. 453-479
“The subject is closely connected with the general idea that the universe and man are parallel; that whatever is found irt the world without, in the macrocosm, is reflected or finds its counterpart also in the man, the microscosm. This doctrine is very old, being traceable not only to Pythagoras and Plato, but also to the oldest Babylonian lilterature. The Talmuds and Midrashim afford numerous instances of analogies between parts of the universe and of the human body; . . . “
Gothic Spanish-suited cards – World of Playing Cards
A.E. Waite ESOTERIC TAROT AT BRITISH MUSEUM
One of the great & rather unknown Kabbalist visionaries.
Alchemy Collection at The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Karen-Claire Voss – The Tabula Smaragdina Revisited
A Few Full Moon Words
LUXLAPIS PROJECT NEWSLETTER
FULL MOON
11th November 2011
Dear Friends,
While reading a book on the Templars, I came across this beautiful piece:
“ . . . the researcher must be willing to throw a stone into the pond of knowledge and to follow to their limits the rings that spread from its point of contact with the water, for these waves consist of so many other forms of knowledge that may have been forgotten.
Juan Garcia Atienza, The Knights Templar in the Golden Age of Spain. Their Hidden History on the Iberian Peninsula, Destiny Books/Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2006, p.9.
And then:
“Faith is an ever-widening pool of clarity, fed with springs beyond the margin of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day.
And:
“There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one’s brain like barnacles of a boat.”
Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote.
And:
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare.
And:
"Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spice or ashes. Spend, therefore, these fleeting moments on earth as Nature would have you spend them, and then go to your rest with a good grace, as an olive falls in its season, with a blessing for the earth that bore it and a thanks-giving to the tree that gave it life."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Translated by Maxwell Staniforth.
Food for thought! This is the first of the new style automated Newsletter – so I am just trying the system out. There has been a great intensification of Work – a widening of the Network of Friends, and all sorts of exciting Projects are bouncing about. I promise to get everything into some shape for a proper Report – in the meanwhile, this is just an Experimental Greeting.
Yours Sincerely Samten [ Rember in this .html format, all links are in BLUE]
2011 was the Centenary Year for the Gothic writer: MERVYN PEAKE.
And here is an excellent Blog on ALLEN GINSBERG
The ARAS ARCHIVE is an excellent resource – which could be made available via the Jung Library – but an annual subscription is necessary – perhaps for Jungian Institutions . . . There is also an excellent ARAS FACEBOOK PAGE HERE where archetypal pictures are posted. [ARAS Publications in the Jung Library, Cape
Town]Please note: On FACEBOOK – I use the alias Lily Beard.
“A writer
Imaginal Fecundity
This short quote by James Hillman can be applied to the Tarot:
“To see the archetypal in an image is thus not a hermeneutic move. It is an imagistic move. We amplify an image by means of myth in order not to find its archetypal meaning but in order to feed it with further images that increase its volume and depth and release its fecundity.” [1]
In context, this amplification by Jules Cashford: [2]
“It is impossible to define Imagination since the only definition we can make is that we are far from it when we talk about it. It is perhaps a power so ultimate that only its own numinous images can call it forth, as though we have, as it were, to ask the Imagination to imagine itself. We might say that whenever there is numinosity – a coming alive of divine presence – literally, the “nod” or “beckoning” of a god – whenever an image becomes translucent to a reality beyond itself, we are in the presence of Imagination. The images that come towards us – as divinities, daimons, soul-birds, angels, geniuses, muses – are all figures who bring messages from afar or beyond, from the heights or the depths – the realms where consciousness may not go, yet on which it rests and through which it grows. “Wisdom first speaks in images,” W. B. Yeats, says [3].”
[1] J. Hillman, Typologies 37-8, in The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire, ed. T. Moore, London: Routledge, 1990, p.60. This quote from” Angela Voss, A methodology of the Imagination, Eye of the Heart: A Journal of Traditional Wisdom, 3, 2009. [Available
Online]
[2] Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Messenger, ARAS Connections, Issue 3, 2011 (Available Online at the ARAS site.
[3] Yeats, W.B. Essays and Introductions, The Macmillan Press, 1961, London, p. 95.
Death & Transformation
In the Sacred Tarot, Arcanum 13 is pictured as a skeleton, with the Keywords of Death & Transformation. When this card appears in a reading, there is usually a certainly amount of consternation from the person receiving the reading. As part of the process of gathering cross-cultural references to this Arcanum, I think this piece by Trungpa Rinpoche adds a great deal to a wider perspective on the Nature of Arcanum 13.
STUDENT: Could you discuss what it is that reincarnates, especially in relation to the Theravadin doctrine of anatman, egolessness?
TRUNGPA RINPOCHE: Well, from the point of view of anatman, nothing reincarnates. It is more of a rebirth process rather than reincarnation. The idea of reincarnation is that a solid, living quality is being passed on to the next being. It is the idea of some solid substance being passed on. But in this case, it’s more of a rebirth. You see, something continues, but at the same time, noting continues. In a sense we’re like a running stream. You could say, such and such a river, such and such a stream. It has a name, but if you examine it carefully, that river you named three hundred years ago isn’t there at all: it is completely different, changing, passing all the time. It is transforming from one aspect to another. That complete transformation makes it possible to take rebirth. If one thing continued all the time there would be no possibilities for taking rebirth and evolving into another situation. It is the change which is important in terms of rebirth, rather than one thing continuing.
Chögyam Trungpa, Transcending Madness. The Experience of the Six Bardos, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1992, p. 20.
Fragments
I keep on building massive collections on interesting websites and links, which I used to share in a newsletter. Here are a few morsels from the:
Smorgasbord: noun a range of open sandwiches and savoury delicacies served as hors d’oeuvres or a buffet. ORIGIN: Swedish, from smörgås ‘(slice of) bread and butter’ + bord ‘table’.
An Esoteric Quest for Ancient Alexandria
12th – 17th June, 2011 Alexandria, Egypt.
Timothy Scott, Remarks on the universal symbolism of the number 72
As I often note, the interface between the esoteric, culture and science is bearing much fruit at the moment.
Indra’s Net: Alchemy and Chaos Theory as Templates for Transformation | Reality Sandwich
REALITY SANDWICH: Featureteaser: In the age‑old image of the uroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man
MAGIC
Bailey, Michael D – The Meanings of Magic, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft Journal, No.1 Online at Project Muse.
Gerald Schueler – Chaos and the Psychological Symbolism of the Tarot
THE MYSTIC TOWER – This intricate allegory is included in Fairfax Cartwright’s The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King.”
Dr. Robert O’Neill, Iconology of the Tarot Cards
Bosch & The Tarot
Bohumil Vurm, Jheronimus Bosch and the Symbolism of Tarot Cards
Bohumil Vurm is the Chairman of the board of the Hieronymus Foundation (Czech Republic) which is devoted to the promotion of the work of Hieronymus Bosch. Most prestigious project of the Foundation to date was the restoration of the famous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights in cooperation with the Prado Museum, Madrid, during 1998—1999. He was one of the originators of the idea of the international exhibition on Hieronymus Bosch which took place in the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum as a part of the project Rotterdam — European City of Culture 2001 .
See also: BOSCH ART CENTRE
Tara Prayer
This Tara Prayer was performed by Karma Samten Puntsok [Andre de Wet] in New York, August 1976 at the home of Congressman Bingham.
Guest of honour was Richard Alpert [Baba Ram Das]. NOW ONLINE HERE:
I have uploaded: PART 1 – [25.2 MB] – a large file for those without fast broadband. Right click: and SAVE AS to download.
PART 2 [Will be uploaded soon!]
The Text is available online here:
THE MANDALA OFFERING PRAYER OF DOLMA,
THE MOTHER OF COMPASSION
(In the green form, which symbolizes the Perfection of Wisdom.)
Translated by Anila (Sister) K.T. Khechog Palmo, Lama Karma Thinley and Sresmo Chimey Wangmo, Dalhousie, India (HP) in 1967.
The two files are in mp3 format
Notes from A Work In Progress
Monday, February 14, 2011
The theme the I Ching suggests for 2011, is:
"The old is discarded and the new is introduced. Both measures accord with the time; therefore no harm results. Societies of people sharing the same views are formed. But since these groups come together in full public knowledge and are in harmony with the time, all selfish separatist tendencies are excluded, and no mistake is made."
The I Ching. Fu / Return (The Turning Point)
This particular piece of hexagramatic wisdom, has occurred so many times in the past years, that I have considered adopting it as my Mantra. But there is work to be done: What is the Old? In classical astrology, Saturn rules Old Age, but it this sense, the ‘old’ really means calcified, outdated habits, geriatric clinging to power, the obstructing force of Saturn and so forth.
What is the New? Uranus represents in action patterns, invention, deviation from the norm, revolutions, impermanence and sudden change – but essentially Uranian is the sense of creativity as a form of renewal, both social and individual. So, Uranus, The Wheel of Fortune is an apt image for ‘The New.”
Then, how do we go about discarding? The Oxford Dictionary helps us by defining: discard as “…to get rid of (something) as no longer useful or desirable.” For example, President Mubarak of Egypt. And corrupt politicians in general. And nuclear weapons. &c. &c.
How do we form these “societies?” The I Ching was written thousands of years before the Internet and Facebook, thus our means to organize, and to form alignments with enlightened friends and other groups, is now at a higher level than previously. Example: how Facebook was used an as organizational tool in both Tunisia and Egypt.
How do we access Full Public Knowledge? This is a thorny question, and the most difficult to put into effect for the simple reason that the “Old’ power channels of communication still have great control. For example the media Baron Rupert Murdoch throwing his media weight behind the right-wing Tea Party in America and the effect it had on the mid-term election. Forces bent on subverting and obstructing moves towards social enlightenment can also avail themselves of the New Media, even though their print base may be withering.
What are the ‘selfish separatist tendencies’? We know these tendencies very well. The metaphor here, is small fish splashing around in small puddles, which are drying up from global warming. The whales make hardly a ripple in the oceans. The word ‘separatist’ is of course, no more and no less than ‘apartheid’. And somewhere along the evolutionary line, we have to agree that the outdated concepts of the various fundamentalism are destined for the trash can of history. And so on. In a deeply metaphysical modality – there is an idea transmitted of: “The Great Heresy of Separateness.” This perfectly qualifies Saturn, that is to say: “Divine & Rule.” Let us examine a piece of writing by James Hillman in this context:
“Science fosters the separations, the exile; [… ] Science, its root scire, to know has a further root in Greek, schizo (cleft, splinter, separation) and further, Sanscrit chyati (divides). Instead of science, why not séance [. .to . ] invoke our common ancestor? Séance is defined by the dictionary as a meeting of a learned society and also a meeting that attempts to connect with the dead. Jung’s expansive vision in hospital took him to the edge of death. Return to life meant divisions, separations: “the grey world with its boxes.”But there are other ways out of the box, other ways for the grey world to discover a blue vision.” [1]
It is interesting, in this ‘reading of “Séance” “ . . as a meeting of a learned society. . . ” is almost identical to the I Ching’s “Societies of people sharing the same views are formed..” And Hillman suggests that the division, separations, we have associated with the selfish, separatists patterns of Saturn, can be replaced by a ‘Blue Vision.’ Salvador Dali also sees the future as ‘ Blue’:
"The colour of the real cultural revolution is no longer red, but amethyst, bringing to mind, air, sky and fluidity. It is the colour that corresponds to the changing of the world era. The Age of Aquarius, the ruling sign of the next millennium, will see the disappearance of violence and bloodshed. We have assassinated Pisces the Fish (God is dead! and it’s blood will colour the sea blue, giving the waves this amethyst colour."
Beautiful words. But there is a further path to follow in this exploration. Hillman uses ‘séance’ in the sense of invoking our common ancestors. The spiritual richness of the ancestral realm, is a deep aspect of African religion, and a layer of imaginal reality that we [speaking as a European] have ignored at our peril. In Greek Mythology, this is the Realm of Pluto – and in a vulgar correspondence, it is also qualified as the ‘Collective Unconsciousness.’ This Realm of Being transcends the labels of race, gender and class -
Richard Tarnas has identified interest with the collective/ancestral/Plutonic realm, this with great accuracy:
“Public awareness of various esoteric, mystical, meditative, gnostic, mythic, archetypal, and imaginative discourses entered more pervasively into the collective psyche, disseminated by the popular media . . “
This could be linked to the emergence of Depth Psychology, as evidenced in the work of C.G. Jung, and the Jungian School in general. But the subject needs a more exhaustive investigation. Two Poets, Robert Bly and Kathleen Raine, both pleaded for a renewed ‘verticality’ to balance the ‘horizontalism’ of mass materialism. The very nature of Alchemy, which is Plutonic, suggests that we have to dig deep into the ancestral earth, to encounter the Gaian richness. The Plutonic Realm is also to be imagined as an infinite Treasure House of Stored Seeds, or Potentialities. Perhaps perpetually guarded by the Saturnine Dragon. The obstructers and obstructions, are also there for a purpose, for Saturn, is Kronos – Time, and the suggestions embedded in the Saturn – Pluto – Uranus astrological alignments are, that the time is right.
For what? The I Ching , answered that universal question with the Hexagram: Fu / Return (The Turning Point).
It is clear to me, that a Turning Point, is none other than The Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot, and Uranus in astrology.
We should continue racking our brains for creative solutions to these questions . . . while at the same time, in a schizophrenic, [apartheid] sense – try to cope with the flood of ideas, as to what may be done to alleviate the sufferings of the planet, and sentient beings, in both a collective and individual sense . . . and from the perspective of starting at my own front door, though technically, I do not own a front door.
Love and Peace
Samten
William Willeford:
“There have been many works of imagination with the theme of “Ubi sunt . . . “?
In which we follow the great ones of the earth as they yield to the common fate of death; we look at the point where they left us and try to find in the dust and ashes a trace of their light.
We do not ponder about fools in this way.” [2]
NOTES
[1] James Hillman, The Azure Vault, Lecture given at the XVI International Congress on Analytical Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, September 2004. http://www.adepac.org/Ingles/IP01-7.htm
[2] William Willeford, The Fool and His Sceptre. A Study in Clowns, and Jesters and Their Audience, Northwestern University Press, 1986, p.4.
Invitation to The Pisces Imaginarium
The Piscean Imaginarium
SAMTEN DE WET
Artist and 60’s survivor, ex-Buddhist monk, investigator of cultural & esoteric traditions & the History & Symbolism of the Tarot.
According to revered opinion Cape Town is ruled by Pisces. It is suggested that an amplification of this Sign, would have creative ramifications on the Inner & Outer, Individual & Collective social fabric of the city. This Illustrated talk consists of explorations of the archetypal material, and some speculations on the tripartition of the psyche in Piscean/Neptunian Astrological & Tarot symbolism . . . The title of the Talk honours the new Terry Gilliam film, “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,’ which features the Tarot image of Pisces, The Hanged Man . . . . . .
CAPE ASTROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Thursday 19th August,
Ikhaya Lodge, Dunkley Square, Cape Town.
6.30 p.m. for 7 p.m.
The Talk will be published and available for sale. Please RSVP if you are attending – or if not, whether you would like a copy reserved for yourself. Drinks, food, snacks etc are all available both before and after the talk. EMAIL
