Some of these tribes, I think that loosely knit society of roamers and warriors in general, was to my mind surely the healthiest species of humanity that ever lived. Only the ancient Greeks and some of these other tribes were in the regions of that health; the Germans of the Middle Ages are perhaps the least healthy of all humans Ive studied - the society that was least benefitted by Christianity, true "wild men"; their taming was the beginning of a very dangerous project nature is now reaping the fruits of, after having nearly perished of her own ruthlessness. What doesn't kill her makes her stronger, I suppose. Not all of us, it doesn't - life in a dungeon has rarely emboldened someone. Nelson Mandela, but that is speaking of exceptions to many rules. Ive seen these German inventions in a really scary castle when I was living in Austria, the most magical place - no torture devices, it was rather the desperate intricacies of their frivolities that scared me. They were crafty like Dwarves, trying desperately to be Elves.
Yeah, Nietzsche forced me, with the help of the only Nietzsche students I could find online that had some fire to them, to engage the most unpleasant aspects of psychology - genealogy. I had to confront the fact of my Jewish heritage on the harshest terms - - I was bound to own up to the very reason that my ancestors have been persecuted - and that has led, dangerously for my personality, also to the owning up also of the reason they managed to survive; their capacity to turn malice inflicted on them into an asset against their despotic oppressors. Christianity itself could be explained in these terms, if we want to be cynical and innocent at once; as a contemptible, otherworldly ghostly offshoot of a misguided claim to Judaeic priesthood working to beat down the Romans who violated the temple. I don't think any Jew intended for this, because the Orthodox (actual Jews, living by the Talmud, the ever evolving interpretation of the Torah, as I understand from Chaim Potok, Brooklynese Chasidim do it through Kabbalistic alchemy, but probably others through natural adaption to the threats and hopes of the times) loathe the idea of such a emotional and sado-erotic tomfoolery substituting for the emanation of Atziluth - it is too passive, too... fleshy... Jews separate dairy and meat, let alone that they would hang a naked crucified man in their house, and their persecution did continue under Christian times - but nonetheless all the warlike tribes tamed themselves, began to relate positively to Jerusalem, and allowed Jews to rise in their ranks. Even to attain PM ship in Britain, which no doubt contributed to the creation of the state of Israel. I try to see all this aside from good and evil (not "beyond" them, that is not at all what "Jehnseits" means); to see what old and tested global powers want to happen, rather than what I want to happen. An arc of will some 3000 years which is about to be resolved. The definitive victory, security of that will qua arc, narrative, was the creation of the state of Israel, which is so magical that people retroactively attribute the nazi-hate for Jews to the Jews themselves - the demon of absurdity has thereby reached cosmic powers - what the Jews did do was turn yet again another malice inflicted upon them to the advantage of the surviving ones. Revenge, again. Mr. Israel keeps playing the best game of chess. And its closing on a checkmate - they are prying at the defences of the final piece; King Solomons lair.
Better freshen up, drink some lemon water. Iced Tea on the Porch if you have them. This one ancient Egypto-Hebreiac codex of willpower is not the only one coming to a resolution.
At least, from where Im standing, I can see a hot sun rising next summer.
We are all Arjuna, we are standing on Kurukshetra. Krishna speaks to us - fight or choose non-existence. You fight for your side. He does not clarify which side that is - this is not the complicated part. The complicated part is to muster the simplicity of will to go in total berserker mode for ones values. The simpler your morality is, the easier this mode is to attain. For a modern western astrologer this means that it is extremely difficult. But once attained, the mightiest of all armies.
Fixed Stars - you don't want these things as your enemies. We all have them working as unspeakable adversaries, Satans and immense White Magicians but these things are powerful beyond anything else. True fate-anchors, people ruled by these things don't normally have a lot of self-understanding, as they simply don't require it. An entity can be rocketed through life on a conjunction of Pluto and Jupiter in Regulus in some lofty house, and attain godly status for al the world without being a character of any particular merit. They just forge the right conditions at the right times.
The Galactic Center - a friend of mine has Lilith, Dark Moon on it. He is one of those guys that can read a persons chart and soul in both ways. His eyes are truly hawk like and flare up when he is spiritually incensed. On some level, Black Moon on the Galactic Center is the pure Isis, before whom even felines lower their eyes. Not I, though, I stared him down out of sheer curiosity to see the gaze change. I don't know with what force. Venus in Pisces, probably. The love for all things as they stand in their power, and to see the limit of that power so as to see the whole flower.
Yeah, Ive done a study on this. All significant Russians have the last decant of Pisces occupied. With the exception, fittingly, of the cosmopolitan Tolstoy who is an ideologue of experience, not an innocent cynic, like Dostoyevski, Putin, Rasputin, Stalin, Lenin, whomever of these violent and unfathomably clever men. There is the power for evil in late Pisces. My Venus there, in the 12th house, is privy to quite a bit of dark magic - but it doesn't affect her, other than as a melancholic environment of human tears, a black sea of tears under a lily.
The salt of the earth is shed by dried tears of joy and sorrow before they were split, or after they came together; the Equinox.