Aries Horoscopes
“Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction!
What says th’ almanac to that?”
Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, part 2, lines 110
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Aries Horoscopes 3.14
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If this be magic
“O, she’s warm!
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating.
Leontes in Shakespeare’s
The Winter’s Tale (5.3)
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Who are you Calvin Bledsoe
Life. Death.
“For instance: “I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.” This was one of my mother’s very favorite quotes from John Calvin.” Page 13.
Existential crisis. Family drama. Blogging for the pellet stove industry.
The construction of the novel itself is a bit different, perhaps a structure I don’t understand on the outside, but there are carefully numbered chapters, but there’s also a single running index, almost like acts, or scenes, those are numbered differently.
The simplest example? Traditional Shakespeare — the way I was taught — a line is referred to by Act, Scene, Line number within the scene. There’s an alternative method, just raw one number, starting at the play’s first line, and continuing on through to the end. I’ve seen in modern scholarship, but I’m pretty much entrenched with Act, Scene, Line format myself. Habit?
The construction of this comic novel novel follows a pattern I couldn’t totally discern. In times of crisis, it was suitable, puzzling distraction.
Who are you Calvin Bledsoe
My Little book of transits (predictive astrology).
Cyclical History
Right before the pandemic, I prepared an in-depth presentation for an august group of astrologers, looking at 2020, and beyond. Like a puzzle piece, this work fits nicely with other material I’ve covered, the cyclical nature of human history played out against the backdrop of the night’s sky.
stercore accidit
I’m guessing it was about 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by Mother Russia. Look up the history someplace else, but wikipedia has an excellent précis.
Me, being only a handful of years on the planet, what I recall were snippets of conversation — possibly invalid as a reliable source — but recollections that shape me.
There were demonstrations in Paris, Russia was grinding toward the west, and yet, Europe was still deemed relatively safe. Maybe being less than two hours from the Swiss border helped.
“Sure,” the local guide, bit of bon vivant gadfly intoned, “we watch, but there are few interruptions, maybe no sugar for a week.” Punctuated with a shrug.
The international newspaper in English, no TV, but an extensive library, and I can’t recall much else. A grand salon, and erudite, educated discussion where Texas, the USA, was not the center of attention.
Cyclical History
At the same time, don’t forget, the war in Vietnam was expanding. Really confuses the “Friend of my enemy is an ally” situation. Then. Now.
The short form? Russian forces took over Czechoslovakia and installed a puppet government, sycophants loyal to the specter of Russian rule.
Cyclical History
But the memory delves deeper, and we have to echo back to the last time Saturn and Jupiter were conjunct in Capricorn — 1961. Then, shortly after that? The two planets are in Aquarius, together. Like I’ve alluded to to before — we’ve seen this kind of energy.
History tends to be cyclical.
4:14 “For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Excerpt From “The Book of Esther”
The King James Version of the Bible
X (ten)
Can we get to ten?
“And to the fire-ey’d maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them.”
Hotspur in Shakespeare’s
Henry 4th, pt. 1 (4.1.114)
A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel
A Tip for the Hangman
“Kit cracked one eye open, regarding the activity around him with the detachment of an astrologer tracking the spheres.” Page 47.
I quite liked that bit.
Currently thinking this is metaphysical historical fiction — not paranormal.