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Straight Lines of the Galaxy: <\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition II Volume 1; Part A<\/a>, Part B<\/a>, Part C<\/a><\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 12 immaterial straight lines that astrologers draw across the Milky Way affirm Plato\u2019s view that Ideas underpin all (especially astronomical) manifestation. Out of the zodiac\u2019s Platonic \u2018standing wave\u2019 frequencies we notice two \u2018emergences\u2019, (i) 12 x 4 (sign, planet, aspect, house) = 48 \u2018basic astrological expressions\u2019 and (ii) 12 + 11 +\u2026 = 78 \u2018basic archetypal interactions\u2019. The current view of causality being no more than a mental construct sets up Platonic centroversion as the next paradigm.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition II Volume 2; Part A<\/i><\/a>, Part B<\/i>,<\/a> Part C<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freud held the view that the developmental psychodynamic, \u201csublimation\u201d, is not easily accessible for most discontented civilized folk. If Freud had agreed with FA that his \u201cgenital phase\u201d \u2013 the teenage phase of sexual instinct organization \u2013 translates to \u201cearthy sublimation\u201d, he would likely have agreed with FA that this psychodynamic is also not easily accessed. Melanie Klein sourced this dis-ease to \u201cfixations\u201d within \u201cprojective identifications\u201d that can be as gestational as they are infantile.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition II Volume 3: Part A<\/a>, Part B<\/a>, Part C<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freud, Klein & Jung depict the \u201cdeveloping ego\u201d as a \u201ctapestry\u201d of structures & dynamisms. Thus far in \u2018Edition II\u2019, our focus has been Freud\u2019s\/Klein\u2019s structures and, so, a (re)-balancing is due. In this \u2018Vol.3\u2019, we will focus on the \u2018falling\u2019 Moon-Sun (Mercury-Venus) inter-cycles that symbolize the development of the \u201cdynamic ego\u201d. Because there are always unconscious \u201creactions\u201d to happenings in \u201cconsciousness\u201d, we will (re)-visit a set of alchemical images from \u201cJudeo-Christianity\u2019s unconscious\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition II Volume 4: Part A<\/a>, Part B<\/a>, Part C<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the \u201810 superego\u2019 \u201cdenies\u201d the value & purpose of the \u20181 self\u2019, the individual is put at risk of \u201cunborn philosophies\u201d, \u201cdepression\u201d &\/or suicide. In such cases, we remind our readers that a-head-not-a-eating-tail demonstrates that \u201cself-recognition\u201d is the evolutionary psychological basis of \u201cself-awareness\u201d that, in turn, is the basis of the struggle for \u201cself-knowledge\u201d. A \u201810 superego\u2019 over-limiting the \u20181 self\u2019 leads to (i) \u201cdenying\u201d one\u2019s \u201cweak function\u201d & (ii) \u201cwasting\u201d one\u2019s Moon-Sun inter-cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 1 – PART 1\/2: the Zodiac & Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article \u2018integrates\u2019 the articles posted over 2008; it serves to remind our readers that FA\u2019s primary focus is \u2018rotational astrology\u2019. It also serves to remind benevolent skeptics that, if one applies his\/her terms in a philosophically \u2018correct\u2019 way, (i) \u2018science\u2019 and \u2018religion\u2019 are equally \u2018irrational\u2019 (“David Hume: 101”) and (ii) \u2018full rationality\u2019 requires extensive\/intensive understanding of the feeling function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol 1 Part 1 and 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 1 – PART 3\/4: the Zodiac & Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article \u2018integrates\u2019 the articles posted over 2008\/9; it serves to remind our readers that academic\/clinical psychology is perpetrating a kind of etymological theft. Psychology means the study of the soul and, given that the soul is immaterial, the study of neurotransmitters, observable behaviour etc. needs to be given another name. This oversight has \u2019caused\u2019 post-Freudian flirtations with cognitive science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol 1 Part 3 and 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 1 – PART 5\/6: the Zodiac & Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article \u2018integrates\u2019 the articles posted over 2009; it serves to remind our readers that we disagree with Jung\u2019s modest discouragements regarding \u2018religious tourism\u2019 i.e. Jung took the view that Western monotheists do best to focus on their heritage; FA, however, takes the view that, without a strong sense of reincarnation (as distinct from resurrection), the spiritual feminine will remain misunderstood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol 1 Part 5 and 6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 2 \u2013 PARTS 1 & 2: the SUPEREGO (topographic; relationship to supraego)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tropical zodiac, although a \u201cCity of God\u201d, doesn’t automatically ‘redeem’ the horoscopic \u201ccross\u201d upon which it descends. \u201cHoping and wishing\u201d for collective redemption is not a sane bet. The ‘f\/Falling’ individual does much better to ‘register’ his\/her karmic pathway, beginning with an understanding of the extent and quality of his\/her matriarchal M.C. \u201cinert identity\u201d (diametrically from the I.C.). If so, s\/he will reduce \u201cunnecessary suffering\u201d within the ‘eastern’ houses of the horoscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol.2 pts. 1 & 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 2 \u2013 PARTS 3 & 4: the SUPER-PERIEGO (t\u2192d; relationship to transego)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If, after failing to ‘register’ his\/her topographic-M.C., the individual also fails to ‘register’ his\/her Capricornian\/Saturnian (periego-ic) loci of fear ‘under’ his\/her topographic superego, s\/he becomes ‘trapped’ within an undifferentiated, conflated (i.e. hypocritical) ‘worldview’. If, however, the individual develops a ‘9-ish’ synoptic capacity, s\/he begins to imagine ways to ‘bridge’ his\/her \u201cbookends of fear\u201d… and, in turn, reduce (rather than increase) karma and \u201cunecessary suffering\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol.2 pts. 3 & 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 2 \u2013 PARTS 5 & 6: the PERI-EGO (dynamic; paths of attenuation)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a number of ways that the individual can ‘synopsize’ his\/her ‘heroic’ ego development. The transit of Saturn is one of these but, because it is a ‘miserable surface’ of\/for ego development, it ‘frustrates’. Thus, the individual needs to ‘fill in’ his\/her ‘cycle of attrition’ ASAP e.g. with the (\u201cprogressed\u201d) Venus and the Moon’s-Sun’s intercycle. If so ‘filled in’, s\/he is well on the way to avoiding the burden of yet another ‘karmic pregnancy’… especially if s\/he can also self-overcome his\/her ‘ig’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol.2 pts. 5 & 6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 3 \u2013 PARTS 1 & 2: the IG (topographic; Freud-Klein-Neumann-Fordham)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ascendant, the symbol of \u201cbirth-in-a-birth-chart\u201d (i.e. the self-recognitive \u201cprimary-integrate\u201d, \u201cmask-persona\u201d etc.), is usually the first ‘angle’ interpreted in a ‘chart reading’. Yet, if we imagine this angle being ‘fed’ by (the unknowingness of) (i) personal karmic (ii) fractured karmic & (iii) impersonal karmic factors ‘f\/Falling’ through the 4th quadrant, it becomes possible to see the ascendant in terms of an \u201cig-marine core\u201d being ordered by an \u201cM.C.-superego\u201d… \u201csee you on the beach\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol.3 pts. 1 & 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 3 \u2013 PARTS 3 & 4: the PERI-IG (from topography to Jungian-dynamism)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the time is ‘Good’ for Platonic insights to overpin Freudian insights, the individual will, hopefully, already know of the difference between individualism and individuation i.e. the former easily succumbs to opportunistic, timocratic (ab)-use of the biased ‘mask’; the latter focuses on the journey beyond mask(s) to wholeness and private destiny. To some extent, creative connections between these two can be made out of 1st archetypal expressions ‘beyond’ the ascendant e.g. Mars, 30\u00ba arc of Aries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol. 3 pts. 3 & 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 3 \u2013 PARTS 5 & 6: the PERI-IG CYCLE (from \u201cig-id\u201d to \u201csex-‘n’-death\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In ‘traditional’ astrology, Mars ‘rules’ ‘8 Scorpio’. Although this tradition does make good astronomical sense (i.e. Sun rules Leo; Mercury rules Virgo; Venus rules Libra…), rocky Mars is never going to be happy running up to a sign that ‘resonates’ black holes and immaterial values. On the way to ‘8’, it makes ‘Good’ Platonic sense to round up the \u201cusual suspects\u201d of clockwising devilry i.e. collectivism, nationalism, populism, imperialism, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony, envy, lust, pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vol. 3 pts. 5 & 6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 4: Pts. 1 & 2: the ID (topographic; prior to sublimation)
\nAlthough the 7th house is the home of the \u201creal relationship\u201d (i.e. \u201cprojection\u201d occurs into all the houses but, in the 7th house, the need for recognition and retrieval is more visible), we can only make ‘good’ \u201creal relationships\u201d when we have come to understand the subtleties of the 4th house’s \u201csemi-real-relationship\u201d (Freud’s \u201cfamily romance\u201d; Jung’s \u201cthe soup\u201d). The heroic path from ’10-11-12 inert\/passive identity’ through ‘1-2-3 projective identification’ to the ‘7 ego’ has a critical ‘4 pit-stop’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: Vol..4 Pts 1 & 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vol 4: Pts. 3 & 4: the ID-into-PERI-ID (topographic-to-dynamic)
\nEaster Sunday is the first Sunday after the full Moon in Libra. Astrologically (i.e. symbolically), the Moon can be seen as ‘running ahead’ of the Sun in Aries and, in doing so, ‘lighting up’ the Sun’s upcoming (6 month) heroic path through Taurus-Gemini-Cancer-Leo-Virgo-Libra. Indeed, there is a sense in which all 12 new Moon to full Moon semi-cycles ‘light up’ the Sun’s heroic path e.g. a new Moon in Virgo to a full Moon in Aries is a kind of ‘heliocentric heroism’ for the \u201cnight sea journey\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: Vol. 4 Pts 3 & 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vol 4: Pts. 5 & 6: the PERI-ID (dynamic; into \u201cquintessence\u201d)
\nIn these 21stC days, most schools of depth psychology take Jung’s description of Freud as a \u201creductive\u201d analyst as incorrect. Via the insight of post-Freudians (e.g. Melanie Klein) and post-Jungians (e.g. Michael Fordham), it is now clear that Freud was also working \u201csynthetically\u201d. The Moon (as ‘opposed’ to Cancer\/the I.C.) can be considered the ‘fiery’ aspects of ‘4 water’ and, as such, it can emphasize the synthetic side of emotional development; especially if it is ‘hooked into’ the Sun and its cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: Vol. 4 Pts 5 & 6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 5 \u2013 PARTS 1 & 2: the EGO (topographic; \u201cquintessence\u201d to \u201cseptessence\u201d)
\nFor FA, the 7th house symbolizes the (\u201ccentroverted\u201d) ‘thinking ego’. Because C.G. Jung did not include centroversion in his classification system, it is reasonable to assume that he did not achieve it; rather, he seemed to get ‘stuck’ in his 5th house, slashing Mercurially away at the masculine end of the \u201cproblem of opposites\u201d. This means that Freud remains relevant as \u201ctransformation\u201d issues spill over from life’s morning to life’s afternoon. A \u201creal spouse\u201d will resist being a perpetual \u201chook\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: VOL 5 \u2013 PARTS 1 & 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 5 \u2013 PARTS 3 & 4: the EGO into META-EGO (topographic-to-dynamic)
\nThe primary realm of ‘acausality’ & ‘religion’ is the ’11-12-1′ foetal-newborn sequence. As the cycle ‘f\/Falls’ into the ‘2-3-4’ infant sequence, things become rather more ‘causal’ & ‘scientific’. If these sequences conflate, ‘acausal’ \u201cmagical thinking\u201d gets clumsily mixed up with ‘causal’ \u201ccontrol\u201d & all hell breaks loose. Although this conflation is \u201cdissolved & re-coagulated\u201d (i.e. healed) via the development of a child-adult ’rounded’ \u201cego\u201d, the question persists: does God view the Earth as a hospital?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: VOL 5 \u2013 PARTS 3 & 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VOL 5- PARTS 5 & 6: the META-EGO (dynamic: toward \u201cnonessence\u201d)
\nThe Cathars were-(are) a heretical sect that saw the Earth more as purgatory than as a hospital i.e. creatively combining ‘acausality’ & ‘causality’ in order to cook up ‘meta-causality’ wasn’t a part of their agenda. As a result, Cathars saw the world as an eternal perpetuation of 6 groups, (i) perfect (ii) believers (iii) listeners (iv) non-listeners (v) (\u201cI’m just-taking-orders\u201d anti-believer) persecutors, and (vi) authorities for persecution. A Cathar who has a mind to fight back is, of course, a fake Cathar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More: VOL 5- PARTS 5 & 6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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