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posted September 19, 2006 02:50 AM
  
…The point in empty space named Lilith teaches us to have what Zen practitioners call “Beginner’s Mind.” This is the ability to be surprised, the calm acceptance that you do not, nor will you ever have it all figured out, what I see as a healthy relationship to the Unknown. This acceptance allows us to have relationships with real people, allowing them to be themselves in our presence rather than merely relating with a series of fantasies cra ed from the rib of our preconceived expectations. With this sort of mind there’s no need to put McDonalds’ and Starbucks into every city on the planet so the children of Adam in the American Empire won’t be freaked out by something (gasp!) different from what they’re used to, nor is there any need to force everyone to speak English or to worship our gods. With Beginner’s Mind we know we don’t have the whole story. In the study of Art History there is a term known as horrovacuii, Latin for fear of empty spaces. In art this is the practice of filling every available space in a sculp- ture or painting, pushing out the negative space. I think that this term could also be used to describe the present manifestation of humanity in the industrialized empire, as a kind of disease as we chop down the forests and fill every available space with symbols of our grudge against nature, our desire to have everything under control. We’ve steered ourselves to the brink of collective suicide by our fear of emptiness, our unconscious need for le ing go threatening to manifest itself by any means necessary .
Lilith is the empty space that allows us to be filled with what is right for the pres- ent moment, the capacity to be present to whatever is. When we try to control her based on our personal relationship with her as illustrated by the house, sign, and aspects she makes to one’s natal planets, the void merely reflects back at us our fears as we demonize ourselves, stuck in the reflexive habit pa erns of our south nodes. Until we’ve integrated this force into the fabric of our totality we see the Enemy everywhere but in ourselves, and the war machine grinds on and on… Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the herd of Centaurs can only send poison juice through the circuits of our egos until we’ve discovered the capacity to let go of expectations, the insistence on controlling every last detail. Pluto as plutonium, Uranus as uranium woven into weapons of mass destruction, Neptune as propa- ganda and drug addiction are just some of the demons Lilith has reflected back at us in response to our own fear of the void. I propose that the ability to face Lilith with our minds open, standing in our own strength, so that we don’t succumb to fear, so that we don’t a empt to impose our desire for the experience to be any- thing in particular—this is the entrance fee, an indispensable skill needed if one is to successfully navigate both the evolutionary experiences of the north node and the healthy application of the powers of the outer planets. Lilith is close to home, closer even than the moon, she is the dark twin of our Mother Earth. She is an emptiness which allows the two dancers in the Earth-Luna system to relate to one another while remaining distinct individuals; at this phase of our evolution we would be wise to listen to what she has to say…
www.sekhetmaat.com/www/html/journal/issues/vol11/vol11no1web.pdf Lilith's opposite point is called Priapus; Priapus symbolizes man's primitive nature, the horror hidden in our deepest self; masochism, extreme sensuality, impulsiveness, irrationality and excess. Physically speaking, the Dark Moon is the focal point unoccupied by the Earth: it is not a concrete body but a mathematical point.
http://www.astrotheme.fr/en/carte_instant_paris.php Anyone got more info on Priapus? IP: Logged |
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posted September 19, 2006 07:43 AM