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26taurus
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posted November 30, 2007 01:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
Pluto in the 8th house would write:

The Fear Of Life And Death


Death wanders through our lives at will, sweet Death
Is busy with each intake of our breath.
Why do you fear her? Lo, her laughing face
All rosy with the light of jocund grace !
A kind and lovely maiden culling flowers
In a sweet garden fresh with vernal showers,
This is the thing you fear, young portress bright
Who opens to our souls the worlds of light.
Is it because the twisted stem must feel
Pain when the tenderest hands its glory steal?
Is it because the flowerless stalk droops dull
And ghastly now that was so beautiful ?
Or is it the opening portal's horrid jar
That shakes you, feeble souls of courage bare?
Death is but changing of our robes to wait
In wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.


- Sri Aurobindo


Reference: # 18 in "Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Collected Poems and Plays, vol 1" - 144

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26taurus
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posted November 30, 2007 01:23 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
" I touch God in my song
as the hill touches the far-away sea
with its waterfall.
The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough."

-Tagore

3rd house

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26taurus
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posted November 30, 2007 01:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
Sun in the 7th house

My Pretty Rose Tree

A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, 'I've a pretty rose tree,'
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.

Then I went to my pretty rose tree,
To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.

- William Blake

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posted December 01, 2007 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FAUXfaerie     Edit/Delete Message
Mars in the 7th house


"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."

-Alfred Noyes

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