posted January 18, 2008 04:22 PM
"the animals I've trapped
have all become my pets"These lines always had particular meaning for me.
Kurt deals a lot with the theme of "domestication"
and this is often linked, in his work,
to the theme of "institutionalization".
When he says,
"truth, covered in security,
i can't let you smother me"
and
"feeling so sedated
when i'm in my home"
and
"i'm on a plain,
i cant complain"
and elsewhere,
this theme is distinctly clear.
I think the Mars/Scorpio/Pluto energy is especially strong here,
although, his manner of expression is Neptunian and Piscean.
The associations to the home
and domesticating the free spirit
seem to relate to his Cancer Moon
and to Sag on his Imum Coeli.
But the determination not to be sedated,
or duped into a false sense of security, -
that is totally Mars/Scorpio/Pluto.
Getting back to the quote:
"the animals i've trapped
have all become my pets"
I think this relates to the wild elements in us,
which we have, to some extent, tamed,
only to find ourselves at the mercy of them
in another, less inspiring way.
When you have a pet,
you are its master, in some sense,
but, in a very practical sense,
you are also its servant.
You prepare its food,
clean up after it,
bath it, groom it,
take it for long walks.
So, he is talking about breaking the will
of the most free and primal, vital part of us.
He is talking about how our social institutions,
and our psychological defense mechanisms,
are really choking the soul's will to live.
He is saying that the primal part of us
cannot be tamed without killing our soul.
When we try to tame it,
we are locked into a position
no less determined by passion,
although it is a position of reaction,
rather than one of action;
and of self-censure,
rather than self-expression'.
There is a primal outcry in Kurt's work.
It is a clear and shocking warning to the people of the world
and a fierce cry for help from the collective unconscious.
The things we do to make ourselves safe,
to insullate ourselves,
and even to refine and perfect ourselves,
may easily become traps,
wherein the best, as well of the worst,
that is in us, is sacrficed.
All the ideas we have made,
fashioning sense out of the chaos
in a desperate attempt to secure power,
are the rocks that ground and anchor us,
but also the deadweights that keep us down.
There is a hair's breadth
between cell and room,
temple and tomb.
This also has 12th house resonance.
And it reflects his deeply introverted nature,
along with both the gifts and curses of introversion.
All the water signs have a thematic relationship with this.
But the ever-present subtlety and ambiguity,
the passionate conviction of ambivalence,
the dreamlike erosion of certainty,
the rage and resignation,
the self-contradictory double-entendres -
disintigrating lines of demarcation -
are all distinctly Pisces, and distinctly Kurt.
Lindaland
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posted January 16, 2008 05:44 PM
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posted January 18, 2008 05:04 PM
I seem to recall that he had a few years where he acted out vandalism in true punk rock fashion. If I remember right it was stuff like smashing headlights on cars and so forth. Kinda fits with the domestication theme.
posted January 18, 2008 07:21 PM
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