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I emailed the guy and he didn’t answer! Don’t worry, there’ll still be another draw a month from now… I’ll try someone else if he doesn’t get back to me. NOW:
Entrees.
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"Hatred is the soul's immune system." This is Scorpio. (Indeed the quote was originally Sam Hyde's, who has Saturn Scorpio - compulsively antagonistic.)
2.
You understand Cancer if you have ever reflected on your youth and sought hope and consolation in it.
3.
"Breaking new ground" is a concept which would not exist without Aries. Similarly "justice is sweet" and "sweeten the deal" are phrases which would not exist without Libra. Sweetness is Venus, justice and deals are Saturn.
4.
Taurus:
5.
This guy is the essence of Taurus+Scorpio... is he friendly... will he eat you... you won't know until it's too late.
More Taurus+Scorpio... Salvador Dali, Théo Rysselberghe and Albert Tucker. Eerie calm. Sign combinations are very interesting, and I don't know anyone else who talks about them...
6.
Steven Pinker is travelling back in time here to threaten Nietzsche and describing himself as "hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience" because he has Saturn Scorpio, which makes you vicious and perverse (for better or for worse).
7.
Quoth @PresentWitness:
It isn’t an accident that it perpetually feels like the worst possible time to buy a house, have a child, or invest in the future. This feeling occurs because the older generations are actively preying on us. They are financing their lifestyle with ours.
While I disagree, the prevalence of this sentiment is a direct consequence of Pluto's transit through Capricorn (2008-24), which feeds any pessimistic tendencies we might be ripe for growing. Capricorn at worst is also the old feasting on the young... rotten gerontocracy.
There is a side of Capricorn which, unlike its opposite, Cancer, wants to exert all its forces across the horizon of this single life, to enjoy its power to the fullest and leave no particular legacy; coming from nowhere, rising to the top and leaving nothing behind.
Main.
Pisces, Art and Precious Stones.
Van Gogh (Left) had Venus Pisces, which is why his paintings look like they're flowing, melting. Brett Whiteley (Right), an Australian artist, also had Venus Pisces, and he painted this tribute to van Gogh's 'Starry Night'.
You see these paintings and realise that underwaterness, the possibility and quality of being underwater, is a property of Pisces. Think about it... And observe: These Australian stones possess the shifting, shimmering forms of ♓️ Pisces, which resemble light cast through the surface of the ocean:
More Australian stones... there is a pattern to be seen for anyone willing to look into it. Piscean forms. Examine as many as you like. Bring me apparent exceptions and I will explain how they fit in to the grand design...
Yet more Australian stones... swimming colours. We can assume more than a single Zodiacal force shapes these stones, but Pisces sets the template here, the rule from which individual cases may deviate:
You may object: “These are all opals! Of course they look similar...” But here, from Australia, are Smithsonite and Mara Mamba Tiger Eye, each of which express the watery forms of Pisces differently:
Can we find similar patterns in other countries? Turkey is familiar to Scorpio, another Water Sign. Its stones are thus spooky, intense, vivid, colourful - the textures of rot.
Compare them to the work of an artist with Venus in Scorpio, Clive Barker:
Here you can see something of the gloomier side of Scorpio, sign of Fall:
Compare to another artist with Venus in Scorpio, Nikolai Kalmakoff:
Come to your own conclusions!
Mercury Pisces.
Quoth Jacques Lacan, Mercury Pisces:
There is the serpent, the dragon, tongues, the flaming eye, the green plant, the flower pot, the concierge; all of these are really quite fundamental images, and undoubtedly full of signification.
Lacan had Mercury Pisces, which leads him to say fruity stuff like this. Mercury Pisces has many registers: Bland, confusing, genius, babble, insane. And more...
James Joyce and Holderlin are good examples of genius Mercury Pisces, which loves puns, wordplay, allusion and reference; it is wilfully gnomic or else only able to gesture at that which is too profound for words. Holderlin:
Like sleeping infants the gods breathe without any plan; the spirit flourishes continually in them, chastely kept, as in a small bud, and their holy eyes look out in still eternal clearness.
There is another side of Mercury Pisces which is so impossibly dry that you can’t even tell if it’s making a joke, even if it’s actually making a completely silly vaudeville-tier joke. This is another way in which Pisces' dryness mirrors Virgo's.
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