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LOL Cosmic Consciousness

July 17, 2009 in Astro Gaga by Mystic Medusa | 101 comments

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“…A consciousness of the cosmos, knowing the life and order of the universe. It is considered a higher, yet at present an exceptional peak in human evolution which the race is expected to reach in a distant future.

According to Dr. Richard M. Bucke (1837-1902), a friend of Walt Whitman, some individuals, mostly of the male sex, between 30 and 40, and who are highly developed with good intellect, high morals, a superior physique, and an earnest religious feeling can acquire this consciousness.

Dr. Bucke considered thirteen individuals to have possessed such a consciousness: Gautama, Jesus, Paul, Platinus, Mohammed, Dante, Las Casas, John Ypes, Francis Bacon, Jacob Behmen, William Blake, Balzac and Walt Whitman.

The experience comes suddenly without warning with a sensation of being immersed in a flame or rose-colored cloud and is accompanied by a feeling of ecstasy, moral and intellectual illumination in which, like a flash, a clear conception in outline is presented to the mind of the meaning and drift of the universe.

The man or woman going through this experience knows that the universe is a living presence, that life is eternal, the soul of man is immortal, the foundation principle of life is love, and the happiness of every individual in the long run is absolutely certain. All fear of death, all sense of sin is lost, and the personality gains added charm and is transfigured. In a few moments of the experience the individual will learn more than in years or months of study and will learn much that no study will teach.

Walt Whitman described cosmic consciousness as “ineffable light, light rare, untellable, light beyond all signs, descriptions and languages.”…From HERE.

Holy Aphrodite, blame the Eclipse but i am feeling super-New Agie tonight. Superior male physiques, no fear, no sin, added charm – this sounds fuqing awesome. I wagged kundalini yoga for some convoluted reasons but I am SO signing up for this course.

Gemini Women Are Golddiggers Says Time Magazine

March 10, 2009 in Astro In Books, Astro-Cliches, Astro-Weird, Astro-Women by Mystic Medusa | 4 comments

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Okay, it said this in 1928.

“Gemini (twins), May 22 to June 21, governed by Mercury. “Most Gemini natives try to walk in two directions at once.” They work on all manner of subjects, good or bad, and think they are producing logical and accurate results. High-powered U. S. businessmen are often Gemini. So are gold-digging women. Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics. Under this sign were born Douglas Fairbanks, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Patrick Henry, Alighieri Dante.”

Really, the whole article is absolutely brilliant.

The Aquarian astrologer Evangeline Adams is quoted thus:

“The wise man cooperates with the stars, the fool thinks he rules them.”

Wise women co-operate too. I know this arguable but I think the key thing to astrology – apart from understanding oneself and others better – is to try and figure out the nature of the times you are in & sort of go along with them…

Eg; if you are having a Pluto transit, things don’t WANT to stay the way they are. Where-ever Saturn lurks is where you HAVE to play it straight and it will take time….And money. And more time…
Am trying to think of whether or not I know any Gemini gold-diggers.
Kayne West, who did a song called Gold-Digger is a Gemini. Maybe they are more paranoid about it than other signs? Comes of having Taurus in their solar 12th?
And which sign was considered, by Time mag in 1928, to be lazy & “full of stagnant platitudes?”

NOTE: I am cleaning up my archives so this is being reposted next to another post re Gold-Diggers