A Clear Case of Venus Retrograde
I wish astrology was more like Tarot, symbolic language instead of heaps of confusing math and "science." If you have ever read blind charts made for Hitler you might think twice about the science* ....Somewhere there is a series of blind readings of Hitler's chart by famous astrologers that comes to similar benign conclusions. Given his name I'm sure they could come up with TELLTALE SIGNS OF TROUBLE.
This is a bot's effort: Astrotheme’s impartial algorithm writes, “your sensitivity is withdrawn, Adolf Hitler.” It seems to appreciate its profile subject’s softer side: “You are naturally inclined towards tolerance and moderation, as well as elegance and tact, as if you were meant to please!”
Maybe you just had to add mass quantities of methamphetamine. This is Orson Welles telling about sitting next to Hitler in the days when Nazi were a tiny party of comical cranks.
Not trying to trash astrology, this to me shows that the human element is vital and projecting the active forces a zillion miles away on, say, Pluto creates a light "it's real' trance and an opening to talk about attributes good and bad. Sounds so much more dignified in Latin.
So instead of saying so and so is Scatter Brained and a social butterfly, you can say they are a Gemini. I was offended by that as a kid and took an I'll Show You Who's Scatter Brained attitude entertaining party guests with "....about the Holocaust..."
I should add that astrology isn't useless but it relies on a psychic connection. For some people it's reassuring to have the math and the rest of the trappings....it's no place for a dyslexic like me, for one and for another how come Mercury is the only one to have a story to go with going retrograde The others do and nada.
Quick, start the rumor mill, we have until Venus goes retrograde from October 3rd to November 13th, 2026, to make up a Venus retrograde script. [you know when you want sex and your husband comes to bed and starts snoring five minutes later, that's Venus retrograde for sure] "During this period, Venus will be traveling backward through the signs of Scorpio and Libra." Typical astrospeak ...it appears to be traveling backwards, why say it does? As an artist I should be glad an illusion causes such a fuss I suppose.
On the retrograde optical illusion:
NASA explains in their post. "a Martian year lasting approximately two Earth years. And when it comes to retrogrades, Mars goes backward [surprised at the wording here...it appears to look as if it goes backward] only once every two years, the rarest retrograde of all planets tracked in astrology.
(For reference, Mercury retrogrades every three months, Venus every 18 months, and the outer planets — Jupiter and beyond — annually). The duration of Mars’ retrograde varies, but it can last anywhere from eight to ten weeks, almost three times the length of Mercury’s retrograde". But only Mercury has any effect on the humans.
Astrology always makes me feel like I am talking to the guy who invented twelve card monte. If some jarring attribute rears its head, as it did in a reading where we had gotten the time by using Kenkusha, a Japanese dictionary with phrases which said “11:34, the end of the day” and because of what I can’t remember I was definitely a mega extravert, should be stirring the crowd while running for President, none of which fit very well, if at all. Then it was, quick look over here at Chiron, the centaur who suffered an incurable wound but became a legendary healer and mentor. See, all better, back on track. We just have to see its position to find where the wound is.
The deities typically wore melam, an ambiguous substance which "covered them in terrifying splendor" and which could also be worn by heroes, kings, giants, and even demons. The effect that seeing a deity's melam has on a human is described as ni, a word for the "physical creeping of the flesh".
“The line from Earth through the sun points to Virgo for 45 days, but it points to Scorpius for only 7 days. To make a tidy match with their 12-month calendar, the Babylonians ignored the fact that the sun actually moves through 13 constellations, not 12.
People who bought this amulet also bought this Singing Rock which can entertain you by playing music. So maybe slow roll the side eye on that Phantom Double Terminated Amethyst Scepter, smarty pants
I’m with this guy:
The myth of the inanimate object is a problem and the arrogance of measuring consciousness by our own feeble capacity which fails us at the market when we can’t remember if we’re out of butter. Yet we are happy to think of dogs as rather simple, dogs who might be baffled by our apparent inability to smell just about anything nor feel the direction home when you fall out of a truck two hundred miles away. We are in the minority of animals who can’t see ultraviolet light, a whole world cut off from us, which allows an eagle to see prey glowing from vast distances.
Terence Mckenna
In the 20th century, (science's) claimed to be the arbiter of truth in all domains when in fact it’s simply the study of those phenomena so crude that the restoration of their initial condition causes the same thing to repeat itself, and that’s a very small part of the sum total of the phenomenal universe."
Half the time when you think you are thinking, you’re listening
We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. It is a notion that is, in fact, utterly absurd, yet terribly important.
Jessica Fox
The universe is born. 13.8 billion years pass. 200 billion trillion stars are born. A band of murderous monkeys on a rock circling one of these stars says, “We must be the reason for all this.” Shortly after, the monkeys blow themselves up.
NOTHING IS KNOWN, EVERYTHING IS IMAGINED - Federico Fellini
Dior coat with Visconti-Sforza tarot embroidery.