Arcana:
Dark Age of Reason X
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Herbstlich
Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
caresses in us, in their ground.
It isn't the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor--from breast to knees--
and the battle was so pure
an angel wears it after you.
― R M Rilke
13.9.10
The Storm
Why should I seek?
I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself.
-Rumi
1.9.10
Oneiroi
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, F. Goya.
There silence dwells: only the lazy stream of Lethe 'neath the rock with whisper low o'er pebbly shallows trickling lulls to sleep. Before the cavern's mouth lush poppies grow and countless herbs, from whose bland essences a drowsy infusion dewy Nox distils and sprinkles sleep across the darkening world. -Ovid.
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TIWAZ
Tyr and Fenrir
In the Poetic Edda, the gods decided to shackle the wolf Fenrir, but he broke every chain they used to shackle him. Finally, the dwarves make a magical ribbon called Gleipnir. Fenrir sensed the gods' deceit and refused to be bound unless one of them put his hand in the wolf's mouth. Tyr, known for his great honesty and courage, agreed, and the other gods bound Fenrir.
Northern European Cultural Heritage: X
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Decimista
In Latin America there is a long standing tradition of singing decimas. A decima is a ten line verse or stanza with a rhyming pattern of ABBAACCDDC. Decimas can be pre-written, but often they are improvised. Violeta Parra’s decimas are some of the most profound, beautiful and gripping. Like with the best decima writers, one gets the impression that she thought like that, indecimas. One of her most stunning achievements was writing her autobiography completely in decimas, a beautiful epic poem about the life of an incredible woman.
From Volver a los Diecisiete (Back to Seventeen):
What feelings can do
Wisdom is not able,
Nor the clearest of directions,
Nor the widest thought.
It can all change on the spot
Like some condescending magician,
Sweetly distancing our position
Away from rancor and discontent.
Only love with its sixth sense
Can bring our innocence to fruition.
Wisdom is not able,
Nor the clearest of directions,
Nor the widest thought.
It can all change on the spot
Like some condescending magician,
Sweetly distancing our position
Away from rancor and discontent.
Only love with its sixth sense
Can bring our innocence to fruition.
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Spontaneous Mirth
Origin: bef. 900; ME mirthe, OE myrgth.
Noun: amusement or laughter: She was unable to conceal her mirth.
30.3.10
Spine for the Owl
Mild levoscoliosis of the lumbar spine. Vertebral body heights and intervertebral disc space heights are preserved. There is no evidence for fracture or dislocation. Anatomic facet joints are well aligned.
A Storm of Light: X
23.3.10
Personal Liberation Front
Actively combatting physical and spiritual injustice is a virtuous act
which liberates oneself and others from the abuses of power, thus
clearing collective aberrations and opening the gates to
transformation.
20.3.10
Equal Night
Now comes the vernal equinox, and the season of spring reaches its apex, halfway through its journey from Candlemas to Beltane. Once again, night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the ascendancy. The God of Light now wins a victory over his twin, the God of Darkness.
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Dialogue
It is not the task of the philosopher to act as the Big Other who tells us about the world but rather to challenge our own ideological presuppositions.
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