I was thinking about whether to continue with Chapter 5 of Methods, Mastery, and More in this note, or keep that for tomorrow and write about something less weighty today. But in the process, I realized that I couldn’t immediately remember the alchemical term for renewal, so I did a hasty search—and that led me to a sort of journalistic discovery I wish I hadn’t found.
Timothy Leary, who knew? (Not me, thank you). I wonder if the Tower was in his thoughts. The lightning bolt in astrology takes us back to the Romans who believed that when Uranus was castrated by Saturn, and the old structure of the world fell in a shocking way - two of his children, sheet and forked lightning, both escaped. Yeats was also fascinated by towers and lightning. His Golden Dawn linked the Tower with Mars but in astrology it's more like Mars-Uranus...
Timothy Leary, who knew? (Not me, thank you). I wonder if the Tower was in his thoughts. The lightning bolt in astrology takes us back to the Romans who believed that when Uranus was castrated by Saturn, and the old structure of the world fell in a shocking way - two of his children, sheet and forked lightning, both escaped. Yeats was also fascinated by towers and lightning. His Golden Dawn linked the Tower with Mars but in astrology it's more like Mars-Uranus...